Baby Gifts for Charlee

My sweet dear friend Tina finally had baby #3 last week. Yea!! Baby and Momma are doing great although momma had quite a scare and had to go back in the hospital for a couple of days. Thank the Lord above she is fine and dandy now!!
Well, when one of your besties has a baby you gotta make her something right?

I have made baby burp cloths a few times but, I decided to make these bigger. They are more simple than my previous burp cloths however, these can hold more spit up and cover momma well! I used fabric and terry cloth.

See some the earlier burp cloths HERE and HERE

I just love that little star. I cut it out and ironed on fusible fabric backing to the star then ironed on the star to the onesie. I did pre-wash the fabric and the onsies.

Here i cut out fabric and felt to make a little lollipop flower. I decided not to use a broach pin to secure the flower because I did not the wee one to get stuck with the pin!

But I did want the flower to be removable so momma could wash it so I decided to use Velcro tabs! yea! I only had black ones on hand. I finally decided that was okay since it will be covered up anyway right?!

The Velcro was already sticky on both sides but I worried about it coming off during the wash or anytime. So here I added some fabric glue and a small clamp to keep it smooshed while the fabric glue dried. This should do the trick!

I had some fabric flowers already prepared just waiting for a project to land on like a scrapbook page or a card or a hair bow or... a baby onesie!! used the same Velcro adhesion here too.
So there you go, simple and sweet baby gift for a dear friend. I am going to visit the wee one as soon as i get back from vacation and kiss those sweet puffy cheeks!!
Thank you for the visit!
Cheers!! ~Julie~

Thanks Cards

Well Hello There!!

I actually got crafty with some paper last month. It felt great.. it has been a little while since i have scrapped or made a card. My daughters dance recital was at the end of May and I was asked to make the coaches the thank you cards.

I totally lifted these from Nichole Heady with Papertrey Ink. I had to do them super quick so i stole her layout. The diamond was used because her coaches are opening a new studio called Diamond Academy of Dance. The colors here will be the new colors of the studio also.

I used the Hannah Montana Cricut Cart for the diamond image. Close to my heart stamps to stamp the images on the paper. The paper used is Stampin up and Papertey Ink. The thanks sentiment was also cut out with the cricut, I believe I used Cricut Sampler Cart.

Super quick post. Going to go spend some time with my daughter. Thank you for stopping by here today. Hope you come back!

Cheers!

~Julie~

The House That Creaks #3 The Kitchen Island

hi there. welcome to my 3rd project in this noisy squeaky house!!
I bought this kitchen island from a yard sale for $45.00 !! woohooo. I thought it was a great price for such a sturdy piece. We did add the granite piece on top when we had the granite counter tops installed. but that was all until i decided i needed to be BLACK.. The whole time I was painting it i was singing the Rolling Stones song "Paint it Black" tee hee


I loved that i just fit so perfectly into the kitchen. I felt pretty lucky to find a piece at a great price and fit in so perfect.
Here she is all beautiful and black. OH, I think I forgot to mention that I SPRAY PAINTED the entire piece. I have seen blogs that had BEAUTIFUL projects using spray paint. I totally thought to myself NO WAY!!! spray paint is streaky.
Being the big brave dog that I am I just had to see for myself. I told my self that if it did not work out the I will just roll paint over it.

I also bought so new cool hardware. However TOTALLY spaced on the hinges! I will get around to that... eventually. I have a credenza I want to do THEN... the kitchen cabinets (gasp!) I believe I am going to have to do the cabinets in sections. It is a pretty big kitchen (not complaining). I had planned on rolling on the paint for the cabinets but I believe I have made up my mind to spray paint those as well!! oooo... i am gettin CRAZY these days!
One last look! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Cheers!
~Julie~

LINKING UP WITH REMODELAHOLIC



LINKING UP WITH REMODELAHOLIC

The House That Creaks #2 Daughters Bathroom

Wowza.. it has been a minute or two since I have last posted. Honestly I have been ridiculously busy. A good busy for the most part, being a large part of doing things that I WANT to do. I believe I have finally finished the hall bathroom aka daughters bathroom that husband is trying to take over. LOL she likes to call this her bathroom but for some reason she uses our master bath most of the time?!

So here are a few before pics. Pretty darn BLAH!! No wonder daughter wanted to use our bathroom!

However she did have the fabulous zebra shower curtain to match her bedroom..Teehee

The wall color looks better in the pics than in real life, and the walls were pretty beat up.

We started with painting the cabinets and adding fresh hardware. I have really developed a love relationship with painting lately!

SO NOW.. the big whoop. I added this beadboard wallpaper. Its by Graham and Brown and was sooo easy to use. I NEVER in my life have wallpapered before. I first learnd of this magical stuff from Rhodas blog Southern Hospitality. I am so thankfully to have found her blog.
I CANNOT wait to put this stuff up in other areas of the house. I do have to tell you though, for your first time. I DO NOT recommend doing the bathroom. Getting around the toilet was a pain in the rump. But so glad I kept trucking on.

This pic shows you how forgiving this stuff can be. I somehow had a major gap in my seams... well, i think it had to do with my trimming also but anywho. I broke out some Spackle ...

Here in this pic.. you cannot hardly tell at all RIGHT???!!

Then after you paint over it.. Viola' it has almost disappeared right before my eyes!

I decided (to my husbands protests) to go all the way to the top with the wallpaper. My #1 reason is because her walls were pretty beat up and this covered all that mess so nicely. I also went further and added crown moulding.. well, this is where hubby had to tell me.
I painted it though! Here is a pic before I caulked the gap to the ceiling.
We decided to buy the corner pieces so hubs wouldn't go insane trying to miter cut the corners. I know I would have a hard time so I let him do his thang his way! ya know?

Here is a close up of the paper after it has had two coats of Porter Paint Lilac Grey. I SWEAR every person that sees this stuff on the wall is so surprised that its wallpaper. I doesn't look like it at all and to really make it more life like its a little "puffy" so it looks more like wood than just a flat, thin sheet of wallpaper.

Here she is all complete. It is really tough to get a good pic of such a tiny bathroom. I do plan on getting a different bath rug but haven't seen one that grabs me yet. so for now we are sticking with daughters hot pink rugs and zebra striped shower curtain.

So thanks for looking. If you are still here!!! It has been a labor of love but so fun and I have learned alot along the way. I have some more projects in the works that I hope to share soon. Have an awesome night folks !!!!

Linking this post to the DIY Showoff blog.
Go there for TONS of fun ideas!

Kayla

Evening!!!
So this little beauty is my BFF's daughter Kayla. She is GORGEOUS! and she is sooooooooo sweet. I just love her. I copied this layout idea from one of my scrapbook mags. Cannot for the life of me remember which one. I cut out the scallop frame and circles with my handy dandy Cricut. I believe the scallop from is from Story Book Cart. the little rhinestone butterfly i think may be KI Memories. I held on to that little jewel FOREVER just waiting for the right page for it to land on. The rhinestone flourish is Prima! LOVE!!! and her name was made with Rubons. The gorgeous paper is Taj Mahal from DCWV.

I am still doing house projects. And loving it. I am still working on my daughters bathroom. I am very excited to show pics when done!!!

Thanks for taking the time to visit me today!

Cheers!
~Julie~

The House That Creaks Story #1 Bathroom Cabinet

Hi Everyone!!!
I hope you had a fantastic Easter yesterday!!
So, If you have been following me at all for the past year, you know that we moved into a new (new to us) house last February. This house creaks, holy cow every floor in every room! Its crazy. I mean the house is 20 years old but goodness. OH MY we have done A LOT of work on this house. Big projects like a new roof, new driveway, re-configured the basement a wee bit. But some of the fun stuff is painting and such. I posted a while back my orange kitchen while that does look a lot better I am ready to move on to the next phase very soon. We have the whole house livable at this point so NOW I can really get crazy and try new things and tweak what we have already done. So First up was my daughters bathroom. I hated that room the most. The first pic is the bathroom AFTER we fixed it a wee bit. Not grand by any means but it was WAY better than before. I was not digging the boring beige -y cabinets. these are the same cabinets throughout the entire house. Anyway.. this is where i decided to start. SO i sanded and primed and painted it a gloss oil based black paint. I decided to go oil based in her bathroom because of the high humidity. I decided on shiny because I like the classy look of it in a small room. The I changed out the hardware to a more modern look staying with the shiny silver on the faucets and light fixture that Grace picked out. Overall I am very happy with the outcome. See in the last picture the tile floor? Imagine in all of the grout gross black nastiness. I scrubbed every single inch of that floor. things like that is why it has taken a year to really get into details. Well i have rambled on and on. OH, in the last pic check out the bathroom walls! More details will be coming soon about that!!! Thanks for your visit! Hope you enjoyed it. Have an awesome night.
Cheers!
~Julie~ Edit to Add i have linked this post to Linky party at Centsational Girl

Sprinkled With Fun

HI YA!! Happy Wednesday! Yippee.. getting back on the computer! Still lost my Picasa album but hubs did manage to find some "my pictures" file. anywhooo... This is a scrap page of my niece Mia Love. The fun bright papers are DCWV Taj Mahal. Love that paper pack. the sentiment was cut with my trust Cricut. I borrowed my super cool friend Tina cricut cartridge Sweet Treats (what a GREAT cart) The purple and red felt flowers are American Crafts that I've had in my stash FOR-EV-AH!!! I wanted a tidbit o texture so i drew lines around each square. it would have been nice to sew around each one but a.) it was a scrappy weekend at the cabin so no sewing machine with me and b.) thats a lot of squares and drawing is much faster :-)
okay. i am getting some of my house projects completed. and i hope to share those very soon!!!
thanks for stopping by tonight. Have an awesome day tomorrow!
Cheers!
~julie~

Computer Issues

sorry I haven't posted in a while. i have been working on some home decor projects and our computer had been running really slow. So hubby tries to fix it. He did finally fix it but it took the better part of a week. Then we had a big storm last week that took our computer out. Things are back on track now. I just have to find all the files with my pictures and get them reloaded so I can share again. Big frowny face!



cheers!
Julie

Cousin Nina

Hidy Ho Fellow Crafters! Hope this Sunday Evening finds you well. I have been busy all week and all weekend with house projects. I got a wild hair and have decided to paint the cabinets. I have started with the island in the kitchen. After doing some research and decorating blogs I decided to spray paint it. Well the weather was gorgeous when the project started so i got it out into the garage and what do you know good ole unpredictable Tennessee weather went down hill. So now it has been stuck in the garage in pieces with nothing but primer on. AND taking up mine and hubby's parking space (he has been very nice about it, let me just add that in here!) SO... because once I get an idea in my head it is very hard to sit still. I was planning on waiting to see how that project went before I went on to the next but since it has been too cold and wet to spray paint, I started on daughters bathroom cabinets. sanded, primed and painted !! woo hoo.. it looks gorgeous laying in the hallway floor (the doors)I need them to cure for 24 hours before i hang the doors back on. ANYWAY...... Here is another scrap page from my scrappy weekend. This is my cousin Nina who graduated this past May. She is such a sweet, loving and beautiful girl! She is now attending MTSU on a softball scholarship. Man that girl can play some ball. ALL of it, basketball, softball, volleyball. She has ALWAYS been active in ball since she could walk. I swear. This is a super simple layout. Just her two of her senior pics and her graduation invitation. The only thing I added was the leaves which were cut using the Cricut and I don't know which cart but I thinking Storybook. I totally HEART that cart!! In the meantime I went ahead and got started on my bathroom cabinets.. just sanding the doors so far. I am staining those so i had to sand much more than I did daughers cabinets. so I will busy with those this week and hopefully the weather will cooperate so I can get the island done SOON! I want my parking space back! Thanks for coming to visit today and I hope your week is FABULOUS!!! Cheers! ~Julie~

Scrap Page

HI YA!!! Happy Saturday. Hope you are enjoying the BEAUTIFUL weather today. So last weekend I went with the girls to Center Hill Lake and got a cabin for a scraptacular weekend. I have not scrapped in a while so it was realllllly nice to play. I got 14 pages done which I guess is pretty good. I would have liked to have gotten more done. This is a pic of my niece and grandbaby Logan. Logan LOVES to play on every one's cell phone, he could play with it for hours. Look at that little smile on his face. Hopefully my niece was watching him to make sure he did not make some crazy calls and rack up some charges!
I used some paper from CTMH and I cannot even remember what it is called. The title is 3 different type of letter stickers. Foam, Flock, and Felt. I swiped an ink pad on the cardstock to give it a wee bit of texture. Simple and Sweet. Well, I need to run for now, have a house full of people coming over tomorrow for daddy's birthday. Thanks for the visit!
Cheers!
Julie