A New Day, A New Idea

April 8, 2016April 7, 2016Leave a comment

So, I wanted to try something new for the blog. It was easy for me to do and is something that I wouldn’t mind doing more often. Please let me know what you think so that I know if you want to see more blogs like this or not.

This week, I am video blogging, also known as vlogging. I decided to give an apartment tour, but as a video instead of a regular blog with just pictures. Let me know what you think so I can continue doing these if there are enough people who like it!

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Corner News-April 2. 2016

April 2, 2016April 1, 20164 Comments

Hello! Hope you are having a wonderful Saturday and weekend! I don’t have much to share today. I haven’t been feeling very inspired lately :(.

Here is our family picture from Easter. The weather was absolutely perfect for an Easter morning.

This is one project I worked on during my spring break. See the cover? And the guilty party?! This happened awhile ago, but with my ‘love’ for sewing, I kept putting it off. I finally just made myself get it done.

I used a painters canvas for this cover. This is probably the fourth one I have made (not because of Rozy!). The canvas was really easy to use and it was great to have the edges already hemmed. That is one of the parts I really dislike about sewing. Too monotonous! I used all the hemmed edges for the skirt part of the slipcover.

The pillow top cover is a giant envelope cover. This way I can take it off and wash it whenever it needs it. This is often with so many dogs! Isn’t the bicycle pillow cover awesome? They have some great deals on Amazon, under $5.00 and they are so much easier to store than pillows are.

Thanks for coming by today! See you on Monday!

When I See an Elephant Fly

April 1, 2016March 31, 20162 Comments

Have you seen an elephant fly? No…me neither. But wouldn’t that be cool, to see this giant creature flying through the air with ease? Yeah, that would be awesome.

Or, you can watch Dumbo and get almost the same thing.

So, why am I telling you this? Well, of course it has to do with a project I was working on. Specifically for my coworker Linda.

Linda is the resident cat lady at work. She takes care of the cat room 5 days a week while the rest of us take care of the dogs. She is an amazing person and someone who is very easy to talk to and she will help you with whatever is needed.

Well her birthday just passed and I wanted to give her something that was meaningful. Which is why I decided to make something from her favorite Disney movie, Dumbo.

I started with a blank canvas (literally and figuratively), grey paint, paintbrushes, and a black paint pen and started on my masterpiece. The canvas was purchased in a pack of 2 from Michaels for $10.99. Hey, I’m happy with it. Now I can make 2 pictures!

I printed out a silhouette of Dumbo from Google images that I wanted to put on one of the corners. I decided to use a pictures of Dumbo and Timothy Mouse flying because the picture of Dumbo sitting didn’t look as good. I printed the picture on carbon paper so that way it was easy to copy onto the canvas. And I think that it turned out great!

I also started writing the lyrics of the song ‘When I See an Elephant Fly’ on the canvas. I didn’t have to write super tiny because there aren’t that many lyrics to the song. But, I still didn’t cover the entire canvas. So I added the title of the song and the Disney logo at the bottom.

After writing the lyrics in pencil, I wrote over them in black paint pen. The only issue I had with the paint pen was that it started to run out near the end of the lyrics. It might have been better to use a sharpie to write the lyrics instead of the paint pen.

Finally, after writing all the lyrics, I finally painted in Dumbo. Originally, I wasn’t going to outline Dumbo in black, I was just going to leave it grey. But, he didn’t have a whole lot of definition without the outline.

I think it turned out super cute! I love how Dumbo turned out and how the lyrics worked out. I also like the title at the bottom, even though it wasn’t intended. Overall, I am extremely happy with this canvas. And I hope Linda is as well when she sees it!

Boho Seashell Mobile or What To Do With All Your Seashells

March 21, 2016March 20, 201613 Comments

I’m back today with another seashell project! You can see a couple of my other projects here and here. I still have so many more to use! As I was putting this together, it kind of looked bohemian to me. I guess with the sticks and string. I don’t know, but I like it! I just have to find the perfect spot for it!

I picked up some sticks from my yard. I would have loved to use driftwood, but we just don’t seem to have much at the beaches we frequent, so sticks will have to do. I picked out the shells I wanted to use and brought out a couple different strings and twine. I also had my drill with a 3/32 drill bit. I probably could have used a little bit bigger drill bit because I ended up using the larger string, but it worked out.

I drilled a hole in each of the shells I wanted to use. I put each shell on an old board so the drill would just go into it and not make a hole in my desk!

I cut out my sting in various lengths.

Then tied a string to each shell. I threaded it through the hole and then knotted it in the back.

Before I started hanging the shells on the sticks, I tied the sticks together at different lengths, starting at the top and then adding on. This is the top stick.

After all the shells were hung, I took it outside to find a good spot for it. Unfortunately, this is it for now. I hope to get some cleaning up done outside during spring break and then will find a better spot for it.

And that’s it! This little project didn’t take me very long at all and will add a lot to my summertime patio! Now I just have to figure out what else to make…

Oh! Look what I got on Saturday!!! The ones on top are the ones I am going to use in my laundry room. I love the numbers and the handles. So cool!

Hopefully I will be able to show you soon!

Corner News-March 19, 2016

March 19, 2016March 18, 20166 Comments

Happy Saturday! We are starting our spring break here and I have the next week off! Yeah!! I am hoping to get a few projects done to share with you all! We’ll see how it goes!

Do you remember Zoella? Her nickname is Munch, because she is such a Munchkin! She was adopted by Lauren, but she had to stay at our house for awhile. Wweelll, we became attached, and Rozy became her best friend, so now she is mine. I love this little girl!! Zoella’s baby picture is here and Rozy is here.

I added this box shelf to my craft room wall. Steve had put this together a long time ago and I had it outside. But now I repainted the outside white and gold on the inside. I added some fun little accessories.

I found the adorable puppy picture on clearance at Hobby Lobby. There was no way I would pass this one up!! I added glitter to a wooden ‘S’ for another project and then changed my mind, so now it resides here. I just picked up the little bicycle plate from Goodwill, but it originally came from Target and the jar is part of my button collection.