Easter Baptism

We had six get baptised today at church. My son in the middle, Rebekah, my niece, and Chase, a friend my son races motocross with. Here they are posing for pictures after the baptism. And what a day to do it, we had a record number at church today. Afterwards we all went to my moms for lunch.

Upstairs Landing Redo

This is the landing upstairs. It is Blah, Blah, Blah. The only rooms upstairs are my 2 sons' rooms and a bathroom. I hardly ever go up there. It wasn't until I did the bathroom makeover a couple of weeks ago, that I decided something had to be done with this area. Here's the before. I don't want to spend any $$$$ and for the accessories, I'm shopping from the house.
Here I am cutting the boards. I'm going to do the board and batten like I did in the bathroom.

This picture is about 2 minutes after the first picture of me cutting the boards. We are getting freezing rain mixed with snow and it is soooo cold outside. My fingers were freezing, so I conned the husband into doing it. He complained, but secretly, I think he really enjoyed it.

See, it really is snowing.

We cut all the boards we needed. This is the only thing I spent $$$ on. We bought our trim at Home Depot. The cost $65.00 to do this entire room. The area is 13' x 6'

45 minutes later, the room is done. This project is not hard at all. With two people working on it, it took no time at all. While he was hammering a board, I measure and leveled the next board to be put up.

Now I'm off to paint. I'm keeping the bottom half sawdust from Sherwin Williams and the top half is going to be Latte. I will add my trim across the top when the painting is done. I will paint the piece of trim first before I attach it to the wall. This will keep me from cutting in when I paint. I'll update later.

When you care enough to send the very best!

Yesterday when Nick went back to school, the girls all got together and made a card and wrote him a song. It is so touching. I can't tell if they like him or hate him. Here it is.



Nick's Song

Nick is a retard he broke his freakin arm.
He was slippin and a slidin on freakin dirt bike and crashed into a barn.
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!

GET WELL!....

And try not to do anything stupid!

But we all know that won't happen. K

hey Nickle butt, eye wuv yeww! D

But it will (do something stupid) Love Mental

You are the BIGGEST retard ever! Hope you get well! Luv U bunches! NOT! C

Memo Boards

Have you seen the Memo Boards on all the blogs? They are cheap, easy and you can make one in less than 10 mins. Here is my first attempt.

I had a huge blank wall in my pantry. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to hang in there. I knew I did not want a big piece of art or a mirror. I was thinking about going to a thrift store and buying a neat old frame and painting it black and putting a cork board in the middle.

The other day I was reading Nester's Blog and came across her Easy Memo Board. I had everything on hand, except the ring hooks. I found them at Hobby Lobby for $5.99. Over all each board cost under $10.00 to make. When Hobby Lobby has their painter's canvas half off, I'm going back to get one more, maybe 2. I think 3 or 4 boards on the wall would look really nice.

Here's how I started.


First I started with painter's canvas, fabric, ring hooks, ribbon and staple gun.



Then lay your fabric on your canvas and staple to the back. Can't get any easier than that. at this point, you are 3/4 of the way done.


Next put a piece of ribbon through a ring hook and and staple to the back of the frame. You will want to put several hooks on. I stapled some across the top of the back. I also stapled a ribbon going across the board about half way and 3/4 of the way down. I slid my hooks on the ribbon and stapled going across the board. If you enlarge my first picture you might be able to see. (Sorry I don't have a photo of this).

Next find a big blank wall and hang it.

Vinyl Letters

Ok, I'm back. My post belows talks about how I bought jars at Wal-Mart. I organized my pantry and wanted to label my jars. After walking around Hobby Lobby, trying to find something amazing to use, I decided to use what I had on hand. My Silhouette maker would be perfect. So, I came home empty handed.

Here you can see, plain old jar. Not very exciting.

Next I cut out my letters..... then apply to jar.

Wow! Look at that. Completely changes the jar.

GOSH DARN IT! Cereal is not in that jar, it has Powdered Sugar in it. Hold on, I will be back.


Hopefully everything is labeled correctly. Wouldn't it be something if they ate bird seed instead of cereal?

If you would like to learn more about the Silhouette maker....go to Youtube and do a search for Quickutz Silhouette. Here are couple of ones that I like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TAtsMLeStA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei68tyyj7EQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOjnn1Qr10