Monday, May 24, 2010

I Made it Monday!!

Hi everyone! Hope you had a great Monday. Mine was good. I thought I'd share a couple of things I've made over the past week or so with you. They aren't makeovers like I usually share on Mondays, just some little projects I whipped up. I found these cute little house shaped frames at the Dollar Tree a while back and at the time, I didn't have a clue what I was gonna do with them. They were already painted the colors you see in the photo so I didn't have to do anything special to them to get them to look prim and country. I decided a couple of "house" themed stitcheries would look cute in them so that's what I did! It's hard to tell in the red one, but I stitched two yellow stars ~ one in the top right hand corner and the other in the bottom left hand corner.



I am pleased with how they turned out!

I've been seeing a lot of prim sunflowers out there in blogland so I decided to give them a try. I ended up making two different sizes and used different fabrics for the petals. I experimented with staining them with a coffee, cinnamon, and vanilla mixture. I also varied the middle of the flowers ~ I painted them all black with craft paint and then on one or two of them I dabbed a bit of yellow paint on top of the black. Not really sure which way I like them better. I'm leaning towards just black. I decided to use one as a make do in a wooden candlestick that I bought a while back at the flea market. I got two of them for a dollar, I believe it was, and I decided to paint one of them black. Then I bought a dowel rod at Wal Mart and had hubby cut it down to size for me. I glued it into the candlestick and added some moss to fill it out a bit. Then I attached my flower to the dowel rod and added a homespun bow in green as it's leaves. I like the way this turned out. The others I haven't done anything to yet. I may leave them as bowl fillers or if I can talk hubby into building me a small crate like box, I may end up doing some kind of an arrangement in it with them.

Here's a pic of the sunflower make do:


And here's pic of all the ones I've made so far:


Well, that's about it for me today. I'm tired and ready to get into my jammies and watch some mindless t.v. before bedtime. I hope everyone has a great Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by to visit me!

Until next time. . .

Hugs,

11 comments:

  1. I love those sunflowers!!! What a cool idea and fabulous job Donna. I hope this week is better for you. We're 94 today, 2 weeks ago we had snow showers!!
    Crazy weather!
    hugs,
    Cindy

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  2. They are too cute! Love the sunflower too..
    Tisha

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  3. great job donna,there so cute!have a great week.blessings michelle

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  4. love your sunflowers..you did an awesome job..I am with you on the jammies part and watching tv..gotta finish up the season of lost..haven't finished it yet and can't wait..:)have an awesome tuesday.:>)

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  5. I love that sunflower make do!
    I too am in my jammies and ready for bed but thought I'd catch up with all of you first.

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  6. Those stitcheries turned out so cute. You did a really good job on them. Love the sunflowers. They are just so prim perfect. I really like the one in the candleholder.
    Enjoy your week Donna.
    AMY

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  7. I got a bunch of those frames too! When I bought them I was thinking birdhouses, but then I realized they could just be houses. I did a stitcheries in mine also. I think I bought 10 of them. Now I wish I had gotten more cause they don't have anymore.

    Like the sunflowers!

    Doreen
    www.PriviesAndPrims.etsy.com

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  8. Donna,

    Your house frames are adorable I need to go to the $$$ Tree more often! LOL

    Those sunflowers turned out great! Yours are some of the cutest I've seen.

    Come on over for my very first Americana Give~Away when you get a chance.

    Tanya~friendshipcrossing.blogspot.com

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  9. Sunflowers are my favorite flower. Yours are just prim perfect!

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  10. I love your sunflowers! I think its always neat to see a group of us do a pattern just to see our own little spin on it. Sunflowers are my favorite!

    I love the Dollar Tree. I always find something there but I must of missed the frames. :(

    *hugs*
    Debbie

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