Tolentreasures

A couple of years ago, I made the girls Easter décor for Christmas.   We laughingly called these the $200 carrots because of all the time invested in them.   Since then I have simplified the process a little and now actually enjoy making them.   You will need: Aluminum Foil Twine Scraps of fabric Some type of tags (I used paper office supply ones) Bits of greenery Hot glue gun Dark and light orange paint For one carrot, I use about 12 inches of aluminum foil. Fold it once to about an 1 1/2" from the side and then again about 2" down.   This helps make the shape of the carrot. Roll it up and scrunce it in on the bottom. Glue the twine to the bottom. Then glue the greenery in the top.   This allows the glue to set up on the bottom before you start wrapping and honestly saves some finger burns.   Then simply start wrapping. Until they are covered. I painted mine firs...

Last weekend was spent in Hershey, Pennsylvania, sweetest place on Earth. Kisses Everywhere! On your soap   On your room number, bathroom wall, embossed on the sheets, soap, shampoo, and even on the parking spots.     And then the snow came. And kept coming! Yes, those are cars under there! Luckily, we had the foresight to move our vehicle to the covered parking lot before it started!   Definitely, one of our smarter moves!   On another note, update on the clean out!   382 items have left the house!     Over 10 percent done!    

A few painting that I have been finishing up. I have more wall space in my booth and needed to finish some things to fill it up!   These amounted to seven more items leaving my  house.   Bringing the total to...   366!   I am a tenth of the way there to   3650! Today we are off to Chocolate Land.   Hershey, PA for the Pennsylvania State Fair Convention.   Always a fun time!  

Already I am a little behind on my Project 365. Four days to be exact but who is counting other than me. Shelby's poncho.   I know it looks a little weird.   It is sort of asymmetrical, but it looks cool on.   At the risk of oversharing and mostly because some of you people might think I have it all together. (Only the ones who truly don't know me) This was the dumping of my sock drawer.   Honestly, I like the after picture so much better, why can't I keep it that way? A chair headed to the shop... wait, can I count that as 188 and the poncho as 189?   Of course, my count, my rules!   Trying to make more of these.   I found them all cut and ready to be sewn.   Tutorial here: http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2012/01/blue-jean-table-runner-tutorial.html

  Suppose your have a gun cabinet hanging around unused. What do you do with it?   In the case of this one, it was in our bedroom.   You see we did the responsible thing and bought a gun safe a few years ago and since JWS had built this in high school also a few years ago it did not seem right to get rid of it and since we did not have the foresight to actually put a linen closet in when we added on to the house... voila! Gun cabinet turned linen closet.    I had purchased this wallpaper also a few years ago at a yard sale because     well because I am a bit of a hoarder.     and splurged on some Annie Sloan chalk paint... instead of the normal mixing my own. This was the closest to a BEFORE picture.   Note that at this point we also did not have closet doors... but that's another blog post. (13 years we have not had closet doors! )   ...

I love this app!   So much that I spent the 99 cents to upgrade to the pro version!  I would have spent more,  but let's not tell that to it's creator!  Seriously. I downloaded this to my phone last January with the resolution of  doing something creative every day.  There were times I got behind,  and times I was ahead,  but in the end,  I kept up pretty well.  I debated using it this year for my  de-clutter project,  but really at the end of the year, do I want to look at the  junk I threw away  or  the inside of clean cupboards and drawers? I don't think so. So it is back to creative.  Back to the app, It is easy to use and even more amazing is when I needed a tiny bit of help I asked a question and  very quickly had a personal email  from the creator of the app explaining how to fix my issue.  Se...

Another New Year,  Another Resolution.  This is the year I get organized.  It has to be,  it is now driving me crazy.  I heard on TV this morning that the  best way to keep your resolutions is to make them public. So,  here goes.  Ten items will be leaving my house every day for the year.  That is unless... 3650 items leave before the end of the year.  And the count begins.  The afghan above?  At least 10 skeins of yarn,  now in Shelby's house.  This yarn,  leftovers from a bunch of other projects, off to Mom and Dad's for Dad to make hats for the homeless.  At least another 10 items.  So...20 down,  3630 to go!  Also, starting this bathroom project.    There have to be at least  30 items in there that can go.