A new creation!

I've Seen these prim "chandeliers" everywhere and thought HOW EASY and cute to make one! Well it was easy..... Finding the time to make/ paint/ sand/ distress and shop for the tart pans was the hard part! Now that its nice out a million projects need done on this acreage and crafting gets the back burner :( Hubby is coaching baseball so he's gone all the time and the yard work is awfully hard to get accomplished with 2 in diapers! ( yes... My oldest STILL hasn't mastered the #2 regardless of a few hosing down episodes ;) AND our grass has gone to seed in the back! BAD. Hopefully today it gets done. Til next time. - Elisha

Buh Bye Bad wall paper!

I got the OK from the hubby to strip these pink roses OFF! The steamer is heating up and I'm in need of a project during these rainy days stuck inside with the boys! ( ugh) The husband is coaching HS baseball this year and he will be pretty much NOT around so I told him I need a project to keep me "going" instead of having a pity party that he's not around to help with e boys. Good tactic huh? Haha. Having a project does really keep me in good spirits. hoping to have a finished farmhouse style bathroom when I'm done!

Finally finished a spring cross stitch

I mix and matched some freebie cross stitch patterns to make a little whisk broom cover. I stitched this while on the road driving down to Branson for our 4th year anniversary trip... Which was wonderful without the kiddos !!! ( first trip without them, so kinda rough to leave them but they did super) Kinda fun project for spring.

4 bucks well spent at the thrift store... I think!

I went to the thrift store today to drop off a box of junk and decided to peek in for any treasures. I took a dangerous risk and plunged into 3 huge Tupperware tubs of thrift store small kitchen items ...it was SOOO gross. Spatulas with food caked on them, measuring cups with debris, rusty knives and pokey kitchen forks. One can only imagine. I was LOOKING for 2 tiny tin tart pans for this very prim light project I'm making and hoped to find some In there. NO LUCK.... But I found this tiny cute little sifter that was 50 cents and I just couldn't think of a use for it but couldn't pass him up... He works well , but he's so small how could you sift that much with him?! I couldn't pass up the tiny spoons either ... Thought I could use them in my creamer / sugar coffee set or something for dirt cheap. The flowers were in a modern container but I'm so glad they work well in my front door basket! Thought they looked so real for 2$. I dumped on the hand sanitizer following my "hunt" . :) Guess Ill keep searching for those tart tins.

makeover, lamp project, some thank you's and our "boogey"

I am way over due for a THANKYOU to Kendra at The Stone House Primitives for winning her cute giveaway..... The bowl of eggs on top of the scale and the notepad and pencil along with the extras she sent me of some waxed bunnies ( I'm horrified to say my boys broke the "rocker" bunny and I had to mend him together with some heat!). THANKYOU Kendra.... I have really been enjoying them this Spring?!?!?!? ( yeah... Not sure what it is its SNOWING right now!!!)

Also The apothecary is a makeover project.... I WISH I could upload the ugly before picture... Had 90's ducks and bunnies on it. Found it at a antique store and debated for Atleast 10 minutes on buying it because they wanted 20$. Yeah... I'm frugal. one from the store would cost me 50$ or more so I bought it and like how it turned out... Can't really tell in picture but it has a crackle finish to it that Was there and I didn't notice it until I painted it! ( bonus)

I made a tin colonial lamp with stuff I had around the house! A primitive place magazine , Kris did a tutorial on a old spring issue on how to make it And I always loved it but thought it looked like too much work. But I pulled it off ( minus the epoxy glue.... It didn't "set" and nothing would stick so I had to use teensy little screws!) My husband is completely in "awe" of what a freak he married these days! Haha. I'm a crafter and I can't get it out of my blood!

Had to add a picture of our "Boogey"...,we call him this because he's always got Bugars! LOL He's so laid back and care free about it snot...Opposite of our 3 yr old! he has been so fun these days.... Learning new words everyday and just such a happy boy... I totally baby him. He's about 18 months now and I feel like he's more of a little boy because he's so big! Kinda want another but scared that would put me over the edge of my sanity.... Boys are HARD work!!!!!

Also thanks to Pamela at Our Pioneer Homestead for the clock face printable!!!! And tutorial on how to remove the glass on the scale.... It was very vintage and I wanted a "older" look!

Hope spring decides to stick around I have way more projects I need to do!!!! -Elisha

Cleaning pays off prim style

A quick post about my weekend here:
Saturday :
I did 3 loads of laundry, disassembled and reassembled and moved our honkin crib to Micah's room, Isaiah now forced to be in big boy bed. He says he wants to be a baby still.... well THAT explains why we cant get him out of diapers! (ugh!) rearranged and vacuumed his room after that, vacuumed upstairs and down, sandbox put up outside w Jon doing most of that work, however we need a whole TON more sand ! ;) Our dogs showed up after being gone for a week!( I secretly wished they found new owners.).. They destroy everything and scare my youngest. ( I moved all Micah's clothes and re organized them to upstairs dresser freeing my prim hutch up for LOTs of storage space ! I cleaned entire laundry room and rearranged all the CRAP in the underneath compartments so I can slide my laundry baskets onto shelves below ; clearing up my counters totally which I LOVE. ( My husband is a chemical / cleaner hoarder! It is ridiculous how many spray bottles of every product on the market i found! ) I scrubbed my kitchen sink and cleaned some windows with little finger marks all over them. Made crunchy baked fish tacos for supper and Bathe both boys and put them to bed by myself ( trust me that is WORK!) and made from scratch ginger carrot cake w toasted pecan breakfast cookies for the morning car ride to church. ( they took forever bc i had to grate ginger and carrots and toast my pecans) but sooooo healthy and boys dont know it....and what a time saver Sunday mornings!
Sunday:
church, nap, and I " decorated " my clean laundry counters! MAYBE laundry will be more fun!?!?! WELL Atleast maybe a bit more cute! The washboards were GIVEN to me from a lady at church. I did a thing on decorating Christmas "Ideas " after our womens Bible study in Nov and mentioned my love for antiques and she drove home and brought these awesome washboards back for me!! And some other awesome stuff too! I was THRILLED that day. So I cleaned them up and oiled them and here they are! love them! Before I had no room on the counters because I kept all the laundry baskets there... Well I wanted to make room for them to slide out from under the counter ( hence why the re organizing) and I DID IT. Awwww... How nice to keep them there! Thinking I need some burlap curtains now to cover the open shelves.Of course now the Husband will drop in and wonder why his "skivvies" got replace with "cuteness" but He will live.... Besides I do the laundry... I pick the decor! Haha. So am I a total nut case???
( BTW the little tiny child's iron we found while digging on our property!!! It's all rusty and cruddy but I couldn't toss it!!!)

Better late than NEVER

I finished my Valentines cross stitch ( freebie by theprimitivehare@blogger.com) but I " extended" the pattern and added a date just for fun ( my wedding year minus 100 years) . I had to change the shape so it could fit it to my 50 cent heart box from the thrift store! :) I was up in the craft room digging through some of my grandma's sewing supplies that I inherited when she went to be with The Lord and found the scissors !!!! I didn't even know I had them! I don't know how old they are but they were so neat and old / vintage I just was so thrilled to find them. The Rick rack is from her stash as well .... 19 cents then folks!!!! What I couldn't get " over" was the guarantee on the back of the package!!! WHO makes a guarantee like THAT anymore!?!?!? My grandma sure lived back in the "good ol days"... All her craft stuff is proudly labeled made in the USA! How our country has changed.
Next up some spring decorating and maybe a new cross stitch... It's nice to have a sit down evening project or take in the car project with me and I've found stitching is easy to travel with.
Here's a good story to end with: My last grandparent passed away this month and we drove 6 hours one way in the car with our 1 and 3 yr old to the funeral ONE way..... Well on the way home I decided to give the boys suckers in the car bc they were so WHINEY and my youngest , Micah "painted" the car seat and himself with it... He was a gigantic sticky mess and then managed to spill his milk all over himself and his pants were soaked when we got home. SO the moment we got home Both boys went straight in the tub. Soon there after I notice little poops floating in the bath water......... MICAH!!!! So mom evacuates boys immediately from the tub, and scoops out the poops and in the potty they go.... FLUSH.... Eeerrrr.....aaaaagggghhh the toilet is overflowing!!!!! MEANWHILE I turn around and there is Micah standing over a puddle of pee on my carpet! WWWWHHHHHYYYYYY?????? :) Yeah... I had a alcoholic beverage later that night;) Til next time!!! - Elisha