Mason Jar Lamp

So the pinterest bug has hit me :) I saw this awesome Jar lamp that I loved here so just had to give it ago myself. Boy was I not disappointed. I took an Old blue Ball Mason Jar with zinc lid, a lamp kits for Lowes, some spray paint and a lamp shade then just put it all together to come up with this.

I need to figure out what I wanna do to the shade, I have a few ideas, so far I am so in love with this. Next to come is a mirror overhaul :)

Happy Wednesday Everyone

Getting busy

Well its been a busy few weeks, since I last posted but I wanted to share with you a couple of the projects I have been putting together.

The first was a wedding present for a fellow Girl Scout and second was putting together a focal point for a huge blank wall for our loving room that was driving me crazy.

So the wedding present was a pinterest project just slightly modified found here i brought a plate from a local discount store, wrote on it with sharpie and covered it in tissue paper and modge podge so the sharpie didn't just rub off.

The focal point used the family transfer as the starting point, but I didn't want to just put it on the wall and waste the $30.00 i spent of it so in comes a friend to the recuse and gave me an old window i really loved. I took two planks of wood and painted them white added them to the window, using metel brackets and wood screws and placed the transfer on the wood. Adding hanging bars to the back and wire across the window for more photos and i was ready to hang.

I then took two fence posts, cut them down to create 3 shelves. sanded, painted and polyed them before attaching them using L brackets above. I think they create a perfect balance to the photos as well as more depth. I haven't fingered what to add to the final shelve yet but I doubt it will take long to fill up, esp with my growing collection of willow tree. 

So let me know what you think.

New freedom :)

So I finally saved up enough to go buy this baby :)

Its a 2006 Jeep liberty :) and I love it. I never thought I would buy an SUV but loved the drive and price of this so we snapped it up. Me and Alex now no longer have to share cars, which will help a lot esp with our work and all my girl scout and church stuff. We still have to make payments on it but they aren't to bad and we have been able to work it into our budget nicely. To start with we were going to just buy a cheap worn out one for a few grand but after looking around and not finding anything decent enough we decided to get something a bit more, but should last a lot long esp as we did give in an buy the warranty and gap insurance :)

Happy Driving