Friend eat cookie, me eat everything else.

My BFF L-Dub (aka: Laura Woodward Jensen) has moved far away from me. Sometimes I wonder, "what is friend?"

Bold Flower Pillows

I love these!!! I wanna make them sooo bad! I want a new couch sooo bad!

If I made them now it would be pointless, like trying to polish a turd. My couch is so gross.

HERE is the how-to on these awesome pillows.

Sunday Dinner

Finn+Grace= Match made in Heaven.

Napkin Flowers

Love this! Wish I could remember what blog I got it from... Totally plagiarising images here. These flowers are made of napkins. How perfect for a birthday party or family gathering?




Here's how the blogger I can't remember made them:

Gather napkins:

Stack napkins, with contrasting smaller napkin on top:
Fold like a fan:

Like so:


Trim to form petals, like so:

Voa-la:

gather in center:
tie with string:

Flair:

Cut down smaller darker blue napkin:

And Fluff:

Chairs

Obsessed with this book I got for Christmas (the one present I was really yearning and burning for):


I have, every day since receiving it, pored over every picture, read through every step by step instruction, and finally, declared war on my dinning room chairs. They began as this: worn, beat up, boring black $19.99 chairs from Ikea. They will be reborn as this: distressed, school-desk inspired, awesomeness, achieved by the sweat of my brow and my brow alone. Inspired by this:
I have started on two chairs.

They have been taken apart, sanded down (which was the incredibly long, difficult, and slightly boring part), carved into (which was the rewarding and fun/artistic part), sanded again with a fine grain paper, stained, allowed to dry, stained again, allowed to dry again, and painted with one coat of a semi-glossy finish. I couldn't stand it any longer so I put one back together. All that remains is to do another light sand down, and paint on a second coat of finish. Then I get to start on my other two chairs. And do you know what?? I am really excited! Here is a picture of one from start to present. I will post more picts as I continue on.

Some other projects from the book I would love to try:
A denim "home, sweet home" quilt.
And a dresser with French words artfully carved from wood and attached to the drawers instead of pulls. The entire book is filled with the most beautiful, fun, creative and, most importantly, manageable ideas. How about this boom box they adapted to be an ipod player?! It also is the inspiration for my current blog background I might add...