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