Repurposing

I love the idea of taking something that is no longer being used and turning it into something useful or decorative and that is why I love the Red Door Treasures.  It's two sisters that have an occasional shop and they make the coolest stuff ever. I try to exercise some self control but always manage to buy something for my self and at least on gift.
Here are the treasures that I couldn't live without this time.

 This is made from an old pie plate and is hanging on my front door.

 This cute drawer was advertised as a shelf.

 But I bought it because someday I would like to take my show on the road and take some of my cards to a craft fair and if I set it like this it would be a super cute way to display them.

This I bought for a gift and is made with old barn wood.  If I was going to keep it I would put it outside and put birdseed in it.

File Folder Cards

Have you met the new Stampin' Up envelope maker?  Let me introduce you.

Not only is it super easy to use, it comes with instructions that are printed right on it so you don't have to worry about misplacing them to make 66 different size envelopes but it also makes super cute file folder cards.

Here are a couple of other cards I made last week and forgot to post the pics.

Pics from my garden

 My friends and I were talking about my naked lady plant so I thought I would post a picture of it. It comes up in the spring as a clump of foliage, then dies back to nothing. Then suddenly out of no where springs up a beautiful flower.

This is a vine I planted to grow up and over my pergola.  It is suppose to grow like a weed, so I thought I would take a picture this year, then another next year to see the progress it makes.

Pinsperation

I was inspired by pinterest for this fun project. It's an old straw holder (I just happened to have one in my kitchen cupboard) that I made into a pencil holder.

I will be giving it to my niece who is about to embark upon a teaching career. She also needed (not that she really needed a pencil holder) but anyway, I made her something to keep her laptop in.

I gave my niece the choice between these two fabrics that my sister brought back from Nigeria. She went with the one on the top.

This is the one I made for my tablet.

Chalk and Vanilla

I got on a make my own vanilla kick and now I'm bottling, labeling and selling it.

I have customers that are putting in their orders for Christmas so I may have to make another batch as it takes three months to make. They do make cute little inexpensive gifts.
I have also been playing around with the chalk board effect for cards.

 

These I stamped with white ink on black card stock and them made them look like a chalk board.

These I stamped with ink then embossed with white embossing powder. Now I just need to make them into cards.