Tuesday 31 January 2012

All Around the World....


Hi everyone,
Today I'm going to share another epic fail that I hopefully transformed for the better..... let me know what you think of my "save"....

On a  trip to Spotlight during sale week - I picked up this wooden frame for $6... again with a plan in my mind....


I painted the frame white and started to tape off stripes......


Im not sure where I went wrong .....I think it may have been my colour choices? Who knows... it looked awful! I carried on and distressed the frame as per my plan and decided to look at it again later......

The next morning, my dear Sean very diplomatically told me it sucked!!! So did Gabe.... then Payton... You get the picture......


 Not to be deterred I raced off to Spotlight to the scrapbook papers and randomly selected a few sheets - still with no idea how to "fix" my frame.... Later in the day I settled on these 3 papers....All from Kaisercraft. I thought the world map was pretty, interesting and educational - the kids ask a lot of questions about places in the world and we can show them where we have travelled


 I covered the frame in Lacey Bay paper and edged with Ashbrook from Prairie Lane. Then glued the World Map from Timeless Collection onto the backboard....


 I added a shell to keep with the beachy theme..... and I think I really like it.... I even got the thumbs up from the fam.....


 This week I will hang everything and complete my new gallery wall... Im pretty excited about it... so stay tuned...

Take care
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Monday 30 January 2012

Beautiful Hanging Shells....


Hi everyone I hope your having a great Monday.....

I wanted to show you what I made this past weekend. I had these shells that I had painted white and Sean drilled a little hole into for me.... Then they sat for a couple of months while I thought of what to do with them.... Notice my repurposed buckle that I kept off one of Payton's baby dresses...

 

 Then on Saturday, out of nowhere I was inspired to finally "do" something with them.... I threaded the shells with raffia twine and attached them to the buckle. 

  
I roughly measured so that I had 4 ranging from largest to smallest and they also make a really cool clinking sound when they hit against each other


 I took a million photographs to show them off.... I was so excited  - they look fantastic, much better than I expected... here are just a few of those million photos...

 
   

What do you all think? 

Thanks for stopping by...

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Sunday 29 January 2012

Perfectly Payton....

My dear, sweet, headstrong, confident daughter has decided that every time the camera comes out......

Its time to....

Strike a POSE...

 
 
 

Except of course when she is sleeping....


She is Perfectly Payton......


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Friday 27 January 2012

Labour of Love

 

Hi Everyone,
I would like to be able to tell you how I whipped this little project together super quickly, but alas it took nearly a week.... 

This is what I started with.... On a trip to Spotlight I found the LOVE sign for $11 (over half off - woohoo!!!) and I had a plan....

And my plan was sooo wrong!!!

Okay, so I painted it blue.....sigh, it still didn't look right.....


I decided to age it a little with tea (my secret stain)

 still wasn't right, distress it....nope....

 add more tea to see if that might help.....

Definitely hate it.....

 In desperation, I dug through my scrapbook papers and decided on this..... I glued it on and cut the shape out and played around a little with the look....

 Now its up on the wall awaiting the rest of the gallery wall to be finalised.... And Im loving it...

What do you all think? 


Take care everyone,


xxx

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