MY Block Project

Here it is, the blocks are 2in blocks, I painted them with Auntique white paint and used up alot of my older papers and stickers that were sitting around doing nothing. All the lettering was cut out on my favorite cutter ever the Pazzles Inspiration and then glittered, flocked or embossed. Most of the decorations were from other projects leftovers, so the whole project cost me maybe 10 dollars as I got the blocks at a garagesale but I cant imagine if you had to buy the wood that it would cost very much. Halloween

 Ok heres the trick, just turn the blocks 1/4 of a turn and you have a decoration for the next holiday. Thanksgiving

 Christmas

 and finaly New Years, all in one decoration, put it up in Oct. and dont take it down till mid Jan.

Ok let me know what you think, I am very happy with how it turned out and it will be around for many years.

One More Sneek Peek

Ok here you go the last sneek peek, next week the final reveal.

This project has been so much fun.

Another Sneeky Peek

Here is another sneek peek of my block project

I just cant wait to show you all.

Sneeky Peek

Here is the first sneeky peek of my new project

OMGosh it is turning out so cute, just you wait and see!

And its a quadruple decoration too so it will cover 4 different holidays.

Gotta love a decoration you can put up at Halloween and not put away till after New Years.

Decorations

Remember these, I showed them in my craftroom tour video and said they were my next project, well I'm finally working on it and it is going to be awesome. It will be a home decoration for Halloween , Thanksgiving , Christmas and New Years all in one. The Idea has been rollong around in my head for about 5 yrs. starting when I bought the blocks at a garagesale 34 blocks for a dollar. So stay tuned for some hints. Oh yea the blocks are about 2 inch cubes.

Fall Decor

Ok so I love my new porch, when we moved into the new house I wasn't real sure how I was going to like the new house, it is smaller but mostly in the master bedroom and bath. As you all know I absolutly love the new craftroom but one unexpected thing I really love is the front porch, the porch at the other house was no bigger than the doorway so there was not really any room to decorate. The new porch is very big and what a joy to decorate and thanks to the dollar store and a few things I had already it looks great. I had totaly forgot that I always wanted a porch that I could decorate cute for Fall. This move has turned out to be a really good thing. Just wait till Christmas.

New Craftroom Video

Ok I know it took forever and I have promised for a long time but its finaly done.....Drum Roll.....

New Cratfroom

Yea, the Mojo is flowing!

While in the process of moving I found a couple of things that I decided to keep for the perpose of altering, now when I alter things i always forget to take before pictures and I really need to work on that and this time is no different so let me tell you what they are. The first one is an old watch box from an aniversary present my hubbie got me some years back, so I opened it and took all the display parts out leaving me with a very plain box in the inside the outside however was completely black except for the logo on the top so my base color was already there for me to decorate.

I used

  DCWV Black Currant stack

  white ruffle trim I dyed black

  Turkey feathers for my neighbor

  several misc. flowers

  a stick pin I made

 Galaxy white marker and a stencil

 and some pearl trim and stick on pearls

 And WA LA a very cute trinket box. When its closed it kinda looks like a cake.

Next I found an old wood tray I used to keep jewlery in so I painted it purple (ofcorse) and added some paper from DCWV's Chateau Lavender stack and 2 coats of modpoge and now a tray for my craftroom table that matches the paint color.

I'm almost ready to film my craftroom, the table tops are in place and alittle straightning up and I'm good to go so be on the watch!

OMG I made some cards

Well some of my mojo has returned and I was able to make a few cards
the first few are very simple and the last 2 were more indepth, but hay I think things are looking up.

Crazy

ok its been a crazy 4 months, we are officialy moved and mostly setteled in, the craftroom is finished except for my table top which i had a garage sale to fund and did make enought money however I really felt I should be buying food for the house instead as my hubbie does work so hard. So that will come soon enough. Baseball is finaly over and school is out so I figured things would get easier right "no" Now we half to deal with the other house and thats more stressfull than buying the new house and moving, so that being said my creative mojo has gone on hiatus. And now high school starts in 2 and a half weeks for my youngest you would think having gone through that twice already i would be ready for it well again"no". I want to say to all of my followers please bare with me I'm sure I will be back to normal as soon as everything calms down. PS I'm still hopin to get a video of the craftroom soon. I just need the house quiet.

Margie

Almost done

ok I know I've been MIA but I have been really busy getting my house in order and on top of that I strained my lower lumbar and that is making things go real slow now so you will have to forgive me for not being my crafty self. I'm waiting to get my table top in the craftroom and then I will make a video and hopfully get back to crafting. Having a yardsale this weekend to generate funds for my table top so soon very soon. Anyhow I just wanted to update everyone I'm still here.....

One last update

OK one last update before the computer gets torn apart and moved and the internet gets transfred. I put cupbords up on the wall and the desk will go under them. The next craftroom update will be a video and I'm thinking about 2 or 3 weeks  as I do have to get the rest of the house done also, I cant wait to play in here.

Bathroom redo

Ok I know I've been focusing on the new craftroom but my Brother has been renovating the new bathroom also and I just thought I would show what a fantastic job he has done. Here is the old bathroom.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

And here is the new bathroom

What an awesome job he did and what an awesome job my nephew did on the grout.

Thank you James and Josh.

Oh yea and the tile except for the accent tile I got at a garage sale.

Craftroom Progress

Well I've spent the last 3 days packing and upacking some of the craftroom, here is the progress I have made and everything is fitting like it was made to go there so I believe the decission to make this move was a good one.

I still have to cut some pieces of shelving to go under and on top of the last 2 cube units but it's comming along.

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Time to add some color to the new craftroom

They thought I was crazy with how bright it went on but when it dryed it was beautiful and you bet my favorite color.
Now the real fun begins, packing the old craftroom and putting up shelves and cabinets.

Getting A New Craftroom

Ok you remember this, it's my current craftroom I did a video on it, well we are moving and so I get to remake my craftroom and I am so excited. I am going from 11x13 to 11x24 so that means more room again so excited.

current craftroom

Alright here is the new space.

Love the french doors

I have already taken off the closet doors to open it up and I think I'm going to use one for my new work table.
Can you say really big closet

Ok so thats all the before pictures, I will add more pictures as I progress.

Pin Cushion

OK I've needed a pin cushion for a while now and knew I wanted to make one but never found any ideas I was thrilled with untill... luvleescrappin did a tutorial for a victorian pin cushion and you can find her tutorial here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vBkBKSelQg&feature=plcp&context=C4b0a38aVDvjVQa1PpcFN-o256Ud98xyyFmvivaDt6xtWIQSSYStQ= I love love love it, so I made one for me and I am so happy with how it turned out and it was so easy. So here it is and yes in my favorite color no less and I already had everything so didnt even have to go to the store, and hey something to do with the turkey feathers I got from the neighbor at Thanksgiving.