yesterday i made my own strawberry jam.
canning season always makes me happy.
and ables me to feel like i am a homemaker for reals.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Sunday, September 07, 2008
wall art
As a few of you know we have had our house that was built in 68´ for a cuple of years now. And we have been working on it forever! The latest addition was new paint and floors to our front room (aka the small room right when you step in the door).
It is not entirely finished (does anything really become that?!) but we have put up the coat hangers and such. It is a small space and kind of dark right now since we haven´t put up the new lighting yet. We are leaning towards something like this
It is going over the tiles where we put our shoes and where we have a mirror. Good lighting is crusial here because the only window in the room is in the front door.
We don´t plan to have any furniture at all here, so the organisation soulution is also crusial. The coat hangers are to high for our daughter to reach them, so we are getting her a hanger of her own. Maybe something like this
We are getting the same baskets that i have in my craft room, to put our mittens, caps and hats in.
And now, to my acctual meaning for posting :) I wanted to create something to hang on one wall in this room. I wanted it to be simple and contain the words "love lives here" because i love that phrase. Voila! This is what i came up with!
It is a true hybrid project. First i cut the green background paper (it is very mych lime green although the photos show it like yellow!) and then sat myself down at the computer to create the text portion. I used a digital brush by Rhonda Farrer to create the tag and then convereted it to this brown shade. Oh, yes I was working in Photoshop! And then i played with different fonts but i decided to keep it simple. Kate Teague created a wonderful digital set with all sorts of trees whcih i love. I created a tree in the size i wanted in PS and then printed it out in WORD (tree and then treetop.) When i had it all printed out i didn´t want to use the treetop i had printed. Instead i choose a patterned paper and traced the treetop on there. Then i used my heart punch to embellish the tree a bit. I used the 3 hot pink hearts that symbolies the three people in our little family.
ok, well i guess that is it for now! :)
It is not entirely finished (does anything really become that?!) but we have put up the coat hangers and such. It is a small space and kind of dark right now since we haven´t put up the new lighting yet. We are leaning towards something like this
It is going over the tiles where we put our shoes and where we have a mirror. Good lighting is crusial here because the only window in the room is in the front door.
We don´t plan to have any furniture at all here, so the organisation soulution is also crusial. The coat hangers are to high for our daughter to reach them, so we are getting her a hanger of her own. Maybe something like this
We are getting the same baskets that i have in my craft room, to put our mittens, caps and hats in.
And now, to my acctual meaning for posting :) I wanted to create something to hang on one wall in this room. I wanted it to be simple and contain the words "love lives here" because i love that phrase. Voila! This is what i came up with!
It is a true hybrid project. First i cut the green background paper (it is very mych lime green although the photos show it like yellow!) and then sat myself down at the computer to create the text portion. I used a digital brush by Rhonda Farrer to create the tag and then convereted it to this brown shade. Oh, yes I was working in Photoshop! And then i played with different fonts but i decided to keep it simple. Kate Teague created a wonderful digital set with all sorts of trees whcih i love. I created a tree in the size i wanted in PS and then printed it out in WORD (tree and then treetop.) When i had it all printed out i didn´t want to use the treetop i had printed. Instead i choose a patterned paper and traced the treetop on there. Then i used my heart punch to embellish the tree a bit. I used the 3 hot pink hearts that symbolies the three people in our little family.
ok, well i guess that is it for now! :)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
I was having a yucky day the other day and decided to clean up my scraproom which always makes me happier!
It wasn´t to bad to begin with, but it needed some order. I seem to always think out new ways to store different things. Recently i traded my "stand-up-desk" for my daughters when she got a new one. It has draws and that is good. In the larger one i keep my favorite inkpad and stamps + rubons. That way they are always right there.
Above my desk there is my inspiration board. Really it is 2 magnetic strips and a board. If you go here. to see some notes of what is up there.
What i clearly need as inspiration is color!
Hoops like these are so yummy and they are pieces of art, really. So i present the easiest way to spice up any room fabric + hoop = art! voila! And it is so changable :)
See became all happier :)
Oh, and i did scrapbook too :) My daughter is such a drama queen lately, maybe it is common in her age? I hope that it doesn´t last though :)
It wasn´t to bad to begin with, but it needed some order. I seem to always think out new ways to store different things. Recently i traded my "stand-up-desk" for my daughters when she got a new one. It has draws and that is good. In the larger one i keep my favorite inkpad and stamps + rubons. That way they are always right there.
Above my desk there is my inspiration board. Really it is 2 magnetic strips and a board. If you go here. to see some notes of what is up there.
What i clearly need as inspiration is color!
Hoops like these are so yummy and they are pieces of art, really. So i present the easiest way to spice up any room fabric + hoop = art! voila! And it is so changable :)
See became all happier :)
Oh, and i did scrapbook too :) My daughter is such a drama queen lately, maybe it is common in her age? I hope that it doesn´t last though :)
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