Easy Update to Great-Grandma's Treasure

I was lucky enough to know two of my great grandmother's. My mom's grandma was the wonderful woman who passed her love of sewing to me (taught me too). Just to say I was her favorite great grandchild. By the time she passed she had gifted me with some of her lifes treasures. Matching glass bowls, platters, and salt and pepper shakers were some of those items, and one odd ball bowl so I turned it into this.....

with just a few easy steps.
The bowl, a candlestick, and E6000 glue. Let it dry for 24 hours and you have a beautiful pedestal bowl.


Happy 24-7!

Jill

Auction Find Repurpose

Sunday our church youth group worked a food stand at an estate auction. I couldn't resist obtaining a bid number to see if I could win a few bargains. This was one of the goodies I won....

A $2.75 RAKE!!! Which I repurposed into a stake for my dill. A plain old tomato stake at Wal-Mart are $1.58 + tax. So the extra cost of the rake in cuteness = the same, right?! Well I love it and on the nights we have friends over I can hang a candle from the tines to help light up the patio. (picture to come)

Hope you enjoy my idea and if you have any repurposing share them with me!

Happy 24-7 repurposing!

Jill

Grandma's Pins!

I painted my bathroom a year and a half ago and I am still trying to decorated it! I just have not found all the right babbles to make it that perfect space that I have in mind. This is driving my hubby crazy by the way.
A couple of weeks ago my youngest came down with strep and she loves company when she isn't feeling well. So I had many hours of sitting in bed watching Disney channel; after about two hours straight I stole dear hubby's Ipad and pinned my little heart out.
This is something that caught my eye since I inherited my grandmother's pins.

Not sure how I was going to incorporate this into my house, but if you are as addicted to Pinterest as I am you know you pin it just incase.
After about three days of playing nurse I had my own case of cabin fever and needed a little mommy time. So I ventured out to the biggest resale shop in our little town. I was browsing the frame section (one of my favorite sections) and found these....

I knew these were perfect frames for my pins; I also knew exactly where these would go....

This silly little space in my bathroom. Yea!!

These are the pins I wanted to frame.
So this is how I did it....
I measured and cut a piece of foam board to fit in the frames. I used natural colored canvas for my background; so I measured and cut it slightly bigger than the foam board. Last I sprayed one side of the foam board with adhesive; let it dry until it is tacky before you apply the material. While the adhesive drying I marked the middle of my canvas, pinning the pins in the center.
Finally the adhesive was ready and I smoothed the material on the boards, put then in the frames, ready to hang!
Once I hung the first one on the wall I realized the stands on the back made the stick out so I added command adhesives to the back and YES now they are really ready to hang!!!

So beautiful and a great reminder of my grandmother and friend!

Enjoy a memorable 24-7

Jill

Pool Party

Yesterday the family attended a pool/8th grade graduation party(Yes around here we celebrate going into high school). So what to bring as a small gift??? This is what I came up with. Sophi my 11 year old help me pick out the stuffing....check it out.

So I started with this...

The container was from Targets snack mix my hubby received for Father's Day. I wanted to use this as the gift wrapping too, so we cover the middle with scrapbook paper.

When I got to the point of sticking it to the jar I realized my girls used all my double sided tape, so.... I found a sheet of double sided tape stuff and cut it into strips. This is how I applied it to the jar.

Then cut I cut a paper towel tube the same height as the jar. Held it in the center, filled the jar around it with the treasures from the Dollar Tree, and last stuck some cash in the tube.

The lid was attached, tag was punched out from the same scrapbook paper we used to cover it, then tied on with a ribbon and SUCCESS!

She loved it!

Happy 24-7

Jill

Freedom

Have a wonder July 4th!

Thank God and those who serve for keeping us free!

Happy 24 on the 4th!

Jill

Week 1: My DIY Obsession

After a day of grocery shopping, dr.'s appointments, and getting the kids off to the grandparents house; I finally have time to post my first

My DIY Obsession

I have seen a lot of frame wreaths on Pinterest, so here is my take on the idea for the 4th of July. I used a simply brushed silver 8x10 frame I had lying around, these great star silver colored baking molds my Hubby and I found at an antique shop about fifteen years ago (we never used them), and a plaid blue, red, and white wired ribbon for a bow. Tied it all up with natural twine and stuck it to the front door with a large suction cup. I did have to drill a hole in each star mold I used a 3/32 drill bit to achieve the right size for the twine to thread through easily and double knotted it.

Then I tied the three stars at different lengths to the cool little hanger on the back of the frame made my bow and tied it around the frame at the top.

After it was all tied just right, I stuck the large suction cup to the window and hung it on the hanger on the frame and DONE.

Hope you enjoyed!

Happy 24 on the 4th

Jill

P.S. send me any pictures of ones you have made I'll post them!

Mid-Year Resolution

Ok, ok..... It has been way to LONG since I posted. So I'm making a promise to myself and my friends to post at least once a week. I racked my brain with thoughts on keeping me motivated; and here is my plan..... A new series called

My DIY Obsession

I hope you enjoy reading these tutorials as much as I have creating them.
Until later Happy 24-7
Jill