A Great Way to Tell Time!

A while back when I was looking to put a few projects together for party classes, someone presented a post to me asking if the following project was a possibility. 

I LOVE this fun little way to display a coffee cup and a wine glass.. and a great way to be able to tell time. 

 It is so me and I think it is something a few other people I know might also enjoy! :)

So please enjoy this project on how to make a coffee mug/wine glass holder. :) 

So supply shopping first. I purchased a 8X8 slat board, clothes pins, small wood scrap board, black wood stain, gorilla glue, Cricut vinyl, and a metal coat hook. 

 I purchased the slat panel and the clothes pins at Michael's craft store. 

 I started with the clothes pins and measured the pins onto a small piece of scrap wood my seeing where the stem of the wine glass width would sit. After I marked the spots, I drilled the holes into the small piece of scrap wood at a SLIGHTLY smaller width than the clothes pins so they would fit tightly. I set them into place with gorilla glue and let them dry. 

After the clothes pins had dried in the wood scrap, I finished the clothes pin pieces and the slat board with black wood stain.  Once all dried, I had the pins and the silver coat hook I had chosen for this project that I had from the previous towel rack project. 

 I have to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Cricut machine. It is a piece I have inherited form my mother's generous crafting supply. I measured out what dimensions I would need to fit the wording on and used some of my permanent white vinyl roll and set my Cricut to cut away!

After "weeding" out the pieces I didn't need, I applied the vinyl to transfer paper. Usually if I was going to apply a vinyl piece to anything and it was a simple symbol, or individual piece, I would not need the transfer paper. But for instances like lettering, having transfer paper helps keep the spacing of the letters apart. 

 Once weeded and applied, I rub the lettering onto the board and set it to the slats, having to cut some of the letters through the middle so it would fit between the slats. 

And VIOLA! 

Here it is: A great new way to tell time. :) 

Please enjoy and share! If you create one of these or any variation on the theme, I would love to see yours. 

I also love to create these for anyone else OR host a party for you and your friends to create this craft project for your homes! Contact me and check out my website for other crafting opportunities. 

www.oakgrovecalicocrafts.webs.com 

Until next time!

There's No Place Like Home

A while back I was hungry for a new project to try out at home. I searched throughout the internet, checked out pinterest, practically camped out at Michael's, and finally settled on a fun little project for the home.

I was really excited about this one because so many projects in this home are not a year-round, so many go into storage until the next year. Often, so much time is put into a project and then a few months go by and it goes right back into a box until next year (when I have probably done another project instead).

So this fun little HOME sign with interchangeable "O" letters seems to be just the ticket!

So here you have it, the HOME letter project.

So first step was a stop off to my local craft shop to take a look at the letters I will be using for this project.  I settled on the white ones pictured below from Michael's.

I also chose a few wood shapes for a few holidays and seasons coming up.

I also picked out small cross slice of a tree branch similar to a previous pumpkin projects I was working on. 

Additionally, I cut a few shapes at home from some of the scrap wood I had from other projects.

At home, I painted the first coat of white, brown, green, or orange onto all of the shapes, and then painted each of the H M E letters black and waited for them to dry.

Once everything was dry, I sanded the edges of each of the shapes and the letters to give them all a weathered look. 

 With all of the sanding completed, I went on to create the various shapes that would replace the "O" in the word HOME.

The first one I worked on was the pumpkin. Heading back to the similar techniques I used on the Pumpkin project a few posts back, I just created a mini version of it.

About three years back, Anna Williams and I made a set of turkeys with some 2X4's, paint sticks, and popsicle sticks.  I believe I blogged a little bit about them in a previous post. As time has gone on, they have lost a few feathers and have gotten a little rougher along the way. So I decided to take them and take the conglomerate of three and make a smaller one for this project.

I wanted ot have a fun one for Halloween and chose a sugar skull as the shape that I wanted to make the filler letter for the "O" in this round. Using fun printed papers layered on with Mod Podge,  and a collection of dimensional stones and shapes to embellish the skull, I went to work adding a few details to give it a sugar skull look. 

 I also completed a Christmas ornament (Sorry, I forgot to get a photo. I will add it to the post later!), an Easter bunny, a Valentine's Day heart, and a snowflake (sorry, no pic of this one either).I had also tried to make a Christmas tree as one of the shapes, but I will caution you now on that as it ended up looking too much like it said HAME instead of HOME. So

I ended up scrapping the tree after some hard deliberation.

Here are a few of the other shapes I had made: 

Now it is your turn! Create a great HOME display that you will put in your home or gift to a friend! Not sure you want to (or have time to) make this one yourself? I am taking orders now to complete a few of these for your Holiday gifts. They are just $35.00 and will include four shapes/holidays of your choosing. 

As always, please be sure to subscribe, follow and check out my website for more classes and fun I can offer to you!

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A FEW Days Late

In the process of trying to get everything sorted out in all of my pictures etc. I realized I hadn't posted all of the costumes I put together for Hallowe'en this year.

Please enjoy!

My youngest was a roller skating waitress: 

 My Middle child dressed as a Seeker for the Ravenclaw House of Harry Potter: 

And you have seen the post of my eldest and her face "totally ripped off": 

 And my Red Ridinghood:

I helped out making a few others for the holidays too. 

An Olive Oyl

And  a Squirtle

I hope you all enjoyed the costumes! 

Please share your Halloween pictures with me! I would love to see what you wore or made for the fun holiday! 

Next year, if you have a costume you'd like to have made, I would love to do it for you! Contact me and check out the website at www.oakgrovecalicocrafts.webs.com

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