Hat crazy

Well some awesome lady friends from our Homebuilders group crochet these amazing hats and I've decided to try to learn. Thus far I have made two baby beanies over the last two nights.

First attempt (before I weaved in my tails and took about an hour and 45 minutes)

Second attempt (45 minutes also before any tail weaving because I want to try out the size on Lana)

I still need to accessorize them by adding a flower or something, but I have to learn how to do that first. Now that I have two hats to work with, I feel I will be able to do it easily. Watch out friends and family you may just be getting some beanies or etched glass for gifts this year.  I love this crafty fever I've caught!  My resolutions included not just sitting in front of a tv and actually making some of these Pinterest crafts and recipes.  Speaking of, tonight's dessert apple dumplings, WOW!! I will share the recipe in another post and I will have to take a picture on another batch because we ate all but one. It was down right shameful and glorious all at the same time.

Well goodnight peeps! Stay warm!

Glass etching success

Today Lana took a good nap and mommy got to etch some glass!  I've seen tons of Pinterest pins on cool projects related to glass etching and have been meaning to get around to it for a while now.  I wanted to start by putting our last name on a casserole dish.  Meal train love is so awesome and after those yummy treats go down the dishes remain. I do not know about you all, but I forget what belongs to those kind cooks.  I think it turned out well and I hope to go back and add some design to it or something.

Materials Needed/Used:

Vinyl for stencil

Silhouette Cameo

Armour Etching Cream

Foam Brush

Dish

I will get better at taking pictures along the way and making these posts more entertaining. I promise. Right now I'm just trying to get away from posting everything in Facebook and doing things during nap times :) Happy etching!

We build furniture!

Pinterest really keeps our house busy these days!  I love trying new things and thanks to my Pinterest addiction, I have discovered Ana White's blog.  She makes everything and gives you the plans complete with  the tool list, cut list, etc.  Armed with ZERO knowledge of how to use power tools of any kind really and a very patient husband, we were off to build our first piece of furniture.

Our house was built in 1977 and for whatever reason our family room and living room do not have overhead lighting so we had to incorporate lamps, which I love, now.  Since we have started our home decor projects in the family room (check out our Pinterest inspired shelving post-when I get it up ha), we felt we  needed end tables to hold our lights.  We decided to start with some Rustic X End Tables.

As Ana White instructed we read through the plans and the comments to be as familiar with our project as possible.  Our exciting Friday night consisted of a family outing to Lowes to grab our wood and the Kreg Jig.  The following morning was go time.  After Daniel returned from his hike, he gave me my first tutorial on the miter saw.  I must say I'm a quick study and after measuring all of my pieces twice so that I could cut once, I knocked out the cut list times two since we were making two end tables.

These beauties now complete our family room!

 Now I just have to stain them and they will be finished. Wonder when I will get to that??