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This is going to be a tote for me!!!

This is going to be a purse for my niece Allie

Unsure what I’ll make out of these… maybe skirts for my two older nieces Ash & Bec

This is going to be my computer bag… so excited about this project!!!!!!

I’m thinking these will make good table runners for this year… lost of colors and they span summer, spring, fall, & winter.

Dish drying mat – Darryl and I don’t have a dishwasher that works so we have to hand wash dishes. It’s not that bad because it’s just the two of us, but I got tired of using all our dish towels to lay our dishes on and then having to dry them all the time. (Darryl refuses to get one of those plastic dish drying racks). So I made this out of an old bath towel and a vintage sheet I bought @ goodwill for .50 cents. It really soaks up the water and doesn’t take forever to dry.

Tote – I love bags!!!!!! This one I use for my knitting yarn, but you can use them for groceries or a book tote (or just about anything really)

Hot pad for the table. I wanted to make something that would set on the table and could be used to set hot dishes on, but didn’t look ugly. So in honor of summer I made this lemon hot pad. It was super easy because it’s just a bunch of squares and rectangles. 

Crochet/Knitting needle holder – I needed something to hold my crochet & knitting needles because I’m always losing them. So I made this really simple holder. Again really easy because it’s all squares & rectangles. And then I used an old belt of Darryl’s to close it up.

These are just a few things I’ve been working on. I will try to post more pics as I finish the projects, but sometimes I just forget…. lol

Darryl found this in the glass section. WTF??? Who would buy a used Vlasic Pickle jar???? Who collects that stuff???

I’ll post pics if I get them done. =o)

Before :

After :

**UPDATED**

Darryl made me feel very self conscious about my huge head so I took the purple hat photo off and substituted the photo of all three hats below…

Here are the cards that we made for each other.  Darryl made the one on the left, and I made the one on the right. What Darryl lacks in creativity he makes up for in words. I’m not going to tell you what the inside of the card says, but just for the record my husband has a way with words!!!! =)

Happy Anniversary Darryl!!!

So here is a sneak peek of the Christmas Cards I made Thursday night.

I started working on the shelf around 10 this morning and didn’t finish till 4:50 this evening. It kinda sucks trying to make sure stuff is level when you really don’t have the proper tools. I pretty much had my trust Dewalt cordless drill, 2 levels, a mallet, my drill bits, and a saw. You might be asking what the saw was for? Basically it was the only straight thing I had so I could draw lines. The end result was a happy wife. I’m dog assed tired though. I don’t think I want to do that again unless I have the proper tools on hand and maybe more experience. It really shouldn’t take anyone 6 hours to put shelves in an already made shelf.