Spice rack

We recently moved into our new home! This is super exciting and exhausting all at the same time.  The last to be packed and first to unpack was our kitchen- my husband and I love to cook which also means lots of cooking supplies, like spices.  As I am unpacking boxes, I quickly realized we had a lot of spices, and I mean a lot of them!  At our old home, we used a small bit of coveted kitchen cabinet space for the spices, but here, we have an actual pantry so we decided that we will put them where they belong.

I have had my Tupperware spice shakers for many years and always store all of the spices in them.  I have also always kept them in the cabinets because I have never had room to put them in the pantry.  When trying to figure out the best way to organize my spices, I quickly realized that due to the unique size, most store-bought spice shaker racks would not suffice.  Thank goodness I have a handy husband who can build stuff.

He took a few of the dimensions and went to town on building.  Because he hates redoing things (and I do not blame him at all) he did a mock up of it on the computer.

After building and painting it was time for a test hang and to make sure everything was just as how we wanted it.  It turned out perfect!  It holds 20 small spice shakers not stacked, 30 tall spice shakers or regular store bought ones, plus holds the frequently used parchment paper and zip lock bags.  No complaints from this wife.

     

Spice Rack

Easter Card

I designed and created this fun little Easter card for my Mom.  I do not get to see my family too often because of distance, so I try to send them little things to let them know how much they mean to me and know that I am thinking of them.

Easter Card

Easter Card- Inside

Baby Cards

I am still learning more and more on my new Cricut.  No big long story today, just a few fun pictures of what I have been working on.  Enjoy!

   

Ring Toss!

Who doesn't love random yard games!  We are lucky that our venue already had several that we could borrow but we decided that we wanted a few more to add to the fun during the cocktail hour and for those who want a break from the dance party.  After searching on pintrest and drinking lots of wine, we made a ring toss game.  I know, so hard to try and make this that we had to drink 12 bottles of wine.

I wanted to use things that we already had or if we had to buy, would use again.  So 12 bottles of wine were easy for the something we already had.  I purchased and stained a milk crate that we bought from Lowes for about $10. Spray painted the wine bottles in gold glitter.  Bought and wrapped 12- 3" rings.

Supplies:

• 12 wine bottles (you could always use pop bottles if you want smaller bottles)
• 1 milk crate
• 12- 3" rings
• scrap fabric
• spray paint
• stain for crate

Directions for bottles

1. Drink enough wine for the number of bottles you need.  We needed 17 so that was fun. ☺

2. Spray paint the bottles in a fun color. We used gold glitter and were sure to be outside.  When we looked from our window outside, it looked like we had gold in the yard for a couple of weeks.  

Directions for crate:
1. We bought a pre-made milk crate for about $10 at our local hardware store. I have seen them at several craft stores as well. I do not suggest making your own for the level of detail that you can get vs the price on the pre-made crates.
2. Stain the color of your choice.  As with staining anything, you will want to apply the stain in thin coats and wipe off the extra stain between applications. I have found typically 2 coats of stain gets me the color of wood that I want.  As you can see, my fiance at least pretended he was enjoying what he was doing.

Directions for rings:

1. Cut the fabric scraps into about 1" wide strips and long enough to cover the whole ring.  

2. Adhere the fabric to the ring; I used a glue gun but really any type of adhesive should work perfectly.   

After all said and done, the ring toss turned out pretty good. I think everyone enjoyed playing at the wedding and we now have a yard game for the house.

Blanket Ladder

Warm comfy quilts are amazing!  If you have read any of my posts, then you know that I really enjoy making quilts.  At our house, we have quite a collection mounding and what a better way to display them and make it easy to pick what you want than by a blanket ladder.

After looking how much these can actually cost, I decided a DIY project was going to be in my future.  I found some really good plans from Shanty 2 Chic and made 1 modification to their plan.  The original plan called for it to be a 5’ ladder with only 4 rungs- well let’s face it, I need a few more than that!  My ladder ended up being 6’ with 5 rungs- everything else the exact same!  I decided to give my ladder a quick sanding so that neither me nor the quilts would get snagged by unfriendly wood. 

If you are wanting to get into wood working, the ladies have super easy to follow plans and I would highly suggest taking a look at what they have. 

Assembling the ladder- with my trusted helper 

Blanket ladder completed!

Cricut Machine

For Christmas, my husband got me a Cricut machine and I love it!  Although I am still  learning, I have used it a ton and have so many more projects I want to do with it.  One of the first things I made was a condolence card for my husbands Aunt whose dog passed away.  Although an extremely sad reason to make something, I think she truly appreciated it.

Stay tuned for a few lessons I have learned already with the machine.

Many more cards to come and even a few might make the shop to sell.