Date night Valentine

The idea for this date night jar came from pintrest, and i made it with what i had in my craft room. I did this for our 10th Anniversary. All you need is a mason jar, some painted tongue depressors and off you go.You paint the tongue depressors in 3  or 4 colours, colour coding your dates to the cost of a date. From stay at home dates, to relativly inexpensive and expensive. Then i added blank ones for my nusband to choose himself. All the others i wrote things on we would like to do. This is a fun and exciting way for date night, as you dont know what you will be doing until you draw a stick. It's all right there in a jar. No excuses anymore.

Hope you all have a lovely Valentines Day.

Ready Set Paint...

I recently completed a "chalk paint "workshop at a friend of mine Belinda, from 

"Prettier Painted" 

I just love the look of the chalk paint. 

After finishing my first project, i have been shopping for anything pretty to paint. 

I think every piece of furniture in my house will be painted soon :) 

Here is my first finished project.

Before

After

I have just stocked up on every possible colour of paint i would like to use, and now i'm set to paint,paint,paint.      

To be inspired, visit Belinda's "Prettier Painted " website.

www.prettierpainted.com

Happy Crafting and Thank you for stopping by.

Eco-friendly 2013

Well now. Let's see if i can keep up with my blog this year. 

So let's talk laundry. 

Friends of mine started making their own eco-friendly washing detergent as their children have excema. So today i did my first load with the "Laundry Lasses"
150ml of detergent and off we go. As simple as that. No powder or softner needed. My kind of one step washing. So if your children suffer from excema or you just want to "save the world one load at a time." Then the "Laundry Lasses" are for you.
Visit their website: www.laundrylasses.wordpress.com

Thanks Sam and Belinda for giving us the chance to use your wonderful detergent.

Computer Gremlins

Wow. Can't believe it's been a month since i posted. My computer needed a service and the internet crashed. While that was being sorted, we got the house ready for the coming Festive Season. I so love the Christmas Season. Christmas Tree's are up-Check. Mantle decorated-Check. Front door decorated-Check. This weekend our outdoor christmas tree and reindeer sliegh will go up:) I'm also busy getting the childrens holiday class projects finalised. Lots of fun crafting to be had by all. My friend Belinda from Prettier Painted is having a paint technique workshop on the 24th. So i have been thrift shopping for something that needs a make-over. This can only get messy. YEAH! Pop over to her site to see what lovely things she can create with a lick of paint. www.prettierpainted.co.za

Crafty Kids

The holiday has come and gone, and now we just have 8 more weeks of school until our long Summer vacation. The kids got some crafting done. It always amazes me how  you do a class with the same products and how different and unique everyones page looks. The girls just loved doing this canvas.

                             

This was my sample for the girls.

And this is their wonderful creative handy work.

Well done girls.

Soon we'll be making Christmas crafts.

Ready to Scrap

Well... I had all my papers out to scrap a page for a challenge and to add to my 2nd daughters very "thin" scrapbook album. But once again i got side tracked, with a 21st Birthday cake for a friends daughter, and making chalkboard party favours for a 1st birthday.

It was the first time i iced a cake with rose patterns.
Not too bad for a first time.

25 Chalkboards in the making.
I forgot to take a photo of the finished product.
oops.

We have our mid term break now, so we doing some childrens classes. Had a card class today and Thursday we will be doing an off the page Canvas.
So watch this space.
Thank you for visiting and have a lovely day.

                                 

Get Well Card.

This morning i heard one of my friends has pneumonia. Still having my bits and pieces out from the card i made for a sketch challenge, i thought i'd make her a quick get well  card. I saw this simple, but striking card on twopeasinabucket "Finally Friday" video.

Definately making more of these for my stash.

Happy Scrapping and thank you for visiting.