Birthday Card

My cute little cousin turned 8 and was baptized  last week and I wanted to play around with the Silhouette Sketch Pens again so I made her this adorable Birthday Card.  

To be honest I remade this card 3 different times.  I didn't like it and would tear it apart and start over. 

ugh.

So frustrating.

  I don't feel I am very good with paper crafts but I'm working on it.

A Simple Valentine

I know you're supposed to post Valentines before Valentines Day but this year things have been crazy.  We decided to hop on a Plane and go to San Diego for some warm weather and got home 2 days before Valentines Day and I finished these Thursday night at 10 pm and have just been to busy to get around to posting them.

I used a Silhouette free pattern to make the arrow and used my sketch pens to do the writing. Easy peasy.

I taped a heart shaped box of chocolates on the back since everyone loves some chocolate on Valentines day.

A Valentines Day Arrow

I've started on Valentines for this year and am waiting for my Sketch Pens to come in the mail so I can finish!  I got started the other day when Silhouette had their free pattern for the week as a cute Arrow template!  I thought it was awesome so Evelyn and I took a walk to the Orchard by our house and got little sticks to hold them together.

After realizing how much I loved it I went out to the garage got a scrap piece of 1x12, a ruler and a bowl and drew an arrow.

With my Band Saw I cut it out, then sanded it really good with the Belt Sander and then got to painting!

I still cannot believe how easy it was and how awesome it turned out!  Jefferson said he was impressed which always makes me feel like I have created something incredible! haha

So, there you have it.  The love is this way.

DIY Adirondack Chairs and Table

I love Ana White. 

She's a genius.

She's amazing.

She's extremely talented.

The first project I ever build from her plans was the Rustic X Table

I had planned on using it inside my house as an end table but couldn't decide how to finish it so I made 2 Adirondack chairs to go with it to make it a yard furniture set!

I'm so creative! haha

TA-DA!!  I'm sure you've notice by now that picture taking is not really my thing.  Well Jefferson took this one but still.  I use my iPhone, so please, no judging!

I also have dogs that when you're outside think it's time to place. 

Even if your trying to do a totally awesome photo shoot. haha

Oh, and my grass doesn't exist.  It is on the to-do list this spring.

This is me saying, "This isn't going to work, is it?"

The awesome thing about these chairs are that an 18x18 or 20x20 cushion will fit it perfectly!

I am going to sell this set on Craigslist and would like to paint them to what someone would want.  If they want to keep them as the natural wood I still need to do a good sanding and painting.

DIY Hand Painted Sign

After my Pocket Change Signs I wanted to find another way that you could paint signs with it being even more crisp and clean.

I searched and searched and finally decided to give transfer paper a try.

I don't know if I just don't know where to look or what but geeze it took me forever to find it!

I finally went to Hobby Lobby and asked one of the employee's if they had any and she found me this.

Not exactly what I was expecting to find but it worked.

I printed off what the saying that I wanted and put the transfer paper in-between the wood and my printed paper.  I traced around the letters barely having to press down.  Use a pressure you would if you were just writing.

Then with Acrylic Paint I filled in the lines.  It would be better to use a transfer paper that is the same color you plan to paint but in my case I could only find white transfer paper and I had black paint on hand. Oops.  Oh well, I'll figure out how to plan one day!