Crafting Cupboard

I bought this cupboard last week for a couple dollars--yeah I know you are thinking I paid too much for it. But you have to look past the 60+ years of grunge and see the utility in what was once a well made cupboard.

It just took a couple cans of spray paint, handles and a yard of fabric to bring it to life.

Tune in tomorrow when I share the vanity encased in three generations of hair products:

Kind of makes you want to go wash your hands, eh?

bat garland

A simple and fun afternoon craft, especially if you have young children who hyperventilate at the thought of getting to use glitter glue.

We used very basic supplies:

10 or so bats cut from cardstock (template below)

black cord from the jewelry aisle

black and clear beads

silver glitter glue (cue the symphony)

we used a tiny hole punch to make a hole on each bat wing to string them with

If you are going to give in and allow glittery bats to hang in the house then you might as well tape fake leaves to the window panes. And crowd the (chestnut) brown mantle with kitschy Halloween decorations.

There is a cute black cat silhouette project here.

And lots of Halloween printables here.

Crayola color week: plum

Cold plate lunch for a busy Friday.

Meg...thanks for inviting all of us to join you this week. It was fun!

Crayola color week: Chestnut

Every time I dust the brown mantle in our house I get the urge to paint it white.

It can make me in a bad mood just looking at it.

Crayola color week: goldenrod

Goldenrod evokes memories of yesterday. It's more than color really. It changes time.

For centuries days have ticked steadily by. One after another...slowly at first. Then they gain momentum until our memories are faded right along with the items we have collected along the way. They turn brittle and delicate and finally they turn a deep dark shade of yellow. This makes them magical in my mind. I sometimes feel these relatives from another era carefully recorded their fun times just for me. So I can sit in the corner of the cedar closet on a rainy day turning goldenrod pages and living vicariously through their memories.

It is only within the last couple years as my children are broad jumping into young adulthood that I feel our own memories being edged into that lovely goldenrod journey. I've come across pictures of my childhood that as if overnight look a little yellow around the edges. Has it really been that long since my mother would sit and sew and listen to John Denver as my sister and I would be making big plans with her scraps?

This is a pretty color, perhaps added into our lives softly to encourage us to find beauty in all we do.

Fall color week, burnt sienna

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Fall color week, Crayola style

Elsie Marley had the great idea of using Crayola inspired colors as an inspiration for Fall.

Check out her blog for other participants--or just to browse as she has some real inspiring ideas.

Today is my very favorite Crayola crayon color: Brick Red

What is your favorite childhood crayon color?