Every once in a while I go on a creative kick I seem to get all my creative juices flowing and just as quickly as it gets going all those juices dry up and their seems to be a drought for a season. Moving into the home 1.5 years ago really seemed to stop those creativity bugs. Months of planning and some painting, doing furniture, laying out the backyard, on and on was all enough for me. But it came back this month in full flooded force. I’ve got Justin wondering when he will have a clean house and a few extra bucks back in his pockets. Not quite yet buddy I still feel the rain:)
Here are just a few of my new adventures on a dime….
I had an old picture frame that I overlaid fabric and added ribbon to so it could double as a hair bow hold (that we desperately needed.)
A lovely friend donated these wonderful chairs to us and this is what I did with one of them. I needed a place to sit and watch as my children enjoy long, long baths. It turned out all right I since have painted the flower in the bathroom colors just to add sum umph! I still have 3 more to play with in other rooms. Oh and I have BIG plans for this bathroom if I can get Justin aboard. New-framed mirrors, fun light fixtures, and more.
My very talented mother has been so excited that I am attempting to sew these days even buying me a pattern and fabric to make Brinley this dress as part of my b-day present. I am not close to what you can do mom but I am trying. Each time it seems to get better, maybe in a few years I will get it. (Don’t look to close or you will notice that the turtles are upside down, didn’t realize that until Brin had been wearing for an hour, oh well.)
I love these bows I tried to make two different kinds the blue one took me forever and was much harder so I don’t think you will see Brin wearing many of those. We are getting ready to re-do the "Play Closet" for more fun to be had, I will post that later.
So, for now I am riding this wave but we do live in Arizona so there is bound to be a drought soon.
5 comments:
Wow! I'm very impressed. You don't give yourself enough credit. I LOVE the chair, the bows are very cute and the dress is so summery and fun. (Is summery even a word?)
I was going to drop your tray off to you and slip in a birthday card last tuesday but yet another VIRUS has struck our home! I use hand sanitizer like crazy and it seems like we can't catch a break!
I hope you had a great B-day! Love all your cute handy work!
Very neat...I always knew you had a little of your mom in you :). Are we ever going to get together?
You are so creative and talented! And really you save a lot of money by doing it all yourself (if you can just convince your hubby ; ) I would love to know how to make those cute flowers. I bought several from Jenny before she moved, and I considered taking one apart to figure out how she did it -but they are all so cute I can't decide which one I dare risk destroying!
I love these posts from you. Sometimes they inspire me to get thinking...however, I am mad that my dad didn't seem to soak up enough creative juices that Kathi and Kristen received. I am quite handicapped. I love the way the chair, hair bow frame and dress turned out. Please tell me your secret on how to accomplish so much good stuff with 2 kids. Do you have your Mom's internal clock where she gets up real early and does alot of her work? Justin is lucky to have you so that all your stuff can be homemade and not store bought generic. Can't wait to see what else this wave produces. Love you. Coleo
I wish you lived closer too...then I could learn from you how to make all the cute bows and dresses. Hey, I was just thinking that you would be the kind of person that I would sign up and take a class from. You should teach classes at Joanns or some local sewing/crafts shops once a week or so. It may keep the floods going and lots of other people, like me, could really benefit from learning these techniques.
B finally came up with a name for my Dad. Bruce is now "Pop Pop"
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