Ideas For Home
I am just back from a wonderful Summer vacation, road tripping up the coast of California. At every beach the short one collected shells. Now back home I thought “okay so what do I do with the shells now?” I remembered I still had an Ester basket around that I had been meaning to re-purpose. So I grabbed the basket and spray painted it aqua blue, and then wrapped it with a band of lawn chair webbing. I cut shells and the phrase “Sun, Sand, Sea” out of sand colored paper using my Cricut and the Creative Memories Travelers Cartridge*. I attached the paper to the front of the basket, loaded in the shells and boom – a perfect Summer memory basket.
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I found a sad looking chair that I knew I could re-style into something clean and fabulous! I used my Cricut and the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.
I removed the seat from the chair and pull off all of the fabric and foam. I sanded the chair, tape off the front bottom legs, spray painted it white and then once it dried I used a sanding block to shabby chic it. For the seat I cut squares and rectangles of the the light and dark grey papers included in the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Collection. On some of the cut pieces I used a stamp from the My Acrylix® Philosophy Tags clear stamp with green ink from the kit. I then used the pattern paper from the kit to cut branches and the orange paper in the kit to cut trees on my Cricut using the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.
I glued all the pieces into place and coated them with five to six coats of Min-Wax Poly Acrylic Water Based Top Coat. I like this product because it washes up in my kitchen sink and doesn’t ruin my brush.
I am in love with my new chair!
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Next week school starts back up! It will be the short one’s first day of Kindergarten and I am worried on many levels, mom stuff! I thought I would make a morning check list on a place mat to make getting ready in the morning a bit easier. The place mat is laminated so we can use dry erase markers to check the items off and start fresh every morning.
I used card stock to cut out the plate and silverware using my Cricut and the Creative Memories Traveler Cartridge and then I glued it down to an 11 x 17 sheet of green card stock that I drew pink lines all over with a sharpie. I created the title “Morning Check List” and the actual check list on the computer using the free font called Chalkduster, printed it onto coral colored card stock and glued it down to the large sheet. I finished it by adding a piece of alphabet tape and then laminating it. Summer is ending – it’s back to school time!
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We are headed out for our Summer road trip tomorrow. We are leaving Arizona and starting at the bottom of California in San Diego and driving all the way to the top to see the Redwood Forrest. We will stop all along the way to see sites and many friends. We are very likely to get caught in what is being coined “Carmageddon” so to ready ourselves for the boredom factor I created a road trip Boredom Buster tube. It is filled with several slips of paper listing games, hunts, sing-a-longs and so on. This should buy us hours of time if we are stuck sitting still. We are taking this trip in our newly renovated 1972 VW camper bus – I can not wait!
Want to know what ideas I put on the slips of paper? Download it here: Road Trip Games Boredom Busters
To create this project I used a plastic tube from the craft store and cut the stop light, camera and arrows using my Cricut and the Creative Memories Traveler Cartridge. I attached them to canvas and used markers to color them in.
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For our 4th of July get-together I made Martha Stewart’s Favor Rockets, but I used them to stuff the plastic silverware, napkin and straws inside. Super cute stuff I think! For her instructions go HERE. I added personal bling with glitter pow’s at the top. After the meal the Short one and the Smallest one had a ball playing rockets together.
