Tuesday Tell All #47

Welcome back! 

I am happy to be back.  It was a long few days with out my computer.  Yes, I am addicted.  I can't wait to see what you have been up to since I was gone.

Laurie, over at Scene of the Grime, show you how to honor you kids in your home decor.

Over at Going on at the Glenn's, she redid a desk with Yoda on it.  (This is a shout out to my brother).

Kelly over at Make it Sparkly Mama, she shows us how to make your own Miche bag shells.  Genius!

Here is my rules are:

1. Must be something craftie.  This can be anything!  Projects, Craft Ideas, Organization Tips, Recipes, Ect. 
2. Link only your post, if you link your blog or anything that you are selling will deleted.
3. Anything that is negative or inappropriate will be deleted.
4. Please link up only one time per project.  If you add it more then once I will delete it.  
5. Link up as many projects as you want.
6. Visit the other links and show some love!
7. Please let others know about my linking party so that we can all enjoy in the fun.

Tuesday Tell All #44

Welcome to Tuesday Tell All!

I forgot this week  I am hoping that next week everything will be better.  

Ellen, over at Creative Passage, painted her beautiful dresser a very pretty blue.

Amy, over at Increasingly Domestic, has a super cute balloon idea for Birthdays.

Lindsay, over at Daily Chysalis, made a super cute crown plate.

Here is my rules are:

1. Must be something craftie.  This can be anything!  Projects, Craft Ideas, Organization Tips, Recipes, Ect. 
2. Link only your post, if you link your blog or anything that you are selling will deleted.
3. Anything that is negative or inappropriate will be deleted.
4. Please link up only one time per project.  If you add it more then once I will delete it.  
5. Link up as many projects as you want.
6. Visit the other links and show some love!
7. Please let others know about my linking party so that we can all enjoy in the fun.

The February Challenage

I have been wanting to do this for a while.  I have heard of people who do a 30 day crafting with only what they have on hand.   Well I am here to say today is the start of that.  I will not be going to the DI (or Goodwill) to buy anything.  I will take things that are giving to me, but I can't buy anything.  

Here are a few things that are on my list for the month:

• Fabric Flowers 
• Baby blankets
• Bibs
• Bow Holder
• Redo skirts into dresses
• Headbands
• Ruffle Bum Onsies
• Scrapbooking
• Cards
• Flashcards
• Finish my "beach bag" 

The sad thing is this is just a few things that I could  do with what I have on hand. If there is anything that you would like to see a tutorial for just let me know!  I will try to do tutorials for all of them.

I was Featured!

Ok,so if you don't know me personally, I am kind of a nerd.  Now I don't say that to put myself down.  It is really true!  I am the type of person who when something happens like this it truly means the world to me.  I talk about it for days and I am on a high and it helps me want to do more projects.  I hope when I do features on my site you feel the same way.

There is this great blog called House of Grace.  She was so sweet and featured my Crafter's Haven.  I love am so honored and I love that she calls them He Twice Owed Queens.  I am a QUEEN!!  I will have to let my hubbie know so that he can honor me!  Haha, just kidding.  He already knows that!

You should go check out her party!  It is such a fun party and you should add it to your linking party list.  It is so fun to see what other people's creative think of.  Because I would never think of that! 

It is DONE!!!!!!

As promised I finished my crafting heaven.  I am so excited!!!  It was actually finished later the same night I posted about it.  But if any of you have hunters for a husbands, then you know that this is kind of busy time of year.  This week is the dear hunt and so I am am husband less till Sunday.  

As a reminder, here is the before:

I must say this was made possible by my sweet husband.  He was working right by my side till wee hours of the morning so that we could get it done before the hunt so that I could us it while he was gone.  But I have been so busy that I haven't even had two seconds to use it.

I was going to put it in my craft room, but it is a smaller walk in closet and not very much space.  Plus I like to have movies on while I work.  I would not be able to do that.  So much cute hubbie suggested that we put it in the living room so that I could still watch movies and not be closed off to my little room.  I am so excited!

Here is the After: (Sorry for the crummy basement pictures!)

This top part is where all of my fun decor magazines are going to be stored.  I will be making them cute here shortly.  I will show you how I do that.  On these shelves I have my small paper, my glue and any adhesive.

 Then I have all of my projects in here too.  So that as I get them done I will have more storage space and so they are easy to get too.


I am so excited and I hope that you all think that it is as cool as I do!  It has been such a great things and I can't wait to use it.

I will be linking to THESE parties.

Also don't forget to stop by on Tuesday, for Tuesday Tell All.

My Craft Heaven!!!

SO on Thursday I was looking on KSL Classifies just for fun and I looked in the dresser section when I stumble up on this!!!

I fell in love in a heart beat and she was hard to get to my house.  My hubbie was at work and I didn't have a car seat.  So I  called my parents and my awesome dad came with me with his truck.  We got there and lifted it.  I thought I was going to die!  It is like 75 pounds and I am not even making that up! I thought that it was in better shape then it was. My amazing hubbie and I spent the night stripping it.  (Yes, there were tons of jokes about strippers too). 

Later on, I was talking with my hubbie and he was talking to me about it and I said I am super excited about my secretary desk.  He looked at me and said, "That is not what it is called."  I was intrigued.  "What is it called then?"  He smiled and said Your Crafting Heaven."  I couldn't fight with that!

Then on Friday I sanded it down, primed it and painted it! (of course, I forgot to take pictures)  I even got most of the poly on it!  I am going to let it air out over the weekend.  Then it will be put in my craft room!!!  I am so excited I can hardly wait.  I can't wait to show you it!  

Ikea!

I know that I don't need to say more?  I have never been there.  So this last weekend my hubbie and I went with my little one and my parents down to Lehi.  I need a break and so we went down there and spent the night.   My mom and I went to Ikea why the boy went to Cabela's.  It was so much fun.

I was so excited to go and then I walked in there!  Oh my goodness.  I was so overwhelmed.  But I loved every second of it.  I was looking for an addition to my craft room that I wanted to work on today.  Instead I am sick and I have a wonderful sister in law that has taken my son so that I can just relax.  Thanks Suzie!!!!  I found where they were suppose to be.  They there, then look in another place, GONE!!!  I was so sad.  Then my sweet mom found them in another place.  I was so excited, I think I yelled, "Hurray."  This is what I bought!

I am making a magnet board and I am going to organize all my small craft items like buttons and paper clips.  I am SO stoked!  My hubbie thinks that I have an addiction.  He was surprised that I didn't buy much.  But when we moved out of his mom's house and we get our own.  That store will be where I spend most of his checks!  Until then I will have to get love the few things that I did get and the prices are amazing!

I also got a funnel that is lime green and I love!  For only $0.99.

I also a bead counter for the little one!  I was to excited and that fact that it was $7.99 is even better!  I was so excited to bring this home so that he could play with it! 

My mom feel in love with this a kitchen there and I love this play room white board.  I think that I will do in The next house.

Then there was this!  I would love to have something like this for our TV! I LUV our TV cabinet.  But this is so amazing.

I hope to go again soon.  But I need to have a mission this time.  I need to have a purpose, otherwise I just wander.  If you have one close, go and enjoy!

The Crib Reveal!

As I told you, the crib is finally (almost) done. I thought it was done, I forgot that we hadn't got the handles done.  So last night I finished that ones that we could find.  We have had this crib for a long time and we took the handles off about two years ago.  So, we have four and are missing two.  We looked all over the house and even cleaned up to garage a little to see if they were out there.  Two birds with one stone.  We couldn't find them, hopefully soon.  Also there was a drawer that we need to redo, hopefully this week. 

Anyways, the story behind the crib is we bought it forever ago.  Right after we bought the house.  We were not even planning on having a baby yet.  Greg called me at work and told me that he had found this awesome crib at a yard sale down the street.  He sent me a picture on my phone (which I wish that I had to show you).  I told him to get it.

Our little boys room is really small and this had a changing table that was attached.  We thought this would be a great space saver. Little did we know that it would take a about 2 years to get it done.  Greg started by sanding the awful yellowish finish off of it. We wanted to stain it.  We tried and it wouldn't stain evenly.  We then decided to paint it.  I went back and forth on what color and then decided to paint it white.  Which I am very glad that we did!

I forgot to take picture before I started to paint.  Here is what it looked like when I started.  The handles are brass and super ugly!   I tried to spray paint it.  I was new to it so I decided that I would just paint it with left over paint that we had from painting some of the rooms in our house.

 This is the first coat of paint.  I am sorry that the pictures aren't very good.  I had to paint it in our basement because the weather here is not wanting to warm up enough to do anything outside.  I used a roller and a brush.  Which went by really fast.  I get bored really easy. 

This is when we had finished doing the polyurethane.  We had to let it dry for about 1 1/2 days.

This is my sweet hubbie putting it together.  The crib is finally set up his room.  The top part folds down . The only thing was... I didn't realize how big it is.  So I think that I am going to have to change things around.  I am going to to somethings tomorrow.  I have some cool things that I am going to do for the walls.

These are the handles.  I used the Krylon Rubbed Oil Bronze that Thrifty Decor Chick talked about this last week.  I LOVE them! I can't wait to get them all done.  Then this is a missing drawer, it was way beat up.  This week my hubbie will be getting it fixed.

This here is the finished product. I love how it turned out!  I was nervous that my little one would have a hard time with sleeping in it since it is something new.  Not the case at all.  He LOVES his new crib.  The bedding by the way was not my first choice.  I found it at Savers for $30 dollars for the whole set and it matched the crazy wall color that I choose to do.  There is a bed skirt, but I can't use it.  All well.  At least when I resale it I have the whole set.

I hope that you like it as much as I do!  Let me know what you think! 


I am linking to Sunday -Tatertots and Jello, Keeping it Simple,

Monday- Sumo Sweet Stuff, 
Tuesday-Today's Creative Blog, My Frugal Family
Wednesday- Blue Cricket
Thursday-Somewhat Simple, Life as Lori 
Friday-Design-aholic, Poppies at Play