Weekly Goals

I need to get in gear and get stuff done. I am going to start making weekly goals and updating along the way where I can anyway, without embarassing myself :D

This week:

Monday: Laundry, Laundry, Laundry!!!

Tuesday: Find and pick paint color for basement bathroom! Possibly start priming bathroom.

Wednesday: Clean Living room, Kitchen and Bathroom!

Thursday: Start organizing office, honestly my office is almost this bad, its started pooling up on our kitchen table now too!

Friday: Christmas

Saturday: Paint Bathroom

Sunday: Clean up bedrooms and stay caught up on laundry!

Rice Heat Therapy Bag

I received one of these last year as a gift and use mine all the time, so I thought I would make some this year as gifts.

From my experience I learned that its best not to use essential oils because over time and after many used it actually starts to stink.

So I just got some fabric, cut them in rectangles and sewed them leaving the either short end open, filling about half full with long grain rice (not instant!) the sewed the top shut.



Then using my cricut I made cute little tags for each one.
Reading:
Heat Therapy Bag
Microwave flat 2-3 minutes
Apply to Aches and Pains
To avoid drying place a small bowl of water in microwave during heating every other use
Store in a dry place.





Original inspiration from:
http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=280

Window Treatments I can't wait to try out!

From my one of my favorite blogs, Frugal Home Ideas :For the instructions and tutorials see the blog @ http://frugalhomeideas.blogspot.com/

Spray Painting Blinds, who woulda thunk!

No Sew Roman Shades, easy as pie!

No Sew Curtains! Don't they look lovely! I love the look of designer curtains just not the pricetag.

Three great ideas at amazing pricetags, just a little bit of labor love and whalah! I can't wait to make my kitchen blinds into roman shades and then add some designer curtains to dress them up. Not sure where or if I will spraypaint any of my blinds but love the idea.

*Disclaimer, these are not my ideas nor do I take credit for them, just had to share Frugal Home Ideas great projects! Check out the blog you'll love it as much as I do!

Next Up on my wishlist-In home studio

To expand my photography I am in the mist of putting in a home studio. We are converting our family room in our basement into a full studio. I am very very excited to get this process going. We just purchased new carpet and working on everything else. Just for fun I thought I would show some of my inspirational pictures.

I hope to have different areas staged for different ideas, I love having the shabby chic, modern, vintage and then the backdrop area. Our family room is fairly large and I have free rein of the whole room! I will update along the way throughout the process.

Tinkerbell Cricut Fun!

Another freezer paper stencil job with the cricut. My neice loves Tinkerbell so I snatched up the cartridge on black friday to make some fun stuff for her as Christmas gifts. Here is the shirt I made. I love how it turned out.

Here is after I painted, I blended the "Tinkerbell" to look just like the logo. With the stars, just a touch of glitter or as I'll tell her some pixy dust :D

With the freezer paper off, the finished look.

I then put a silohette of Tinkerbell on the side with gold glitter. Here is a close up and then the finished product.


Well what do you think? Not bad eh? My only regret is putting tinkerbell right on the seam but I think when its on it will look great.