Category: Other projects
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Tutorial: easy apron
A couple weeks back, DD#2 came to me with a project idea. She wanted to make an apron as a gift for her sister-in-law. Now, my girls grew up watching me sew, but I never actually taught them how to sew. I’m fond of saying that everything they know about sewing, they learned through osmosis.…
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Color Wheels
I’m still playing with the paper from my Color-aid pack that was left over from college. All the pretty colors! Since I’m an organizer by nature, I really appreciate how this pack of colors is organized with the entire range of pure colors, tints, shades, and tones. I decided to make a few color wheels…
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Color Chart
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with color. I finally remembered the ridiculously expensive pack of Color-aid paper that I had left over from my college classes. It has a huge range of colors — 312 in all. I thought it would work great to make my own color wheel but when…
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Ikea Hack complete!
Today we finished my tea center using the Ikea Forhoja shelves that I upgraded. I love it! Gives me a great place to keep all of our tea making supplies right above the water dispenser, which puts out water that is so hot I have to add some cold water right away. I’ve been working…
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Ikea Hack
Today we worked some more on those Ikea shelves that I painted earlier this week. I used Mod Podge to glue fabric to the front of the drawers and then sealed it with another layer of Mod Podge. Don’t you just love that fabric? For the first four drawers I used some of that luscious…
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Fabric flowers for shoeboxes
Today was a break from quilting. Today we had a craft day at church. One of our goals was to make fabric flowers with pony tail holders to put in the shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Today we made 35 flowers!
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Refurbished ironing board
My ironing board is complete! I was dressed and ready for church and had time to spare, so I decided I couldn’t wait any longer. I had to paint my ironing board! I know, I know, I was in my church clothes so I put on an apron first 🙂 Out came the spray paint,…
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Tutorial: fun, new ironing board cover
I finally got tired of my old ironing board cover and decided it needed to be replaced. It is probably ten years old. I think my (really, really) old ironing board must be an unusual size because the cover was never quite wide enough. Originally, it was teflon-coated, but that’s pretty much all worn off…
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Missed Deadline
Today I completed three versions of my secret project. I’ve been working on them for a month. I was pretty happy with my end results but, as usual, I didn’t finish every version that I wanted to do. Oh, well. I’m an overachiever, so I expect too much of myself. So I quilted that last…
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Blue light fixture
Yes, I’m still working on that secret project that I mentioned a couple weeks back, but I’m always willing to squeeze in a few serendipitous mini-projects. Yesterday I ran through my favorite thrift store and happened to find these beautiful light shades. Perfect timing since just a couple weeks ago there was a little accident…