Bar Insert

My husband and I had a custom bar built a few years back.  When were designing and changing designs my husband, from word one, wanted to incorporate the hanging of a couple jerseys on the front of the bar.  

There were a couple attempts and securing the jerseys, but nothing was working the way we had envisioned. 

I had the big idea - original too -search google or Pinterest.  Some days my most valuable attribute is being cute.  

A search ensues and i came up with the idea of using a piece of wood 1" x 2" that was a piece of scrap just laying around.  Lucky me, there was even 2 pieces that would do the trick for both jerseys.  

This is how my sweet husband secured the wood to the frame too.  

Finished!  I love it.  The jerseys are just hanging on the wood.  Nothing secured, pinned or glued.  If we want to change out the jerseys it's as easy as pie.  

I love having one more project completed. 

Stair Staining

My husband and I had been struggling for a while with what to do with the stairs to our basement. We wanted to keep cost at a minimum so decided on just staining them.  Not that difficult a decision after pricing out carpeting - not my style or using stair treads.  

Off to the Home Depot we go.  We   decide on  Minwax Dark Walnut stain.  It is very similar to the colour of the flooring throughout the main level of our home.  

We bought this stain over a year ago.  I think both my husband and I thought this would be a bigger job than it has actually turned out to be thus far.

Stairs before: 

Dirty and in need of a good cleaning and sanding. 

Stairs after: 

I can't say that I was overly impressed with first stair stained.  As I progressed, I liked them more and more.  By the time I was finished, I was loving the colour.  

The husband will be applying the varathane.  He tells me, with a little smirk, that I'm not patient enough to apply the  varathane.  Funny!!  He knows me too well.  

The railing will also be removed and stained the same colour of the stairs.  

My crafting and decorating heart is happy today.   

What project did you tackle today? 

My Dollar Store Wall Art

The wonderful crafts that can be found on Pinterest, ohhhhh they make me heart happy.   This is one of the first crafts I did for my home using Pinterest as my inspiration.

The supplies:

                                                          

$1.00 

$1.00 

$1.00 x 2 

$1.00 x 2 bunches

All my supplies cost me a total of $6.00 and I couldn't be happier with the end result.

The process was super easy.

I painted the white canvas black. While the paint was drying, I removed the stems from all the flowers. Once I was confident the paint was dry, I pushed the flower end through the canvas.  I didn't measure, I just filled the space up as I felt it would look good.  Once I was happy with the fullness and placement of the petals, I started painting the flowers.  The painting of the flowers as a bit more of a piddly task than I realized.  It was easy to miss spots on the flowers, but all in all a very quick, easy and extremely inexpensive wall art piece.

The back of my house is a wall of 3 windows. There is a space of about 12" - 18" (can't remember now) between the windows.  I had been looking high and low for art that would work there. I even spent $50.00 on this 3 piece art set, but it looked silly ~ huge waste of money, too.  I am ashamed to say, that $50.00 purchase is tucked away in a closet, never used and just taking up space.  

Finished Product 

I do believe this is my cheapest DIY project that I've created for my home.  I just wish I had found it before wasting that $50.00.  Lesson learned though.  Now I look for DIY first and shop later.   Nothing lost if a lesson is learned. 

Until next time, 

~Tammy  

Pink Ribbons and Purple Pretty Diaper Cakes

My most recent craft would be a pink and purple themed diaper cake.

Started out with a generalized idea of what I was hoping to accomplish and started stock piling supplies.

Styrofoam C

I found this cute letter "C" at Walmart for $4.00.  Pretty good price and it would make a really cute adornment for the front of the diaper cake.

Oh so pretty!

I love the colour combination of pinks and purples. It is just so girly and this diaper cake was being created for an adorable baby girl, so of course I was excited to work with that colour combo. 

What does the Fox say?

The finished product.  This was after quite a few alterations.  I was finally happy with the look once I added the bunches of pink curly ribbon. 

Small single layer

This simple single layer (made 2 of these) was on either side of the pink fox diaper cake. 

This was only my second attempt at making a diaper cake.  I learned a lot from the first one to the second attempt.

Lessons learned:

Take the time and spend the money to get proper cake plates. Cutting a cardboard box, and the box being visible was not easy for my OCD mind.  5 cake plates at Walmart were a mere $4.97 and it was money well spent. 

Each individual diaper was wrapped with a small elastic. The first cake I did, I left the elastics on the diapers and covered them with ribbon.  Wrap the ribbon around the middle and then remove all the mini elastics. The diapers look fuller and there is less worry about the elastic being seen under the wrap around ribbon. 

Now I'm off to see if I can find any more friends in need of diaper cakes.

Until next time, 

~Tammy 

Welcome

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I am a crafter wannabe.  I wannabe more of a crafter.

I will be posting some of my crafts.  I've been keeping pictures over the years of stuff I've created.  Some are great. Some not so.