Saturday, October 2, 2010

Birthday Time

I believe that the invitation says it all....it's late and surprisingly enough I don't have much else to say - but, I was so excited to share how great this turned out, that I had to at least post here to share with you all.

Reorganizing Cabinets



Well, the other evening it was just Ethan and me at the house.  I was supposed to get some blogging and budgeting and design work done, but of course I got busy doing the dishes instead - or maybe I was supposed to be folding the laundry monster on my couch, anyway. While I was doing dishes Ethan decided that he was going to go through the kitchen cabinets.


'Well', I thought to myself and said to Ethan, 'I was wanting to rearrange the cabinets', so much to his surprise and pleasure I am sure - Mom, got in there with him and starting taking everything out of the cabinet as well ;)

Upcycled Bottles

Okay so as The Pioneer Woman would say here are the Characters for this upcycle project
This is the rest of the characters.....

Okay, so this is just a little craft I did.  I was helping to decorate for a baby shower for one of the many mommy's at our church and I had this Idea to do something with the many glass bottles that I insist on keeping. (they are all recycled bottles, i.e. olive oil, baby food, tabasco sauce, etc.)  So, I decided to print out some letters and put them on the bottles, with a little decoration of course ;).  My good friend Jenny donated the fancy scrapbook paper and ribbon that matched the colors of the shower - the baby is a suprise, and I just love that! Here is how they turned out:
Upcycled Bottles
 Everyone at the shower said they were cute - maybe they just wanted to be nice though ;) - any thoughts anyone?


I also refurbished a spice rack to make a sort of center piece.  I just washed out the glass bottles for the spices and put some water in them.  ( or rather Thaddeus washed most of them ) And then Thaddeus, Tristen, and I put some flowers in them.  Now, I am taking the picture like a week later, so imagine nice flowers all looking up okay ;).