Tattered and Timeless: 2009

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Swap gifts I made

Well I did a swap of homemade items over at Craftaholics Anonymous in December. Since it is well past Christmas I figure I can show you all what I made.

First I made a nice little snowy tassel.

"let it snow"

Then I made a wonderful burlap stocking. I had tons of fun with this and plan on making some for us next year. I put muslin as the cuff and then put a nice burlap flower with buttons on it and edged it with some fancy trim.

And lastly I made a burlap JINGLE BELLS garland. I tied little rusty bells on the tips.

I will probably make more of these for next year also.

It was great fun making the items but to be honest it was the first swap I have participated in that I heard absolutely nothing from the swap person. I hope she liked it.

Now off to clean up the rest of the Christmas decor then I will be cleaning the house and the craft studio. I noticed I went over my 100th post over the holidays so I need to come up with a giveaway for the new upcoming year..hmmm what to do?

My Christmas gifts

Well I got some awesome gifts from loved ones and wanted to share them with you.

My favorite gift - and I know you should not have a favorite but being a mom anything with my kids on it makes me smile and cry all at the same time - so this is my fave.

My sister- the artist- made me a canvas of my kids. It is about 2 feet by 4 feet tall. She painted the background and then put images of the kids all over it. She did older photos and newer photos and I can tell you it made me cry. I started crying again when I took a photo of it to post on here. The photo's do not do it justice as my camera is not the greatest.

Here is a close up. Look at those cutie patooties.

Look at the loves of my life. Nothing better for a mom than to have all the memories of her kids around her. Wow this is making me cry right now. I am such a sucker for my kids.

Next my hubby and wonderful kids got me this camera. Now I need to learn to use it so there shouldn't be any reason pictures in 2010 should look crappy. And if they do it is all user error not equipment error. Such pressure I am putting on myself. My mom got the Canon Rebel and fortunately my very talented photography sister-in-law is visiting next week from England. Mom and I have already booked tutorial lessons. Thanks in advance Megan.

And some may think getting pots and pans is weird. But after our lovely kitchen remodel my "have had them since marriage over 19 years ago" revere pans have seen better days. So, I wanted some nice new shiny stainless pans and my mom got me a few to build upon. Notice the difference?

Did you get fun and useful items?

White Wednesday

It's another White Wednesday at Faded Charm.

Join us all in seeing beautiful white objects.

Here are my two new white figurines. I love that they are all white and are little girls.

Hope to put them in a cloche for next year.

I am really into the all white glittered houses. I have these that are already done but have since purchased some more that are paper mache to make all white and glittery before next year.

And here is our house all lit up at night with white lights. It will lead Santa to our house.
So, as we wait for Santa enjoy all the other participants of White Wednesday.

So, as we wait with all our porch lights on for Santa to arrive I would love to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year.

We'll be back to posting and blogging after Christmas.

enjoy,

What have we been up to?

We've been surrounded with all of this:

and this:

Ahh baking cookies for neighbors- that's good times.

Furniture Projects recap for 2009

Miss Mustard Seed is hosting her weekly Furniture Feature Friday.

I finally embraced a dream I have had for many years this year. 2009 was finally my year that I could venture into refinishing furniture to sell. My oldest left for college and my youngest was in 5 day a week pre-k so I was ready time wise.

I did my first show in October- and well LOVED it. This is my booth full of furniture that I redid. I hated to sell some of it but hey my house is only so big.

I really fell in love with this robin's egg blue this summer and this was my fave piece to paint. It was brown but the blue paint covered it just enough to let the brown peek out. This piece did not sell and I was a bit upset but these things work out for a reason I figure. It now resides in my studio and holds all my fabric..so good for me.

This was my all time fave of the show and secretly I hoped it would not sell. It was stained a walnut color when I got it but I just whipped out my fave blue and it was LOVE. It now resides in my oldest sons/ guest room.

Sidenote: The chair beside it - well I painted it white and recovered the seat in chenille - but my sister painted the awesome birds nest..she is the real talent of this team.

This pathetic chair had so many layers of paint on it..I sanded and sanded but it just would not let me win. So, I figured it only cost me $1 so what could I do? Hmm decoupage it. And I did with dictionary pages and then stenciled the word SEAT on the seat. It was the first piece to sell. We set it back and I had 11 other people ask me if they could buy it..guess I'll do more for spring.
BEFORE:

AFTER:

Another chair- before:

after:

A footstool before: (well actually after a primer coat oops)

And after: It sold right after the SEAT chair.

This chair my son calls the KING chair..before:

The King after:

That's all the projects from 2009. Now stop the rain and bring on 2010 so I can get at it again.

I won a giveaway..

I won a giveaway !!!

I never win anything. I always baked tons of cakes for school carnivals but never took home one cake. But I won a blog giveaway and it is cool.

Take a look at my bag- it is large and I can't wait to use if for tons of things.

It definitely will go to the beach and do you know it coordinates with my laptop bag to the tee. I will be styling whenever I eventually get to go somewhere.

Thanks to Christy at

White Wednesday

Today is White Wednesday over at Faded Charm.

This is my white snow princess. The most adorable princess in white I know.

Here she is again - all aglow with the all white tree.

And here she is with her big brother. What a hug he gave that pretty, dressed in white princess after her pre-k Christmas program.

I love you both very much. Thanks for always making me smile.

December Doors of Welcome

Today is December's Doors of Welcome at Some Days are Diamonds.

Welcome to our house. Yes it is night time but I figured I'd show you how pretty it is. It usually has icicle lights up but hubby is gone to Afghanistan and he is the only one crazy enough to climb up and hang them. Still pretty though.

Welcome to our house- head on through the gate.

Careful going up the stairs - as they get slippery when wet and it has been raining non-stop for days here - arrrghhhh.

Here is my fave thing to decorate - my old wagon. It gets pretty for every season we have.

Here is the tree that is right near the front door. All decked out for the holidays.

Here is the shelf on the other side of the door. Love to put items on those shelves.

Another porch lovely.

One of many grapevine trees. They stay up year round - just don some red berries at Christmas time.

We're getting closer to the front door- see the birdhouse- even they are decked out for the season.

Here is the view of the front door..get closer it is okay.

Well you are here- Merry Christmas from the Heberts. We wish you and yours a happy, safe and joyous holiday season.

Classmate gifts

Well in a previous post I asked what do you get when you combine the following?

Mod Podge ...

Composition Notebooks...

A pile of Christmas scrapbook paper ...

Many boxes of 24 count crayola boxes....

Why you get classmate presents that's what.

We covered the composition books with wonderful paper then added tags with their names stamped on it. We then covered the crayola boxes with paper to coordinate and made a smaller tag with their names on it. Now they all have something to either draw in or write in.
I think they turned out well - although doing 31 of them was a bit overwhelming. Hope Jack's class of 1st graders likes them and hope Sophie's pre-k class likes them.

linked to: Metamorphisis Monday with BNOTPDIY Showoff
It's so very creative with its so very cheri

Make it for Monday at Cottage Instincts

Just Something I whipped up at the Girl Creative

Early Christmas Gift for me

Lookie what hubby and the kids got me for Christmas.

I got it early in hopes that I can figure out how to use it to take pictures of Christmas. That way I can send them to hubby in Afghanistan.

Thanks hubby and kiddos. I love it but it does scare me a bit. I am so challenged technologically but my sister-in-law is a great photographer and she is coming in January with my brother from England. I have already told her she has some tutor sessions to do :)
I love it...hee hee