I'm pretty excited about this Saturday's craft! I really want to paint on some, but I would also like to build. Good thing I have such a handy husband to help me out! Here are some of my ideas I plan on doing.
This is what I would like to paint....

I would like to do this sort of idea ------------------------>

But with this painting. This will be the picture that goes in the middle -------------------------->

And I will do this on the two side ones.... I'll try and make them opposite so that they are not both facing the same way ---------------------->




I haven't decided yet between the two ways I want to do this. I am thinking I either want to keep the wood look, and stain it - then paint the silhouettes White - Black - or this really cute Teal color I have. OR I want to paint all of the boards the Teal color I have and then paint the silhouettes black or white. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

As far as Building goes, I think I'm going to try and keep it simple and make some night stands [left] (which my husband and I need). I also would like to make a simple Skinny Table [right] to go against one of my walls that I only have picture frames on.
I think I'm going to either paint them both black, or stain them. haven't decided yet.

I'm moving my Lil Miss into her own room today!

I'm both excited and sad to have her move out... but she cant be sleeping in my room forever. This is what her bed looks like right now....

Don't judge me! We don't have a ton of space in her room. So I thought I could take out the closet doors, paint the inside and put her crib in there. Now this is NOT finished. To make it look like more of a nuk instead of a closet, I want to make something like this........

My plan is to put this in the middle of the closet and put the material around the crib so that it looks something like this....

I'll try and find some sheer curtains that are a light purple so that it will match her bedding and room. So by building this, I hope to take away the look of the closet, and hide all of the stuff in the closet. Hopefully I'll get this done today and be able to post a picture of what I come up with.

I found out what I wanted to do with the little Clay Pots I got! I'm going to make a Wind Chime!

I'm not going to do all of the different colors - just one. 

And then I want to do White Butterflys on them like this... 

The clay pots are too small for my boys to do them, so I will try and use my Lil Miss's feet. 

I'll post pics when I finish.

So here's my new craft I'm going to attempt.
I realized I had a problem, and I thought about what I needed to do to solve that problem.

Problem... 
May 31st is my 6th year Wedding Anniversary (that is deff not the problem). What I really want to do is go out to a fancy dinner with my husband. I want to look really nice... and I would really, really like a new dress to wear. But money is to tight right now to be buying a new dress. What to do? I don't want to go out in my Sunday cloths (not that I wouldn't, I just would like something new and different).

Answer...
I was looking around Pinterest, at nothing particular  and I came across an interesting pin.

I was like, "Whaaaa?" And under the picture is said -  "She refashions a goodwill $1 find every day for a year! Amazing and really cute ideas too!" and, "She refashions clothing from Op Shops and pulls it off every time!"

So I thought.... man, I'd like to see what that weird looking dress turned out to be. And.................... 

BAM!

Wow! I loved it!. And the tutorial seemed easy enough. I mean, I'm not a pro at sewing, but I'm not a total beginner either. 

Anyways, I looked at a few more of her transformations and I got it in my head that I could do this. So I went on line and asked anyone if they had any XXL dresses I could maybe take off of their hands. 2 of my friends answered my call and dropped of a ton of cute patterned, over sized dresses. 

Sooo.... I'm going to try and MAKE my dress for my 6th year Wedding Anniversary. I'm pretty excited about it really. Because if this works and it looks good... I'll transform all of the dresses I got into something new and cute for me to wear. And I could be able to make fashion inspired clothing from clothing much cheaper/free with a cute pattern. I'm not saying I'm going to stop buying clothing at stores and start making everything myself... but this could become a good alternative to where if I would like something, but can't pay for it at all... I could re-fashion older over sized cloths and turn them into my own little creations.

The only thing I'm paying for with this craft/project is my time to do it. The dresses were free, I have a sewing machine and thread, and enough basic skills (I think) that I maybe pull this off. My husband of course was a little skeptic when I told him my idea... but hey, I've done a ton of projects that he didn't really think would work out... and they did. So That's even more motivation for me. To impress him with my finished product and look smokin on our date!

I will try and post pictures of my before and after pics. If they don't work out... you'll know, because I wouldn't have posted anything haha!!!

So wish me luck!