DIY Schoolhouse lights

I saw this at Take the Side Street and knew I had to do this for the entry way and the upstairs hall. I love these THAT much!

I went to Lowe’s and bought 4 of these @ about $6 each.

Then I bought 4 of these @ $5.12 each.

Then I spray painted the brass fixtures with Rustoleum’s Oil Rubbed Broze.

Ed took down the existing “boob” lights.

Then replaced them with these.

Much better.

We are putting the clear globes that came with the light fixture in our upcoming garage sale along with the “boob” lights.

Go here to enter my Hobby Lobby gift card giveaway.  

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Link Party #3

It’s been a while since I had a link party but since I now have over 200 followers I am going to start doing this weekly. I LOVE parties and I love to see what y’all are working on!

Okay, so here are the rules:

• Follow me if you don’t already
• Add my blog button to your post or blog
• There is no limit on how many posts you link up
• Feel free to link up just about anything, family friendly of course.
• Visit some of the other links and share the comment love!
• Have fun!

Can’t wait to see what everyone has been up to!

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Time out stools for the twins

My boys individually are a handful but you put them together and some days it’s all I can do to keep them from tearing down our house brick by brick! Of course this leads to a lot of time outs. I saw somewhere a few months ago a time out stool someone had made and thought that would be perfect for the boys! Of course I had to make two of them….

I bought the stools at Hobby Lobby. They were about $15.00 and I had a 40% coupon both times (bought them separately) so I paid about $9 each. I used paint and supplies I had on hand so each stool cost less than $10.

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I primed them with Kiltz and painted them with paint samples I had on hand.

The green one is Ben Moore Potpourri Green mixed at Lowe’s and the yellow is Valspar Sorbet mixed at Lowe’s.

After painting them I used my Cricut and Make the Cut software to make a stencil. You can download the Make the Cut file I made here if you are interested.

I think they turned out really cute!

Don’t forget to enter my Hobby Lobby gift card giveaway here.

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Twitter

I just got twitter. Or a twitter. I don't even know what to call it! lol You can find my twitter link to the right. :) This is interesting!

Us and Them on FB

You can now find Us and Them on facebook! Look in the side bar and click the Like button. :)

200 followers and a giveaway!

Woo hoo! I have more than 200 followers now! Y’all are awesome! I am so excited and to share in my excitement I am giving away a $20 Hobby Lobby gift card. Who can’t use one of those? I know I can! (but I am gonna share)

Here’s what you can do to be entered in the giveaway:

• Leave me a comment on this post letting me know you are a follower, if you are not a current follower go ahead and follow me then let me know. 1 entry
• Blog about this giveaway and put my button in your post (it’s on the sidebar to your right). Leave me a comment on this post letting me know that you have done this and a link to your post. 1 entry
• You can now "like" Us and Them on facebook, leave me a comment on this post letting me know that you did. 1 entry
  

So simple, right?

I will announce the winner of the Hobby Lobby gift card May 22, 2011.

Good luck to everyone!

Linking here:

“grass diving dogs”

I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw this. Seriously. I wish I had a place for it. I will keep it in mind for when the girls move out on their own though. lol Check it out here.

MAD

Blogger has messed up my blog. Stuff that I had posted was no longer posted but in draft or scheduled to post. The link parties I have been to are now gone. I am not sure the links I have put for the posts that were not where they should be will work now in the parties I have attended. I am mad. I am looking into changing to Word Press now. I mean, WTH??? It's not like I have a back up for this stuff somewhere!

Wonderful week

This has really been a great week! I won another giveaway but had not shared it yet because I had not been in contact with the person whose giveaway it was. I won the Day 11 giveaway at The DIY Club, it was a $50 gift certificate to Diane Timberlakes shop Celebrating Home. I have chosen to buy this with my certificate.


Isn't is pretty? I can't wait to get it!

And today, before I found out I won the Kreg Jig giveaway, I was at GW and picked up two matching oval mirrors. I have a few ideas for them but I am undecided right now. I know they are going to get a good coat of paint though. :)

So much to keep me busy! lol Oh and I had never won anything at all before this week!!!

I WON!!!!

Remember the other day when I posted here about the Kreg Jig giveaway at The Design Confidential??? Well I won it! Seriously! I won it! Can you tell I am sooo freakin' excited???? And yes, I am going to share it with Ed. lol

I can't wait to get it! Now I just need to decide what I am gonna build....any suggestions?

Show off your Crafty side Blog hop

Good afternoon!

Here's a great blog hop you should check out! You can share just about anything you want here from crafts to your Etsy shop! Go check it out!

Giveaway at Craftaholics Anonymous!!!

Linda at Craftaholics Anonymous is giving away a $50 GC to Hobby Lobby! I would LOVE to win!!! Go check it out here.

Painted curtains-tutorial

I thought about stenciling curtains for the library but decided that stripes would work well and take a lot less time. Seeing that I have 4 kids and 2 dogs running around my house doing this project quickly was a must.

What I used:

• 2 top sheets from Ikea ($9.00)
• painters tape (had it)
• Valspar satin black paint off the shelf (about $10.00)
• tape measure (had it)
• pencil (had it)
• plastic (had it)
• thread for sewing (had it)

I started out by buying twin size top sheets at Ikea for $4.50 each. I bought 2 and cut them in half, one sheet per window. I sewed up the side where I had cut them in half and hemmed them to the desired length.

When I was ready to paint them I laid plastic down on the floor in my breakfast area then laid down 2 curtain panels. This is all I could comfortably fit in this area. I measured out 8 inch increments all the way down then taped them using blue painters tape.

(Please excuse the icky pictures, my camera doesn’t get any better as it gets older. Hoping to afford a new one maybe for Christmas. )

Then I just rolled on the black paint and let it dry. Once they were dry I hung them up and repeated the process with the 2 remaining panels.

Don’t they look awesome? Even Jessica said they were cool and wants to know why I didn’t do her curtains that way. lol For about $20 they are pretty awesome! Maybe once the boys are in school full time I will try my hand at stenciling some panels. Maybe.

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