Address Wall Art

  I was inspired to make my address wall art by this piece at Restoration Hardware.  I wanted something similar but with our actual address.  Mine turned out very different, but I still like it!

To make, I bought an old piece of art at Goodwill, spray painted the frame silver and painted over the picture with some leftover brown paint (the glass broke in the process, which turned out to be a blessing because I could make it more 3-D!).  The letters are just scrap booking stickers.  I printed large numbers to use as a pattern and cut the numbers out of foam paper, then decorated each one a different way:  

Thick silver acrylic paint

 

Black ink pad rubbed on edges

 Numbers stamped with black ink

Silver Gold-Leafing

Here it is hanging in our living room!

House Number Art

 We recently re-did the exterior of our house and our old brown house numbers no longer match.  So, I used them to make this wall hanging for our entryway!  I love it because the numbers were actually salvaged from our house!

Here are the numbers that use to be on our house.  I'm so glad the contractors saved them for me!

Some thin, rustic rope and scrap booking paper make the letters more decorative in the frame.  I added texture to plain brown paper using my scoring board.

Here's a close-up of one of the numbers in the frame.

Birthday Banner Card

Spooky Deodorants

What do you get guys for Halloween? Spooky Deodorants. 

 I got all of these at the dollar store and transformed them using paper and wiggly eyes. 

 Here's how they use to look:

Frankenstein

Bat

Jack-O-Lantern

 Mummy

Smell My Feet Halloween Treats

When I found ghost toe separators and Halloween nail files at the JoAnn's dollar aisle, I thought it would be fun to give as Halloween gifts for the girls in place of candy.  I stumbled upon the labels here on My Sister's Suitcase blog via pinterest which were perfect for completing the gift!  So glad I found them!

Here's what I included: Halloween themed toe separators and nail file, nail polish, and foot soaking salts.

The salts are just epson salt mixed with bath oil, then I put them in individual bags, downloaded a skeleton Halloween font and made labels.

Here they are all set to be mailed out!

Mummy Cards

The blog is back!  Just in time for Halloween!  I took a break while some work was getting done on our house and everything was a mess!

I made these mummy cards at craft club.   I just ripped white paper then rubbed the edges against a black ink pad to make them black.  Each one has its own personality! Here's the inside:

Travel Jewelry Case

I found this wallet at the Target Salvation Army and I had to have it because I loved the sunflowers on it!  I knew I would never use it as a wallet though since I already had a nice wallet, so I made it into a travel jewelry case! 

The inside had all of these great departments for credit cards and dollar bills, which would be perfect for separating earrings and other jewelry!

I used my label maker to make labels for the departments so I wouldn't loose anything in it.

Here it is with the labels so I know where everything is.

Worked perfect for all of the weddings I went to this year!

'You Give me Butterflies' Scrapbook Page

Here's a scrapbook page that I made recently.  The butterflies are folded in half, but only adhered on one side so their wings are 3D.  It's hard to tell, but I sewed on the middle of some, so the string ends look like antennas.

Campfire Pizzas

It seems like everyone I talk to either makes these regularly or has never heard of making pizzas at a campfire, so I thought I'd share.  We use to make these all the time when I was little and we would go camping as a family.  Now we make these over a fire pit in the backyard, since the only camping I do is on Black Friday outside of Macy's.

Here's what you need:

A loaf of cheap white bread for the crust

Pam non-stick spray

Pizza Sauce

Cheese

Pizza toppings (pepperoni, sausage, onions, green peppers, mushrooms)

You'll also need one of these campfire pie irons:

First, spray the inside of the iron with the non-stick spray so the pizza will come out

Set a piece of bread on one side of the iron and add sauce

then cheese....

......then veggies, meat, and more cheese

Add a second piece of bread to the top of the pizza.  Be sure to only work on one side of the iron, rather than building the pizza on both sides and trying to flip it together.

Close the pizza in using the top of the iron and clamp it shut.

Cut off any crust that sticks out with a butter knife, or it will burn.

Place the iron in a campfire and rotate sides half way through. Cooking time is about 2-5 minutes a side, depending on how hot the fire is.

The pizza should look like this when it's out of the iron--perfectly brown.

Here's the finished pizza pocket with all the goodness inside. Mmm! 

Harley Davidson 50th Birthday Party

When my uncle turned 50 last year, my aunt asked me to help her throw him a party. We decided to it Harley Theme, since they have Harley's and like to ride. It worked out well because it was mostly black (typical 50th birthday color) but the orange also made it fun. 

My Mom is a very talented cake maker--she makes all of our family cakes including the one pictured above!  She frosted the cake in white frosting, dropped yellow and red food coloring on the icing, them swilled it to make it look like flames! Of course we knocked off the Harley Davidson Logo and changed the 'Harley Davidson' to 'Happy Birthday'.

I found a ton of great Harley Davidson stickers and paper at the scrapbooking store that I used to make small details for the party.

We tried to make the menu biker themed! Here's what we had:

Purrin' Engine Pulled Pork Sandwiches

3 kinds of Chicken Wings (Buffalo, Jack Daniels Honey BBQ, & Garlic Butter & Herb)

Sturgis Style Potato Salad

Biker Beans

Cyclin' Cole Slaw

Chopper Chips

Vroom-vroom Veggies

Peanuts in shell (peanut bar style)

I made these food markers by printing out the text and graphic and gluing it onto the Harley scrap booking paper.

I printed out the Harley Davidson Logo to make napkin rings for the plastic silverware.

We got leftover large tin cans from a restaurant to set on tables for trash cans for the chicken bones and peanut shells.  My aunt had some Harley wrapping paper that we used to decorate them.

 

The entire family helped cook and set-up for the party. My Grandma even made bandanas for everyone out of flame material!  We all dressed like bikers! Here's me sporting mine while I made cole slaw in my mom's kitchen.

Just for fun, we had a 'Tattoo Parlor' so everyone could put on temporary tattoos for the party.  Since it was outside, we just set out the tattoos with some paper towels and a spray bottle.