Cabin fever

The month of January is almost over which each means spring is one month  closer but isn't coming soon enough for me. Looking around the house all I see is projects begging for a makeover, but the cold just won't let up enough for me to get the sander out. 

This by far is the coldest winter I've experienced in North Carolina and it has met many cold records for the state. 

So as my cabin fever peaks I desperately look for small crafts I can do indoors. 

Tis time to replace the Christmas wreath. 

Going into micheals I had no idea what type of wreath I wanted to make. Knowing my budget is tight I needed buy as few of things as possible. I aimlessly walked around picking up things here and there trying to peice together an idea in my head. Then I came across a cute letter and tiny numbers next to it.

Perfect I have everything else I need at the house only spending 8 dollars. 

I had a lot of different type of colors of acrylic paint and found two I thought looked best with my house. Off white for the numbers 

And you can't go wrong with blue. 

I have this thick roll of rope and found a good exuse to use it. 

I love hot glue gun and to keep the ends from coming apart I smothered them in the glue. Sorry for the blurry picture

Coming together 

I hate when things are hanged and the rope slides all over so I make sure mine stays in place 

I like it! 

So now that I have done my second wreath this year I am officially ready for spring so I can move on to the things that truly make me happy. 

Week long projects with sanding and staining I will enjoy you so much in a couple of months. 

Hurry up warm weather!!!

-kristina 

Project: Overload

I haven't made a post since before Christmas. 

Time flies, and all that jazz. 

But I haven't been idle I swear.  With every little project I did I thought about posting it, what I would say, I even have pictures to prove it.  But...I didn't. 

I got hung up, swept away, and distracted by Christmas, New Years, potty training, laundry, star gazing, I stubbed my toe.....whatever the excuse may be.  lol. 

So instead of going back and writing a bunch of posts, I thought I'd just throw them all at you at once in a big jumble of pictures.  And with the best intentions of keeping this up to date and on time in the future!

Okay, here goes:

Decided my "coffee station" could use a little sprucing up!  Had some cork board lying around, and voila!

I've been making a lot of bread lately, experimenting with savory and sweet flavors!  

This one's cinnamon honey!

 

This one was really fun to make!  Shadow puppets as a Christmas present for my little neighbor boy! 

And for the neighbor girl:  Felt food for a tea set!  I have discovered a really, really fun new craft in using felt!  The toy options are endless!  Expect to see way more felt from me!  :)

Last but not least!  I really wasn't enjoying my dining room.  I painted that tree about a week after we moved in to this house on the main wall of the dining room, but it never really grew on me.  The paint color was a two toned light green.  All in all I needed something bolder.  I mixed a cup of unsanded ground to 1/2 gallon of paint, and turned it into an enormous chalkboard room!  Yep, you can use chalk on any of the paint (needless to say my 3 year old loves it in there now!)

So, there you have it.  (Most) of the things I've been working on over the past few weeks! 

I am always looking for something I can be painting, making, baking, what have you.  So that means there should be more to come soon!  Stay tuned!  :)


*Kailey