Teal Chandelier

Here's an older project of mine. Sarah found me this old chandelier which was in terrible shape.

So I tried to take it apart and rewire it.  The light worked, then starting blinking.... I realized I didn't want to risk fire and just tore the wires out. Now what should we do with it? I instantly thought of candles, and Ross found some perfect flower candle holders that we could attach. Here she is:

The "S" hook is no longer there, it's now on a teal chain.

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Corned Beef und Cabbage

Oh man! The house smells so good right and i'm starving, I forgot to include this earlier - Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm wearing green and making Corned beef and cabbage. It's been cooking for about 3 hours and I'm STARVING.  The whole house smells amazing and my stomach is trying to claw it's way out  & run to the kitchen.  A few more minutes and it's time to eat!

I used this recipe, but I think they are all the same. I added a bottle of guiness though for extra flavor. I saw that somewhere, or I made it up. Hey - one for me, one for the stew! One last thing, if you would like to receive e-mail updates to blog, click here and enter your info.  RSS feeds are also available on the lower right of this page. 

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Chalkboard & Driftwood

Yesterday I had shown all the great stuff we got recently, and I mentioned I was starting work on the interesting pig and cat ceramic figurine (here). Well, I finished them:

Here are some close ups, and they are for sale here.

Yep! Chalkboard paint. I've never used this stuff but I really really like it. It was fun, I plan on putting a tutorial up soon. Aside from the chalkboard adventures, Ross and I have slowly been working on a garden art project made of driftwood.  The idea is to have a stack of driftwood, like a tower, and just be a crazy shape. It will make itself. So first we gathered some wood & rebar, and started drilling a 3/4" hole in any random spot on the wood. Sometimes I did them off center so it would sit uneven, I like that.

Then we planted the 2 rebar posts, and started stacking!

So far so good! For the top I am just going to drill halfway into a chunky one and let it be a cap. I'll probably have to be clever in choosing wood towards the end, for a perfect fit. For now it's anything goes. One is three feet, the other is 4.  I'll update as we go!

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Score!

So yesterday Ross and I went out to the thrift shops to do some hunting, and we totally scored.  We spent almost 2 hours in one place because we found so much GREAT stuff!  Maybe it was the caffeine, but we had so many ideas flyin' around & so many things with so much potential!  We settled on only about 1/4th of the things we wanted, but we had to draw the line somewhere as it was getting out of control.. check this stuff out!

Keep an eye on the blog to see the progress of this stuff. You can get email subscriptions by entering your address on the right of this page.  I started in on the pig & the cat today:

...but I will save those for later. It's a surprise! They are coming out great though.  Which is good news because that cat is hideous, and Ross didn't believe it could be saved.... ha! Have a good one...

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Dutch Wooden Shoes

Out thrift store sailing (spelling intentional hehe) one day, I came across a lonely pair of dutch shoes, buried in the back of a huge shelf.  I loved them right away, and my mind started conjuring up all kinds of ideas for them - they just needed a looooove. Here they are when I picked them up:

I had a lot of ideas for them, but eventually went with wall hanging, pencil holding shoes. Well, they can hold whatever! Here they are after:

Now here are some of the ideas Ross and I came up with for them, pretty fun!

I really love how they came out, especially the one with the ties! If you're interested in making these shoes a part of your family, they are for sale here, in my etsy shop.

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