The Plain White T's are touring!!! Still!!!

While they aren't coming to Houston this time, they will be close!!! If you are in Austin or San Antonio, you should really check them out!! They are my FAVORITE band and a great group of people and even more wonderful entertainers!!!  So don't miss them!!!

Another Absolutely Awesome Blog!!

I stumbled upon some of the most amazing organization ideas today on a blog called SewManyWays.  I think it might be a little goofy to drool over somebody's ability to organize without spending a fortune, but I totally was!!! Check it out!! There is a whole organization category, and the Tool Time Tuesday section is quite awesome as well.  I feel absolutely inspired! I can't wait to try out some of her ideas.
::sigh::
One day soon I will have free time again.  Maybe I should take a week off of work...have a staycation? Get in some quality craft room organizing time?? Probably not going to happen, but a girl can dream.
Speaking of dreams! Like, as in having them coming true....I will be meeting the Plain White T's in less than one week! AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It is just creeping up on me!

CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!

You can rest assured (all six of you reading my blog) that there will be extensive blogging about the concert and all of its wonderfulness!!! So stay tuned!!

This is how busy things have been....my poor un-decorated Christmas tree.  It stayed up in all of its pathetic glory until I paid my nephew five dollars to take it down. And that is how it was decorated....I never found time to finish it.

Boo!!!!!

I was forced to change my blog design.  I am not very happy about it, as I loved my previous design.  But it was beyond my control and now it is done.

So I have been pretty busy these days.  Directing a play, wrecking a car, Christmas, a root canal, test driving a  new car, a series of ailments requiring visits to the doctor's office, finding/saving money on school books, editing pictures, getting ready for the Plain White T's concert.....If you can name it, I have probably had to find time to get it done at some point in the last month.  But here I am on what is probably going to be the last free moment I have until after school ends this summer, posting a blog that I have been meaning to post since the beginning of November!!!

I read crafting blogs like a mad person.  I always feel like if I can read a tutorial then I can craft anything!  But I am constantly reading on the blogs how people find these wonderful things for pennies at thrift stores or garage sales, and how they turn them into these amazing things. But I never find anything at my thrift stores!! Maybe I don't go frequently enough, I don't know.  But I did find a pretty awesome find at the church garage sale. (That I snagged for free, might I add....wait. I didn't steal it.  The garage sale was over and the items left had been out and rained on all day and everything was left for people to take....so I did.  I felt the need to clarify.) I found this little baby:

So, I did this....

I spray painted the frame.

I took the picture out of the frame.  It hurt me a little to do this because of the how groovy the picture was, but it was badly damaged

I used this awesome knife set I bought on a random trip to Harbor Freight.  That was fun, might I add.  My mother-in-law, my husband and I decided to go and we had a blast! Oh yeah, I'm blogging about crafts...I cut out a piece of cardboard to fit in the frame, using the painting as my template.

I actually glued the cardboard the to painting for more stability and mostly because I couldn't bring myself to throw away the grooviness.  Then I covered the cardboard with fabric that I had leftover from one of my seven hundred wedding craft projects.

I used my glue gun first, then I added painters tape.  I thought I had staples for this project, but I didn't.  But I did have painters tape!

I put the freshly hot glued and painters taped piece of cardboard  in the newly teal frame an TADA!!!!

 I am pleased with how it came out, and one of these days I will get around to hanging it.  But for now it is leaning against the fridge and I look at it and I am proud of my accomplishment.  But mostly I am just busy!!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!

Coolest. Blog. EVER!!!!

ThisBlogBlewMyMind

I have had a fascination with vintage sheets from the moment I discovered the vintage section on Etsy.  I just knew they were cool, and I knew that I would need to start buying them as soon as I could figure out something to do with them.

I am not super good at sewing things yet, so I was kind of at a loss.  Until today!!!!!!!!  I just looked at one post and I was blown away AND it inspired an idea!! Here's hoping that I find some time to hit up Value Village, and then score some awesome vintage sheets!!! If you will excuse me, i am going to read every post on http://vintagesheets.blogspot.com/ right now!!!!!

The Plain White T's Are Coming! The Plain White T's Are Coming!!!

I Love Love Love Love Love Love the Plain White T's.  Their new album "The Wonders of the Younger" is the only thing I have been listening to in the car lately!! I Love it!  And now folks, they are coming to town!!! Do yourself a favor and attend this concert!!!

 Tickets are on sale now!!!!

PWTS@Houston House of Blues

Shrinky Dink Hairbow Fun!!!

If you know me, then you know I LOVE to make hair bows!  My dear cousin Cyndi asked me if I would make her a University of Houston bow.  She wears them to football games.  I thought, but of course! I have also been wanting to make some shrinky dinks out of #6 plastic.  I read about them on various blogs and have been dying to try it out!  I bought a bagel from the cafeteria in my office building and the little plastic container it came in was #6!!! So here is how it went!!!

You need #6 plastic, tape, your design, and some sharpies

Trace your outline on the plastic

Color it in.

Trim excess, if you want :)

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

Place your plastic on a foil lined pan and place in the oven.

DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM YOUR OVEN WHILE IT IS BAKING!!! It only takes a few minutes.  It will curl up and then flatten back out...

Once it flattens back out, it is finished!!

Allow it to cool, then pull off the foil.

And there you have it!!

The UH one on the right was my test run shrinky dink :)

TA-DA!! My bow for Cyndi.  Go Coogs!!!

It was very easy and very fun!! I can't wait to make more!!!!! I need more plastic though....

I have done it! I came up with my very own craft!!!

So, I am forever trying to find easy ways to turn junk I have into crafts.  Thus I read a million and two craft blogs  daily.  I am a total copycat though....until now folks!!!

So a while back my sister and I went to the dollar store to buy the supplies to make three tiered trays for a game night we were planning.  (view my inspiration here).  Well they didn't have all the things I needed on that particular trip, but I went to a different Dollar Tree and found the candle sticks that I needed.  (Let me add that I still haven't made those trays.  I have all of the stuff sitting on the shelf in my craft room)  Well when I was organizing all of my craft supplies a few weekends ago I found that my candle sticks had been carefully wrapped in some pretty paper. Well, I thought it was lovely anyway...

Not bad for free paper, right?
But I absolutely fell in love with one particular piece and I knew that I was going to make something out of it....but what??
I toyed with the idea of just putting it in a frame, but then I thought that was just a little too lame.

So I thought....and thought.....and then the light bulb went off!
What if I mod podged it to a canvas? Brilliant!! Then I realized I had no canvas.  Hmmm

You have to understand, my husband and I are in SERIOUS  save every dime mode.  So unfortunately going out to buy canvas was just not in the cards.
But I remembered that I had bought a bunch of plain white gift boxes on clearance just after Christmas.  I have them stashed everywhere!!!  And so I figured I could turn one into canvas.  And I did!!! All by myself!!

Here is what I used:

Gift box
Scrap Cardboard  (pretty sturdy)
hot glue gun
a ruler
utility knife





And although I don't have the mod-podge right now, I will show you my work in progress....

I am not quite finished, I need to trim the excess paper, and put a layer of mod-podge on...but I think it will be lovely on my wall.

Now to make something to go with it!!

But the whole project cost was made out of stuff I had on hand!!! So I am very excited.

The possibilities are endless.  You can buy a two pack of gift boxes at the dollar tree and that will yield you four canvases!!