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Made By Me for Monday!!!

Hello everyone!!!  I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and are looking forward to a wonderful week!  Did you do anything creative this weekend???  We had some super gorgeous Spring sunshine to enjoy.  It was wonderful!

Just a quick note, I have had BUNCHES of emails about my craft room since I posted it last week.  Did you miss the post?  No worries!  CLICK HERE to see it :)  Anyway, I have decided that in the next week or two, I will do a part II Craft Room post.  Maybe that will help answer some of the questions.  Oh, and THANKS BUNCHES for the oh, so, kind comments about my creative space.  You all made me smile!

Onto this week's creation!!!  First of all, you are going to have to excuse the fact that I forgot to take a before picture!  OOPS!  Sometimes I just get so ExcItEd to get started on a creation that I forget to take a before picture!  But, we all know what an unfinished shelf looks like right???  SO, all you need to do is picture the shelf in an unfinished state :)  Okay, got it pictured? 

Well, here is what it looks like now:

My paint color is Mississippi Mud.  I use it a lot because it matches my home decor so well.

I LOVED this shelf because of the picture openings.  Anything that lets me display pictures makes me happy!  I added strips of scrapbook paper around the "frames" with mod podge to make the photos stand out even more :)

This is the top of the shelf.  I mod podged scrapbook paper to it.  The paper has just a slight glittery look to it which I absolutely LOVE! Oh, and it matches my bedroom perfectly (which BTW is where I am hanging the shelf).

I inked the edges of the shelf lightly before I mod podged it.

Here it is all finished.  I added my boys names in vinyl on top of their pictures.  I used my handy dandy Cricut Machine to cut those.  Couldn't live without it!!!

I will be linking up at some of these parties HERE this week.  Show them some love!  It is a lot of work to host linky parties each week!

I hope you will come back and join in on my linky parties too!

Wednesday: Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop

Thursday: Thrilling Thursday Linky Party

Friday: Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party

See YOU there!!!

Craft Room.

Craft Room- AKA: My Office, Where I get my "craft" on, Where my mojo flows, My Design Studio, My Spa, My Getaway Space, My Sanity Saving Spot, My Creative Space, My FAVORITE Room in the House!

I am not going to lie. . .I am a messy crafter.  When my mojo starts flowing, I just want to create.  I don't want to clean up until my project is complete.  SO, unfortunately, that means that my creative space eventually ends up looking like this:

Before

Before

Before

Before

SEE I TOLD YOU I AM MESSY!!!  Sometimes it gets so bad that I can't even go in there.  Then I end up doing my creations out on my kitchen table.  When this happens, I know my hubby is thinking, "Why, oh why, does she have a craft room, if she is just going to sit out here and do her crafts?"  Haha!

Last week I decided to get back into my craft room and get organized.  Sometime soon I plan on painting and pulling out the carpet and putting in laminate floors.  That hasn't happened as of yet, but you can still see what my space looks like. . .at least for now :)

Ahhh, so nice and clean!  Wonder how long it will stay that way?

Wanna go on a tour of my creative space?  (WARNING!  MANY PICTURES TO FOLLOW!)

Wall of cabinets

Closet Wall

Behind My Desk

Button Shelf

Inside of Closet Door

Inside my Closet

Labeled Drawers (Inside My Closet)

Labeled Alpha Drawers (Inside My Closet)

More Labeled Drawers

Cardstock Stash

Pegboard

Flower Shelf

Paint Storage

Window Seat

A view from the doorway

You can click on any of the pictures for a larger view.  I just didn't want to put them all in this post really large, or it would have taken up pages and pages on my blog :)

I actually found some REALLY SUPER DUPER UBER CUTE paisley print black and white material that I will be recovering my bench seat with.  So, watch for that in an upcoming post!

I hope you enjoyed my space!  Where do you get creative???

I will be linking up to some of THESE FABULOUS PARTIES this week. 

Hope you can stop by here at Paisley Passions on 

Wednesday for Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop,

Thursday for Thrilling Thursday Linky Party, and on

Friday for Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party :)

My Journey Album

Welcome to MADE BY ME FOR MONDAY!!!

The item I am featuring today is actually one that I made for my hubby for Fathers Day a while back.  It was a really fun project!

The way the entire thing got started was one day when I was in K-Mart.  I had gone in there to grab something and I noticed there was a clearance rack out in the middle of the aisle.  Well, I don't know about you, but, when I see CLEARANCE in big, bold, red letters, I can't help myself!  I HAVE to go and see what is in the basket!

I noticed that there was an old check register binder.  It was black and had several check register pages in it.  It was on CLeaRaNCe for (are you ready for this?) $1.00.  Yep.  $1.00.  I loved the shape of it, and since it was a ring style, I knew I could add as many pages to it as I wanted.  So, I made my big $1.00 purchase and brought it home.  Still not sure what I was going to make with it.

Fathers Day was just around the corner, and I had this idea to turn the check register binder into a book for my hubby.  I decided to do the book based on all of the "toys" he has had throughout his life.  The theme fit so well with Dr. Seuss "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" so I used the words from that book to inspire my pages.

Here is how it turned out:

Front Cover

This view shows the pages and the tabs I made.

I used the tape used when you sheet rock on the corner of the album (that is the "net" looking stuff) and then added textured paint on top.

If you want to see inside the album, you can watch the slide show :)

I don't normally do slide shows on my blog, but this had too many pictures to post! 

I didn't share the last several pages of the book on the slide show (because they are a little too personal) but, the last several pages, I had each of my kiddos do a 10 Reasons Why I Love You page for their dad.  It brought tears to his eyes!  He loved it!

**I will be linking up to SOME OF THESE FABULOUS PARTIES HERE this week!**

I hope you come back and join in on my parties too!

Wednesday: Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop

Thursday: Thrilling Thursday Linky Party

Friday: Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party

March Wreath.

Welcome to another Made By Me for Monday! Before I share what I made this weekend, have YOU entered for a FREE 3 Month Ad Space on Paisley Passions??? YOU SHOULD! CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS! Good Luck!!!

Made By Me for Monday!!!

This year I decided that I am going to make a new wreath for every month of the year.  In January, I made my WINTER WREATH.  In February I made my BLACK AND WHITE POLKA DOT WREATH.  Today, I am going to share my March wreath :)

Since March is when we celebrate St. Patty's Day, I knew I wanted a wreath that reflected the "feeling" of St. Patty's Day, without all the well, er, how do I say it?  Um, without all the tackiness of it.  Sorry, I don't want to offend anyone!   It's just that sometimes St. Patty's decor can get a little bit gaudy.  Which can be super fun for a party, just not what I wanted on my front door!  :)


So here is what I came up with for my version of a March wreath:

Supplies I started with: foam wreath, zippers, ric rac, material

I tore the material into strips and wrapped it around the wreath leaving the torn edges exposed.

Next, I took the zippers and made them into rosettes using my glue gun.  I didn't do a tutorial on the flowers because it seems like EVERYONE is making them.  They are pretty easy to make :)  I added the flowers to the wreath with my glue gun and then looped a piece of zipper around the top of the wreath to give me something to hang it with.

There you have it!  My version of a wreath for March.  What do you think???

After hanging it on my front door, I just kept thinking that it didn't look quite big enough.  I have a really tall door and the wreath was being swallowed up by it!  Then I remembered that I had a frame in my storage closet that I kept meaning to do something with! :)  Oh HAPPY day!!!

Frame from my storage closet :)

I glued some felt strips on the back of the frame with my glue gun so that it won't scratch my door.

Then I took some more strips of fabric and used them to hang the wreath in the center.  I added a bow on the top and hung it on the door.  VOILA!  No more wreath being swallowed up by the size of my door.  Now it looks just right :)

I will be joining in some of these wonderful LINKY PARTIES HERE this week!  

I hope you come back and join in my parties too!   

Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop

Thrilling Thursday Linky Party 

Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party. 

Menu Board

Made By Me for Monday!!!

Welcome to another Monday.  Monday is the day where I share my project for the week!!!  This one was kind of fun.  My inspiration?  Well, you see, we have been spending far too much money on eating out.  It usually isn't healthy, and it certainly costs more money than eating at home!  So, I decided that I needed to come up with a way to be a little more organized with my dinner preparations.  

I have been using this menu board for about a month now, and I have to say, IT IS WORKING!  YAY!  Want to see how I made it???

I went to the local Thrift Store, and I found this frame for $3.00.  This is how it looked.  When I bought it, I actually didn't know what I was going to use it for.  Then I had the idea for a menu board.

BEFORE $3.00 Thrift Store Frame

 I painted the frame with a new coat of a metallic green color.  It actually looks a lot brighter green in these pictures than it looks in real life.

Metallic Green Paint

 I took the back off of the frame, and covered it with some PAISLEY scrapbook paper :)  Then I took my handy dandy Crop-A-Dile and punched holes in the sides.  I threaded some leather cord through the holes and tied it at the ends.

Covered with paper and leather cording.

 Then I put the back onto the frame and stapled it so it would be tight.  I made some cards that I stamped the days of the week on and laminated.  This way I can write what we are having for dinner on the cards and then erase them and write a new week of dinners the next week.  No hassle.  No mess!

Finished!

Laminated days of the week

Small clothes pins that I added a strip of paper to with Mod Podge and topped off w/some bling!

I added "Menu" at the top with vinyl lettering

Then I hung them in order by day of the week.

A coat of paint and a little imagination, and VOILA! a brand new menu board!!!

LINKING UP HERE this week :)  

***Don't forget to come and join in on my Wandering Wednesday Blog Hop, Thrilling Thursday Linky Party, and Fun w/Food Friday Linky Party this week!***

Valentine Wreath

MADE BY ME FOR MONDAY!

I SO needed some craft-therapy last week!  It was a killer week for me at school.  Life in general was busy even without adding school on top of it.

After my last class of the week, I headed over to the local craft store.  I have been wanting to make a Valentine Wreath for several weeks now.  So, I went and grabbed some stuff from the craft store to get me inspired to create one.

Here is what I bought for my inspiration pieces:

 

My first thought was to wrap the styrofoam wreath with the boa.  Which, by the way, would have looked FABULOUS!  I started and realized it would take about 4-5 of those boas to fill the entire wreath.  Well, that is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that I didn't want to pay the $$$ for four more of those boas!  So, on to plan B.

I didn't end up using the wood heart and I added some black and white polka dot ribbon I had in my craft room.  Here is what my final project looks like. . .

I LOVE how it turned out.  My favorite part?  The way the boa looks blowing in the breeze as it hangs on my door.  LOVE IT!  Another favorite?  Red, black, and white were my wedding colors.  February is also my anniversary, so this wreath reminds me of my wedding day :)

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