A Turqouise Dream

This transformation unfortunately does NOT come with a before pic...at least not until I FIND the picture I took of it 12 years ago when it was my daughters dresser. Prior to that, it belonged to my ex father in law when he was a boy. I painted some flowers and bows on the drawers, gave it a fresh coat of poly and a changing pad...:)

Now it's got a new life with some pulls I recylcled off of a pair of nightstands, a fresh coat of paint, and a fun beachy feel! It's become the guest room dresser. I LOVE how it turned out, though the turquoise drawers were an after thought. Originally I painted it all white and antiqued it...FAIL...didn't like the look ant it was just too "ho hum". So I went to Lowes and purchased a sample can of some fun turquoise paint that I LOVE...and you WILL be seeing more of the color on some other projects soon...:) A little bit of antiquing with glaze and brown paint...and some strategic sanding. I'm totally in L - O - V - E with it!

So...here ya go...hope you like it...:)

Chef-Boy-R...Baskets...

It's been a while since I posted, sorry about that. I have been around lurking on other sites though. I just haven't had the time to get any of my stuff done. Baseball season arrived and it is kickin my butt this year. I feel like I'm constantly driving...UGH!
ANYWAYS...enough of my whining. I do have a little bit of a treat for you...:) What does THIS...look like to you?

Ummm...yup! it's a chefboyardee box! See the junk I feed my kids! Well, in my defense, that's a nice cheap lunch...Sams club makes these babies $.68 cents a piece! WoooHooo!!! Okay, sorry, gettin off-track. Well...to you it might be JUST an empty box...however,...for a clever, and slightly frugal Mom such as myself...it magically transforms itself to...THIS!!! ---->

Ummmm,...ya...wiiith a little HELP from me of course...*cheezy grin* Take this box, a dollar tree gift bag, some modge podge and VOILA...instant Easter basket! This one and the one below are heading for my two stepkids in Georgia today. Since they won't be with us for Easter...I figured, the Easter bunny would just ship these to them! I spent a whopping $20 on candy and a toy (thank you Walmart clearance aisle) total on these baskets.

Glad I never throw away the boxes I get from all my Sam's Club bargains...:) I use them for EVERYTHING! Have a Happy Easter everyone and don't  forget the reason we are celebrating...:)

A Sad Story About a Long Lost Hard Drive...

Just in case there wasn't enough things for me to do around here, I've added another. Well, actually it's nothing new, just something I've been away from for a few years.

In case ya'll didn't know, I create graphics...:) Just me and my lil ol' mouse. Most of them are primitive or country in nature, but I'm able to create just about any design.

HOWEVER, a few years ago, I was organizing some files on my super duper BIG computer and I put it in sleep mode to take my son to baseball. When I came home...it was the blue screen of death...:( I couldn't get it to come up no matter what I did. I was DEVASTATED! ALL my children's photos from the time they were babies was on that hard drive! Not to mention about a dozen or so web design and graphics clients that I was still working on. ****ARRRGGGGggggHHH**...Dratted evil computer Gods!

I took it to school with me and asked one of my highly talented friends if they could do anything to retrieve my lost files from my dead computer. I was hoping it was only "a little bit dead"...(all you Princess Bride fans out there will catch that one) and not all the way dead. He gladly obliged and said no worries, it will be done before you're done with class today. Well, come to find out, what I THOUGHT was the hard drive was ACTUALLY my motherboard...YIKES!

SO...to make a long story short, I left school that day and ended up not coming back...*another story for another time...* Thankfully, I kept the information for my friend in the tech support office and asked if by any chance (keep in mind this was now 2 years later), he still had my hard drive. If so, could he send it to me so I could get my NOW boss to help me get the files off the hard drive and into my external hard drive. As luck would have it...he did! So he sent it here to my office where I retrieved ALL my files...including graphics I had been working on or had finished and never released. SO...without further ado...:)...here's a few of my newest/old graphics. Be sure to check out my graphics page too...the linky is to the right on my blog...:) Thanks and talk to you guys again soon!

SILLOUETTE GIVE AWAY BONANZA!!!!

If you're like me and love, love, love all the fantastic creations made by the Sillouette machines out there, then you're gonna go ga-ga for this! I want to win one of these so bad I can hardly stand it! There are so many cool things you can do with the Sillouette machine, and the limit is just your imagination. I want to create some of the cool new subway art that I've seen all over blog-land. And I'd also LOVE to try out the pretty drawings with the pen attachments and rhinestone kits. Sillouette is not like other vinyl cutting machines, you can hook this baby up to your computer and the options are ENDLESS! Since I have a bunch of graphics that I've drawn out, I'd love to see what they'd look like in vinyl or drawn form...talk about cool!

So get on over to some of these sites and have yourself a ball entering!


BROWN PAPER PACKAGES blog is having an awesome drawing for a FREE...FREE...FREE Sillouette machine! YES! That's right! So go hop your hiney on over and enter for a chance to win right now!!!!

More chances can be found here:

HONEY WE'RE HOME

and here:
Familyicious.com has so many other fantastic giveaways too...so be sure to check them ALL out!

Tattered and Loved

One of my good friends had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. I decided I wanted to make her something special...and not just buy her something. I sneakily (is that a word?), asked her what her favorite colors were...lol...yeah, I know, nothing like perking her curiosity. She told me and I went to work gathering items from my stash of fabrics. It's been a LOOONGGGG while since I made one of these quilts...I'm not gonna lie. I'm a LITTLE out of practice, but I think the outcome is beautiful and she loved it so that's all that matters. I had hoped it would be bigger (...I measured a wee bit wrong and ended up with a lap quilt instead), but it's something she really will cherish as her kids grow. I L-O-V-E how rag quilts look, and they are SOOOO easy to make (you don't even have to be a perfect sewing person). She was actually more surprised at the fact I had pics of her kids that she didn't think I had...lol...thank you Facebook! I was able to go in and grab some photos, edit, and enlarge them with my graphics program.

Here's what I ended up with...:)

I'm sure I'll find some linky parties to connect this post with, so be sure to visit and check out other cool creations by my bloggy friends...:)