Oh yeah, I did this also...

When I was at the craft store getting the twine for the bottles, I HAD to use my 40% off coupon, and the savings on the $1.99 twine just didn't cut it for me. I love craft paper, and knew I'd find uses for that, so I used my coupon on a book of that. I found a cute simple project right when I got home. I've had this picture of baby Saxton hanging in my living room for the two years we have lived here. I thought it needed a little something.




So, I added some of my 40% off paper to the back...



Funny thing... my neighbor came over the other day and said, "Ahhh, look at that picture of Saxton." Funny how just a different backing can make it look new. Here it is on the wall... man I don't remember that round little face!

My first craft blog...

Not that anybody is reading this, but hey, for my own enjoyment...

So my friend and I spent a Sunday going thrift store hopping (Thanks Courtney! It was really fun, I want to do it again SOON!) I came home with a ton of good bargains! As a matter of fact, they filled my living room floor :) Yet I somehow forgot the milk? While I always look for my Nora Robert's books to complete my collection, I have found something new I love to look for - glass bottles/containers in cool shapes. Not that I know what I am going to do with them when I get them home??? Here was my first attempt at a project.



Here is a cool looking bottle I got for $.99, yup, I said $.99. Can't beat that! So I found some twine (Jute) at the craft store along with clothing dye in the color of olive because I wanted it to match my kitchen curtains. I soaked the twine in the dye for about an hour. When I took them out they looked like really dark brown and I was disappointed (but as they dried over the next day they got lighter and more "olivey"). So, me being me and not wanting to waste the remaining dye, I took down my other set of curtains from my kitchen that I had been wanting to replace, I thought hey, why not make them match, so I filled my tub with the remaining dye and soaked my curtains for hours, and took them out to find them still stark white. Huh? What??? Are you laughing at me right now? I didn't even think to check the tag, yup, they are polyester, and apparently... you can not dye polyester. I searched the house high and low, but found nothing else I wanted to dye. Bummer, I hate wasting stuff! Well, anyway, here's how my project turned out...



I had extra twine, so, yup, don't like waste, I decided to give the bottle a matching friend... that's the other bottle in the photo.
After all was said and done, here's how they look...



I'm pretty happy with them. My son thinks we should make a potion to put in them and he can put them in his room. I vetoed that. I think they are going to go on my kitchen counter with pasta and rice. Cute right?