Clock redo.

My father in law made this clock many years ago and it hung at a grandparents house for years. We inherited it recently put it on the wall and couldn't see the numbers or the hands from 5 feet away. 

So I broke out the crafting supplies and found clock parts from another clock that had broken and did some reconstructive work on this one 

But it was missing something. So looking around I thought I would use some canvas that I had left over from recovering the footstools in my living room and came up with this : 

All I did was cut strips and hot glue them to the back, and weaved them over under to make the pattern. 

Ta da! Easy. 

Simple wine glass holder

This is my shelf in the kitchen, it has been everywhere from my mothers living room, to my living room and now it's gracing the wall of my kitchen. I love it. My Uncle Roger made it for my mom years ago. I don't know the story of "why" he made it, all I know is that it's been around as long as I can remember, I can even still remember a few of the trinkets mom used to display on it. It was a dark walnut color until we moved here a few months ago. I knew I wanted this rustic beat up style, I love it. (I've had comments about how crazy I am to like this style, it's ok everyone's entitled to their opinion). 

So anyway, I'm not a huge drinker, but if you looked at my kitchen you'd think I'm a daily wino. Nope sorry can't afford daily drinking. Not sure if I'd want to drink that often anyway. So anyway to get this story a little further in.... 

I've got a lot of wine glasses, not sure why. But I thought why not display them? They are pretty after all. Besides I needed something else to collect dust, as if I don't have enough already. 

So with the ever amazing talents of my husband and his wonderfully helpful father, I suggested we do this to the shelf, & Eric and his dad came up with exactly what I had envisioned. They really are that awesome! So anyway, without further ado, check out the shelf and the glass holders. They are shorter on the inner sides so that I can just slide in the glasses and have no fears about them shaking out when the little elephants are running around the house. (And by little elephants I mean Wes and his buddy who like to run up and down the stairs behind this shelf as much  as they can on nice days :) )

Please over look the decorations, this is not how it will end up styled, this is just the hodge pudge of what's left over and is trying to figure out if it's staying or going. Plus Eric suggested we find a cool wine bottle holder to go right there in the middle space, I agree it would probably be a cool place to display such things.

  Thanks for stopping by! 

                

Reviews of nail places I've been to in Columbus, Seymour and North Vernon

It used to be I loved to go to "Lees nails" in NV. For the first year I went in they did a fantastic job. I never had any complaints. Then I guess they started getting busier and the quality went down hill. 

What do I mean by quality? I'm not one of those people that are so picky that a little extra polish on my skin freaks me out, I know that will come off in the shower or when I was my hands.when I say quality I mean, was the acrylic smoothed out or did they leave ridges? Did they smooth out the cuticle area? Did they check and make sure the length was the relatively the same and were they straight or were they on a weird angle?  Then there is the price. Are they consistently charging me the same price for the same issue each time? 

So with Lees it depended on who was doing my nails. Danny was always super nice and did a great job. Kim just acted like she didn't give a shit and it showed. I finally got to the point that I stopped going there. I usually walked out of there with crooked nails, and I never knew how much they were going to charge me. 

Then I started going to Rose nails in Seymour. I never could tell you the guys name that did my nails, it was hard to pronounce and I never saw it soooo. But he is either the owner or manager or whatever he's the first station by the check out desk. I never had bad service here. The prices were always the same, and they have the pretty tips in a hundred different colors and patterns and they charge the same as white tips to put them on. They also have the glitter acrylic, which is just gorgeous and not much more expensive than plain white tips. It takes longer to get done, but they are so gorgeous. I'm seriously thinking about making the drive to go back to Rose in Seymour just because I'm so disappointed in Columbus so far! 

Ok which brings us to moving to Hope and I need a new place to get my nails done. 

So I went to that pink n white place by hobby lobby 2 x's now. I had an older guy fill the first time and he did a half ass job. Not smooth, I could ( and have) done a better job myself at home. Then the next time I went some kid did my nails, and it was like the heavens parted and I had a perfect set of nails when he was done, the next time I went in he wasn't there so I left. Stupid me didn't get his name. Sigh oh well. 

So this past week I went to Tina's by chuck e cheese. I'll admit that when I walked in I was impressed. It's clean, up to date and at first look it seems like a nice place. And again I got a new person. I must have a sign on my head that says I won't complain give me the newbie to let them practice.... Sigh....

So anyway, she did ok. She didn't make them all the same length, and the aren't smooth on all of them. And I'm not sure she got close enough to the cuticle ( if not there will be a noticeable ridge in am few days).  And they are the most expensive place I've been to so far for a full set of designer tips was $35 ouch. And they don't look all that great so I'm disappointed. 

I will probably try a few other new different places until I need a new set and come back and review them as well. 

All in all I would say Tina's is over priced. And all of these places have 1 thing in common. Their machines and tables need cleaned. Seriously take a few minutes and clean off those gel nail lights, they look gross no matter where I go! 

Let me know if this helps anyone, or if you have suggestions on other places near, in or around Columbus Indiana I should try. 

A hat for me :)

Blue hat :) and photo taken with the perfect 365 app. Lol no under eye circles from an app! 

The badly written directions. If you want to try it out. This is a revised pattern I found from a few different patterns on ravelry.  The first one I made was for my youngest Wesley. Which made me name it after him tada! 

I designed and made something COOL!

Hi all! So I have been searching Pinterest high and low and looking for an organizer type holder that would hold my most frequently used items: my iPad, day planner, and moleskin notebook.  I couldn't find anything. Surprised? Yeah me either. I mean on a daily if you carry these things they aren't needed all at once. Well I am a  student, and when I need them it's for class, all at once.  Up until now I haven't used my iPad much for school, but I've had many instances where I thought it would have been handy to have it with me. 

    So now going into my 2nd semester I'm wanting to get a little better prepared. Which means carrying more crap with me, and I want to keep this stuff together. Sooooooo...... 

Ok I was blessed with a bunch of fabric samples from school ( thanks Jan) so I used what I had on hand and drew it out first. Nothing fancy just a few boxes. Then I cut and put it together as I went.  No I didn't take as I went photos. Why? Because I really didn't think it was going to look decent. 

So here are photos of the finished product. Once it was done I realized a few things I should have added. 1) handles, I wish I would have added a handle on each side just to be a pick up and pull out of a bag help. 2) a closure. Im not a big fan of buttons or straps to close. But I may redesign this later with a top zipper added. Oh and I'm horrible at adding the stretchy bits to hold in the iPad so it does look funky. But there it is. 

Thanks for visiting! If I do remake this I will do a full tutorial. Don't hold your breath class starts next week and I'm taking 18 credit hours. No time for sewing until summer 😝

My Nails

Oh sigh, I took my acrylics off, here are a few before and after pics. You really can't tell a huge difference, well maybe in the length but otherwise? The pictures don't tell the whole story. I don't have regular nails like other people, mine are super thin and always have been. If I want to keep natural nails I have to layer 5 or more coats of polish and they still end up bending and breaking and peeling and just generally hurt.  

Which is why I always go the fake nail route. But it's been a while since I went and had them done, as I can usually fill them myself. So when I had one pop off recently I decided screw it I'm taking them off and trying to grow them out on my own. I'm thinking that I have a better diet now so maybe they will grow in healthier? Ok doubtful but I'm gonna try. So anyway here are my most recent polish jobs for your entertainment/ motivation/ yeah something to look at lol. 

I should really try taking pictures in better light now that I look at them :( oh well enjoy anyway! 

Dots as a French. Super easy and was cute. 

Glitter alone, hated it, added a pink jelly layer, needed more, added another layer of glitter yay! Ok I liked this, but it was a pain to take off. 

Something different. Used a few yellow hex glitters and this didn't last but a few days, not sure why but the polish peeled off my nails, I don't think I had them roughed up enough after taking my fake nails off. 

Dots, I like dots they are easy and cute and not enough women try them. ;) 

Coffee Table awesomeness!

Before of my table, actually this is a before/after shot, this table used to have plain square legs, and I had another table with these pretty legs, and had my husband switch them out for me ( he's a good guy, puts up with my crap, helps me with all my projects, etc) lol so yeah this is the after/ before  shot. 

Over all not a bad table.  Perfect height for putting your feet up, but wasnt very comfy, so when i found wonderful pinterest and started seeing all of the beautiful upholstered round tables all over the place, i thought man that would make this table awesome! 

It had one spot on top I don't know how that spot got there, but this used to be our kitchen table and it came with the husband so, who knows...

And the after! OMG Squeel! Lol yep I love how this turned out! 

I had these grand plans for lots of buttons, but after coving and putting on the first round, you can't even see them, so I didn't bother putting any more on. 

This has a 1" foam padding on it under the material, which is just enough padding to keep my feet comfy when I put them up. At some point I plan on DIYing a tray to cozy up the look of it, maybe add some candles or what not. That will be in the new house, for now though, I have one more project I plan on doing this week, and I hope to post by next weekend, it includes more black spray paint and more of the canvas drop cloth I used on the stereo cabinet JOY! Love crafting projects! 

Some details about this project

Table: Free repurposed

Material: $10.64 for 1.5 yards at Walmart

Foam padding: $16 @ Walmart and I did have to cut it and piece it together to make it fit! 

Paint: already had it so again free

Total cost: roughly $27 + tax 

 I bought spray adhesive to attach the foam to the table, it wasn't the best bond, but it worked as a temporary holder. I followed Pinterest tips and sprayed outside, so no overspray stickiness issues ;). 

I then turned the table upside down and used my electric meat knife to cut the foam, it was so easy! I highly recommend doing that!

Then I sprayed the top again and laid out the fabric and smoothed it out, if you are using plain fabric I would probably iron it before using it. 

Once it was smoothed and semi attached with the spray adhesive, we flipped it back over and I used my handy dandy staple gun and stapled it down really good, if you have never done this before start with a staple on each side, then go between 2sides and staple in the middle of that, basically you want to work small areas and pull the fabric a little taught before stapling. It creates less wrinkles and puckers this way. A good thing about fabric with a print like I chose is that it covers almost any mess up! 

I also added some buttons, there are 4 in the photo above. Yep I couldn't see them either and after covering those I quit. It was a decorative element that was for aesthetics only and since I couldn't see them I didn't waste anymore time making more.  

I still want to get a scotch guard type spray and seal this before it gets dirty, but basically that's it. Lots of staples. And I am thrilled to pieces at how it looks! 

Thanks for reading!