I did it! Here's my Pottery Barn/Ballard Lamp shade!

Their versions:

Here is my Pottery Barn/Ballard Knock off! :)

This is the original lamp shade, it was once black, after 20 years, it's not black anymore! Wow, that is a lot of dust and years for that fabric!

Lesson learned! Using burlap, does not make for see-thru lettering. Next time, I will not print out my lettering, and tape it to the inside, I couldn't see ANY words. I had to free hand all that writing! Augh! And I tried graphite paper to copy it, flash lights to light it up more in the shade to see-thru, nada... Next time I will use the light box, my copy of the font and sentences,etc; and then take the sharpie to the burlap or whatever fabric...

Lesson learned... after marking my pattern on the burlap piece it was just cut and paste! or hot glue... you know what i mean!

and this is the result!

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Make your own grocery tote!

Behind the door caddy!

I also saw this French Desk Set from sew4home.com

sponsored by Janome which led me to check out Ucreate:
Canvas Bins Made Out of cardboard boxes, here!
isn't that the best! Sew professional! I'm soooo gonna make these!

For another organizational idea: try The BusyBodyBook.com
they have a free Weekly Grid to download! It's for Sunday Weekly planning!
I am a big fan of the Clutterdietblog.com
off to try and write some lists... later bloggies!

Here again...

Why has it been so long? I have no excuse, it just seems I find my creative crafty side coming out in the cooler months! Things are swimming around in my mind, so heads up people!

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So my niece is wanting to paint her room, which her father isn't to keen on, and she wants a dark purple. (I've suggested an accent wall) I'm loving this photo as inspiration!

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And for a bit of "I'm coveting this now"... I love this desk with hutch...
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Here's some Christmas Crafties you and the kiddies may wanna make when your stuck inside!

MarthaStewart.com - Directions for Candy Mice

Grab a large wooden star at any craft store, paint it white, splatter a light tan paint on with an old toothbrush, let it dry, now gather that extra string of white twinkle lights and drape it on the star. Looks great on a front stoop/porch area!

What are you wanting for Christmas this year? I don't have any ideas, I got a NookColor (which I love!) but I am only going to want A gift certificate from BN.com, what are YOU asking for? Go ahead, leave me a comment...

Coasters = Mini Album!!!

These cute tile coasters were clearanced at 50cents each... had to have them....

The pages:

The back is "binded" with athletic tape... a altered book's friend...ha!

I also used it to bind chipboard together for the pages.

After making my pages all cute I put needle and thread through the middle page through to the back. Here's the finished inside...

And the back... I didn't like the athletic tape look on this one, so I "aged" it with brown ink!

Love it!

Cereal Boxes have so many uses don't they?

I'm amazed at all the uses of a cereal box! It's like t.p. rolls, so many uses! This project was intended to be a "tote" but because the box is large and perfectly square I thought it would be great as a garbage can in an office!

I was going to incorporate that ribbon up there... but didn't...

The brown paper was "up-cycled" from a roll of gift wrap. After the roll of gift wrap was used it wasn't an actual roll it was thick paper bag like paper I saved for postal use or a use like this, ha!


I took my trusty left overs from a atlas book that fell apart, glued it on and aged it with some acrylic paint. Just some nutmeg brown from those little bottles of "Deco Art" that a lot of us have or had...heh hee! I then continued with aging by rubbing brown chalk, a bit of black chalk, and some brown stamp ink all over it.
Then added the ribbed cardboard saved from some other packaging material.
Added the jute from a roll I've had forever!!!!

Last I used a rub-on of a clock and then aged that a bit. I sound like a bit of a "hoarder" (have you seen that show on A&E???? YOWZA!) but some junk ya just gotta keep!!!!!!

Quick project- just for fun!

Trash to Treasure- barbicide jars without barbicide!

I saw these Barbicide jars and thought how cool that would be to have doing multiple duties!

I don't own a salon or anything and I don't want to pay over 50$ for a real glass one... so this idea popped in my head:

First I took a can, pencil, some hard cardboard from the trash that I knew would hold up to the weight of pens.

I cut a circle that fit snug in the bottom of the can yet would slide up and down nicely inside.

Now- my youngest son likes to pick off the erasers of pencils... so I took one of those with a needlenose pliers and opened the aluminum that usually holds the normal eraser.

I peeled it back...

slipped it thru the bottom and added the trusty "goop" glue.
Let the Goop dry

I also tried it in this glass jar...

I stuck with the tin for my pens. (I think I'll use the glass one for Q-tips!) I then took some cute patterned paper and covered the outside of the can, the pencil, and the circle (top and bottom)inside (I did the bottom because it helped stabilize the vertical pencil. Because the point of the pencil is up and this one was sharpened/used, I covered it with a photo corner from my paper craft piles....

added some embellies!

a look inside at the bottom

I love how the bottom mirrors on the sides... therefore I chose not to cover the inside of the can... plus, I don't think it would slide up and down very well that way....

For the pic I just stuck some pens in. I currently have some small colored pencils in there. It helps as they can be slid up and I can see the color of which one I want!