New Years Resolutions

I'm gonna join the band wagon and post some New Years Resolutions, at least those in accordance with crafting!

1. I will not buy fabric until June. My lovely Mom helped me clean up the disaster that was called my craft room, while she was here over Christmas. She may have suggested that I NEVER get more fabric, but I think I can resist Joann's until June. My bank account will thank me I'm sure:)

2. Mom may have also suggested to do a project a week with the materials I currently have. I'm gonna try this one, and Friday will be the first installment.

3. Work ahead on stuff for the craft fairs next year...cause although we did better this year, our living room was still an explosion of wool from October until December....something both of our husbands would love NOT to repeat.

4. Set up and maintain an Etsy shop. Well...we've made some good progress towards this goal! I'm going to be posting more things over the next week.

5. Post at least twice a week on the blog. I've been really bad about this...but I think we can work it out for at least two posts a week. Let us know if there is anything you want us to post more on!

6. Finish some of those already begun projects...I'm really terrible at finishing things.

Do you have any resolutions? We'd love to hear about them!

Sarah

Some of my latest projects...finally

Here are some of my latest projects...

I purchased a little dresser for $5 at a garage sale eons ago and the plan was to redo it for Aria's room. Instead it languished in purgatory, I mean my garage, after receiving it's initial coat of new white paint. In a sudden fit of crafty energy I decided to get the poor dresser out of purgatory and into a nicer location. I modged podged some cute scrapbooking  paper onto the drawer fronts and added some IKEA knobs that I had laying around.

Small note to self: after modge podging said paper onto chosen surface, do not apply top coat right away as it makes it impossible to get paper bubble free...one SHOULD put modge podge to the back of the paper, place it on said surface, in this case drawer fronts and smooth out all the bubbles and let it dry.  :-). To ensure the paper stayed flat and bubble free I put the drawers paper side down on a flat surface with weight inside the drawer and let them dry overnight. I then applied 3 coats to the top of the paper and once it was dry I drilled holes for the knobs and VOILA it was done!

 I love how it turned out and decided it would go great in my craft room!

My next project was my poor craft room...or junk room as it has turned into!!!

Sarah came over one day in a whirlwind and declared Operation Clean-up Craft Room had commenced...

Before

After

She even got me this awesome chair and footstool to create a little corner just for me to relax in sans child toys and household mess!  She also made the pictures hanging on the wall. Sisters are the best!!  Especially mine!! Love you Sarah!  Doesn't the dresser look nice?

My final project was this coat rack. I had purchased some cool old door knobs in Michigan years ago and spent a long time trying to find some more. Then for my birthday one year my awesome friend Lisa bought me some!!  I was soo excited!  With some help from my husband I got the knobs spaced evenly (I may have issues with measuring) up on the board and then maybe months later, I know, I know I'm horrible at completing anything in a timely fashion, I got it up on the wall. I love the character it adds to the entryway!

What have you been working on?

Nathania