FINALLY an update! :-)

Well, it has been forever since I have been on here! I no longer have a boring job where I can look at things online for parts of the day and at night I'm busy too so I don't ever get to read blogs anymore OR make crafts :-( I'm back in college and love parts of it and love some of my classes so thats great! BUT it is ALOT of work!!! So I am busy and my house has been a mess!
BUT it is fall break and I finally did a project I have been wanting to do for a long time! So here it is!


I made them tonight during the OU game. I just got some plain wood letters and modge podged them w/different scraps of paper I had. I think I love it! :-) Although mod podging can be really irritating sometimes with all of the bubbles!
Tomorrow it is suzy homemaker time! I cleaned the house on Thursday but will tidy again and then my family is coming over to celebrate Hubby's birthday! And I'll be making the most delicious chicken tortilla soup, and some cupcakes! I may also make some dip that I got at Affair of the Heart yesterday. I love snacking there! :-)

Anywho, that's my update for my 1 reader-Maria! :-)
I STILL want to sew something really bad! My goal is to get more organized this 2nd half of the semester so I have more night time free time! I worked like the 1st month and half of school so I got outta wack, but now I'm getting my flow!
p.s. I'm also the cheer coach/sponsor for OC this year! yay! so that keeps me busier than I thought!!

NEW!!

Check out what came yesterday! WOOOT!!! SO excited!!

I haven't started anything yet but I do have plans!! First a pillow and then I will start on curtains! It is just TOO hard to start anything crafting or sewing right now since it is summer! I LOVE SUMMER! But soon I will be busy with school and work. btw I'm going back to college for a 2nd degree-early childhood education this time around, VERY excited! :-) And I'll work part time for a little bit until they get someone at work trained, then its just focus on school time. BUT I plan on having curtains by Christmas! haha

seeeeee ya!

Did somebody say Frames?!

Well I've got a few different things I've worked on recently since I had a day off work for the 4th of July AND sister and I had craft night (not saying that it went well tho.....:-/ )

SO I bought a really crappy frame in the 80% off aisle at Hoblob recently for like $2 and something knowing I could redo it...which I did successfully! YAY!:-) I LOVE it! :-) So here is a before and after of that!This is another frame I'm in the process of doing....I bought it for $2.50 for craft night w/sister last night and it was just a plain wood one meant to be decorated. I'm thinking of adding the word "sisters" at the bottom in white letters and putting a pic of me and sis in it.

And here is the frame sister worked on....she didn't have much fun and is going to redo this redo....I should have taken a before pic of it too woops!

I started on another frame tonight but had a bad time with it and got very discouraged :-/ I was trying to use a pretty wrapping paper but I guess thats not going to work! heh so I'll try again another day......

And here is the key chain holder I've been working on for the laundry room....I like it, yet I feel like it still needs something...I want to change the border possibly but need useful ideas for it...hmm...


I started doing these crafts because A. I need a hobby ha B.I thought it would be cheaper and easier....buuuuttt its proving to be pretty expensive so far, apparently I need to just get my personal supply larger and then it will be cheaper. Also....it is NOT easy!!!!! darn bloggers make it seem so simple! And well sometimes things are easy, my first frame was really easy and I love it, now the other 2 i have worked on are just BLAH! but hubby says I'll get better with practice! :-)

On another note we had my family over last weekend for shishkabobs! Sweet hubby even let me buy outdoor plates....but then it rained....but we still used them indoors and I love them! from target of course! Anywho, here is a pic of some of the yummmyness we ate, it was my first time to make these and it took FOREVER! never knew.... and my sister brought us pretty gerber daisies(my favorite!)


OH! and I returned something to Target so I bought these cute little ball things ( i have no idea what the technical word is for them but everyone and their mother have these in their houses) and then I used a glass holder from our wedding and put them on our table in the living room and I love it! :-)
I also painted this cross for our black and white bathroom...I'm unsure if I love it but it DOES match so theres the benefit! ha















alright....time to go read everyone else craftiness!!


p.s. OBVIOUSLY I FINALLY figured out how to move pics around! yay me!

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

Welp I'm falling behind on the Happy House cleaning project.....but its because we were on Vacation for 2 weeks! SO LONG! Obviously for part of the trip we were in Paris!

I missed our little Molly SO bad while we were gone! :-( We are so glad she is back with us! We just love taking her in the car, she loves sticking her head out the window! :-)

Here is a pic of the clock I have worked on here and there...I can't decide if I like it or not.....i recently added more of the flowers because it seemed empty...I need an honest opinion tho.....

anyway, I hope to get back to working on my keyholder piece for the laundry room again soon since things should be back to settling down!

also...I want a sewing machine!!!! Every house needs one, DUH!

Shelf?

Well I have had this shelf thing since I was little. My mom painted it for me to match my room. I decided to refinish it.....it has taken me months and I have gotten nowhere! ack! We had thought it might be a nice old piece...wrong!! My dad came over last night and saw it and realized it is made of particle board :-( boo. So we put it out by the street last night for big junk pickup. I'm sad to see it go and that I'm giving up but really, it was going nowhere! maybe someone else will see it and make it beautiful again? meh.

This weekend was my birthday! I had a great birthday weekend and I love my husband and family, they made it great!I got some great gifts too! :-)

well now I want to go work on my keychain holder that I'm making for the laundry room. I painted the laundry room robins egg blue and I LOVE it! :-)

seeeeee ya!

Craft Night w/my sista!

Well my sister had this awesome letter thing she wanted to make for a friends birthday (wish I woulda taken a pic...) so she came over and we had some homemade pizza and had a little craft night.

Also, I found my during pics of making the stone wreath.

I'm getting a little discouraged about all the crafty things I want to do because they are never as easy as they look and they never turn out as I think/want...:-/ My stones on my spring wreath fall off 1 at a time daily....ugh. I just get the hot glue gun out and put it back on. haha

Also, I posted some pics of some of the flowers that hubby and I planted a few weeks ago, we were really happy with how it all turned out for our first time. And then the hail came on Sunday :-( All our pretty flowers are gone. so much time...money...UGH darn weather!!!

anywho, I'm in the middle of redoing an ugly wall clock..someone gave it to us for our wedding and I of course forgot a before pic, but believe me its ugly! ha! so i spray painted the gold hands and covered the rest with cloth...now I'm not sure what i'm going to do..its too plain.... so thats next!

The letters "N" and "M" were an idea I've had for awhile...but completely different. ha. I wanted to do sticky letters and just glass frame and then put a pretty ribbon to hang it on the wall on each side of our bed...but then i found the pretty scrapbook paper and thought it would make the color of our bed....it doesn't....oh well! ha I'll find another place to put these cuz I still like them! :-)

Spring Wreath!

Well I have finished my spring wreath for my front door! I actually had pictures all through out the process but my camera decided not to keep them, ugh. Anyway, it took quite a bit of time doing this wreath but well worth it! It's so cute for spring! I'm still unsure of how to hang it, I think my ribbons are going to come off because it is a really heavy wreath now with the stones but hopefully they don't all break! If you want to know how to do it, I got the directions from http://nv-craftenvy.blogspot.com/2010/04/stone-wreath.html
just make sure you paint the wreath, not spray paint. I originally spray painted it, but the foam just soaks up the spray paint and took multiple coats and still you could tell it was green. therefore paint it!
anywho, it was pretty simple and cheap! the flowers are leftovers from wedding stuff, along with the ribbon, woot!

welp Happy Sunday!