From boys room to Mancave remodel....

 Ok first off since I don't take before pictures and can't seem to lay my finger on the pictures I had taken of my sons bedroom before I will just explain what it looked like before. It had boring white walls but the rest of it was all about camo and hunting. The furniture was 3 different colors all in the "camo hues" and well it was just downright boring all together. It still had footballs posters hanging and even a net in the corner that no longer held toys but instead his collection of ball caps, trucker caps or whatever you want to call them. I had wanted to redo this room for years but he didn't ever want me to do anything. I'm not sure what he was afraid of...lord knows it could only get better than it was. So when I was at my oldest brother house this spring I once again fell in love with blue in his guest bathroom and asked him if he would give me a sample of it because my vision for this room was already developing in my head. Below are pictures of the outcome. There are still a few things that I want to tweek here and there but the major part is done! Can check this one off of my list.

 The big thing in the room was adding the bead boarding on the bottom of the walls. I have always been a fan of that so that was a must! The frames I had collected from my stash. They were boring wood tones but now they are all black...including the mats. Of course I had to rehang his gun rack which is used to hold his bow rather than one of his guns. And even though I'm TOTALLY against hanging dead animals or any part of a dead animal on the walls of the house...my son somehow got away with it but using push pins was no longer an option to hang them. So I remedied that one by "mounting them on artist canvas's that I had painted black. I can take close up pictures of those if you need for me too. Two of my frames are still awaiting pictures that I need from my son where he caught some monster fish recently.

 My son requested that his room be darker so Suzie over at Our Happy Shack suggested a black out roll down shade. It works great...but boy oh boy that thing gave me a fit hanging it. Here you can see that I have it up some so you can see it's there. It really helped with the morning sun that came in right on him. I'm in search of a lamp to for his desk....just another tweek here and there remember....

 We didn't have his tv hung on the wall before. It actually sat on his dresser leaving him even less room to put his stuff. So since we had a surprise visit from Suzie and Don while I was working on the room. They jumped in and helped Mr. Candy Creek out by hanging the tv mount as well as the new ceiling fan that they bought for Austin because his room wasn't getting enough air flow. I also bought some black canvas foldable baskets at Walmart to organize this things in and to clean up the bookcase a bit. They worked perfectly and I need to get one more for his night stand.

 Here is the ceiling fan that Suzie and Don bought. We just love it and are so grateful to Don for hanging it for us!

 I bought the mirror at TJ Maxx (my favorite store in the world!) for only $24. I had originally planned on hanging it a little lower but the trim and bead board wouldn't allow that. My son is really tall and said that he's happy with where it hangs so that's all that matters even though it goes against all normal design rules. The basket on the dresser will soon be in the trash. I'm in search of a long flat basket in black to hold loose change and such.

 If you've been following my blog for very long you will remember that this little table has really made its way around the house. I think it's finally found it's finally resting spot. One more black canvas basket in the bottom and that will be complete.

 I was so happy with the way the furniture turned out. When I first envisioned this room, black wasn't something I had in mind. That was at the request of my son and boy he was right on the money with it. I just love how it all turned out. Hopefully next year will be the year that all of my carpets throughout the house can be replaced. (keeping fingers crossed)
Well that concludes my redo of my son's room....it really went from a little boys room in sad shape to a grown up looking man cave! I am so thrilled with it and he likes it as well.
Have a good day everyone!

Another "file tab" mini using pastels...

 Hey everyone! Remember waaaaay back in March I did a tutorial on how to make this "file tab" album. Well I had done that one in some muted earth tones and loved the album so much that I had to "girly" it up a bit and use pastels this time so here is what I came up with. I've had this made and already given away for some time not but haven't had time to post it on the blog.

 I used several different paper collections and embellishments. I basically just used what made me smile and feel happy. The clasp that I used are heart shaped paper clips and then I just used regular jewelry chain to make them connect and pastel brads to keep them secure. I used a regular paper doiley from the baking section to give it a bit of frill and mod podged over it so it would stay put nicely.

Of course I had to add some more butterflies to the inside and all that it needs now are pictures. I hope that our pastors wife enjoys it and fills it with lots of pictures of her precious little ones.
Have a good day everyone!

Altered Art using painting canvas...

 Hey ya'll! I've been at it again.....these 3 canvas's have had so much done to them since I bought them that I'm starting to lose track. I had to do something because here it is May and I still had snowflakes on these. So I took another short break from finishing up my spring cleaning to do a little something different. I had wrote this idea down back quite a while ago as Suzie and I were brain storming one night and well...here is the final outcome! Thanks Suzie for you help!

 I apologize for the fact that I didn't write down which paper pads I used on this project but it was literally just ones that I pulled from numerous ones. I was thankful that the canvas's were already "primed" so I didn't have to wait for that to dry. I glued the paper on using a homemade mod podge and then put an extra coat on top to seal it really well and then as that dried I went ahead and started pulling things that I'd like to use that would be 3D as you can see there are keys, butterflies, a Tim Holtz name plate thing. For the paper that is under the words "sings" I had actually found an old songbook at the thrift store last year and simply cut it out, inked my edges and then ran it thru my paper crimper to give it a little more texture.

 I had some scrap papers that had pictures of vintage post cards on it so I just cut those out and inked the edges and added some felt flower borders in black and brown.

 And of course would one of my projects really be my project if I didn't add a little bling of some kind?? uhhh if you really know me then you would all be saying NOOOO! So I found this bling at Michael's on clearance and it even has little bitty butterflies in it as well! But my most favorite thing on all of these pieces is.....

THIS!!! The wings that I added on my son's back. I think these are from Melissa Frances and they are of a resin type material. I was going to use these somewhere else on this canvas and had moved them out of the way while I was arranging things when I looked down and saw where they were laying and well.....it was just meant to be! I'm so thankful that I have another set of these wings because I think that they are discontinued now but I'm going to make a scrapbook page and use the other set of wings for this picture.
Ok so tomorrow it really is back to finishing up my spring cleaning...uhh at least I hope so.

Guest room/Craft room gets a little makeover...

 Hey ya'll! As I was working on my spring cleaning I was removing everything from my guest room/craft room so that I could wash all the walls and every thing else in the room, my son's girlfriend walked in and said "oh are you going to paint in here?" and I said no not yet, it's on my list of things to do this summer but I'm just cleaning it right now. So as I walked out of the room with yet another load of things I was removing to place in the kitchen I thought. Boy oh boy Robin your about stupid to have this mess all over the house twice in one year!! Soooo what did I do?? I started painting! I so wish that the colors would show up better in the pictures or that I could find my before pictures that I took several years ago of this room. But I can't seem to locate them right now so I'll just tell you what all I did to it. The walls went from white to a buttercream yellow that is actually called Summertime Shasta Daisy. Now I'm not a big yellow fan but I like this soft soft yellow especially since I painted all of the trim in the room that was just boring ole brown to a starch bright white! And I found a new quilt to go on the bed that has all the pretty pastels that I so love in it.

 My bookcases were originally black so those got painted white and then distressed to make them more shabby. I stacked up my storage boxes in the corner of the room that house all kinds of different craft items and I moved the clear shoe rack thing that originally hung on the back of the door where you walk in to the back of the closet door. It cleaned things up a bit for when we have guests.

 As you can see....I don't have one of those big nice rooms that most of you girls have that is specifically designated for just crafting and sewing but I make do with what I have and it works. I didn't do anything different in this corner other than the fact that I hung a metal shelf to house some of my pretty chipboard letters and embellishments. But I did take my shutters down and repainted those and sanded them to give them that nice shabby chic feel like that I love so much.

The above picture just shows how I have my supplies in my bookcase that I just painted and sanded.

I'm thinking about making some little curtain inserts to fit the fronts of my bookcases so that guests don't have to see all my supplies on the shelves. But that can always be a project I can go back and take care of later.
Painting the room slowed my spring cleaning down a bit and now so has the stomach virus that I've picked up but I look forward to getting the other rooms finished so I can get to more projects. I plan on redoing my sons bedroom as soon as I finish the spring cleaning and am actually looking forward to it.
Have a great day everyone!

 Hey everyone! I just had to share with you one of the treasures I found at the thrift store last month. I've been wanting to find one of these forever and was thrilled when I saw it sitting there on the shelf. If you'll notice the price on it is $2 not a bad deal considering that if you buy one new they are $30! But that's not even the best part!!!! When I got up to the register to check out with my wonderful treasure. The lady rang me up and sweetly said "That will be $.26! Yes you saw that right....a quarter and a penny is all that I owed! I just happened to walk in on the day that all of the what knots were on sale for that! SCORE!!!

 So I brought this beauty home and started working on her. Here you can see how I'm altering this little rolodex.

I haven't finished the inside yet because I had another project that I needed to put as top priority.
See my best friend that I refer to as my sis over at (Happy Shack), well her birthday was coming up REAL fast and I had told her about the wonderful find I had found and what I was going to do with it. And she said "ohhhh I'd love to have one of those" ok enough said sis...your request in my new project!

 Here is what the inside of my box looks like. I haven't made all of the pretty tabs for it yet.

 But here is Suzie's rolodex! I think it turned out so pretty.

 and here is the inside of her box with all of the tabs and pretty embellishments on them. So Happy Birthday Suzie!!!!

I'm still working on my spring cleaning and I have even completely redone my guest room that is also my craft room. I painted the walls, trim, shutters in the room, and the furniture. I really like it now...it's totally brightened up the space and will make for a very cheery place to sit and create or sleep for my guests. I'll show you that room once I get some pictures taken.
Have a great day everyone and I'll be back as soon as I can with pictures. I'm not sure when but it will be soon. I can not hardly wait to get this spring cleaning behind me so I can jump into the other 3 pages of projects that I want to get done. See ya sooooooon!!

A Little Secret I found in Monroe, Ga...

 Ok so I don't know how BIG of a SECRET this place is for you all but for me it was HUGE! I didn't have a clue and my brother lives just right up the road from here. He let me in on it last month while my husband and I went down to visit with him and let me tell you....if you love to Junk as much as I do....this place is heaven! The entire town has pretty much turned into a little antique place and these old cotton mills and factories are being converted. So not only the stuff inside is neat to look at but the buildings themselves are neat.

 I took a few pictures from one of the vendors that I just loved. There was so much to see that I forgot to get my camera out and take more pictures to share even more with you. I was having so much fun with my brother and Mr. Candy Creek (husband) that I forgot.

Thought this was a cute little idea to refurbish and old lampshade and some scraps of old lace.
Well the cat is out of the bag as my grandfather used to say. I guess you all will just have to make a trip to Monroe, Ga yourselves and see how neat this place is. Just make sure that you plan on starting early in the morning and looking late into the afternoon, wear comfy shoes and enjoy! Oh and another note.....check out the little mom and pops restaurants there in Monroe. We ate at 2 of them and they were so GOOD! The one that I remember off the top of my head was The Butcher Block Deli and Grill. Yes it's in one of those old buildings as well. Now that's my kind of eatin'.....

Birthdays and Butterflies....

 Hey everyone! Since I didn't really have time to make anything for Easter to share with you all I thought I'd show you all this that I made for a friend of mine who had a birthday this week. May I also wish each and every one of you a very Happy Easter as well!
This little recipe file or photo file was an idea that Laura at Following the Paper Trail showed on her blog a couple of years ago for her 12 days of Christmas. This just goes to show that the basic concept can be adapted to just about any occasion and altered several different ways. I used paper from the DCWV Mariposa paper (I'm still in love with that line!)

 As you can see I altered using pale pink and white envelopes to hold the cards/tags.

 And for my pulls I simply cut out butterflies and put those on heavy cardstock cut out in circles.

I think she liked it......
Again HAPPY EASTER everyone! May God bless each and every one of you in a very special way!