Honey Do's & hard boiled eggs

Do you ever come up with what some may call strange or creative ideas? These ideas will pop in my head, and thankfully I have a husband who entertains those ideas and is handy enough to tackle them. I bought this bunk bed years ago at a garage sale. It was painted with thick glossy lime green, orange, and yellow paint, which may have been okay for some, but not me. I didn't have a clue what to repaint it as, but knew it would be perfect for my then toddler punks. Then, the idea hit me. We'll paint it like a log cabin and the slide a waterfall. Perfect! So after burning out a couple sanders and using Kilz primer we got it repainted. Sadly, my practice side is showing and the best side is against the wall, but still not bad. And, look at the awesome waterfall hubby came up with, including frogs, butterflies, fish, and a dragonfly. And, yes, Kermit lives underneath the waterfall. Another idea we have been working on for a couple of years was putting in a barn door for the door to my studio. I came across an awesome door on a falling down barn, asked the owners, paid for the collapsed barn, and walla we have a barn door. It took a bit, but dear handy hubby came through, and now we have this awesome door in our basement that works wonderfully too.

The latest project was some old wooden windmill blades. I knew when we got them I would want to try to hang them in our basement rec room. However, they are quite large and heavy. Well, while my mom, friend, and I were off junkin', dear handy hubby and our eldest punk got them hung. I was so excited. Everyone sees them seems to love them too.

I guess after 20 years of crazy ideas, I'll keep that dear handy hubby, even if he keeps putting fresh eggs in with my hard-boiled ones, and only hears half of what I say. At least he seems to hear the crazy ideas if I say them enough. You're a keeper. Happy Anniversary!

P.S. To decipher hard boiled versus fresh eggs, spin them. After you put your finger on the fresh one to stop it, it will start spinning again (and, it doesn't spin as easy as the hard boiled one). The hard boiled spins faster but stays stopped once you put your finger on it.

Cutting felt just got easy!

Quilters/crafters may know this already, but I stumbled upon a great idea when using felt. In cutting out the crazy templates we chose for my son's church banner, I just taped the shapes/letters on to the felt and cut right through the tape. No marks, so no need to worry which side to trace on, and the felt doesn't stretch or move when cutting in those small places, even inside the letters. It also made the felt firmer and easier to cut. My son was easily able to cut out nice shapes too. Walla!

Now, if someone can just teach me how to turn this photo, here's the finished project!

Button Flower Bouquet

A good friend of my mother's made these flowers for me and for a few of her friends. They sit on my little ironing board shelf in the mud/laundry room. With spring on the way, I thought I would share the idea in case someone had some extra buttons laying around. Have fun. (P.S. please ignore my wreath that is in desperate need of a refresh. On my to-do list!)

Our Little Angel...

It has been a healing blessing for us to share Aspen's story. These words have always helped us and we thought we would share them on this special day that they may comfort others.

Someone said these very simple, uplifting words to me, "She will be in Heaven waiting for us. She will be perfect, and she will know us and we will know her." Thanks Fr. Tim

Grande skinny mocha please.

It may have been the chilly morning and not having my coffee yet, but doesn't this town look like they are welcoming everyone with a cup of coffee? And, yes this is in April after a blizzard!

Pretty wires...

Don't all these wires look kind of pretty?

But, this all came from a huge mess that we are still messing with. We had to dig up part of driveway to lay a new power line, which then broke a water spout, and tore up some drainage tile. And, we can't park in the garage until we get cement poured, which would really be nice with this spring "winter storm" on its way. Such a mess. We even had to dig up our brick path and some perennials. :-( We we're just waiting for something to do! Ha!