I don’t even know where to start with the projects, so here goes...
Remember the wine bottle chandelier thing I created a while ago? Here is the initial post. Yeah, I was sick of it. It didn't turn out the way I pictured it in my mind, so I moved on to a new idea. This one is a lamp shade from Target that I had to cut the center ring out of so it would fit over the hanging light we already have. All the instructions I found for this project involved putting the light together at the same time, so I had to improvise a little bit. Right now, this thing is a little jerry-rigged, but you can't tell, can you?
This cute thing I had my eye on at the craft show last weekend. I didn't want to spend the money to get him, but I thought he was awfully adorable and would look great on our front porch for the winter. Then, thanks to my wonderful parents, he appeared on our front porch last Sunday! I was pretty excited for our early Christmas present. If you come to our house he will be waiting to say hello and cheer on the Packers!
Don’t mind Maya's rear end there in the photo. It was time for a season change for the urn on the front porch. I'm still loving this urn as much as I did the day I found it on the clearance shelf at Michaels. Speaking of Michaels, this past Sunday they emailed me a coupon for I think it was 20% of my entire purchase. I saw in the ad that they had pretty much the whole store on sale, so I made a trip and came home $50 poorer. But, I got a bunch of things for projects this week.
This is also a project that came out of my Michaels run last weekend. I saw the idea for the bulbs in the container on Pinterest. What you can't see if the spot in the center where I am going to put some florals when they come out of storage this weekend. I tore through the whole house trying to find said florals only to realize I put them in the same box as the Christmas tree, which in storage. I know my parents will enjoy having the last of our stuff out of their storage space, and I will enjoy having everything at the house so I can make some sense of it all. I did the ring around the bottom because I thought just the vase alone looked a little plain jane.
We interrupt this program to show you.... FOOD! That's right kiddos, it's Thanksgiving which in my family means it is time to bake. Here we have grandma's rolls working their magic before going in the oven.
and... more food. I also made sugar cookies this week to distribute to some of the family. I had to make Andrew is own goodie box with sugar cookies so he didn't feel left out. I made a goodie container for myself so I actually get to eat some of the cookies I made.
This was another craft show find. Last week, I had the grand idea that I was going to make something like this for this spot next to the slider onto the deck. But, as I was going on 15 minutes of standing in the booth at the craft show staring at this thing, I realized that I wasn't going to have the time to do it, so I bought it. It was very reasonable, and I love the shelf on the top. As you can see, the Christmas decorations have started to migrate out of the basement.
I may not have had time for the project above, but I did have time for this project. I found a post on Pinterest a while ago (what did I ever do without Pinterest) about making no sew curtains. I have been trying to find a red valance for our kitchen windows for a while now with no luck. Ok, I lied, I did have luck I just wasn't wiling to spend $50 a piece for them. On Sunday while I was at Michaels with my coupon, I took my coupon for Jo Ann's a few doors down and found some fabric to make these bad boys. The first one didn't turn out too bad, but I need to do some touchup work on it. You make these with iron on tape essentially, and some of the tape didn't get ironed on all the way, so I need to go back through and fix that. I like how they turned out and two yards of fabric, which will be more than enough, was less than $10.
And for my final project of the night, we have our new stocking hanger. When we lived in the apartment, we had a fireplace to put our stockings on, but we don’t have a fireplace at the house. No fireplace means no mantle to hang the stockings on. Plus, this year we have two extra stockings for Buddy and Maya. I actually thought of this idea on my own and while I was on Pinterest realized I wasn't the first person to come up with this idea... major bummer. For this project, I hit up the Habitat for Humanity Restore and got this cabinet door for $4. While I was there, I bought a small can of black paint for $1. I got the knobs in a clearance bin at Home Depot last weekend and paid $1.50 per knob. I'm not quite finished with this project, I want to write our names above each stocking, but I wanted to share this one with you because I am pretty excited about it.
So there you have it; I haven't been sitting around twiddling my thumbs. We are headed into peak season for Andrew at work (keep that in mind when you are ordering things on Cyber Monday, Andrew is probably dealing with your stuff), which means less time he will be home and more project time for me. While he was off last week I didn't get a ton done. I couldn't want to have some project time this week when he went back to work. I love him to death, but sometimes working split shifts works quite well for us. When I come home from work, I generally need to blow of some steam and finding a creative outlet is the best way for me to do that. Stay tuned later this week and next week, there are more projects coming!
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