Ceiling Fan Redo

Today I decided to redo the ceiling fan in my dining room. It started out as a gross yellow brass color. I had been doing some looking around on line for a color that would look classy and sleek. I found this color at the Home Depot it was under $8. I think that was a great price for the Major change in my ceiling fan. I enlisted the help of my tall and sweet cousin. He took it down for me and disassembled all the parts and put it back up after it was all done.
This is the color:

This is the lamp before the redo:

Dirty, Gross and Ugly! Oh and VERY dated.
I cleaned the fan blades and rubbed it with Old English. The fan blades had an oak finish on one side and a cherry finish on the other. I decided that the cherry finish was so much richer than the oak. So I am having the Cherry finish facing down.

I washed all the parts and repainted them:

My Fan Redo! So Much Nicer!

Newest Cards

Sharing my newest cards, I made these for the father of my friend. I lined the envelopes. I don't do this normally. My cards run $5 per card and includes an envelope.

It's been 6 months

Wow I can't believe it's been six months since I last posted. Since than blogger changed it's set up, so it took me about 20 minutes to figure out what happened here. Since Dec I have had allot of changes and now life is settling down again. Let me post a few pics of what I have been making since December.

 This is a scarf I made for my granddaughter, She looks so adorable in it. The hat was made by my mother in law, which is amazing at everything that she does!

 This was a thank you card I made for a Friend

This was a Thank you card for family.

So for now that is it, I need to craft more and add more cool stuff!

Chirtmas Cards

2011 Christmas Cards

I wanted to share the cards I made for my family and friends : My handmade Christmas cards. Here are the cards I made this year.

  

Christmas Planner

I am working on some christmas planners for gifts. I have had these compostion book for a long time when. I bought them when they were on sale at only 25 cents each. I decided to use up some of my scraps of scrapbook paper and embellishments this weekend. I came up with this, now if your my family this is a sneak peak of something you MAY get. I will be making all types of designs, so this won't actually be the one you may get. I thought I would post while I wait for the rain to die down, so I can do my grocery shopping today.

I took a composition book and altered it to this really useful Christmas planner.



To Make one of these:

You Need :

1) Composition notebook

2) Scrapbook pattern paper at least 8 1/2x 11 Size

3) Ribbon 1/2 yard

4) Cardstock Scraps

5) Embelishments

6) Strong glue runner, glue runner for lightweight paper and a strong liquid glue.

7) Sharps Scissors

8) Nail buffer or 180 grit nail file.

Instructions:

I did not cover the spine of the book. I did this so it would open and close freely.

1) Take an 81/2 by 11 pc of pattern paper and butt it up to the black binding on the front of the book.

2) Trace the pattern paper around the cover with a pencil to match the shape of the cover, trim it to size. It's ok to have a little overhang. I actually think it is better. You will be trimming that off after you glue that page down to the front of the book.

3) Adhere the patterned paper to the front cover, butting the paper up to the black spine edge.

With your scissors trim the paper close to the edge of the cover. With your nail buffer or file. Run the file down along the edge only going in one direction down on the paper for a smooth edge.

4) Adhere you ribbon  to the front with a dry glue runner, with about and inch over lapped to the back.

5) Cover your inside cover the same way, I used a solid peice of regular colored bond paper, but if you have lightweight pattern paper it it will do just fine. This will cover your ribbon overlap from the front side.

6)  Adhere a pocket on the front inside left. I used a christmas envelope. On the right side I added a printed calendar.

7) The tabs were a purchased item, I just labled them and glued them on with liquid glue.

I spearated the sections by using the colored bond paper.

8) The back inside and outside were done the same as the front.

I added a pocket with heavy duty cardstock.

The back the same paper as the front. *Note that I do not cover the spine of the book.

Hot Tomato! End of Summer Tomato Sauce

My friend Amanda gave me tomatoes from her work at the last minute the other day. I couldn't possibly eat them all, so I decided that I should try making some tomato sauce from them. So here is what I did.

The Tomatoes- Came sliced

Quartered- Nothing added (blended until pureed)

Pressed th sauce through a sieve to keep all the seeds out.

Cooked the sauce on low overnight, I
probabley could have done it in less time
but didn't want to cook to high.

The Results!

So there you are! it really wasn't hard or complicated. Now I will freeze my sauce for future use and in my house we like red sauce, so I am sure it will get used up! When freezing in glass be careful to defrost it slowly and never defrost it the Microwave or in hot water as the glass can break.