Things I make

This post is heavily laden with photos. I was rather impatient about it because it definitely took more than ten minutes to put them on here. So appreciate, please.

If you are an in-town friend and have been to my house recently, then you already know this. You might already know this as well if you are a stalker, know where I live, and have peered in through the windows of my house while I was at work. In the past month, here are some things I have made:

These were for the coffee break/sweet treat time we have at church. Quite obviously they are cookie monster cupcakes. The Sesame Street theme had nothing to do with anything, I just thought those blue faces were hilarious, so I had to make them. I got the idea from Pinterest. By far the best part was shoving the cookies into the mouths. Anybody have a children's birthday party you want me to plan?

Remember how I said I was going to make a chalkboard globe during spring break? Yeah, finally got that done.

Step 1: acquire an old globe from Goodwill.

Step 2: Paint in all the water with black chalkboard paint, then outline the continents with white paint, then paint the land masses black with more chalkboard paint. Two coats were necessary. Step 3: Decorate with chalk.

 

 

 

 

Of course he lives at the North Pole.

I kind of love Europe and mostly want to go to Africa.

When my friend Liz was over, she drew that picture of a penguin on Antarctica.

 I have this thing for maps, which is odd considering how much I get lost while driving. I made this pennant out of old maps that I bought for $0.79 at St. Vincent de Paul's thrift store. I got an ENTIRE BOOK of maps. Do you know how excited I was to find this book? Incredibly. I am going to craft so many things out of map paper.

I also have a thing for tissue paper pom poms. 

Can I just say that the color of my wall looks very nasty, but it is not that gross in real life. I'm not color blind.

Two Saturdays ago (on the 14th of May) I hosted a birthday party at my house for four of my friends, who were all born in May. I made a lot of cake.

Natalie, Kaitlynn, Leslie, and Casey all got a mini cake with their initial on it.

From left to right: Natalie, Kaitlynn, Leslie, Casey, my pasty arms lighting the candles.

We laughed a lot that night. And you know, ate a lot of sugar.

In addition to the spread you see here, I made a whole other sheet cake. We also had a potluck style meal, and guests brought PLENTY of food. Because we had so much grub, I was left with quite a bit of cake. I may or may not have eaten all or most of it the following week. For dinner.

An HGTV Moment

For about two weeks I turned my garage into an HGTV design studio, where I re-painted and re-upholstered this ugly chair and three of its friends.

I think it speaks for itself.

And then I got to work and ended up with this.

The paint color is called Oasis and was left over from a design I did in my bathroom. The fabric is Indian Duponi silk, and looks mostly orange but shimmers pink in the sunlight. Let me just tell you that this project was not a two-day thing. Getting staples for my borrowed staple gun (thanks Natalie's dad) was a two-day thing. Sanding was a two-day thing. Painting was a five-day thing. And getting the screws to cooperate when re-attaching the seat was a two-day thing. But whatever. It's finished.

I added the chairs to my patio, which was quite blah, as seen below.

And then I got some more stuff to put it all together, and voila, here it is.

In the daylight...

And also,

at night. 

Here's everything I used:

old nasty wooden chairs, from a relative

Oasis paint, left-over from bathroom project

orange/pink Duponi silk, Hancock Fabrics

folding table, Target

orange and pink polka-dotted table cloth, is actually a flat sheet folded in half, and has been in my closet for years

Moroccan table lantern, Ross

mosquito net canopy, used to hang over my bed when I was a high school student

mini mirrored star, Target

bulb string lights, Craft Warehouse

various plants, Home Depot

It is pretty simple but took much longer than expected, because everything that can go wrong will such as:

*peeling paint

*having no staple gun

*having wrong sized staples for staple gun

*screws not going into side of house because my siding is practically made of steel

*having to borrow a ladder from my sister

*solar string lights not working, having to return them, and finding an alternative

But it is finished. Any one want to come over for dinner at dusk?