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  • I feel another Pinterest Project coming on…

    March 18, 2013 /

    It’s been several months since I have been inspired to create any of the craft projects I currently have pinned. I found this adorable pic from Esty dealer drawGabbydraw and just knew I had to do it. I have watercolors so all I really need it probably a good pen. I have no idea where I will put it. I might need my own little lady cave so I can display all my random art projects. 😉 I still have my NC heart lying around somewhere.
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    In other news, I think Matt and I have finally decided on a location for our trip.  More details soon. 🙂

    ~k

     

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  • I CAN SEW!

    February 28, 2012 /

    So one thing kind of lead to another.  Yesterday while I was blowing up perusing Pinterest I stumbled cross this cute little guy, a frog bean bag.  The a little later I saw an idea for homemade heating pads using rice or beans.  Hmmm.  {You see where this  is going right?}  Of course I thought I could totally do this.  AND I have a sewing machine I’ve been dying to use.

    This afternoon on Matt’s way home he stopped by the store.  I asked if he would pick up some rice so I can make my cute little frog.  After my work out I finally cleaned off “my” desk downstairs to make room for my sewing machine.  It took a little while to clear the mess I must admit but now I have a permanent place for it. It only took me about 45 minutes and reading the instructions to get everything set up.  Yes, I actually read the directions and let me just say this is not a beginner machine.  Or I should say the instructions are definitely not beginner friendly.  Thankfully my mom had a sewing machine that I’ve used so I knew most of the basics but I’m still not sure exactly what some of it meant but…..I SEWED!!!!!

    I grabbed some of the scratch fabric I bought a while back cute a little piece and tried a few stitches.  The machine itself really doesn’t seem so hard.  It is super easy to change the stitch, you just push a button and BAM! done.

    All of this leads to my new goal of a Pinterest post a week.  My hope is to post a craft one week and a recipe the next.  Since I have a mild obsession with Pinterest I think it’s dumb to not put some of these pins to use.  I mean really, what is the point if I’m just going to pin something and never look at it again?  This week that all ends.  Come Friday I will post pics of my new little buddy.  And next week I will choose a recipe  and post the results on Friday.  Hopefully I can keep this up for a while. 🙂

    ~k

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  • A new addition

    January 26, 2012 /

    to my blog!  Whoop whoop!  I added a Pinterest button.  If you don’t follow me you really should.  Just click the cute little button to your right.  I promise to try and not “Pin poorly.”  🙂

    I’ve mentioned Pinterest numerous times and it is WONDERFUL!  Bored at work?  Pinterest.  Bored at home?  Pinterest.  You get the idea.  Some of my latest projects have come from things I found on Pinterest.

    If you need an invite leave a comment with your email addy and I will send you one.

    Happy Pinning!

    ~k

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  • More ornaments

    November 14, 2011 /

    Thanks to my new Pinterest addiction I found some super cute ornaments I decided to make.  I mentioned a few of these last week.  Anyway I didn’t mention all the ornaments I made because I not only made one for me, I made one for a friend.  She had an At Home Reception on Friday but I wanted to give her hers before I blogged them.

    Anyway, I found this great idea on Pinterest of taking a wedding invitation and putting it inside a glass ornament.  How brilliant is that?  Well it’s great.  All you do is cut up a wedding invitation, roll the stripes around a pen and carefully put the stripes in a glass ornament.  I was lucky enough to find some glass ornaments at Big Lots a few weeks ago.  Next I needed to cut the invitation, curl it and stuff it.  {You need to be careful while cutting so you don’t cut any of the wording.}  Once I had that done I found a few charms from Michaels.  For my friend’s ornament I used a palm tree and for mine I used a star fish.  Add some colored ribbon to match and Viola!

    I will add that I added the more important wording towards the end.  I wanted to make sure that things like names, dates and places were easy to see.  You can always use tweezers to help arrange the stripes if you need to.  As I’m looking at these pics I noticed I didn’t really get a good pic of mine {the pink one} in regards to wording.  But you can see both mine and Matt’s names.

    ~k

     

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