okay these are cute: morning glories

I found a 'recipe' online for these and thought they were adorable, and as I already had little faery lights up in my room for ambience, I thought these would add to the decor, and they were super easy to make.

So to make them you have to have the kind of egg cartons on the left in this next picture...the taller, pointy looking kind. It works way better.

Then you cut them up and you can paint them if you so desire. I painted mine white. Then punch a little hole in the bottom and stick them on a string of little christmas lights, or faery lights, whichever you call them. The little kind.

They look very cute :)

 

The simple pleasures...

A few days ago, we got a truckload of wood chips delivered to our yard. Being the creative geniuses they are, this is what the came up with:













Because, really, it doesn't have to be snow. A pile of pretty much anything remotely slippery is sledding material.














Yes, this next photo is my dear sister dumping wood chips out of her boot. I bet that was pleasant.

Oh, the fun we have...

A realization

Today, as I was going through my music, I realized I have recently purchased my fifth cd of the title 'Favourite ballet classics' or something similar. Perhaps this is a habit I need to address.

I'm back!

Hallelujah! My photo uploader is working again!! In honour of this momentous occasion, I am posting a few photos of one of my earlier projects. This project was inspired by a lovely chair at Winners which I saw but FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF! Gah. So, I remembered what it looked like but can't share the information. Anyhow, it was $198 and I thought 'I can make that...come on.'

I started with this delightful chair which has a story of its own. When my parents were on their HONEYMOON, they picked it up on the side of the road, brought it home and put new fabric on it. It's been in our house forever.

I ripped the fabric off the seat to find this delightful scene. Hmmm.
One of the springs was all bent and not fixable so I ripped all the spring out and my dad cut me a piece of plywood to make the seat instead.

Oh...but first I actually gave it two coats of paint and then distressed it a little bit to make it vintage-y and cute.

The fabric I used to recover was SO pretty. Blue and green (being my first and 3rd favourite colours :) with BUTTERFLIES (I love) and gold sparkly parts (but nice sparkles, not ugly tacky sparkles.)
The fabric was in the bolt-end basket at Satin Moon (a favourite of mine). And I had barely enough to do the whole chair, but the piece only cost $8! So the cost of my chair was $8 plus a free chair plus some extra stuffing to make it comfier and a few staples....but someone gave me those...so probably about $10 in total? Yay!!!

It looks so cute in my room, along with another recent project that I will document tomorrow.

I'm glad to be back!

Just so you know...

I have not fallen off the face of the planet, nor have I left the world of creative endeavors. I have a few projects waiting to be posted but my silly photo uploader thing has gone awol on me and they just aren't the same without the pictures! I'll be back with them as soon as I get it working.
See you soon!