I need your thoughts

J and M's school is having an indoor yardsale on My 8th and I'm thinking about buying a spot. I'd like to try and sell some of the wreaths and eggs that I'm making. So here's where I need your thoughts. I'd like some feed back on if you think it's a good idea and if you think $12 is a good price for the wreaths. Mostly I just enjoy making them, have A LOT of springs to work with and can only display so many in our home. LOL

I'm tossing around some ideas to make some of the wreaths "summery" as well. (and even planning WAY ahead for the fall and winter) So please be honest... I trust you all to give me some honest feedback. I want to sell them.... if you have suggestions for them please feel free to suggest away and if you have thoughts on a fair price that will help move them out of my home.

(I can get a little addicted to something like this

 and end up with A LOT of them

so I promised Rob I'd try to find new homes for them.)

Thanks bunches!

It's All Good

My First Try At Mod Podge

This is my very first attempt at decoupage.

I photo copied a piece of sheet music for the song "The Bird Returns"

I cut it into thin strips and mod podged (is that a word?) the strips to the paper mache' egg.

For the first egg I wanted to add some bling so I tried using Epson Salt.

It worked but I decided to try some glitter. I actually had to try The Family Dollar, The Dollar General and finally the local pharmacy actually had it... SILVER GLITTER.

The glitter added just the right bling that I was looking for.

She needed a little something extra, so I added a pretty sparkly pink bow to her.

My husband has requested that I not work on the kitchen island...

he'd prefer not to have glitter in his salad, which is understandable.

So my next project is to set up "shop" in the dining room.

For now here are my little lovelies.

 Here are the tea & coffee stained tags that I made today.

I added some vanilla and cinnamon to add some scent.

Then I decopauged a copy of the song "Tis Spring" to it and added it to one of my "spring" wreaths.

So I am quite excited by these little lovelies and am loooking forward to my next project.

Thanks for stopping by.

It's All Good

Coming up soon

Last week I headed out to pick up the two oldest kids from school early and stopped by Walmart. I only had 20 minutes and I had the girls (my nieces ages 2 and 3) with me. I was on a mission and I found some beautiful ribbons and even some nests on clearance. After picking up the kids at school I called Rob (the man is a saint) and asked if he'd be home to meet the two boys when they got off the school bus. Could I find MORE ribbons at Michaels? So off to Michaels we headed. Not only did I find some MORE ribbons but also:

small eggs to decoupage

a LARGE egg to decoupage

3 of THESE

and 1 of these to go with a headband I also found

I'm not even going to mention the rest of the treasures we found such as the decorative papers.

I have a SERIOUS PROBLEM.

It was way too easy to bring all of these little lovelies home with me.

OH and the 3 ceramic birds.

Wait 'til you see them in an upcoming blog entry.

I have been too inspired by so many creative women out there in blog world and for some insane reason I think I need to recreate ALL of their creations for our home.

But WAIT until you see them.They really are quite lovely.

Now that I have this blog it is JUST the motivation I need to follow through.

IT'S ALL GOOD

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Three New Wreaths

Here are all three wreaths haning on a coat "tree"

Please excuse my photography skills I'm a work in progress.

This one has a springy purple ribbon. Here is a close up of the nest and songbook I am using to add a tag to the wreaths. There is a cute song entitled "Tis Springtime" that I want to use.  I had fun putting some of my favorites ~vintage songbook, suitcases, and crocheted doiley all together in this little "vingette". I am looking forward to the day that I get more creative and put together some fun vingettes that tell a story. But for now
"It's All Good"


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My first project was insprired by Becky at The Picket Fence : "spring" nest wreath.

I love the idea of a literal "spring' wreath made out of springs... it tickles my love for playing with words and I just happen to have a mattress of springs leaning against my garage. We had replaced all of our sons' mattresses this winter and one still was waiting to be disposed of. So I was quite giddy to have this fun project to start with. So here is my take on Becky's wreath. \

Here is the mattress against my garage. My two nieces were my "helpers". My hands were quite scratched up as I wrestled with wire cutter and springs.

The first time around I tied the springs together with ribbon, but it became apparant that using hemp or twine was a stronger and better option. It gave the wreath better shape.

For the nest I found a half foam sphere that worked great. I shaped the bottom using the head of a screw driver and then painted it brown. I found a bag of brown shredded paper used to decorate baskets to use as "nesting" material. White glue did not work well... or at least not quick enough for me. So out came the hot glue gun.

It's not too pretty yet but stay with me.

Now isn't that prettier.

Here the final product.

and here was my inspiration...

It's All Good

It's All Good

I'm starting this second blog to have a place to share with you (I still can't imagine WHO will be reading this) the things I that I have seen or thought of and want to give it a try. I have decided on the name "It's All Good" for two main reasons. The first being that if you have met me you know that I say this very often. I didn't know that about myself until my children started saying, "That's your favorite saying isn't it mom?" We even sponsored my youngest son's soccer team and had the team's jerseys have "It's All Good" printed on the back of them. It was quite delightful to see a team of 5 and 6 year olds running around with that on their backs... I hope it "follows" them through life.

The second reason for this blog's name is that I am quite timid to actually try out the many creative and beautiful ideas that I see out in blog world and think up of on my own. I get excited, even gather the supplies and then FREEZE. It's terrible to collect IDEAS but never try them. My home and family are not going to be blessed by my ideas alone. I need to step out in faith and just give these things a try. I need to apply my "It's All Good" motto to MYSELF. To realize that less than perfect is okay.

So this is the place for less than perfect. A place to try and share with you my attempts. A place where "It's All Good."