My little valentine

Kid2 made a quiver by decorating and painting an old Pringles can. She made arrows with heart-shaped foam cuts glued to an unbent wire hanger. The bow is old plastic and yarn. She was Cupid all day. She also made Sister this card. Yes, it does say fart.

Overly ambitious weekend

Had a busy weekend without half the family home. Made another bath mat by felting the last of my roving. Looking forward to shearing season so I can get fleece from my Romney ewe, Mitt, for more felting. (Mitt the Romney, get it?)

I also stripped finish off dresser drawers on one dresser. I also purchased, cut and installed wood shelves in the new closet. I had to download the chop saw's owners manual since Husband had stored it and I don't want to ask him for advice on how to unlock it for fear he'd say for me to wait for him to come home. I also moved all our clothes into said new closet.  Yes, he has ninty zillion Hawaiian print shirts.  So many that we abbrev and just refer to them as BHPs:  Best Hawaiian Prints.

AND I stripped the paint off an old dresser. It was avocado with orange knobs when I was a baby in 1973, was dove grey in high school and marbleized pink in college. I used citristrip to revive paint but couldn't finish the job over the weekend because the residue needs to dry for me for at least a week to be sanded of and clear-coated. But I see how it will look great in the future...

All in all, it was a satisfyingly tiring and productive weekend that makes me refreshed and ready for more slog in front of the computer for a work week.

Boxes

The girls had John use a clamp and big Forstner bit on his drill to cut holes in old hardback books to use them as boxes as gifts. What to do with the leftover paper? Cover a box!

Married to Mr. Wooly

Husband goes back-and-forth between clean-shaven, goateed and bearded. I modified a $3 Mr. Wooly toy to be him. Shhh...it's almost ready to go under the Christmas tree!

Crafty kid turns old tights into sweater

Armoire Sister Date

Sis and I had a whole, kidless day together to paint the old armoire I got for her for $10 at a yard sale. Added shelves, cork, new knobs and a mirror. Here is what NOT to do:
- screw the mirror on too tight so that it cracks. Doesn't really matter if you put shelves in front, right?
- Carefully level and install the shelves while the cabinet it on the uneven flor in the garage
- use cork on a roll...that stuff doesn't want to lie down. I had to savagely attack it with a hammer stapler.
- fill in holes with putty if you're putting knobs back in the same place.

Halloween

If in doubt, zombify it. Any costume I made better with some green eye make up and fake blood. Our gang has a blackberry queen, tv, vampire and beach bum zombie.