Missing in Action and End Tables

Hello all out there in the blogging world. We the Winegar Girls would like to appoligize for the lack of love given to this blog. Rachel Had a Healthy Baby girl on August the 25th. This is really no excuse for me to have been missing but it seems that working 2 jobs and going to school leaves little time for our lonley little blog. Rachel on the other hand now has no internet and a new baby so she Has and excuse. Ok on to bigger and better things I have taken up a love for the thrift store and found this little end table at the local Deseret Industries, I paid 15$ yes you heard right 15$. I brought it home and my husbands response was do we really need another endtable, as he is staring at the pile of crap, that I guess only I could see the beauty in. So I got to work this is a first for me I have never refinished anything.

1st It required a lot of sanding as you can see it had a very poor paint job done on it before the knots were coming through the paint in some areas and in others it was so thick I thought the sanding process would never end.

2nd I moved onto wood filler, I purchased this small tube for next to nothing at the hardware store and got to work, my all knowing father explained to me that the surface needed to be completly smooth or you would see every mistake on the table and they would stick out like a sore thumb. so I filled in all of the knicks and dings in the table. Let the filler dry completely and sanded it smooth.

Last but not least I painted it. The picture makes it look black but it is actually a deep chocolate brown. The best part was the paint was FREE! Thats right folks I raided my parents garage and guess who had and entire quart of paint sitting there just waiting to poor some love onto some old furniture thats right Ma and PA Winegar did (not sure they appreciate being called that on the blog :)). After painting two coats and letting it completely dry this step is important dont get impatient you dont want to ruin your hard work. I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased some drawer pulls that I love for 3 dollars a peice bringing my new table total for 21$.

The table is now sitting next to our bed and has inspired a total bedroom redo, so be prepared for things to come. The table also holds a hiddious lamp which I hate and will be getting rid of during the redo! Keep watching I am currently working on another table that is taking a little more tlc and motivation to finish!

Baby Shower Part 3 the final chapter!

Well we had the baby shower last week and it went off without a hitch it was great! Rach was so concerned that nobody would show up, and she had a huge turn out! Here are some pics of the food we did mini cupcakes and fruit pizzas, we also did vegitable and fruit trays. The mini fruit pizzas were my fav, we loved the idea of fruit pizza but it is such a hassle and a mess we wanted things easy! We just baught cookie dough from the store and baked them off so they were already the perfect size, we then used our fav cream cheese frosting recipe and layed on the fruit super easy we put these together in no time at all!

Sorry the pic is blury but it is all I have.


We also kept the decorations simple because it was in the backyard, we just paid a visit to party land and our trusty Maceys to get some supplies!


We used the diaper cake as a center piece for the gift table we loved how it all turned out!

Baby Shower Part 2

Ok here we go Part 2 of Rachels Shower. I have seen these diaper cakes in all the baby stores along with all over the web. My mom and I searched the web and found tons of ideas and this is all of our favorites mixed together. The recipie for this particular cake included 50 size one diapers, 10 size newborn diapers, 60 small rubber bands, 5 Large rubber bands and 1 huge rubber band, 3 rolls of the ribbon of your choice,2 baby bottles I large and 1 small, 1 bag of candy, glue dots, 1 bag of paper confetti, and tons of baby goodies! Started out by filling the baby bottles with candy, then surrounding the bottles with diapers securing them with rubber bands, sorry I was at my mothers during all this and did not have my camera. the larger bottle goes on the bottom and you build two layers with this. We then just cut the ribbon to size and attached it, then we just decorated to what we liked, and I have to say I love how this turned out!

Baby Shower Part 1

As some of you out there might know, the other author of this blog Rachel C. is going to be having a baby girl here in a few months, she is coming home to visit soon before she is not allowed to travel anymore, as her loving older sister, I along with my mother and sister-in-law are throwing her a shower, I have been out of crafting mojo lately but this has gotten me back in the groove. Below is the invite to her shower. I found the cutest invitations that were made to look like a diaper the only problem was they cost like $2.00 a piece, which would not be bad but there are like 35 people on the guest list and that gets pricey, so I scoured the web and found ideas on how to make them, and then a few weeks ago I received and invite to a friend of mines shower, and low and behold, her mother-in-law had splurged for the expensive invites, and I had my template yay! I printed the inside of the invite first, I don't have a pic of that because my computer is not letting me blur out the info and I don't really want all of the personal information all over the web sorry folks! The other problem I ran into is that I could not find cute baby paper so I added the white trim to make it cute I was thrilled the way these turned out, they were time consuming but that is ok, I had a Gilmore Girls marathon and went to town. The best part is that including stamps envelopes and paper to make 35 invites instead of the 65+ it would have cost for the others I made them all for 15$+change.

I made it and Love it!

I absolutely love the website make it and love it, as you can see by just looking at my side bar. a few weeks ago she did a great storage box idea for her craft room. I loved it. So when I woke up to snow on the ground today and decided I was spending another day inside I new I had to keep busy and this is what I came up with it is a little bit a variation of what she did (mine did not turn out as cute but I don't care).

(Don't mind my shelf it is a project for summer time, I just have to talk the hubby into moving them into the garage so I can paint)

This was my problem do you see all of these Cd's that nobody uses anymore but my husband the pack rat cant throw them out and I have to say still buys some once in a while, all they do is sit there and I have no idea what to do with them. I did know that I don't want to look at them anymore.

A few weeks ago we bought a new TV and the box has just been sitting in our garage ahhhh!

I took a 12"x12" paper and marked where I wanted to cut I then took my trusty box cutter and went to town. after which all I did was modge pogde on some paper and paint the boxes black I then just hot glued them to make the shape I wanted and...

Walla!

Picture frame

Our friends just had a baby so i made a bright fun little picture frame. I started by buying an unfinished picture frame(2.50) from the craft store and a piece of bright paper(0.72) and a baggy of rihnstones(1.50) I started by tracing the frame and cutting out my paper. I put a layer of modge podge on the frame and stuck my paper on and smoothed out all the air bubbles and let it dry. While the first coat dried I went into all of my scrap paper and found bright colors. I used my cricut to cut out letters for her name and i did the shadows to make it pop a little. i used my little scrapbooking xyron sticker maker to stick the letters together. i stuck them on the frame how i liked and modge podged over the entire frame. when it was dry i took a q-tip and dabbed a little modge podge on the frame and stuck my rhinestones on. I also tied a piece of ribbon i had around it and stuck it down with a little modge podge.

it took about 1 1/2 hours to make mostly for everything to dry and it cost about $5.00. When i am looking for embelishments like buttons, rhinestones, ribbon,ect i venture away from the scrapbooking section and into sewing and jewlery and where ever else. I can find what i need and it usually costs half as much.

wooden sign

I made this sign for one of my husbands friends that was getting married. We are poor graduate students with a baby on the way so finding ways to cut costs is key. I just bought an unfinshed wood sign(4.98) from the craft store and put a wood sealer(2.00) over the top and let it dry. next i put a very thin layer of black paint(i used paint i already had) over the sign it was just a real sloppy coat. next i put an even coat of crackle finish(3.48) over the black paint and let it dry just until it was tacky. When the crackle was still tacky i put a coat of cream paint(i used paint i already had) over the the top and as it dried the crackling effect starts to happen. when it was completly dry i put another coat of sealer over the entire thing to keep it from chipping while that was drying i got out my cricut and just cut out the couples last name and the date they were married out of vinyl(used black vinyl i already had) and stuck them on and i was done. the entire project from start to finish was abut 2 hours and it cost about $11.00. You can use spray crackle and spray sealer it cost a little more but would be easier. When i am buying a neutral paint color i usually buy it in a larger bottle becasue chances are i am going to be using that color again. is save a little bit of money and thats one less trip to the store.