Reduce, reuse recycle...

I am having too much fun decorating my home and recycling as I do it. A while back I covered one of our moving boxes with an old curtain that I had laying around, and LOVED how it turned out.  I just didn't love how much work and time it took me.  (Here's the box).

I didn't think much of it again until just recently when a good friend of mine was looking for a particular sized box.  (I just happened to have that particular sized box) and she came over to pick it up.  I asked her what she needed it for and she told me it was the perfect size box to fit in our mud room cubby's.  So that of course got me thinking that I would love to have a cute box to hold all of my kids dang shoes in and have that mud room look nice.  Finally tonight, I got my boxes, and started on my project.

I first took my boxes and painted them both black.   (Here's just one of the boxes on it's side painted.)

I experimented with a punch I had and made a template and then painted the template onto my box.  Here's what it looked like.

  I didn't like it at all!  My oldest on the other hand loved it.  I thought since it's gonna be her shoe box holder I would let her have it the way she liked it and I quickly moved onto my next box.  I found some paper that I really like from the Black Currant Stack, and I cut it into strips.  I then used modge podge to glue the paper to the box.  (I LOVE that stuff!)  Here's how my second box turned out.

LOVED IT!  Once my oldest saw how cute this one turned out she decided that I could change the box after all.  So I decided that I would use the same paper stack and cut another paper into strips and just glue them on top of what I had already done.  It turned out really nice too!

Doesn't that look so much better than my first attempt?  Now here's how they look put in there cubby's with shoes in them.

Doesn't that look fabulous!  Before they just had their shoe's thrown into the cubby's and it just looked like a hot mess!  Complete Chaos!  Love how this turned out!  SO simple and fun to do.

Come on back soon, I have several more projects that I have finished and just haven't had time to post here yet.  Including a couple of birthday cards I've made, and the presents to go with them.  (Those I'm purposely waiting to post till I give them away tomorrow.)  I do have some fun projects I've finished though that I 'd love to show.  Have a great day!

I'm so excited to share my wreath!  I've spent weeks working on it.  When the kids finally went to bed, I would sit on my bed and roll my paper and cut it to size, fluff it out to make a rose, hot glue it and go on to the next.  It took so much time and I thought I'd never be done with it.  Here it is...finished at last!

It turned out amazing!  However, before I could get around to posting this my dang kids got to my wreath.  I had it hung up, proudly displaying it on my door and "it wasn't me" broke it!  Now look at it.

I'm so upset!  Weeks and weeks of work.  I'm going to try to hot glue it back together and see if that works.  I would like to wring the neck of "it wasn't me" though.  That little trouble maker has been reaking havoc around our house for days now!

Oh, and since I didn't mention it, I found this idea and how to do it on Pinterest!

Teacher gift

I took a can washed it out, dried it and then painted it.  I let it dry over night and then I hot glued some stones onto it.  (I found this can idea on pintrest, (I think).  It's been forever since I've seen it.)

  Anyway, then I posted pictures of the cans on fb and asked my friends what ideas they had for my cans.  I got some really good responses, such as planting a herb garden, and making them teacher gifts as a pencil holder, or flower pens.  I asked the kids if they liked the pen idea and here's the finished look.

  Thank you friends for the great idea!  I had to keep one for myself!

I'm back...

So for any of you that are still following me after taking a year off, let me tell you whats happened.  We've moved into our new home, had a baby, and are finally some what settled.  I've quit stampin up!, but am still creating.  First, I'll share the card I made for a swap tonight, then come back to see my teacher appreciation gifts completed.  (hopefully I can post tomorrow).

Here's our newest little member, Ava.

And here's the card I made tonight.

  Cased from http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2206674?&cat=23192.  Congrats to all graduates!!  I've got one this year, graduating from the 6th grade!

Wow, how time fly's!  Sadly, it's been months since I've updated my blog.  I went to school (again) for Spring session.  I've been going off and on since I was a Junior in High school,  so it's been years!  I'm hoping one day before I"m 40 that I've got my degree, but at this rate... Up side though, I did get all A's.  YA!!  On top of going back to school, we were looking for another house.  (We like to do things as hard as we can.)  We looked and looked for about 4 months, and just weren't finding anything, so we decided that we would build and get what we wanted.  We didn't want to be too far from where we are now, but as luck would have it, we're building our house all the way out in Lehi.  It's a beautiful area though.

Now, I"m really struggling with the whole idea of leaving everything I know here, (not that we will be too far away, about 30 minutes from our home here.)  I think right now I'm having a hard time deciding weather I quit Stampin Up! for now, or perceiver through.  All of my clientele is already about 30 minutes from me, so to add an hour?  It's not happening.  I'd be starting all over in Lehi, and I'm not even sure how I started it up here.  Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks ladies, for stickin with me through all of this time.

Now for some pictures of our area.  This is the first place I'm posting them.  Sneak peak here first.

 This is the view we get to have.  It's gorgeous out here.

 This is our land here.  This will be where our new home will be built.

This house is the one being built next to where ours will be.  I wonder who our neighbors will be.

Wow, two posts in two days!  I just wanted to share one of the projects I spend my day today doing (instead of homework).  The "O" is actually different themed items.  I painted this one today and the "spring flower".  I have several more seasons to paint, but I love how it's turned out already.  The paper on the HME is from Stampin Up!  I love that I can always find something to work with in my huge stash of their paper.

I've been Liebstered!!!!

I've been Liebstered!!!!

And you're all thinking, what???????

I have been soooo busy with school, that I have sadly neglected my blog.  So tonight I stopped by to add a few pictures of some cards I have managed to get done, and I saw this award from Sheri.    What a wonderful surprise!   Now if your wondering what this award is for like I was, here's the details:  

This award is for bloggers with less than 200 followers, to bring attention to your blog, and increase your following! So, in the spirit of good fun I am passing this award on to five of my blog followers. Please stop by to visit them, and become a Follower.

Here are the Rules of the Liebster Award:

1. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.  (Thank you Sheri!)

2. Reveal your five picks for the award and let them know.

3. Post the award on your blog.

4. Bask in the love from the supportive people out there in Blog Land!

5. Finally and the best rule of all..........have fun and spread the love!

The five blogs I have chosen are listed below. Click on over to their beautiful sites, look around and don't forget to become a Follower. It was really tough limiting this to just five, there are so many amazing blogs out there.

1.  http://www.parchmentpaperie.com

2. http://cutcolorpaste.blogspot.com/

3.  http://crystalscraftingandrambling.blogspot.com

4.  http://stacysstampinspot.blogspot.com

5.  http://sunnystampin.blogspot.com


Now please stop on by these very talented ladies blogs and tell them I sent you.  And as always, thanks for stopping by!