I want to introduce you to Crap I’ve Made’s newest sponsor, Vinyl Crafts.

Becky is the owner/designer and she says:

I am happily married to one amazing man and mom to nine incredible children. My days are filled with all the wonders, joys and frustrations that come with a house full of people ranging in age from teenagers to babies. The creative outlet this shop provides helps balance out my sanity {and I realize “sanity” and “nine children” are not often used in the same paragraph}.
I have taken my love for home décor and my love of crafts and combined them to produce the items you see in my shop. I hope you will find something you enjoy and that can add beauty to your home.

In addition to her ready made designs,

there’s stuff you can personalize

and she’s happy to take custom orders, too.

I love the retro signage look of this piece.  Plus, you know I’m obsessed with orange.

If you’re the mushy type…

If you’re the cooking type…

Tangent:  Have any of you ever taken fenugreek in an attempt to up your milk supply?  I did, and it just made me smell like syrup/crave waffles.  TMI for ya?

So, what’s in it for you?

Becky is offering one lucky Crap I’ve Made reader a $50 gift certificate to Vinyl Crafts!

TO ENTER:

Click on over to Vinyl Crafts.  Have a look around.  Come back and leave a comment ON THIS POST (on the blog, not on Facebook or in response to your email subscription) saying what you’d use your gift certificate on.

Extra entry:

Like Vinyl Crafts on Facebook.  Come back and leave a comment saying you did.

Giveaway runs through Friday at 10pm MST.

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I did some accidental thrifting this weekend.  It was accidental because I was meeting Tauni (of SNAP! Conference fame…venue announcement over there today, if you’re interested) to hit up our local Parade of Homes.  Her dog got out, so she was delayed.  I used that time to hit DI (local thrift chain).  And in a matter of minutes I had texted her “Um, I’m buying a dresser.  Might be a sec.”  The dresser is fabulously perfect and matches a desk I had purchased previously.  You’ll see them both, eventually. 

I picked up a couple of other great finds Saturday, but this post is not about them either.  Ha!

On a previous trip, my mom and I argued about who was going to be the owner of this:

I’m not really sure what it is (chips and dip, maybe?), but I love galvanized stuff (hint: my coffee table), so I wanted it.

I hit my local home improvement store and picked up one of these from the ducting department:

Combine the two…

Add a glass dome?

Maybe even some apples?

I think I’m in love.

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I spotted these on Pinterest, but couldn’t find a tutorial (mostly just lots of links that didn’t go anywhere or were from somewhere in the UK and I was NOT paying international shipping for one ).

You know why there’s no tutorial?  Because even a monkey could make one.  Get some ribbon clamps (I picked mine up locally at Robert’s on 50% off day, so I think I paid $1 for enough for 3 bracelets) and a tape measure.

Cut a piece of tape measure to fit your wrist.  I did about 7”.  Put the clamps on the ends.

Wear it with dorky sewist (it’s better than sewer, remember?) pride!

What’s your favorite super quick and easy project you’ve made lately?  Share a link, if you’ve got one!

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I’m not sure how regularly we’ll do this, but I thought from time to time it might be fun for me to share stuff I’ve discovered.

So, we’ve discussed my love of Tulip Soft Fabric Paint before.  We’ve also discussed the happy little accident where I discovered that the velveteen line puffs up when ironed.

I busted out my paint stash this weekend to make Keller some shirts (freezer paper primer here) to wear over his pads to football practice.  The kids that have played before all have jerseys, but it’s his first year so he just had t-shirts…plain old boring t-shirts.  We needed a forest greenish color, but I only had a bright green.  I mixed it with some black and some navy and got a color I was happy with.

After painting the shirts, I noticed that the green paint was the velveteen variety.  The other 2 were not.  I decided to see if the paint would still puff, and it totally did.

So, if you want fabric paint that puffs and they don’t have the color you’re looking for, try mixing and use at least one color that does.

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First up, if your name is Vicki, you should check your email because you might be the winner of the $75 basket of crafty goodness from Pick Your Plum.  By the way, they have vinyl for a buck a sheet this morning, if you’re in need of any.

Next up, my friend Emily from Is This Really My Life? was kind enough to let me participate in her Mad Libs Monday series.  If you want to hear when Macy thinks I’m the uncoolest, head on over and check out my post.

And, I made some stuff this weekend.  Like, a lot of stuff:  Uncle Jesse (from Full House, not Dukes of Hazzard) necklaces with one of my favorite teenagers, freezer paper stenciled shirts with Keller’s team logo to wear over his pads to football practice, and a ruffled maxi dress for Macy using the Make It & Love It tutorial.

If you’ve been thinking about making this dress, DO IT.  It was under 1.5 hours from start to finish (and that would have been considerably less had my model been less prone to dancing every time she put the dress on).

So, yay for Monday?

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Subtitle: The One With The Illustrations

We had a few blissful hours on Saturday where the 3 little dudes were swimming at the neighbor’s.  (Thanks, Jami!)  With the lack of people likely to punch each other or break something, we decided it was the PERFECT time to attack the powder room mirror removal.

Here’s a little reminder of what we were removing:

I really, really, really hate broken glass, so I turned to Google.  I came across a suggestion that sounded promising:

This is called cut out wire and apparently it’s used to remove car windshields.  Or something.  Anyway, BC picked it up at our local auto parts store for about $10.  The idea is that you slide it behind the mirror and move it back and forth to cut through whatever adhesive is back there holding the mirror up.

So, I covered the front of the mirror with strips of painters tape (just in case) and we put on gloves and safety goggles (just in case) and started “cutting”.  And then this happened:

The wire was stuck.  So, we tried again.

And then we had 2 wires stuck.

We took a little break to regroup and BC decided to get a pry bar from the garage.

He carefully pried all along the edges of the mirror and the whole thing came off in one piece.  When we took it down we discovered this situation:

The blob of glue we were trying to saw through was about the size of my face.  And there were 3 more similarly sized blobs below.

So, does the cut out wire method work?  It might if whomever glued up your mirror applied the glue like this:

It doesn’t work so well if the glue was applied like this:

(Stick figure face added for size comparison )

And because I love you, a cell phone quality sneak peek of what will be replacing that ugly old mirror…

Mirror courtesy of Bates Custom Glass

That frame is fabulous with a little Krylon Blue Ocean Breeze, no?

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