DIY Birthday Gift

I made this little itty bitty chair for an American Girl Doll themed birthday party.

It turned out so cute.

Cost.....$3.30!

Not Bad :)

Rag Wreaths

I made this for Mothers Day. It's a bunch of my material scraps, tied around a wire coat hanger.

Caitlin helped, and would hold up a piece say, " this was a skirt you made me" or, " this was my pajamas". It was sweet of her to remember all the things mom has made for her.

I took a piece of wood and painted it with Chalk Board Paint, then attached it around the top of the hanger with floral wire.

It turned out to be so cute, I did another one for my friend who just had a baby girl.

Now Caitlin wants one for her room :)



Pottery Barns and Mine...

Here is Pottery Barns $130.00 (a unit) bookcase.

That would be a total of $390.00 for this look. Yikes!

And here is the one I made for about $20.00.

 I didn't have the best light today to take the pictures, I even tried to manually lighten them. I just wanted to see it together and thought it looked pretty good so far!

I have been making a denim slip cover for the couch, maybe this will motivate me to get it done.

Dylan's bookshelf will be next. I'll try to take better pictures. :)

My Knock Off

I love this look...

Since the hefty price tag is not so lovely, I pulled out the big guns.

One down, two to go. I just have to sand it down and stain it.

Hopefully, I can get another one done and get them in the boys room. Cost me less than $20.00 to make. Happy :)

It's not the best picture but the stockings are finally hung! I made the boys stockings and Caitlin's came from Pottery Barn Kids, my friend gave it to me after they misspelled her daughters name on it. I made the sign using a piece of wood from my scrap pile, I painted it red and used vinyl lettering.    Next on the list....Christmas Cards!

The stockings were hung!

I couldn't wait to make this! Stockings next.....

The desk....

                                             

Well she is (almost) done. Everyone had a head cold last week and that put us behind in so many ways. I did have enough energy to put some paint on the desk and bring it into Caitlin's room. I just need to buy trim for the top and bottom. Till then, it's getting some good use! Caitlin loves her new desk :)

                                

I even made her a cute space to hang her art work so she won't draw on the desk! :) So far so good! :) Notice this art work has all my tools, drill, hammer and a wrench. :)

  Next will be a chair to match....

art...

I made this pint size desk for Caitlin. It's not finished, I need to add trim on the front and paint it. You can see that she is already putting it to good use. :)

I asked her what color she wanted it to be. I said white, she likes blue.

While making lunch today, Troy found her under it doing this......

And this......

And there is more underneath the top board.

My boys never wrote on anything but she has used my walls, the blinds, dolls! The world is her canvas! LOL! She told me I could paint around it.....I think I should paint it with chalkboard paint!

While I was building the desk, she hammered some nails in some wood pieces. She ended up making this beautiful "3 layer cake".

Decorated with playdoh :)

I hope she doesn't get too upset when we paint over her "art" work.

Woodshop....

I got the power tools out again!

Here's what came out of the wood pile.

I made Caitlin a doll highchair! It's not perfect but it turned out so cute, I love it!

Dylan's creations

Dylan wanted to learn how to sew.

He was so excited to get started.

I pulled out some felt and....


He created this little shamrock pillow. Cute!

a simple project

I had these glass jars from Caitlin's birthday party hanging around.


So the last time I went to the thrift store I bought these candlesticks for .39 each. I believe I bought the glass bowls for that too.



I glued the bowls to the tops of the candlesticks. I used that e 6000 glue.



I put in my candles.....and there you go!



I'm going to put some red rocks in them with the tea lights, should make a nice Christmas decoration. Total cost .78 each.

Owl's

Troy brought these guys home a couple weeks ago from his Aunt's house, brass owl's that belonged to his grand parents.

Not something I would have looked twice at, but for some reason couldn't just throw out.

In comes Mr. Rustoleum satin white......


Aren't they cute!
I put them in Caitlin's room.


all the sudden I like owl's :)

bookcase...

It's been sitting on my back porch for weeks....but today....It's finally done!

I wish I could have set it up with books but it's not connected to the wall yet. But I LOVE the way it turned out! Kinda shabby chic-ish. Again, this was from Knock Off Wood. The only thing I had to buy was some 1x2 and nails. Total price tag for me was about $3.00! I have to say the next thing I build won't come from a scrap pile of wood. I'm going for some straight boards next time! LOL

wood shop

I've turned into the carpenter! My jigsaw has sawdust all over it! And I have passed Jo Ann fabrics to turn into Home Depot!


We are having Wednesday's be our "wood shop" days. This week our plans are to make this sweet little bookshelf....






I've got all the pieces cut out and ready to put together tomorrow. Should be another great day in wood shop!





( I haven't packed up the sewing machine yet. ) I'm going to use it to monogram all the basket liners for when I make this......



I'm getting all my plans at "Knock off Wood". She has so many plans to choose from, my list keeps getting bigger! I haven't even spent any money on wood yet. I've been using Troys piles of scraps.
Well, drop by later and see our finished project!

wood shop

We were at it again today. The kids love to make stuff with hammers and nails. This morning we went through our wood pile and found some things to put together. They measured out and marked the wood, I cut it with the nifty little jig saw I got for Christmas. They sanded down the edges and helped pound in the nails. Finished it off with some leftover paint and........Voila

This was born...

I think I'll find some buckets to put on it. Maybe some herbs too. It's on our front porch to welcome friends. :)

Here are some pictures of my little construction workers...( I always forget to take before pics )

I got the plans from The Knock Off Wood website on my sidebar. This was the simple bench that I modified to shelves. She has some awesome things to build, check it out!

stuff....

We have a new water heater! Guess why.......:) that's another blog post.


For now, I want to catch up on a few things.

Here is the finished console that the boys built. It was a quick shot to show you how it turned out. I'm going to put pictures on the wall to decorate and then show you guys the details of how we finished it.




I've been doing some sewing....


This is whats left of an old tank t shirt I had.




This is what I made Caitlin out of it.....





This was a total " Hmmmm, let's see what happens if I do this" type of project.


Caitlin likes it.





it's going to need a monogram :)

Kids DIY console..

We have construction in our blood.

Today we took a trip to Home Depot with a plan of making a small console for our front foyer. The plan was simple with 2 sides a back and a top. We went looking for a 1x6 of pine and we took it to the cutting station where they gladly cut it the dimensions we needed. Then I bought each boy his own hammer and a box of nails.....there might be tool belts in the Easter baskets this year. :)

The boys proudly walked out of the store with their goods, feeling mighty manly I must say. Dylan must have been thinking the project wasn't big enough because he asked if we were coming back later for more wood to make something else.

We got home and drilled our holes and hammered our nails and then had to call on the professional.......D.A.D

He knows all the tricks.

We will paint it tomorrow and show you the finished project.

{ Pretty Decorations }

I went to Goodwill today and found just the stuff I was wanting. Love it when that happens :) I got some glass jars to hold the candy from .59 to .99, 4 plates for .69 each and Caitlin found a cute little tea cup that she said she could drink her coffee from for .50. Walked out with 3 bags full of great finds for $7.00. Can't wait to show pictures of them!

But I did want to share this cute idea for her decorations...



I bought 5 bags of tissue paper .99 each.





You fold it from the short side of the paper like a fan and cut the ends off.





Carefully start pulling the layers apart.



Ta- Dah! Pretty Pom Poms



You use one bag per pom pom, so I'll have 5 pretty pom poms to hang or leave on the table for a centerpiece. I'm thinking of mixing the white and pink together for a couple of them.

She Loves them! It's gonna be a great birthday! :)