Gallary Wall

I've been wanting to do a gallary wall

in our new reading room

and finally finished it last night

(well finished in the sense the frames are up)

I tried a few different set ups on the floor

Then we put them all up

Here are a few of my favorites

My new window sign I made

I love the old charming feeling it gives the room

Some of the frames still need pictures

I've asked our families for a picture

of our grandparents (as in Scott and I's)

from when they were younger

hopefully in black and white

I just love old photos

and how they always seem to tell a story

Happy Easter

This is what I get when I try to get them to smile & say cheese :)

& this is just all them :)

Don't mind Nolee

she had a fever of 103 (molars)

so it was easy to get her to sit still

but not so easy to get her to smile

the poor girl!

Happy Friday

I don't know why but she reminds me

of Larry the Cable guy in this next pic...

Another Way to Make Easy Signs

I saw a new way to make signs online the other day

(for the life of me I can't find where now)

and I decided I had to give it a try

It's even easier than the method I used on my EAT sign

I printed out my phrase in Word in the font & size I wanted

Grabbed a board I had sitting out in the garage

(after I spray painted two coats of white on it)

Then I turned the letters around and used a pencil

to shade all over the back of the them 

Then I flipped my letters back over

placee them where I wanted on my board

(still wondering if this would work on walls too...)

and traced/outlined my letter on the paper with the pencil

When I was done and lifted my paper up

I had an outline of my letters

(if you enlarge the picture you can see it better)

Then I just filled in the letters with my paint

And then I sanded it down gently to mask any mistakes I made :)

And that's it!

I know this has probably been around for ages

but it's new to me and I'm so happy I found it

since a Sillhoutte is probably not in my near future :)

Oh and this is what we saw outside our back window last night

Ugh 

Yup that's hail/sleet/rain mixture

Come on Spring - please hurry up!!

Free Fireplace Renovation

So do you remember the free fireplace I picked up on the side of the road?

Well this weekend it was so cold here

we didn't get to go outside at all

and since we were basically going stir crazy

we moved a bunch of rooms around

The front living room

which we just made into the dining room

is now the reading room

The dining table was moved into the kitchen

and the kitchen table was moved down to the craft room

No more working on the floor for me!

Anyway I also had a chance to redo the fireplace

Once we rearranged the furniture

in the reading room

I knew we had the perfect spot for it

Plus when I think reading room

I think bookshelves

cozy couches

and a fireplace

First we had to position it in the room

to make sure it went okay

and of course the girls thought

it was super fun to play in

How cute are they!

Once we decided it would fit

we dragged it back out to the garage

and I started the process

 of "making it more us"

I primed

painted two coats of creamy white

distressed it heavily

and added a glaze of dark walnut stain

and now we have this...

And here it is all lit up :)

Now I just need to grab a book

and a hot cup of coffee

(oh and move it from the garage

back into the house) 

Linking to:

http://todayscreativeblog.net/get-your-craft-on-8/

http://abowlfulloflemons.blogspot.com/2011/04/link-party-tuesdays-one-project-at-time.html

http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2011/04/take-look-tuesday_18.html

http://theletteredcottage.net/mouseover-how-to

Tuesday trash to treasure

http://www.cherishedbliss.com/2011/04/craft-and-tell-tuesdays-1.html

http://www.notjustahousewife.net/2011/04/show-me-what-ya-got-20.html

http://restoreinteriors.blogspot.com/2011/04/restored-it-wednesday_19.html