Easel: Before and After

My son Jake, my fun happy helper, started his summer job.

The pay is much better than the pennies I paid him.

 so I don't blame him

for leaving me alone to paint.
I loved his help moving furniture!

It was fun while it lasted.

His last project was this Kids Easel!

He unscrewed the chalk board and the white dry erase board. Cleaned it really good and then he  gave the chalk board a new coat of chalk board paint. He primed it and then sprayed it with Rust-oleum Apple Red Gloss spray paint. 

BEFORE

the chalkboard

BEFORE

the dry erase board

AFTER

Looks brand spanking new!

Oh, the thrifty finds and what a can or two of spray paint can do!!

House work!

It is mad crazy at my house,

I am loosing my marbles!

and loving it at the same time.

Our roof leaked and we had buckets catching the water.

This is after we had a sheet rocker come in and repair some damage and we painted.

All fixed, we thought until we have had so so much rain here in Utah.

It told us, we needed a new roof!

A water pipe under the house was about ready to break, it was spraying and only did we catch it before it broke, because our sewer backed up and we had rotor rooter come.  Our plumber turned the water off and checked the pipe -whew, diverted a disaster.

so it was fixed.

Our fridge has been fixed once for a leak from the ice maker, yup it is leaking again.

The oven has been fixed once for a burner going out, yup it has gone out again.

And the dishwasher which has been a better than most dishwasher - it got the dishes clean.

stopped working.

So I am working on getting new appliances.  I found our a standard size fridge won't fit

in the hole I have and I have to have my cabinet cut.

kill me

In the middle of this, I have the house tore apart, because I am painting.

The kitchen

The craft room

and you all know previously the entry way.

So the pounding of the nails above,

The noise of the plumber.

no satellite, so no T.V,

missing American Idol, not good!

While all this going on, I am in the house making tissue balls

for a church activity for graduating Senior girls,

and making phone calls in between the pounding, drilling etc.

You know what is fun about all this. . .

The roofer Ben lived  use to live next door - he moved, darn.

We love him and his darling wife and kids

so good to see him!

my son Jake has him on his list of top ten most influential people in his life!

We Love him!

The Plumber is a good friend who lives a block away and use to be in our church ward.

If your not in wards around here, you might as well live on another planet.We never see him and his darling wife and kids any more.

So good to catch up with him.

Feeling my pain Yet. . .

Well, I better show you some before pictures of the kitchen

and all the appliances that don't work!  Ha Ha

 I especially love this picture, cuz I am feeling the Love of a Welcome home surprise from our cruise by our cute daughter Erin and my adorable Grand kids!
The red is gone, and guess what, I am missing it!

The picture wall, gone!

My driveway!  The plumber

Working in here

The roofer and his worker working here

MESS!

Gotta go see if I can find my marbles!

Before and After: Antique drop Leaf Table

They don't make em like they use to.

This heavy old well made table  was in such great shape.

It just needed a face lift!

BEFORE

 AFTER

Umm - to die for!


Primitive and Proper
The Shabbby Chic Cottage
House of Hepworths
What Allie makes
Finger prints on the Fridge
Miss Mustard Seed
Just a Girl

Dumpster Diving and Chicken Wire memo boards

A very popular local photography shop changed  their frames,

and so they dumped the old ones to make room for the new.

The frames were in boxes. Many boxes!  Boxes and Boxes and Boxes. They were in the dumpster and next to the dumpster! We filled the bed of my truck with as many as we

could fit.  We even filled the back seat!

800

frames!

You read that right

800

of these wood frames!

just for me, not shared.

There was no glass and no backs, so what do you do with them. . .

Here are a few.

We brought out the spray paint

All colors




We bought chicken wire

We made felt flowers and fabric rosettes, and put clothespins on the back

We put cute pictures of the kiddos - the cutest kiddos!

There you go - Chicken Wire Memo boards!

We made 15 of them and sold them at a Boutique.  Only 785 more frames to use!

My hubby wants to have a bonfire to get rid of them.  We could have one big weenie roast!
Your all invited!

Caught my eye - Wall Art!

I love stenciled wall art, and these caught my eye.  I think I could make one. . . .




Oh- What Fun

Creative Carmella

My favorite saying is by Marilyn Monroe;

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

I want this for my craft room!

Dumpster diving

I have a friend

Jenny & Ashley Redo's

and a few years ago, she called me.

She said bring your truck, I have found something your going to like.

So we drove about an hour

and we went dumpster diving!




















We found a treasure!  And I have been storing it for all these years, not knowing what to do with it.  Finally I had an idea - Thanks to blog land and all the creative ladies out there it hit me.  I knew what to do! my hubby wants to have a bon fire and burn my dumpster diving find, so the pressure was on - I do work best under pressure.


The big reveal tomorrow because I am off to work on my craft room - It's painted and needs some final touch up!

HAPPY MONDAY!



For Fun!

 THE EASTER BUNNY AND THE BLONDE........
A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle
of the road.
He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in
front of the car.
The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out
to see what has become of the rabbit.
Much to his dismay, the rabbit is the Easter Bunny, and he is DEAD .
The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry.
A beautiful blonde woman driving down the highway sees a man crying on the side
of the road
and pulls over.
She steps out of the car and asks the man what's wrong.
"I feel terrible," he explains,
"I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny with my car and KILLED HIM."
The blonde says,"Don't worry."
She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the limp,
dead Easter Bunny, bends down, and sprays the contents onto him.
The Easter Bunny jumps up,
waves its paw at the two of them
and hops off down the road.
Ten feet away he stops,
turns around and waves again,
he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet,
turns and waves,
and repeats this again and again and again and again, until he hops out of
sight.
The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands,
"What is in that can? What did you spray on the Easter Bunny ?"
The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label.
It says..
(Are you ready for this?)
(Are you sure?)
(You know you're gonna be sorry)
(Last chance)
(OK, here it is)
It says,
"Hair Spray:
Restores life to dead hair, and adds permanent wave."
Happy Easter!!!