Distressed Painted Signs

Here are some photos of the projects I was working on a few weekends ago.  Anything with paint, distress and color makes my day.  

This one has been given as a birthday gift, she found a spot on her wall about 2.3 seconds after she opened it.  

Since I was making one you might as well make more right?

The next two are still hanging around my house and being propped up and hung on the walls in different locations about everyday.  

I am willing to sell, just send me an e-mail if you're interested and I'll give you the details.  The pink heart is a perfect valentine present for that special someone.  If not that's okay I kinda like them.  :)

Stay warm in this below zero snap..... Tisn't a fit night out for man or beast. ... 

Craft Day with the Girls

You never know where I'm going to find something interesting to take a photo of.   Crawling around on the floor helps to see what I'm missing.  

This table and chairs was the hub for craft projects today.  Pinterest is a fun place and everyone pins lots of stuff...... but you need to take the time to create it as well.  And better yet change it up a bit to make it your own.  I love seeing the girls get excited about doing crafts like I do.  They had the table in the house and I had the tables, saw horses, and any other flat surface I could find in the garage.  I get so excited to use my crafty brain and knock out some pretty cool looking projects.  The girls did some pretty amazing projects too and they even made some for me.

After the g-kids and I picked up toys we made a tent from the end tables in the livingroom.  They loved it.  Mallory said I had to leave them there for Grandpa and I to use tonight when we watched TV.  It's very dark under here, good thing my Apple has light up keys. 

My tables were very useful today and pretty I might add.

No photos of the craft projects quite yet.  It might ruin the surprise for someone :)

More Jazzed Up Junk

How about more Jazzed Up Junk photos?  I have all the painted, planted, sanded stuff as my speciality but Jeannie has all the furniture, fabric, beaded stuff at her house.  I haven't taken my camera over there yet but I will this weekend so I can show you some of the cool porch type decor we have going on.  

Loving this sedum bird bath planter with hurricane lantern for night time enjoyment by the fire pit.  If you've never light candles in hurricanes on your patio at night you don't know what you're missing.  We have lots of them scattered around the yard, it's a beautiful site.  They're not just for weddings anymore!!

Below the birdbath is a wildflower adorned box that seriously was the ugliest thing I ever in my life created.  I couldn't believe that I wasted a perfectly good wood box...... it was ruined, it was gross, it made me swear.

So I took my favorite garage tool and was determined to get every spec removed and start over.  After lots of elbow grease and 3 sanding pads later this box is absolutely beautiful.  It can be used on the patio as a planter or on the porch as a remote control holder, who doesn't hate the 5 remotes that the guys need laying out in the open.  This will hide them and make a great conversation piece.  Bright colors in the garden and the sun porches screams summer.  My living room gets a burst of apple green every summer and looks totally different than the drab days of winter.  Find a fun bright color and splash it everywhere.  Better yet come to our sale and find your inspiration piece and we'll help you build off it.

We are less than 1 week away and the response Jeannie and I have gotten is over whelming.  We may just have a prize for the person that drives the longest distance.  This could become on addiction...... not that I don't have enough of them already, what's one more??

On the right side of the photo you can see a slight glimpse of another sedum type birdbath.  I am seriously having a hard time letting that go, after a bit of painting, welding, torching and planting it's been with me for most of the summer and I've become attached.  One lucky gardener will be very pleased to own her.

See you all soon {wink, wink}

Leather Crafter

I took photos for a local leather crafter today.  He is making leather stamped gun slings and they are beautiful.  Beautiful is probably not the word to use for manly gun slings but I don't know how else to describe them.  The minute I put my hand on this sling visions of my sister Sharon came back to me.  Sharon is an artist of everything and at one time she stamped leather and all the boys in the family got leather wallets or belts.  She can paint, sew, draw, knit..... everything and anything that can be done, she can do it.  When we used to draw names for Christmas all of us would dance a little jig, rubbing it in everyones face if one of the Well's got our name because we knew something home-made was coming our way. 

I'm thinking the guys in this family are going to be dancing the same jig this year if one of these slings is under their tree. 

Smell that leather, feel that texture, touch that home-made gift..... oh yeah

Let me know if you'd like one of these for the guys in your life, I can hook you up.