Ugly Doors

I'm finally getting around to doing something about my ugly doors in my kitchen. I just hope everything turns out just right! I found once again, on pinterest a "recipe" for homemade chalkboard paint. You can see it on this link:

 http://thecsiproject.com/2011/02/09/honeysuckle-pink-chalkboard/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheCSIProject+%28The+CSI+Project%29

Now, I tried to use my electric sander with the door still in the house and on the hinges, haha didnt work, I got sawdust everywhere! So first I took the door off the hinges, took it outside and sanded it there. Much better! I used 80 grit sandpaper to sand all the stain and clear coat off. After I sanded both sides of the door I painted primer on the front of the door since thats the only side im going put the chalkboard paint on. I let that dry then flipped it over and painted the other side in black paint. Two coats covered it just fine.

The primered side was still a little to rough so I sanded it with 120 grit sandpaper to smooth it out and prep it for painting! Yay! Now the fun begins!

I mixed 6 teaspoons of unsanded grout to 1 cup of paint and mixed it till well blended, it was still pretty lumpy but when you paint it on, it smooths out really well. I tried to get it as smooth and even as possible. I have just finished with my 1st coat and used almost a whole cup so im guessing it will take about 3 or 4 cups of paint depending on how many coats I decide to put on the door.

I am so excited and cant wait to see how it turns out! Pictures and the rest of this entry to come within a few days!

Creative Consequenses

This is a website I stumbled across on pinterest it has fun creative ways to disipline your child. I will definetly be using a few of these in the near future! One of them I already use, Meredith likes to slam the door a lot so when she does, I make her open and shut it nicely 10 times.



http://imom.com/parenting/tweens/parenting/training/21-creative-consequences/

New used table excitment!

Well I found a great deal on an 8ft 2 drawer craft table, and I'm so excited to go pick it up and decide what color I'm goint to paint it! The only down fall is I cant pick it up today because we are under severe Thunderstorm watch until this afternoon! Just my luck lol oh well that gives me plenty of time to work on my last project I messed up :) 

Volcano!

Meredith woke up this morning and wanted to build a valcano. So thats just what she and Daddy did!

I dont know if she was expecting it actually blow "lava" out the top or not but

she sure was excited when it did!

Valentines rose bouquet

Im trying to decorate the top of my tv for Valentines Day without spending a small fortune. I've never decorated for valentines since my hubby and I do not celebrate it but, Meredith is getting old enough that she likes to decorate for everything and anything and likes to make stuff too!

I followed these easy steps from this website to make my crepe paper roses. http://www.theidearoom.net/2011/01/tissue-rosette-kissing-balls.html

I didnt have a ball of any kind so I grabbed some ugly christmas wrapping paper from the closet and crumpled it up into a ball, then I wrapped it up with tape to hole it together. like this.

Then I just started to glue my paper roses on with elmers school glue. I wasnt real sure what I was going to do with my rose ball but ideas started to come to me. I ended up just pouring red food coloring in with some rice and mixing it till I liked the color.  Poured my rice into a vase and sat my roses on top! Love it! All I had to buy was the crepe paper so total cost was only around $2 yay!

Time for tea!

Meredith got a tea set right after christmas and well, we have a tea party nearly every day since!

Her daddy even makes her fresh hot tea which of course is not what us southern folks are used to drinking! We like ice cold sweet tea! We have had a blast with this little tea set and it has turned into great family time!

This one was the very 1st tea party we had!

And miss priss being silly as usuall!

Kitchen Drawer Dividers

I have really deep kitchen drawers so when I saw this idea on pinterest, I knew I was going to get Michael to build it! Turns out he decided it was time for me to learn my way around a tape measure and a miter saw. How excited I was! I stayed in the kitchen with my paper and pencil trying to figure out the measurements and the layout I wanted. He had to help me step by step. This is the final product and I love the way it turned out. It is removable for easy cleanup which I love. Whats even better about this project is that while I was taking all the stuff out of the drawer I had an awesome idea about what to do with those very pointy corn on the cob holders that I ALWAYS poke myself with when im digging in the drawer.

I have been holding onto the corks from my wine bottles when they get empty. So while emptying the drawers I thought "what if?" So I cut 2 corks in half and stuck a corn cob holder on each end. No more finger injuries from them bad boys!

Can you say DANGEROUS!?! This is my next building project. Something really has to be done about this problem!

what not to do!

This is what not to do with a scrap board, scrapbook paper, a sticker machine, a cricut, and paint!

Need I say more? Well this is what I did....

I used my cricut to cut out letters on scrapbook paper, ran them through my sticker maker and stuck them on a scrap board I had painted black. Then I painted over all of that with some red paint that I dialuted with water and just kinda dabbed it all over with a paint brush. Well, the paper letters sucked up all the paint and didnt peel off like I thought they would..... when I do get this made and it looks like I want it to I will definetly post it and give the steps of what TO do! :) My hubby said that this wasn't going to work and well as much as this tastes like vinegar coming out of my mouth, he was right...

Rain!

It rained today and we are definetly not used to getting much of that here lately in southeast texas!

Her dad decided she needed to put on her rain coat and go play in the rain so thats just what she did!

By the looks of it she had fun and I bet I dumped 4 cups of water out of the Hello Kitty boots before she decided she wanted to come inside!

Vintage T

 Well, I wanted to make Michael something with the cricut he bought me for christmas and have been wanting to try the vinyl thing so here it is. He turned 30 this year! can you say OLD! lol not really just wanted to make him feel that way with this t shirt! I searched everywhere for iron on vinyl and had no luck Joanns sells it but they were sold out due the the holidays I guess. So I ordered it from this website :  www.expressionsvinyl.com/
I bought the tshirt vinyl and I love it!

Valentines Blocks

 

I saw a version of these on Pinterest (which is where I will be getting a lot of my inspiration im sure!) anyways, i just knew i wanted to make some for the top of my tv. My husband recently built us a bed and had some left over 4x4's so he took me to his barn and taught me how to cut these out  (measure twice and cut once)

So I used my electric sander to sand down the corners and edges so they wouldn't be so pointy. Then I used some red poster paint (which turned out ot look more hot pink than red after it dried) but thats ok I still love the way they turned out. I mixed that red paint with some white to make pink. I put 2 coats on my blocks and waited for them to dry.

I used my Cricut to cut out the letters and Merediths sticker maker to make them stickers! I love her sticker make and am pretty sure it will soon be part of my craft room since I use it more than she does :)