We went out to some yard sales and on our way had some donuts and coffee….yum. We didn’t have as many eclectic finds this week, but did get Lucy some clothes and other stuff…
Books: $1
Swim Suit Float: $1
Lucy Clothes: $10.50 (a coat, some shirts, sweaters and a pair of pants)
Sheets: $2 (hopefully these will be turned into tablecloths)
Grand Total: $14.50
Seeing as Marissa is out of town visiting family for the week I thought I should post here.
Recently our good friend Joanna told us that she would be moving to Africa to do mission work for the next few years. Needless to say, we were thrilled for her.
I was also honored when she asked me to design a postcard to encourage supporters to remember her and the work she is doing. Her only stipulation was that I draw a picture of her for the card. It turned out to be a really fun project.
I have always mentally associated Joanna with National Parks, Art Deco posters (Does she even like those?) and trips out west (since she and Marissa were road-trip companions when we first met.) If you look hard you might see all of those influences colliding in this little post card.
If you are supporting her, be looking for one of these in the mail.
Lucy is six months today…. time goes so fast. I think everyone knows this.
I’ve been featured with other great crafters on Imaginative Bloom. You should go check out my tandem bike in action…what a good day.
Jordan says if I want to be serious about my blog I need to have a schedule. Well, a schedule I most likely won’t do. It’s too much pressure. But I will attempt to do Yard Sale Saturdays. So watch out… it’s yard sale and auction season. Having Lucy does make this season a bit harder, but it’ll still be good. Today we found several goodies and our grand total for all our finds was $4.50. Oh, I love a bargain.
Acorn Nut Cracker: $1
Baby Wash Cloths: Free (We came at the tail end of the yard sale and they were giving stuff away… since we were holding a baby they pretty much made us take them)
Trash Can: $1 (I’m thinking maybe we can use it in our craft display)
Old Box with Junk: $1
Wreath Frame: Free (Jordan spotted this in a pile of trash)
Davy Crockett: $1
Place Mats: .25¢ (I thought maybe I could embroider something on them…we’ll see if that happens. I also saw some former students at this stop.)
Sweater: .25¢ (This will make some beautiful animals)
I’ve been working on a lot of little projects lately and the back room is a mess. Whenever, I get to making a mess (which is often) I miss my big ole room at Chestnut Street. I miss the big space and tall ceilings. I miss the window that lead to the roof. I miss the beat up wooden floors I would hammer on. And then I just miss everyone who lived in the house.
Throughout college I had the privilege of playing in a rock n’ roll band with some very talented people. Two of them are Steven and David Page, brothers who are amazingly gifted and have more rhythm and soul than most anybody I’ve ever met.
That’s why I was super happy when they asked me to do the album artwork for their new family project: The Reneaus. The album, called “Room for Roses” is awesome and I feel blessed to have been able to contribute.
This music is best described as southern, because all the sounds that make southern music good are present here. The folks in the band pull from all manner of influences to make some really special music.
Jenni Dickens provided some killer photography, Marissa lent her beautiful (and legible) handwriting and I put all of the design and Typography together. The final result was some packaging that worked pretty well.
So in a great effort to semi-redo our bedroom I made some silhouette head pillows. Whenever I get an idea in my head and want to finish it… I want to finish immediately. I guess I want instant gratification. I was in a frenzy to finish these pillows… I even ran out of cording and went to the garage and grabbed a piece of rope to use(I didn’t tell Jordan but I guess he knows now). Anyways, I did manage to finish the pillows while Lucy napped and much to my disappointment they didn’t match our headboard fabric. Jordan said the fabrics I choose for the headboard and pillows were both too busy together. I have to agree.
So I might be ripping the pillows apart. The idea of ripping the pillows hurts me… not that I love the pillows that much but just thinking of sitting and ripping them apart for an hour is frustrating. I would keep them but I don’t know where they could go. They look nice on our front porch but I think pillows must get icky on a front porch. We’ll see. I don’t think I’ll be making any new pillows soon so our bedroom little redo might be on hold for a while until my patience has returned.
After our wreath fell off the door a couple weeks ago, I wanted to make a new one for spring. I didn’t want to spend money on a new wreath so I just used supplies I had handy (this is also helpful when you can’t go to the store since there’s a sleeping baby).
I had made several pom pom tissue paper flowers for my sister-in-law’s shower and since they were fun to make I decided to do it again. I have a big bag of old maps so decided to try to use those in my pom pom flowers…A word of warning: tissue paper does work much better for pom pom flowers, a couple of my maps ripped when I was puffing out the flowers, but if you’re a bit patient I think it’s worth it.
Here are the steps for making a pom pom wreath:
Supplies:
Tissue Paper
Other Paper (or you could just use tissue paper… I choose to use old maps)
Floral Wire
Wire Clothes Hanger
Glue Gun
Gather and cut your paper. I made three different sizes of flowers. You could always just use one size of flower. For the biggest flower I used 6 sheets of paper that were 12″ by 24″. For each of the two medium sized flowers I used 5 sheets of paper that were around 9″ by 16″. And for each of the smallest flowers I used 4-5 sheets of paper that were 6″ by 7″. Don’t fret if your sheets aren’t exactly the same size. Then I put my sheets into stacks alternating maps and tissue paper.
Once you’ve made a stack, accordian fold the paper. My folds were about every 1/2 inch.
Fold in half and bind with floral wire (or pipe cleaner or any sort of wire…)
Trim the ends. Make curved or pointed…or you could leave them uncut.
Start poofing out the flower. Carefully pull paper out from center layer by layer.
Layout your wreath to see if you have enough flowers…
Bend clothes hanger to make circle.
Figure out how you want to arrange flowers and then attach to clothes hanger. After I had the flowers arranged and tied on I used a glue gun to glue the sides of the flowers together (so they wouldn’t spin around the clothes hanger).
It’s pretty fun having a baby that you can put in ridiculous looking outfits. Here’s Lucy in her new sunglasses. If you look really close in Lucy’s sunglasses you can see her admiring fans.
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