Renew, Create, Restore: January 2013

Saturday, 19 January 2013

With Love From The Dollar Store

You gotta love a challenge and using materials from the Dollar Store is an economical way to make a super gift box.

I bought this great box for $1 and then typed out a page of the word "LOVE" in all different fonts. I made a few copies and then used a wet tea bag to stain the pages to look old.

I was going to use modge podge, but the cost seemed a lot so I used plain white craft glue and watered it down. After adhering the words I gave it one more coat of the watered down glue and left it to dry. It's now the perfect box to wrap homemade treats, jewelry or any other gift for that special someone.

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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Have a Drink On Us

You might have seen the stool my youngest son made and finished titled Bird On A Stool (okay so it wasn’t the most original name I came up with). Now my eldest son who is soon to be 16 finally completed his stool that he also made about three years ago (we’re not actually very good at finishing projects in a timely fashion as you can see).

Matt was not about to spend a lot of time sanding or prepping the stool so homemade chalk paint seemed like the obvious answer. He came up with the design and painted two coats of red paint, sanding lightly in between.

Next, he took the logo we had photocopied and covered the back with chalk. He secured it to the stool and traced the outline of the logo so that it left a chalk outline on the stool when he removed the paper. Then he filled in the outline with white paint and touched up the red. To make the stool more durable we used two coats of polyacrylic in satin finish.

I hope you agree it looks good enough to drink!!

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What about you, do you try to get your kids involved in your projects?

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Friday, 4 January 2013

American Girl Crocheted Hats

My neices were over last weekend to celebrate Christmas with us and my mom and they brought along their new American Girl dolls. When they went out tobogganing I thought I would quickly crochet a hat for one of the girls. Of course if you make a hat for one doll, you have to make it for the other doll too. Then we had the brilliant idea of making hats in the same style as my neices which required a total of six pom poms. At one point my sister, my mom, my 15 year old son and my neice were all working on these hats with my husband making the pom pom forms!

I think they turned out great and as we used leftover wool the total cost was $0 so you can't get more budget friendly than that!!

Have you made any "family" projects lately?

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