Crafty Part 2

I am finally getting around to posting another of my recent attempts at craftiness…I’ve been wanting to “update” my house for so long, and since I don’t have a big decorating fund at my disposal, I’ve been trying to find some things I can do for cheap.

These signs were a perfect solution! All I did was buy some $2 canvases from the Dollar store, homemade modge podge (found the recipe on Pinterest), found a font I liked and printed the words on cardstock, carefully cut them out and then modge-podged them onto the canvases…New wall art for cheap! And I love seeing these visual reminders of my chosen life in my bedroom every day. The saying “I will forever love my choice…you” is especially meaningful to Jeff and I. It speaks to commitment and choice and effort, and the decision that we made to join our lives together over 12 years ago. We never want to forget that we choose each other for life.

Also, Those lamps were $10 thrift store finds. I spray-painted the nasty looking brass/metal angels and base to update the look…Now if I can only find some better lampshades! My plan had been to figure out a way to refresh the ones that came on the thrift store lamps, but, alas, the material was so old that they literally ripped apart. I still have the frames, so perhaps I will think of something to salvage them with. For now, the ones that are on the lamps are ones I already had and although they definitely leave much to be desired, they are at least functional (and paid for!).

What about you…any projects on the go?

Crafty

I have never been a crafty person. EVER.
Honestly I can barely draw stick people that don’t look like, well, sticks.
I dread the school projects that my children will inevitably want my help with.
I have never learned how to knit, sew or scrapbook.

However, since signing up for a Pinterest account, I feel a creativity gene has sprung up from the deep recesses of my not-so-creative soul.
I WANT TO BE CRAFTY.
Yep, I’m just putting it out there. I am going to try stretching myself to see if there is any possibiity that I actually can do some of things that I would never dreamed I could do.

Here is my one of my first projects…I bought this lamp at our thrift store for $5. It was truly ugly, sort of a faux wood-ish multi-colored monstrosity. But I wondered what would happen if I painted the lamp and the shade….
(perhaps I should also point out that I am not a photographer, but I think you’ll be able to figure that out all on your own.)

What do you think? Is there hope for me and my new-found crafty gene?