Hi everyone! I hope you all had a terrific 4th of July weekend! I did boat loads of crafts and had a nice swimming BBQ Sunday with RonChops (those are our very most favorite kinds of days ever)!!!
Friday I took off work and spent the day hanging out with MomChops (we shopped, had a nice lunch and then went back to the Chops House and sewed ALL DAY LONG)!
When we were out shopping I spied the perfect frame to make into a collage of pictures of MomChops and my sister! It was a "vacation" frame that had a little bit of damage. The nice cash register lady knocked 10% off the price... I mean the "V" had dropped and the "A" was completely upside down????!!!! Someone must have had one heck of a bad vacation! Since I did not want the "vacation" part anyway, I was not at all sad about it and brought that fella home!
My plan was to fill the bottom part with a rainbow of flowers (and deal with what to do with the top part later)!!!
When I got started I was 100% focused on that bottom section... cause I had wanted to do something like this for eons!
Before I started taking the frame apart I laid out all of the flowers I was going to use to make sure I had enough and that this was going to look like it did in my mind!
(I think you guys know me well enough by now to know that I always do that!!!)
When I saw it all together I was so excited I was ready to glue them to the glass and call it DONE!
...sigh...
I hated to take it apart but I had to prep everything so I could get it together for real!!
I opened up the frame and removed the "vacation" letters.
They peeled right off lickity split!
Once I started laying the flowers inside the recessed part of the frame...
I realized that this was simply not going to work!
The white background was going to peep out in between each flower...
(if it had been teal I would have been ok with it of course)
...but a white peepy background clearly would not do...
...sew...
I punched little one inch squares in rainbow colors and laid them about inside the frame...
...gluing them as I went along...
I figured this would also help me keep my sections of colors even as well!!!
Things went pretty fast from there since I had already gathered the flowers I was going to use for each section.
(some of the flowers were bought and some I had made)
I busted out my new AMAZING glue gun that I bought during the same "vacation" frame shopping trip!
(you can see it HERE)
(I heart it BIG TIME!!!)
I sadly had to retire this fella...
He's served me well for 12 solid years!
Let's have a moment of silence in honor of all the crafts he's helped me with shall we???
Rest in peace buddy!
Moving on...
The little squares definitely helped fill in the little peppy holes that were here and there!
I kept on gluing and finally got to my favorite section in the rainbow!
So in case you are wondering where the blue went...
I decided to delete blue from the rainbow and replace it with teal.
blue schmoo
(I honestly don't have a single solitary flower in plain ole blue)
.honest.
.to.
.peanuts.
So here it is...!!!
I loves it!
Now I need to work on the top part...
MomChops is digging up a bunch of her favorite pictures and will bring them to me this week...
...so I'll share the finished picture next Monday!
Now for some random stuff...
A few people have asked me how I organize my craft goodies...
So I thought I would share some of the details you never see!
I store a lot of stuff in ziploc bags!
...these are my flowers...
..and this is some of my ribbon...
(I have a whole different method for the stuff that's still on spools that I'll have to share later)
As a general rule I sort and store nearly everything by color!
It makes it super fast to find what I need...
...and since everything is in bags...
I just dump out the bag and paw through it till I find just the right piece!
I leave the bags unzipped and compress them into plastic containers.
I also store my brads and eyelets in those same type of containers.
This storage and sorting method makes it sooo easy to grab a container and start pawing!
I also sort my buttons by color and store them in little mason jars!
(me thinks I am going to be moving to MUCH larger mason jars here soon)
So that's all I have for this little section...
Now for something silly...
When RonChops and I were swimming Sunday...
I was on one side of the pool and he was on the other...
...and I hear something that kinda sounded like...
He jumped about a mile and was flailing his arms around!
(we'll just keep that between us girls ok???)
I am envisioning a giant wasp or snake or something...
...but lookie what jumped on him!!!!
Have you EVER seen anything cuter??????
It's FrogChops, Jr.
!!!!!!
EEKS!
I carted him around for a while and gave him a little bath!
(to remove the chlorine!!)
(The LollyChops Salon For Dogs Frogs was open for business yet again!!!)
I think he was ready to be put down at this point.
I am pretty sure that's the frog version of the evil eyeball!!!
...and lastly...
I am altering these fellas for two projects I am doing for CHA!!!
I'll share the finished peeps around July 27th.
(aren't I the meanest of the means????)
Any guesses on what I am going to do what that cart thing?????
(if you guess right I'll secretly let you know via email and give you some extra hugs)
Sew that's all I gots! I hope you guys have a wonderful week...!!!
More hugs than you can stand!
P.S. My owl bag class was moved to July 24 due to shipping issues (not all of the supplies came in on time)! Email me or call Scrapper's Boutique at 817-503-0777 to get the details!
P.S.S.T. If you want to see what I will be doing in May 2011 - take a peep HERE!!!! EEKS! So exciting!!!
XOXOXO's!
