First of all, thank you so much for all of the great tips for the spray paint bubbling. I think I was spraying way too close and it probably wasn't completely dry yet either. If those plates ever make it up onto my wall it will be a miracle...
Anyway! I ran to Target this morning to grab some more yard sale stickers (I'm joining my friend that is having one this weekend) and do you think that's all I walked out with?
Oh no...
They had just marked all of their Easter stuff 75% off. They had some adorable things that could be used for all year around. Look in the kitchen section too~there was an endcap of Easter stuff they hadn't moved over to the Easter clearance aisle yet. See all the bright green tags? Anything with those on it are considered Easter. I usually wait until 90% off, but I didn't want to risk it not being there, so I loaded up.Also, I need to say thank you to some lovely ladies that have sent me goodies from giveaways I have won. I am on a roll! I think it would be a very good time to go to Vegas if I was the gambling type..
Junk Mammas sent me an adorable chalkboard with a polka dot ribbon, a flower pin,
a sweet stitched bunny towel, and some adorable magnets:
I also won Nicole's giveaway at Our Cozy Nest and look what I got:
I love them and still marvel at all the sewing skills out there, of which I have none.So, thank you again ladies~they were so fun to get in the mail! They both have great blogs and Etsy shops, so go pay them a visit.
Off to find more stuff to sell at the yard sale to make up for what I spent this morning... :)
I've gotten 3 or 4 emails with people asking why their spray paint bubbles when they're spraying ceramics. I have only had this problem once when I was spray painting in 35 degree weather, so I figured it was the cold. I haven't had any problems as you can see from my roosters, bunny, other plates, etc.
But, yesterday, I'm re-doing my extra plates (75 degrees outside)when I see a spot I missed with the spray paint. I take it back out to the garage to spray a little spot, and look what it did:
Can anyone explain why this happens?? The other plate didn't do this, I used the same paint, etc. etc. I now know what y'all are talking about, so I'm throwing it out there and hoping someone can help...
Okay, cheesy title, but I needed to make a filler for my wall since I decided to go ahead and break my plates. Didn't go to yard sales this past weekend (are you proud of me??) so I went ahead and shopped the house...
I found a ring of old keys I found at a random yard sale this winter that my kids love to play jail and zoo with. They love the klinkety sounds of the keys, so I took three off and left two to jingle. We'll see if they notice...
Another framed yard sale picture ($1) I was going to use to make a chalkboard with, but I'm going to use it here instead.
Take them out to my workshop, a.k.a my garage with an old carpet remnant on the ground. The carpet serves 2 purposes: soak up oil from our little old car my husband drives and my spray paint center.
Take them out to my workshop, a.k.a my garage with an old carpet remnant on the ground. The carpet serves 2 purposes: soak up oil from our little old car my husband drives and my spray paint center.
The frame is perfect, don't need to touch that. Spray paint the keys black and when they are fairly dry, I take a fine sandpaper and gently let some of the gold show through to make them look nice and old:
Set the glass and the picture aside, cut the paper to fit the frame, hot glue the paper to the back of the frame:
It looks great just like that, but we're going to add our keys...
Hot glue them on, and there you have it.Who needs pretty white plates when you've got cool grungy keys in a frame??
You see what it's sitting on? The top of my washing machine is my glue gun center.
You see what it's sitting on? The top of my washing machine is my glue gun center.Now, back to the title~how cool would this be to frame an old key and give to your dearest one with a note attached that says..."to the one that holds the key to my heart." You could make it all manly with some burlap fabric for the background.
My husband is shaking his head.
OK, what if the guy tied some bling to one of the keys with a cool ribbon with the same note?
And then proposed??
I'm going to sell the rights to the movie...you saw it here first.
Kimm over at Reinvented is having her Trash to Treasure Tuesday~go see what other people are turning their finds into...
Happy Tuesday...
We have 2 winners for the shabby straps giveaway:
wrist camera strap: #125 Bryanne
larger camera strap: #38 Gordostyle
** Congratulations!! **
Email me at lissylee@hotmail.com with your addresses and I will get these in the mail for you...
Thanks for all of your encouraging comments about my plates. Is it so bad that I didn't even try to glue them or save them for a mosaic?? Out with Friday's trash they went...
There is good news: the package I bought had 4 plates in it, so I have extras, which is a very good thing for this klutzy girl. And, the packages of napkins had 20 in each, so I have plenty of those. I just hate adding something to my to-do list when I've already crossed it off. I love crossing off.
If you haven't had luck finding the napkins at TJMaxx, some of you have reported finding them at Tuesday Morning and Marshall's. Thanks for the tip!
We had a great Easter weekend and I took waaay too many pictures and wore out my camera battery. No pictures today, but I promise there will be some this week~
happy Monday morning to y'all.
painting by Walter Rane "Each of us will have our own Fridays--those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death--
Sunday will come.
In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come.
No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come...
~Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
When you are practicing different arrangements of your beautiful plates on the wall, don't trip over your baby's bouncer and drop them.
*sniff*
Don't forget the shabby strap giveaway...and have a wonderful Easter weekend. I'll put a little Good Friday message up tonight when I'm done mourning my broken plates...
I got the best package in the mail this week! My husband got me a camera strap for my birthday from my dear friend, Amanda. We were roommates in college and she knows me better than a lot of people would care to :) I love her to pieces~
She has always had amazing taste and I was thrilled when I saw she had sent along some extras to give away here!! You will fall in love with these~they just give your camera a touch of color and personality and set you apart from the sea of black and silver cameras out there...
Don't you love them? to enter, go to the Shabby Straps Etsy Shop, and then come back here and tell me which strap is your favorite in your comment. There will be one winner for a larger DSLR camera strap and one for a smaller point and shoot wrist strap.
You can enter until Saturday at midnight and I'll announce the winners on Monday...good luck!
Thank you, Amanda! Happy Thursday to y'all~
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