Kate's B-Day cake

Latest cake. Was done for Kate.                              3 Pic's

They grow up so fast.   Hope you enjoyed your B - Day .

The Science Project !

The science project.  A Beaker,  cake for a student .  Hope you enjoyed it !Happy birthday Rowan .

NEW YEAR . NEW PROJECTS.

Happy New Year everyone !  Hope your holidays were grand.

Now ,with all my holiday deadlines over. Time to get back to blogging. I must say I missed this. Don't know what this new year will bring, but I can't wait ! My husband read me my 2013 horoscope and it Say's It will be a glorious year.  1st. order of note for the new year. For those of you following the DESK TO ISLAND project for my son Rock, it is primed but not painted and completed yet. I will be finishing it soon. Promise. My garage ( my main work space) had become over ran with the holidays. This is where the larger projects take place. So, don't think I've forgotten.


New project!

My family has come to know how much I enjoy receiving broken down items. And they do enjoy challenging me as often as they can. On Christmas day, Our son Jess brung me a new challenge. He had found a discarded whiskey/mirror sign. This sign had a rather large cracked corner and chipped edges all the way around. Basically it was a poster behind a mirror and cork on the back. The mirror has some border color and advertising on it also. As soon as I looked at the piece I knew I wanted to keep it as a whole, BUT I wanted to enhance it. I told my husband I wanted to add a frame to camouflage the damage while enhancing the piece in the proses. I didn't want to add more weight,it was heavy enough already. I wanted to make the bottle appear larger and give the whole thing more depth. My husband came up with a great solution. CARDBOARD ! Below are the pic's. We used cardboard for the frame , spray painted it black.      Take a look ! This is the project and the items used to redo it.  A knife, to cut the cardboard, pencil, T-square, ruler, and spray paint ( not shown) and Glue, ( also not shown). In the next pic's You can see the real damage to the piece.

more damage pic's below.

 My husband placed the mirror  on the back side of the cardboard and traced the size of it. He then cut into the cardboard,  being careful only to cut into one layer of the cardboard. This was a thick piece of cardboard- 5/8' thick. And this was done from the back. Next, we turned the cardboard over ( front side) and I drew the pattern for the frame. He than cut it out. Then, we cleaned the mirror, painted the frame and glued it in place. The whole piece still hangs from the same hanger that was already on the mirror ( 2 picture hangers and a wire) do to the light weight of the cardboard, we didn't have to change it. I think it looks better than new !   Thanks to my husband. Now Jess might want the sign back . Look at the finished project !

 6 pic's below. What do you think ?

 The cardboard worked out great.

and the black color almost made it look as if it light up .

following the shape of the bottle gave more depth to it.

And the frame now looks like wood.  This project can be done in a couple hours, with things laying around in the garage.  Hope I got your creative juices going.

$1.00 Decorating, never looked so nice !

With every ones budgets so tight this year, I decided to see if  it was possible to go to the Dollar General store,With $25.00 and find enough things to decorate a 5 1/2 foot tree. A BEAUTIFUL TREE MIND YOU ! Not knowing what I would find. And knowing me , I didn't want to just use the ready made decorations.   So, here is what I bought at the store . oh, by the way I think I went over budget by .68 cents!             This is a pic of what I had at home that inspired the color theme.       Sharing 36 photo's  total.                                                                            

Receipt was for $25.68 shown at end.

 Up close of what we bought. The throw was $5.00/ used to cover the backs of pillows. We also bought a bag of Slinky's,2 bags hearts,2 package bracelets,2 bags bling rings,2 bags mini star wands,2 package necklaces,4 different ribbons . Below  also rapping paper already had to go with the theme.

Above right-I put the tree into a vase,on our counter. The colors bought at the store, where , Almost neon -pastels,pink,green,purple,yellow,blue,orange. That's why I choose the color of the vase. Now I'll also share the rest of the rooms .

 Most of the house is done in Black/white and silver. So I knew I had to blend the pastels with the glam of the silver/black and white.

 So, I just spread little bits of the greens,blues,orange around. Just enough for the eye to tell the mind, it works.

 These rooms adjoin each other.

 Now, this is art that hangs on our wall , but It didn't go very well ,with every thing going on. So I drew the bulbs,colored them lightly with colored pencil's, then took a glue stick and just did a scribble continuous line and dusted with glitter. Now my paper was shorter than the frame so I finished it off with black wrapping paper and joined the two with a piece of glitter ribbon. I did two of these ,the other one is a tree with bulbs,

 Tied bulbs on curtain rods with black ribbon over top of a black curtain drape of x-ray tree's of black,white,silver, found this fabric at ghoul's.

 Spread some more black and silver around.

 Don't be afraid of mixing poka-dots and plaids and trees and what ever you have.

 Add some more color.

 The tree .... TURNED OUT BEAUTIFULLY.

 see below

Add your packages.

 more pic's below

 The black,white ,silver, went very well with the other colors. more pic's below

 Soooo pretty !

 up close.

 It's hard to believe this tree was done with $1.00 items, cause it looks like a million. see other pic's below.

I added a few bulbs we already had.

 Love these colors.

so festive.

 Always add a bit of unexpected.

Shelves.

Little dab of color.

so simple.

Looks just a nice as any other tree , for much much less.

The cards where part of my inspiration.

Beyond the tree.

Beyond

A dab of color in the back ground helps to join the colors.

Even up close it still holds it beauty.

Black,orange,silver ,white and yellow.

I want to wish everyone reading this blog, Happy Holidays ! And I will be getting back with everyone soon.   BE SAFE.              May we all find just what we need, under our Trees.      Till then.......