Ladybug Baby Album

I bought some of these cute cardboard cutout albums looooong ago, and finally had something to do with one of them - I'm gonna make Aidan's first little baby scrapbook album, hehe.

Here's the before:

I decorated the top like a ladybug:

Then I covered each "page" inside with scrapbook paper and either chalked or inked the edges just to round it off.  From the front:

From the back: 

Now I need to fill it up with some baby stuff, eg sonar pics and other info like the first time I felt him move and other first time stuff like that. :D  I think it's going to be my cutest scrapbook yet.  :)

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Momnivore's Dilemma         Truly Lovely
It's a Hodgepodge Life         Chick on a Shoestring Decorating

Ladybug Redo

My mum in law gave me these little white handmade lady bugs a while back and now I've finally thought of an idea on how to use 'em!  And that would be in the nursery, seeing as though the theme is partly about cute bugs.  :)

I just painted them red.
And they already have a pin on the back, so I'm going to pin them on the curtain just to for the sake of cuteness:

Ta-daaaa:

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Baby Name for Nursery Door

Wow, so I haven't posted anything since MARCH!!  :O  Welcome back to meeee!  :D

I haven't been crafting much lately but I'm beginning to get back into it again! Yippeeeee!  I really missed it!!

And to break the ice, here's something I made for Aidan's nursery room door (oh yes, in April we finallyyyyy got pregnant and in the mean time found out it's a boy, a.k.a. Aidan!)  :D

I've decided I want room with a green and yellow and cute bugs and cute little animals theme, so after painting the wooden letters I added some cute little green and yellow goodies:

 

 

 

I have a few more baby crafts lined up so I can't wait to get them done. :D

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Post-it Holder

While visiting some other blogs today, I got a really cute and fun idea for a post-it notes holder for your desk.  I got the idea from Sarah from Dotted Line Crafts!  Here's my version:

I've had this plastic photo frame in my cupboard for years, but I didn't want to use it for displaying photos 'cause....I think it's a little tacky for my taste, plus it's a little damaged.  But today I got this really cool idea. :D  (another reason why I'm glad I'm a hoarder - I knew I'd find an interesting way to use this sooner or later!)
I took some scrapbook paper and placed it in the holder behind the frame.  I actually wanted to use something damask-y in black & white, but I didn't have anything. :(  And as impatient as I am, I couldn't wait to go out and buy one, so I used the next best alternative that I had...

I only had a scrap piece of this paper left, which is why the bottom part of the frame didn't have any paper behind it:

But not to worry, I came up with a plan.  I wrapped some black ribbon around the bottom:

And decorated it with a ribbon bow i made:

I like black & pink together, hence the pink bow (in real life it's dark pink-ish, not red).

Instead of gluing my post-it note pad directly to the frame, I decided to make a little box to hold the notes in - that way I could reuse it over and over and over and over....

I then inked the box with a blank stamp pad, and glued a pink flower on the front to cover the staples, and hot glued the box to the frame:

Is this cute of what?!  Thanx for the idea Sarah, I love it! :)
Oh yes, and I also added some pink blings at the top:

This was my second attempt at glueing the box to the frame.  The first time round the glue got cold and it didn't stick, so the second time I was in a rush to position it just right, and of course rushing such a job just doesn't work, so I stuck it on a tad skew - which I'm very miffed about. :/  But oh well, who's judging?

Now I just need to tidy my desk so that I can actually SEE my cute little holder!! :)


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Dishwasher Sign - Clean or Dirty

The other half doesn't always do a thourough inspection in the dishwasher before putting more dirty dishes inside, which means that I sometimes have remove said dirty dishes from a load of freshly washed clean dishes.  (no, i don't always remove the clean dishes *immediately*, but that's not the issue at hand right now).

SO, to make both of our lives easier, I finally made a sign for our dishwasher (I've been threatening to make one for a some time now). :)

It's nothing overly fancy, but it's going to do the job just fine.
I used a paint colour sample swatch for the yellow background paper and some patterned scrapbook paper for the green border.  I inked some of the edges too.  I just handwrote the "clean" & "dirty".

 

I glued on some magnetic strips to the back so that it would stick to the washer:

And I used a glass pebble with decoupaged scrapbook paper behind it (which I made long ago and haven't yet found a purpose for, until today) as the movable "marker" - I glued a magnet behind the pebble, so now I can move it next to the appropriate word to indicate the SITREP (situation report, haha) in the dishwasher:

 

Lastly, I added some kitchen / dishes-themed buttons to decorate the sign with.  And ta-da!  :D

 

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Scrappy Gifts           The Tattered Tag
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My sign was featured at Scrappy Gifts! :D

Cute Home Decor

Because our house is not always spotlessly clean and tidy, I've always thought this little saying really cute:

Our house was clean yesterday, too bad you missed it.

So I finally made one for our house. :D

I started out with this board that I bought at the craft store, but didn't yet know what I wanted to do with it...just knew it was something I could do something with:

I painted it with a metallic mink craft paint and inked the edges with a dark gold ink pad.  I chose which papers to use, printed the saying on one of them, chalked the edges and decoupaged them onto the board:

A few months back I decoupaged some scrapbook paper designs to the back of some glass pebble, but ended up not using them, and they've been lying on my desk since then, so I thought it'd actually go well on here:

And then I bought the cutest little mini hats and decided to use one of 'em here - I attached a mini clothing peg to it, inked the one edge of the peg with dark brown ink pad for some colour, and hot glue'd the whole lot onto the board:

 And I added a cute twig heart too:

And my sis gave me some cute buttons for my b'day a while back - I finally found somewhere special to use them! :D  I just had to cut off the button holding thingies at the back (you know those half loops that you sew the buttons on with).  The one on the right is my favourite. :)

Now I just have to find somewhere to hang it up.  It think it turned out SO cute.  (of course I would though, I made it)  :P


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Kitchen Chocolate Framed Goodie

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Every now and again I see these framed printables on other blogs, so I decided to try one for myself, just for fun, but one that was not suited for only 1 occasion (I see many valentines ones, or summer ones or easter themes etc), since I mostly like to make home decor items that are suitable for year round.  So I made one for the kitchen, with a summery chocolate theme.

It's an old photo frame that was laying around here that actually housed a certificate from one of our businesses that we closed down - the frame was broken at one corner but we glued that together again.

The frame started out goldy:

But since gold doesn't have much place in my house, I roughly brushed over the whole frame with ordinary brown acrylic paint, and then I sprayed varnish over it to keep it from being scratched off again.  The photo doesn't show it that clearly, but some gold still shows through the brown, but I preferred that over a solid brown frame:

 I removed the glass (and set it aside for some as yet unknown future crafty project) and used a green checkered flowery scrapbook paper as the background for my artwork. :)

Then I went shopping for different styles of letters and found the 4 you see above.  The "chocolate" were wooden cut-outs which I left as is, because they were sort of coloured already (dark around the edges) and it matched the chocolate theme...and the "cake" were cardboardy letters which I actually dabbed onto a yellow ink pad but it came out green, which suited the background anyway, so all was good.  Oh, and I added some blings to the cake as well:

The "hot" were also wooden cut-outs, and I dabbed them onto a brown ink pad, and the "cocoa" I bought as is:

I glued on some brown pearls and some flowers that I had in my stash.

And hung it on the kitchen wall (there was already a hook there just hanging around doing nothing, that came with the house when we bought it):

Doesn't it just make the kitchen look more home-y?  :D

Anyway, speaking of chocolate...my dad goes to Switzerland every year around Easter time, so he brings us back a big swiss chocolate bunny every year:

Can you believe that my husband actually expects me to share this with him every year?  *SOME* people, ya know...?!  I make him bring out the electronic scale and share this bunny precisely 50/50. :)

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This & That               Free Pretty Things For You
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