Projects

I am no Martha Stewart, that's for sure. But sometimes i like to pretend that i can be a little crafty. It's really to save money, but it's fun in the process. I guess the more i do it the better i'll get. I hope, anyway.

Well, I'm trying to be more organized. TRYING is the key word. So, i decided to make a menu calendar - Something that i can write and rewrite what i'm gonna cook for dinner and a place where i can put things i need to buy at the store. I got the frame at DI for a buck and used what i had around the house. I'm not a huge fan of how it turned out, but i think i'll give it a little bit and maybe do it over. We'll see.

Another project is a vase that i made for Reagan's room. It started out as a small glass vase found in the dollar section of target, but i wanted something a bit more beachy/luau/Hawaiian/surfer chick-ish. If you can't tell, i'm not sure exactly what her room is but i'm figuring it out. Any ideas would be welcome.Here's some pictures of random things in her room. Yikes. I just threw the flowers in there. It's not totally finished, but you get the idea.

Another thing that i'm really excited about is refinishing Larry's mom's old picnic table. She has had it for a long time and when she heard that i wanted seating for my backyard she said i could have it. It needs a lot of work, but i'm excited for the end result. It's sitting on the cement slab that our "shed" used to be on. We knocked it down finally. This is a picture from my kitchen window so you can kinda see where things are situated. This is a before and this is it in the process of being "after".

A project that Larry did was put a sprinkling system in the backyard. He did this all while i was in cali as a surprise and was going to put sod down, but the sod hasn't quite worked out yet. Soon, though, and i'm so excited to have a backyard!! So here's a before and when we finish it i'll put up an "after" pic. I'm so stinkin excited!