The DIY projects begin...

For those who don't know, we have once again packed up the moving truck and moved even further north!  In doing so, I have lost my beautiful home, or should I say scrapbook area...  So lately most of my crafting energy has been channeled into the house, however, I have managed to squeeze in some time to create a few scrapbook pages of our recent trip to Disneyland!

Our new home definitely has potential, it's just tackling this 1970's home can be a bit daunting.  I was really shocked to see the kitchen (yes we moved into this place without seeing it)... small and very outdated, but so far we've changed the hardware on the kitchen cupboards, reapplied the caulking around the tiles, and changed the electrical outlets from ivory to white and surprisingly  it has made a difference in how I feel about it. 

Our big project has been the basement.  An unfinished, cold, mess is hopefully going to turn into something a little more bareable and even useable!  The outside of the basement was all drywalled, thankfully!  So we (and if my husband was reading this he would say HE) put up the drywall down the middle wall.  So far mudding isn't going fast enough...  I can hardly wait to paint!

Before

After (with drywall)

If you would like to help me out... I need some paint ideas.  There are two windows in this room so there is some light down there, but it would still be nice to paint it something to brighten it up.  Any ideas??

Thanks for stopping by!

Remembering Our Vows

We are coming up on our 4th wedding anniversary and I still had yet to put up wedding photos. 
So, I decided my project for the day would be to get creative and get those wedding photos up!  I found this neat project in a book I bought and thought I'd try it out.

I'm not quite sure if they will stay this way, or if after looking at it everyday will cause me to do a revision.  But for now, I'm satisfied. 

I took two canvases and covered them with fabric I liked.

Took three cheap, light silver photo frames and stuck them on with tape. (might need a little glue depending on how heavy the frame is)

Added some ribbon and paper flowers with brads.

Typed out our vows and a song that was sung on our wedding.

Now we have no excuse remembering what we promised each other that day...

Redesigned Clock

I usually love a good before/after blog, but unfortunately I can't find a before picture of my newly redesigned clock. So, instead of showing the before picture, I'll tell you the story of how it all happened... 

One afternoon I was sitting in my craft room having a bit of scrappers block (you know... writters block, only for scrapbookers), when I started to look to my black and white clock for inspiration.

After what seemed like hours of staring and listening to the tick tick tick of the clock, inspiration came!!! But it wasn't for my scrapbook page, instead it was for the clock.  I imediately took the clock off the wall to see if it would come apart nicely... and to my exitement it did!

I cut a circle out of white paper for the background, added some paper flowers and buttons, and cut the numbers using my Alphalicious cricut cartridge. 

Now it's back on the wall; and I am now staring at a pretty clock still waiting for inspiration...