Up-cycled Cake Stand

Kacey has been following some craft blogs lately and finding ideas that she wants to try out.  After a recent visit to St. Cloud and a stop at Savers, she had some items to 'up-cycle' into a new cake stand.

She spray painted a brass candle holder so it would match the blue plate that she bought.  Some super strong glue was used to attach the candle holder to the plate.

Kacey also discovered that the glass cover from my cake stand fit on her newest creation.

It's fun to see what a creative 13 year old can come up with...and she will now have a new way to display her cupcakes that she is always making!  Total cost for her project was less than $2.00.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend...we have been busy with the kids but wouldn't change it for the world!!

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New IKEA Bookcase

We went to the cities last month when Ash received her ExCEL award at the Target Center....and came home with a new IKEA Billy Bookcase with glass doors.  Would love to have about a dozen more of these in our house, if we had the room!

The bookcase we bought ended up in our long hallway so we can store our fabric and craft goodies....until we can get a corner of our basement finished into a craft room. 

Have one photo to share tonight of what we did with our fabric and will hopefully get the other photos uploaded this weekend...

Love the bright colors and being able to see what we have...hoping to find some spare time soon to work on sewing projects!

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New fabric and a new 'old' loveseat!

The kids competed at the state project bowl for wildlife last weekend in St. Cloud....and of course, we had to find a few craft and fabric stores after the competition.  We said we weren't going to buy any new fabric until we used up some of our stash but somehow managed to come home with just a few new goodies!

We are hoping to make some new envelope pillow covers with the fabrics on the left...new curtains for Ashley's room with the top fabric on the right pile, and new cushions for the bay window as well.  Didn't get a photo of the fabric for that but if all goes well, we will have photos of the updated cushions this weekend!

We also had our 'old' loveseat recovered recently...we were amazed that they picked it up on Thursday last week and delivered it back to us on Monday afternoon.  The kids are all complaining that it is too boring being a solid color but we will remedy that with some bright new pillow covers!  It is acutally a much darker chocolate brown than the photo shows but due to the cruddy weather, it was hard to get a decent photo.



Glad that the kids have a five day weekend....means that the sewing machines will be out on the kitchen counter, and we will hopefully get some new projects finished to share with everyone next week!

New Spring Pillow

Ashley managed to finish up her new purse for her trip to Washington D.C. last month (four days before she left!)...gotta love her, she wanted something original for her Close Up trip!

Couldn't throw away the scraps from her purse so we thought we would make a new spring pillow for the living room. Used fabric scraps from Make Life by Sweetwater.

Hoping to make another one with the rest of the scraps in the pile!

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Trying to start blogging again....

Wow...somehow time gets away from us and there is never enough time to update our blog!

Really hoping we can post updates of project life photos, craft and sewing projects, and just 'daily life in general'.

Bear with us as we try to get back into blogging again! Thanks!