Vintage Yarn Label Tray

I have been collecting vintage yarn labels for some reason…well I finally figured out what that reason was!

I cut the labels to make a collage and glued to the inside of this Hobby Lobby tray (found at 80% off!).  Slapped a dozen or a hundred coats of Mod Podge onto it and I was done! 

I do love it though…these labels are really cool!  I especially like the yellow chick label...mohair yarn made for JCPenny's!  

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Painting my Sunday away…

I painted the base of my newest cloche! 

These lids and these eggs…

This tray…more about it later…and this finial décor.

And this frame..more about this later too!

Driftwood Mobile

I have been meaning to make one of these forever.  My Craftsman drill has been broken for a while, so I was waiting for that to be remedied!  Anyhooo, I just bought a new drill/screw driver and love it, it is a Skilz brand and has a lot more get up and go than the old one!  So, I got my driftwood out and lined them up to be in graduated lengths.

I drilled a single hold in the approximate middle of each piece of wood.  I looked all over for some sea glass that I could drill holes in, but then had trouble finding the glass drill bit. 

So I ended up going with sea glass colored beads, strung one or two of them between each piece of driftwood.  I just used a fine nylon string that I found in the garage.  I would think some nylon fishing line would be good as well.

I will be glad when the trees leaf out and there will be more of a “natural” background!  We have had such a mild winter, even so I am ready for it to be over! 

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Painted Glass Bottles

These bottles look great painted on the inside!  Very easy, takes some time because it is done in steps, but very easy!  And I love how shiny they are on the outside!

I started out with two vases and an old bottle I paid a few dollars for at a thrift store (where else?)…

I used some left over paint I had (it is regular wall paint) and just poured it in.  I kept moving the bottle to distribute the paint as evenly as possible.  When the inside is all covered, I sat them upside down to let the extra paint drain out (the first one I didn’t do that step and it took a week to dry!).

Repeat as you desire!

I put mine in the window to let them dry, still took several days, but well worth the wait! 

It was so pretty today I painted everything that I had been waiting for a pretty day for…if it held still, I painted it!

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Habitat for Humanity Restore

I found out about Habitat for Humanity’s Restore a few years ago and I go visit them several times a year.  This is their mission statement:

The Restore is a division of Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity - a non-profit ecumenical organization dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. We recycle used, overstocked, discontinued, seconds and salvageable building material donated by individuals, firms and contractors. The donated items are used to build houses for low-income families or offered for sale to the general public to raise funds for building houses.

That’s great to be able to somehow help this cause…but did you know they have all sorts of things besides building supplies?  I found all these things at the Restore this past weekend. 

Glass candlesticks and a cowbell (very cheap)…

and a bunch of tiles I will use for mosaic flower pots…

a Budweiser bucket (I have plans of covering it with paint) and four rolls of scotch tape (like in office supply size—50 cents each) and clay pots and saucers (can’t walk past them at 25 cents each) and an aluminum dish pan (like my Grandma used—$1).

The big basket was 25 cents…my total bill was $4.70!  Crazy!  And I found out that they have a big yard sale in a few months, I am certainly going to have to check that out!

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Microwave Caramels

I tried another of my Pinterest pins this weekend and it was a big hit!

Microwave caramels…who would have thunk you could make something this scrumptious in the microwave???

I made two batches…the first was rock hard and could not be chewed or cut with any knife I had in my kitchen…I didn’t want to get the chain saw out, so I ended up tossing it into the trash!  I couldn’t even melt it!

I scooped the caramel out with a melon baller before it set up.  And these caramels also boiled over in the microwave and created a ginormous mess, but yet they turned out perfect!  And the taste is so smooth and wonderful!

Click on the picture to get the Jenn’s recipe on Eat Cake for Dinner!

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