Chickenwire does wonders!

Last week, a friend was looking for some chicken wire and I just happened to have some. Hey- when you have a Toy Pomeranian that can escape through any hole in the fence, chicken wire is the only thing that keeps him in. Anyways, she was making a thing to hold hair clips for her girls and I thought it was an awesome idea. She used an 11*13 frame, but I have alot of bows and clips for my little one so I wanted something bigger. I decided to use a bulletin board. Not the big huge ones, but it was an 14*24 and it was the perfect size! All I did was spray paint the outer edge the color I wanted, which was dark purple, staple some fabric down on the cork part and stapled chicken wire over the fabric. Take a look!

I ended up stapling a ribbon to the back so I could hang it up in her bathroom.

And here it is with some bows!

I love it! And there is plenty of room for more bows! I think I feel another project coming on! :)

Craftroom!

So, I have a skilled, thoughtful, AWESOME husband! After I had my daughter 3 years ago, I started getting into scrapbooking, sewing, and other crafts. Well, needless to say, I was running out of room on where to put my stuff and it wasn't organized at all! In stepped Superman, I mean, Ryan, and made some things to help with all of that! Take a look!

So, a craft store was going out of business here, and my husband helped them clear out the building. Most of the shelving and all that was going to the dump, but he snagged this for me. A table they use to cut fabric on! I will admit, at first I didn't want it at all. I tried to convince him to throw it away, but now I couldn't imagine not having it in the room. I use it for everything! I keep all my fabric underneath the tables in totes because I don't have enough room.

So, I have a lot of paper and to help with that, Ryan made this awesome holder for all of it. Normally the bottom shelf (which Ryan made) would be standing upright on the floor, but the room was getting kinda crowded and I was getting sick of bending over to get paper out of the bottom shelf so he put it on top of the table. LOVE IT! The black shelf, we got at a furniture store that was going out of business, and my husband got it for $20! SCORE! (The stuff on top will be shown at a later date.)

Another thing we got to help organize things, were these shelves. Lifesavers! I have 5 of them total! The 4 shown here are filled with stamps and they are all in categories.

The other day my daughter and I sorted thru all the buttons I had and put them into jars by colors. I also put hair clips and flowers and some other things into jars.

I also have some, ok, A LOT of ribbon. Hey, I have a little girl, and I love making hair clips for her! So to hold all this ribbon, Ryan made these:

So, there you have it! Come back tomorrow to see what I'm going to do with a bulletin board, some chicken wire, and fabric! I'm pretty excited about it!

First Post!

Hey all!

So this is my first post and I'm very nervous! I've been wanting to start a blog for awhile now and finally did it! I love, love, love to craft and this blog is going to show that. Thanks for stopping by.