I sooo remember when my whole week used to revolve around what I was going to get into on the weekend! Now....my whole week revolves around just getting through the week in one piece so I can rest and relax on the weekend. 20 years ago who woulda thought it? (Now why is Ice Ice Baby playing in my head?!) But this past week I've been working on a things to do list for this weekend. At the top of the list was reading and cleaning and laundry. I cleaned house Friday evening, laundry NEVER ends, and I just wasn't into reading. So I decided I just had to go to Michael's last night at 7:30pm.....just because I had this wild hair that I needed a Sizzix BigKick or BigShot or whatever they had right then. I NEED some help cutting circles and flower shapes out of felt and fabric...thanks to all of the wreath ideas that Pinterest keeps putting in my head!(Please don't say Cricut..those intimidate me...for now anyway) So while there I found some cute Martha Steward stencil sets with words for kitchen items....of course she would come up with these....i'm sure she was looking around one of her 27 kitchens thinking "ya know Ms. Martha (don't ya just know that's what she calls herself?!!) I bet we could really spruce up those old $2000 canisters sets with some painted letters'!! And then right there in her kitchen I bet that domestic goddess heifer hollered out orders to one of her 16 personal assistants to get to work! Well......I don't have a personal assistant but needless to say my canisters could use some help...since mine has pieces of tape with lettering on them! Don't judge.....it was fairly creative at the time. ;-) And that was just a couple of my purchases from Michael's on Saturday night.
Oh!! But wait....before coming home from Michael's I stopped by Target to pick up a few goodies for my 14 days of Valentine's for Mr. Loud. Thanks Pinterest for the idea! He got these today....he asked who I was and what I have done with is wife. I like to keep him guessing...it keeps him wondering what I'm up to. (Oh and by the way....I started out strong on Day 1....forgot Day 2-4 so I got some catching up to do....again...don't judge...he's still surprised and wondering what I've done wrong!
So back to the canisters.......I had these visions that this whole stencil idea would go sooo smoothly.....WRONG! Notice the stencil below...that says SUGAR....well when I pulled it off it only said SU and a 1/2 of a G. Cue the cussin....cause yes it started.
So after I scratched the paint off with my fingernail and replaced the stencil and added more paint I decided to add a little pretty to my splenda container. It worked....and the cussin died down.
Until I took the next one off and 1/2 of the R came with it....so I tried to replace the R of the stencil....which was an epic fail. So I cussed a little more while talking with my BFF, who suggested scratching it off and starting all over again. Oh heck no! I got a little paint brush and free handed that puppy!
And of course my ADHD kicked in (yes I have diagnosed myself....I have a problem with waiting on paint to dry and doing nothing but watching it....and I sure wasn't going to do anything else productive.) But check out the cute little wire wrapped heart I made! The center red stone came off of my 40th birthday cake and the 2 little blue stones around it represent my 2 little boys. I hear you saying AWWWW right now. I'll be wearing this until Valentine's Day....it makes me smile.
And here is the finished version...I only had to redo 3 of them. The set didn't have a BAKING SODA or BAKING POWDER so my little green and yellow containers are without words. Ms. Martha must not leave hers out on her counter....she must not be a big baker. Oh yeah....probably gets one of her 16 assistants to fetch it for her when she needs it.
They all turned out really cute. I did them all a little different. The flour may be my favorite.
And look what I made last night....a wire wrapped nest...complete with 2 little blue pearl 'eggs'. This makes me smile too. Can you tell I love my boys and anything that reminds me of them is a good thing?!
Can you tell what these are? This was another purchase from Michael's...this is silver clay....with their fingerprints that I am going to bake in the oven then hang on a ribbon necklace. SWEET!
Pure sweetness on a plate right there!
Tomorrow I plan on getting my new cutter out of the box. After I go back to Michael's with another 40% coupon so I can buy a die for it! I plan on going every day this week....there are 5 dies that I want and I have 5 40% coupons already printed up! I'll keep ya posted....ya'll have a good Monday. Oh and by the way....was loooooovin me some Eli tonight. If Drew couldn't be there I sure was glad Eli was!
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