Easter Craft

The young women, along with Baili and Kami, made these cute Easter frames the other night for mutual. I taught the girls how to CRACKLE something. If you dont know how, it is one of the easiest things to do.

First paint whatever it is you want to crackle (the base coat is going to be what shows through the top coat so make sure it compliments). Once the base coat is dry, apply the crackle medium. It is thick and should be applied with one stroke rather than over and over. It is alright to apply it thick as the thicker the crackle medium the thicker the cracks will be. Its nice to have variation also so its ok if some of the project has little cracks. The great thing about it is it should not look perfect! Once the crackle medium is dry (or almost dry) you can apply the top color. Apply this also in one stroke rather than going over and back on it. Make sure you have enough paint on your brush. After just a few seconds to a few minutes, the cracks start to show. They continue to crack as the top coat of paint dries.

With this craft the girls decorated the frame with mini eggs, bunnies, ribbon and buttons. Each one was unique and individual. I printed the easter art from LOLLY JANE so once everything was dry the girls could put it in their frame for their homes or bedroom.

Where did she come from??

My friend, Sarah Hancock had a little girls night get together the other night. When I showed up, late of course, I found this beautiful display of food and hostess-ing. I didn't know Sarah could do any of this cutsie stuff, even though shes pretty creative.......it looked like a wedding or something. I couldn't help but take a couple of pictures. It was so cute! She even had real plates.....a long gone tradition in Mormon culture *tear*

I might have to steal some of her ideas! Little touches I loved......

* Varying levels with black cloth draped over them

* Menu written on the white plate that had ribbon laced through it

* I mentioned the "real" plates.....sophisticated....

* Fresh cut flowers to accent the black and white theme

* Miniature bottles of dasani water

* One of my favorite finger foods was half a grape tomato and half a mozzarella ball sitting on a skewer laying in a small dab of olive oil.

It feels so good!

Since my little midnight rendez-vous with my kitchen, I have been on a roll in mi casa! It feels so good to accomplish things and get things back in place and feel like im on track. There is still a lot to be done and I know these things come and go in spurts so for now im just enjoying the ride.

Ive taken 8 to 10 big bags to Deseret Industries Thrift store and dumped so much junk! I always get this urge this time of year it seems.

Sam and I also decided were going to do a little renovation in the house and turn one of the open spaces in our house into a guest bedroom. We have two sitting areas that are underused so Im excited to get rid of one of them and hopefully create a more functional area upstairs by our living room.

I also want to create a nice office space for me in a corner of our bedroom. New laptop on my wish list also...lol

Back From the Dead

and look what I did....between 1 and 3 am this morning.....

I AM BACK ON THE BANDWAGON AND WILL HAVE PROJECTS AND MORE COMING SOON!

p.s. this picture is to get me motivated when i want to crawl in a corner and cry about how messy and dirty my house is....note to self, "it can be done!"

Not leaving the house

Sam lined the kids and I up today (sunday) and said that we were not to swim in the pool, ride bikes, put on shoes, not even playdates - basically not to leave the house until everything is in tip top shape and order! Men??? No clue!! But we will try our best. Tomorrow is clean up day take 60 or 60000000000

Slowing Down?

Not I! Well in reality I have a little bit but I still have the enthusiam to get my house up to speed and in order. I've more or less finished the girls room. I dont want to post pictures until I finish the last part - which will require me ordering more vinyl. So...you will just have to wait, sorry :(

What I have gotten done that was lots of fun and I love the finished product, is refinishing my $50 craigslist find. I've redone my entry way with some goodies from RODWORKS (who have finally come to Vegas) and some oldies from my home decor stash. I really like how it's all turned out.

I still need to get the finger out on the BOYS room. I'm really excited to do it and ordered and framed their new BOOK OF MORMON HERO posters. I'm a little inhibited by painting, ahem, freehanding the castle I want on their wall. I guess that's whats slowing me down. I just need to get in there and do it. It's only paint right? So if I ruin it, I can just paint over it. Breathe...

Sneak Peek

Oh boy am I having so much fun.......it's coming along.

More to follow soon.....