The Perfect Pair

Well here are the last two flags I made. I painted them as close to the wedding colors as I could. I wanted one side to say Mr. and Mrs. but I wasn’t sure what to put on the other. I searched my cricut cartridges for inspiration and on the Sweethearts cartridge (obviously the perfect one for a wedding) I chose “the perfect pair” and “you and me” I like these because in a sequence of photo booth images, each side could be used. I then cut out the words/letters and then mod podged them on. I think they turned out great! What do you think?

Then to finish my prop collection I went thrift store shopping…unfortunately I didn’t find as much as I would have liked to but I did buy two hats and a string of pearls. I also found a tub to put the props in and a metal decoration that had a flower in the center. I taped off the outside and sprayed it with the chalkboard paint. Now it’s my sign for the photo booth. I also went to A C Moore and bought some cutout finished wood words for $1.16 each. I bought “smile”, “kiss”, and “party” and also bought two small chalkboards just in case it was needed and they were, I think, $1.19 each. Here’s what the finish props look like:

Chalkboard Flags

So I wanted to make some chalkboard props for my friend's fastly approaching wedding. I bought some unfinished wood flags awhile back when I purchased my other prop making items. Unfortunately I didn't take a before picture of the flags, sorry. I bought 5 altogether and they were clearanced for 25 cents each (bonus!)I bought a can of chalkboard spray paint for a few bucks at Walmart. I sprayed 2 coats over the flag. It did cover the part of the handle but I thought I would just pain over that anyways. But when I tried to, my paint would not cover it. So I painted to the rest of the handle black to match. I didn't want black handles though...so I looked though my mess of supplies (and I do mean mess...my craftroom looks like the police came with a search warrant) and found some lace. I used mod podge on the handles, put the lace over top and allowed it to dry overnight. The end product looks like this:

I did 3 of the 5 flags as chalkboards. The other two I did something a little different. You'll have to check back for that finished product later! Thanks for stopping by :0)

Moms Get-R-Dun!

I know that I have made this a craft blog but I kind of just want to talk about being a mother, just for a second. I don't know about you, but honestly I mom made it seem easy. I've always been one who can get a lot of tasks accomplished and I've faced a lot of struggles in my day but sometimes I get so stressed out. But here it is 8:40am and I am writing on here. My son is swinging away, hopefully off to dreamland for at least a half hour. But since I've been up I've managed to apply fake tanner to my legs (I have my friend's bridal shower tomorrow and these legs cannot be glowing white), I'm working on my second cup of coffee, baked pork chops, did some Facebooking, hung out on Pinterest, found a new blog to follow (via Pinterest!) played with my son which ultimately allowed me to started a new jumping workout routine which left me breathless but my 7 month old unleashed infectious belly laughs (so bonus!) and did some arm toning (again, thanks to Pinterest). All before 9am…when I look at it that way, I guess I am like my momma….she probably had times when she felt stressed out too…but she got it done…and I do it all too...it pays off to see this smile. This is Grayson on his very first 4th of July! It's all worth it!

Props!

Started working on the props for Angela and Jon's photo booth...I googled some photo booth printables and found this great site and basically cut them out, traced them on to foam and attached sticks

A few of the mouths I liked so I just glued them to the foam to make them sturdy. All the products I used were bought from AC Moore. I bought foam to make some and they had really cool wood masks too that you paint yourself. This I thought would be really fun. I bought 2 owls (me and Angela's thing) and a cat and dog...the cat and dog didn't turn out too well but the owls are pretty cute. The one I tried to paint silimar to here wedding colors (which doesn't show up that well in the picture) and the other is kind of purple...somehow mixing a brown and tan color got me purple, I dunno...but here are the owls...

I will not show you the dog and cat (they are just not pretty...nope) I think I will try to redo them or just get rid of them all together. I'm also going to make chalkboard signs so people can write whatever they want...I'll show more when I have more to show :)

Photo Booth

I am too excited to not share this. Angela is getting married in under 90 days and I'm trying to give her a great wedding gift. She really wants a photo booth but they are not priced well for a budget friendly wedding...so I'm hoping I can come up with a solution. I've been searching the web and Pinterest to find great ways to put together our own photo booth. I have only come up with this idea last night and today I found some fabric at an antique shop for a steal...the whole roll, although I haven't measured it fully but it will be plenty long enough, was only $3!!!!! I could not pass it up! It's great and I can't wait! Here's the fabric...it's probably the thriftiest find I've ever found :P


I'm also planning on making great props like these:


I can't wait to share more with you!

Card Holder

Well I finally made the card holder for my sister-in-laws wedding. It's only 3 weeks away!!!!! I'm so excited for her. So I got the suitcase from a thrift store. I cut out the letters with green cardstock using the Plantin School font from Cricut then sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Olive Vine. I had the lace runner that I picked up at a yard sale last year for FREE! (gotta love that!) and the brown lace I bought from a thrift store for only 10 cents. The flowers are fairytale roses and I just attached them using glue dots. In fact the letters are attached using glues dots (for now anyways...just wanted to make sure she liked it before anything was permanently affixed to it). I think it turned out great…hope you like it too!


Here is the inspiration picture:

This is the one I created:

T-shirt bag

So I was just on Pinterest and found this T-shirt remake into a bag...super easy and no sewing needed. I would tell you how to make it but this tutorial is super easy and you should definately check it out. Here's what I made on my first try!