Bowl rack

I was inspired by Kris at Simply Prim to make my own bowl rack and I did it!!!!! The hardest part was hanging it! It took me months to decide on a secure spot... And I Hate guessing where wall studs are... And those stud finders are a joke!;) But its up ... Hooray!
Funny story... I hung it during the day and was nervous what the hubby would say or think.... So he got home and noticed ( shocker in itself) and told me it was a piece of crap! (GASP!) He just will never understand primitive beauty;) of course he would rather baseball bobble heads were there! Well.... That night our good friend Jo came over to watch the boys so we could have a REAL date and immediately saw my "masterpiece" and announced "that is SOOO cute!!!!" Lol. Husband said she isn't welcome in our home anymore! haha. (He is very sarcastic folks....I promise he's a good guy)
SO this is my FIRST post using the blogger app on my iPhone... Lets see if it works here........

Hello everyone! I have been gone from blogland for sometime! It sure seems ALOT has changed!!! I noticed manybloggers are going from primitive style to neutral anda much more simplified look.and  Im not sure how I feel about this... I like the look but it makes me sad :(
Also I have entered the world of PINTEREST.... OH.... MY. What incredible ideas for things to do when I have free time again ..someday... ok in the next 18 years! And find some great new recipes too! DID you KNOW that you can flavor just about any food to taste like cake batter?!?!? :) there must be a million cake batter recipes on there! haha... I restrained myself... and just "pinned" ONE!( yet to try it out).
I have been busy with our 2 yr old with attempting some potty training, Ive been getting some work in so that I can keep the title of "employed" (barely), and pulling lots of weeds, I started a small GARDEN... (so exciting to watch it grow daily!!!!! even though only half of it remains because of the little grazing animals around here)  and keeping a eye on Micah, our almost 8 month old.... who is trying to crawl. He kinda sucks at it.... he gets where he wants to go... either scooting or rolling or this frog leap move he does... but really doesnt CRAWL yet :) He will get it down one of these days.... Lord knows I can wait for that!
We have also had a number of EXCITING and EXPENSIVE events here.... a flooded back yard ( who knew we had a sprinkler system valve burst?!?!) , a broken mower (and a jungle yard... yes... it was SO BAD the grass went to SEED) , then we hit a deer and caused some serious damage to our Subaru... which was in the shop for a week! THEN we had a FIRE on our acreage which allowed us to utilize our lovely home town fire department.... yes it got WAY out of control and lets just  PRAISE JESUS it didnt burn the house down ! Makes me SO appreciative of what firefighters do.... just a grass fire.. but how EXHAUSTING and terrifying it was trying to put it out on our own... which obviously we were not able to do.

Onto more uplifting things.....and fun projects....

Made this crow to put in a flower arrangement... but just didnt look quite right so I put him here... he looks like he is ready for FALL.... or maybe just I am :)

This was a fun 2$ project.... found a GW checkerboard with geese and hearts and nonsense on it... painted over it and stenciled a horse and checkerboard and aged it! I love how it turned out... tried to make it look authentic antique as much as possible. Love that I found one online for 150$ . WAY to cheap to pay that! :)

Some fourth of July goodness on my front porch (this was where I was gonna put my crow)

I got this pattern off of a blog called SIMPLY PRIM, a gal named Kris has a tutorial on them... finally got around to making one... sorry picture is so dark. Its a soap holder with  tin cup !( hers looks way cuter)

And I will end this post with some pics of my boys.... Daddy, Micah ( 7 months) and Isaiah (2)

awwww... LOVE them :)

I also made a dough bowl rack .... but dont have it "hung" yet... hopefully will post later. Hope all is well if any one is out there still following me! haha ~ Elisha

Easter pictures 2012

All the Easter babies this year! Micah (5 months, my baby), Caleb ( 4 months, my brother's baby), Isaiah ( 2 years, my boy), Anistyn (9 months, my sisters girl) We joke because she is gonna have to be one tough girl to put up with all these boys!!!! But she is still a lil princess! :) I can't WAIT to ditch all these kids on my parents some day and be like " we are outta here, have FUN! " hahahaaha

Me and hubs. We didnt manage a family " after church" picture... everyone couldnt WAIT to get out of church clothes and the boyz went down for naps right away when we got home.... so BOO. This was taken last minute before we took off to drive back to IA..... after a crazy day of family and all kinds of kids and candy ! :) We did do a small easter egg hunt for Isaiah... but I couldnt get blogger to post. It was fun to see him actually find the eggs this year :) ~ Til next time! ~ Elisha

SPRING! ugly BEFORE and a primtastic AFTER

Some Spring fun has been popping up in our house and only a hand ful of winter decor remains! This momma is busy with a very active 2 yr old and a" rolling" all over the floor 4 months old... he gets so upset when he rolls onto his tummy and then mom has to come roll him back over.. he will figure it out one of these days! :)

This little feller I stitched up ... no pattern... Im just THAT good ! lol..... I think I just got lucky :) Found the rusty safety pin in a stash and thought it was perfect to stick a wing on! :) The little prim box he sits in  was a GW redo project that was a 50 cent ugly wall box.

My basket O' Spring

My bowl ( redo bowl.... had ugly fruit painted on the inside) and a blackend lamb I picked up at a antique mall a couple years ago that I just love! He smells like strong cinnamon... mmm. ( sorry about the flash on this pic)

Another prim birdie I made perched in a antique match holder by my kitchen sink to remind me of spring!

Whats this ugly thing? A vintage "firkin" ice bucket I got for a BUCK at GW.... and turned into the beauty below!!! WHAT a fun redo.... I love the results :) I had to pry a plastic liner out of it... but it was totally worth the struggle :)

Have you got your spring stuff out yet?!??!

~ Elisha

So this is my attempt at a "fake" punch needle. Its all french knots.... I have seen the most beautiful punch needles in frames for around 80 to 100$... but I didnt want to pay that much for one... nor invest in all the supplies to make one..so I just did what I knew! :) So a thousand french knots later and a "made up" pattern and make over thrift store frame... and wa- lah! ( Im thinking the bird needs a "eye" however now that I look at it) This was a fun little craft to do while watching TV with hubby... I just feel like TV is such a waste of time so I have to multi task :)

SPEAKING of TV.... this is our new TV stand/ cabinet! My dad made it for me and I LOVE IT. I just had to give it a good beating (which I really had a hard time doing bc he did such a NICE job on it!) but I really wanted an "old" look to it. Painted in black, then barn red, then stained and sanded to look distressed! IF you could have ONLY seen what a jungle of cords and mess our TV area was BEFORE... it was awful! This is just so nice and organized now. Isaiah is a bit disappointed bc this was his hideout until I put the shelves back in :)

Here's the Isaiah man! He turns 2 this Feburary 8th... but all the grandparents were up staying with us... so we had a "fake" birthday party ahead of time.

Here is the 3D truck cake I made him...I have never done this before!!! It was kinda tricky... but I was thrilled when Isaiah looked at it and said "vroom vroom, beep beep".... so it MUST have somewhat LOOKED like a truck !!! :) He liked it so much that he freaked out when we tried to cut it! He did lick at some wheels though :) (yeah... we ate it after he went to bed )

A cute little sign his "Ba ba" made him... Mom's favorite gift for him ! ha! Amongst the basketball hoop, books, poddy seat, mini bike, cars, and on and on....what a spoiled boy!

Look at all these handsome men! Gpa's and Daddy here.

Oh Micah... you made this post as well. 2 1/2 months now and a BIG BOY!! wearing 6 month old clothes and almost a bit too chunky for the bumbo that we dusted off from storage this week :) He gives us all kinds of smiles and blows us bubbles now. Still a bit cranky/ colicky in the evening ... but getting better. We are still considering keeping him ;)

Until next time!, Elisha

Valentines !

 So... once again the hearts come out for Valentines day! I have a Christmas tree up with some fabric hearts with frayed edges... but my son keeps "collecting them" in a pile rather than keeping them on the tree! :) These are a couple ones I picked up at the thrift stores and have re- done over a bit.

This one I painted barn red and thought how cute would some sweet annie and some stained cheesecloth wrap be with it? But being that I dont HAVE any of those things... this will do :)

Heres another find from a garage sale... was gonna use it to make a wood piece... but for now will use for Vday... and Isaiah just LOVES the little mice around the house peeking out... so its fun for him I guess :) Like I say.... I really stay away from the hearts... but for 50 cents here and there... its kinda fun for Valentines.

This and That

Dont cha just wanna squeeze this chubby cheeked, squinty eyed baby?? He has been thrilling us with smiles these days... so fun to watch him grow.

This is TUG... she is our Christmas MIRACLE this year... she had been missing since September... we were convinced she had been eaten by a coyote this fall... and POOF... she shows up at our door the other day! I was SPEECHLESS when my husband walked in the door with her! Gives me hope for the other missing kitties of years past! :)

AWWW.... So its IMPOSSIBLE to get a decent picture of 2 boys under age 2! I cannot get them to smile and hold still simultaneously... so I decided if I cant do it... neither can a photographer and Im not gonna waste $$ on watching one try! I got some really good ones of them SEPARATELY instead... but Im too lazy to upload them right now! :) So this is what you get off my Iphone for now :)

How nice is it that its in the 50's in IOWA right now? feels like SPRING... not Christmas! its just crazy. I found this bench at a local flea market . LOVED IT... and bought it up....added a" handmade by me" snowman.. and my handmade NOEL sign to welcome my guests. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER putting that cute snowman outside... the DUMB DOG mauled him within 24 hours..... oh poor frosty. I DID manange to sew him back together again... but he smells like DOG SLOBBER. gag.

Well NOW WHAT? all the partying for Christmas is over! It took us 3 days to get all our gifts open...it was THAT over the top of a Christmas. The inlaws came form Georgia for a week and SPOILED our boys rotten. Yet... I caught Isaiah playing with the trashcan today....SERIOUSLY???? Go play with a NORMAL toy! Now all he needs is a toybox to put them all in so mom and dad stop tripping over it all :)

For Christmas hubby gave me some new UGG boots which I LOVE.... but needed skinny jeans for. I have met a new LOW... I found and bought a pair from the GW!!! (Limited brand) but STILL... my 130$ shoes with 4 dollar GW jeans! haha! But hey... I still have baby weight to loose and am NOT spending $$ on new jeans now. I also got a primitive/ colonial table runner and a primitive thermostat cover, a subscription to The Simple Life magazine, and some cash! I will try to post pics later.

 I did regret not getting THE NATIVITY movie viewed with the family.... so easy to get caught up in the superficial nonsense and not spend near as much time focusing on the birth of our Lord and Saviour. We DID have a LOVELY Christmas eve service and Sunday morning service on Christ as our PRINCE OF PEACE !

Hope your Christmas's were wonderful! ~Elisha