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!!!!