Sillouette Envy

Oh my gosh I know I have written about it before but I just can't get over how many things the Sillouette can do.  I really don't know how I am funtioning without one.  I was recently at Ted's Montana Grill and love their "saloon' retro type decor.  They have frosted glass on the doors to the bathroom with of course Gentlemen or Ladies on the door.  I thought how cute would it be to make a little retro like sign to hang on the boys bathroom door.  And how easy it would be to make with one of these Sillouette machines.  I have drooled over so many cute projects made with it, I just can't take it anymore.  I am not one for gadgets, well ones that require alot of parts or ones that require continually buying pricey cartridges that you make one thing with and never use it again.  I love the versatility with this one.  Enough said it is just AMAZING!!! 
So I thought I would share a few sites (and some new bloggy friends) that are giving one away this week.

My Repurposed Life

Vintage Revivals

C.R.A.F.T.

Sugar Pop Ribbons

Happy Money Saver

My Sweet Savannah

The Bragging Mommy

The Domestic Diva

    

From the Sillouette blog

I thought this was hysterical

They have endless tutorials and free images each week

AHHH I am in LOVE!!!

Look at this one using fabric, how stinkin cute is that. 

Yes it cuts fabric too. 

Amazing right?

  So you need to go over and check out this machine on the Sillouette site even if you dont' win the giveaway each one of the sites hosting the giveaway are offering a discount code. 

Praise God for YOU!!!

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Spring fever

I know for most of you in this country you can't wait till spring, cant wait to see green grass and frankly no more white stuff.  I know too well how you feel, that's why I moved south.  Ha! Anyhow we do have a change of seasons here in Tallahassee, everything gets brown, trees lose their leaves and it rains alot during the winter months.  I have been cooped up with two sick children as well as myself this week so I've been really jonesin for some spring weather.  Well it has arrived the sun is shining, temperatures are hovering around 70'.  Oh but I'm still cooped up with the sick kids so what better to do on a day like today. 

 Window shop on the internet. 

Take a look at what I found just waiting to be knocked off. 

Couldn't you just see a cheapo pair from Target all bejeweled?  Bet I can beat 80bucks, yikes!

Loving the turqouise and brown, I think I might add some turqoise goodness to my brown wedges. 

and these were just fun and sasssy!!  Love the red ones with a yellow polka dot dress.  Mmmmm now where to find a yellow polka dot dress that doesn't make me look as huge as the sun itself. 

 

and these well they are just wrong, are they sandles? are they a boot?  Yuck they are just ugly, sorry if I offended anyone, that's just my opinion. 

Well that's all for my window shopping for sandles now onto sundresses.  I may just have to break down and something for myself for a change.  I"m thinking some pretty springy printed fabric (possibly polka dot,huh?), maybe in yellow, or celery green.  Ohh or a pretty cornflower blue, or bright coral.   Its been a while since I have been fabric shoppin, I bet Michael Miller has something just waiting for me.

What style???? Some sort of wrap dress, full at the bottom, maybe halter top, or maybe strapless with a retro bolero jacket, cute little cap sleeve.  Oh maybe I'll make two, hehe.  One at a time Kirsten, one at a time. 

Ok back to reality I have to actually be able to find my thread in my studio right now so it off to purge and organize. 

Ahh I will embrace spring for all it has in store.  It will be 100' degrees before I know it.  So I open my windows and let the sun shine in. 

Praise God for YOU!!!

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With a little love

I have a new system to keep me motivated to get my house under control.  I have a tendency to doing things 150%, which is a good thing sometimes.  But most of the time it means something is always lacking majorly in my life.  When I am creative I am 150% creative, leaving cleaning, organizing, even bill paying to wayside.  When I'm on a cleaning kick that is all I do and burn myself out completely.  So I'm trying to find the balance in my life, work on things a little at a time instead all or nothing mentality.  With that being said with my organization challenge under way, 52 Weeks of Organizing, I have decided for every organizing project I do I am going to do something creative.  Since I got all those cords under control last week I put together this Valentine mantle as well.  I'll apologize in advance, I tried really hard to get a good picture but the lighting in this room is less than desireable.  Its warm and cozy but not much for picture taking. 

 With a little organizing..... with a little love

I printed these out from Tip Junkie free printables, two of them are 1Chorinthians, the one on top written in scroll I did on word, don't remember what font though

added our wedding photo (wow we were so young), a tin heart I had laying around, and my Willow angel

added a LOVE banner out of cardstock and fabric that I had

I was inspired by Tater Tots and Jello for this, I'm thinking it needed a little more of the black damask showing, maybe the ruffle heart a little smaller.  All made out of scraps of home decor fabric.

Don't ya just want squeeze her face.  Of course I had to add our baby "Lucy"when she was a baby.  Oh how I miss those days

and a photo of our three sons when they were small and loved each other. lol  No looking through all of our pictures as they have gotten older it has been harder and harder to get a picture of them all together. 

With a little organizing .... With a little love

Praise God for YOU!!!

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Organization Challenge

Well my organization challenge is not starting out the best.  I made my list but as usual life has gotten in the way of my planning.  Guess thats why I don't plan that much, lol.  Anyhow I'm not going to dwell on that I"m moving forward.  I was going to start in my bedroom but the office demanded attention.  We were having major problems with our phone line and needed a technician to come work on the line.  Well I couldn't have him come out and look at the tangled mess that was border line health hazard.  Like always I forgot take a true before picture but here is a sample of the mess I had

So in an attempt to corral all those cords I took a shoe box and covered it with some contact shelf paper I had laying around. 

This is the final product, not perfect but it hopefully will keep all the dust, dirt and unknown objects from getting tangled. 

Please excuse my very worn and outdated vinyl floor that needs to be replaced.

While I was on a roll I also covered a bottom of a cereal box to add to the front of my silver ware drawer.  I was tired of things slipping under the drawer organizer and not being able to shut the drawer. 

Well happy organizing, let me know if you have taken on the challenge too.

Praise God for YOU!!!

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Great helpers for crafters

I found a couple of great giveaways this week.  Ok so maybe I have been under a rock but I just found out about the Sillouette machine.  This thing is just what I have been looking for, it has the versatility to cut out anything you design it to cut.  Not to mention all the different mediums that you can put through the machine.  My brain is spinning with ideas, this will absolutely revolutionize the craft world.  Well they have a giveaway over at House of Smiths, hop on over and enter, giveaway ends Saturday. 

The next one will transform crafting industry, why on earth has no one thought of this before.  Better yet why on earth didn't I think of it. hehe :)  Welcome to the world of no more burnt fingers when you use your glue gun.  No more burnt countertops, or table tops gobbed with glue that wont come off,or takes part of the table with it.  Its called the Hot Glue Gun Helper, its comes with

Head on over to Tatertots and Jello to enter her giveaway!!!

Praise God for YOU!!!

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New Year, New start

Its a new year and a new start for this blog.  I am going to finally make those changes I was talking about before way back in July.  So if things look different over the next few weeks its just all in the process of working out what looks the best and is going to work the best for me.  I have been learning so many things from very generous people all over blogland.  I am so grateful so many of you are willing to share what you have learned with all of us. 

Some upcoming posts...

As many of you do every year as the new year approaches.  We make a list of things we may want to change in our lives, projects we want to accomplish, weight we want to lose, people we want to spend more time with, and of course after the money we want to save.  The next few posts are going to be exactly about that.  I am redesigning my studio, trying to make it more efficient for all of the different projects I do.  So I will be sharing with you some of the many creative spaces that inspired me throughout the design process.  As well I have commited to the challenge of organizing project per week, every week this year.  Laura @ Organizing Junkie is having a challenge where you commit to organizing one part of your home/life per week every week of the year.  I started on my list have you? 

I'm very excited about this year of blogging.  I think I have finally found my direction. 



Praise God for YOU!!!

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Wednesday's Window

    I know you all thought I dropped off the face of the earth.  Well not exactly but summer has just been really busy.  I'd like to say I was off the radar on some tropical island sipping a frozen drink but that's not the case. While my boys were gone I thought I would get all kinds of projects done.  HUH not the case, it was crazy the first week I got caught up on some paperwork for my husbands business and the second week I was in panic mode trying to clean and catch up on laundry.  It wasn't all work and no play I did catch the new Sex In the City movie with an old dear friend.  Mom and I had a great day "junk" shopping,  I'll post my finds tomorrow, they made me very excited.  And my husband and I celebrated our Anniversary in Orlando for some much needed down time.  No Mickey Mouse but we did go to Joe's Crap Shack (which is an experience all in itself), a great dinner show (Sleuth Dinner Show) and went to the Outlet Mall.  Yes my husband acutally endured the day with me at the mall, he's a keeper.  It has been full steam ahead ever since the boys have been back.  We had our niece and two nephews come visit for a little while, which made six kids (five boys, two braindead teenagers, UHOY!)  Then we celebrated my middle son's tenth birthday which seemed to last a whole week.  Yestereday was the first day we just stayed home and had time to catch our breath. 

Well here is the Wednesday's Window you have been waiting for :

 My inpiration was a technique I saw on Make the Best of Things where she made a 3d effect with hot glue that really looked like old tin.  So I thought why not give it a try on a window?

I started with duplicating the lines of this cross that I had hung in my entry way. 

glued the stencils to cardboard cut to fit in each window pane.

 Then applied the hot glue along the lines that I had drawn out.  It takes some patience but overall I think the effect came out quite nice. 

I then spray painted them a metallic, stainless steele color ( same paint I used on the dresser hardware), and topped with a coat of that celery green latex paint I used on the first window project. 

I have a dear friend that collects crosses so this one is for you Sherri! I love you girl cant wait to see you. :)

Linking up to the last Bragfest at :(

Praise God for YOU!!!

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