U- Create January craft

I've mentioned how much I LOVE U Create Crafts, but I'm going to say it yet again. This site is totally filled with awesomeness! A few weeks ago I found a tab I had never clicked on called: Create with me. Every month there is a featured craft that is pretty easy and inexpensive that you can follow along with. This months was a darling rosette frame that had the saying, "Keep Calm and Sew On." Can you believe I hadn't tried rosettes yet?! I was super excited to try this craft out.


This is what the frame looked like before


I bought the frame at the local thrift store and only spent $1.50. The fabric for the rosettes was from Joann's. I also tweaked the saying a tad since I'm not a sewer, and printed the lettering off my cricut. Old Mac is giving me a corner of the office as a craft area. The colors of the frame are the colors I'm going to be doing!! I'm so excited for my first completed craft area knick knack!!

I'm linking up this project to Wildflowers and Whimsy, I Heart Naptime, Keeping it Simple, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Craft'O Maniac, Sassy Sites, Not Just a Housewife, Sisters Stuff, and House of Hepworths

TTI (The Time I)...fell in love with a table

On one of the many adventures to the thrift store we found our kitchen table. There was a lady who was looking at it and had called a worker over. I knew I wanted it so I stayed close by and was keeping an eye on the situation. I seriously felt like a gangster/stalker just standing there and "secretly" watching. I decided it was a loss and we headed to the registers. When we were heading to car I noticed the lady walk out of the building with nothing in her hands. Not that she was going to carry the table out on her back but the gangster/stalker in me didn't even see a receipt in her hands. I told C Mac that we needed to go back in and see if it had a "Sold" tag on it. He agreed and we went back in.

I saw the worker at the register that was assisting the other lady and asked him if she ended up purchasing the table. When he told me no I was crazy excited he probably thought I was nuts. I sped walked back to the table before someone else could claim it. We went back and looked at the table and $125 later it was ours.



Before: EWWW



After: AHHH

The table was in great shape except for the cushions on the chairs. I went to Joann's a couple days later and bought some fabric to re-cover them. I bought extra material so that I could have a matching valance for the kitchen windows. I saw a great idea at Keeping it Simple. She has young kids also and had covered her chairs in plastic vinyl after the new material was on. With the help of Aunt Miss they turned out wonderful! They are so great to clean up and the material is as purdy today as it was the day I did them. 



Me and Sis doing our thang with power tools. Gotta love the hole in
my cami and the double chin I got goin' on. I'm always "keepin it real" folks!

 So there you have it my TTI story about my table. Give yourself a pat on the back if you know what TV channel does TTI's. LOL

The 70's called they want their wicker back

We needed a way to store our wii games, remotes, nun chucks, all things wii related. Off to the thrift store I went and once again they came through. I found some craptastic wicker baskets that I knew would work once painted. I spray painted them with a couple coats of black. They are long and skinny which is exactly what we needed for our cabinet. They work perfectly. One mans junk really was my treasure.

Total cost for both baskets $3.