9/20/11

Where did summer go?

I can't believe summer has come and gone!  The tempertures are dropping, and fall is fast approaching!  I wanted to share a few things I have been busy with over the past few months.  Maybe some of them will inspire you to try something new for you, your kids or your home!

I purchases a vinyl saying from Uppercase Living a few years ago!  If you have a Silhouette cutting machine, you can make your own vinyl signs!  I recently purchased one, and LOVE it!  I got around to putting my vinyl sign on an artist canvas I painted.  I painted a base coat of a mustard yellow, adding a crackle finish and then gave it an antique finish.  I was always coming up with lonely socks, and didn't know what to do with them while hunting down their mates!  I decided to add small clothes pins onto the canvas so I would have a place to clip those lonely guys!  I found the small clothes pins in the stationary aisle at Wal-Mart.  I spray painted them brown then took some sandpaper and roughed them up a bit.  Once I had them spaced out on the canvas to my liking, I glued them down, and ta-da!  A cute sign for my laundry room and a place for those pesky lonely socks!