Salsa

Zephy grew a garden this year and planted 3 tomato plants for Scott (he is the only one who likes them).  Those 3 little plants went crazy! Scott would go out there and eat them off the vine like apples. I had a fridge full.  They were going off faster than we could use them so I picked them all and made up a big batch of fruit salsa.  We like it poured over chicken or fish then baked in the oven. So yummy!

more pots

ready to smash my printer for jamming up all that wax paper for transfers I thought surely my stampin' up would work just as well.  Yep! I like it even better.  I tried one in black ink but didn't like the way it showed up on my cream pot so finished the rest in brown. Love the leaves! Not sure I want to sell them! they are just too cute!

Another transfer idea.

I had seen Pottery Barn had these cute little white pots 1,2,3 for something close to $30 for the set.  Thinking "I could do that" I went to my stash and found all these brand new little clay pots I had been collecting at garage sales thinking the kids would make a craft with them.  So for 25 cents each I gave them some left over paint and printed out my transfer added some varnish and Tada! 75cents as opposed to $30! not bad! Then I saw the image for the cute vintage clock and thought I would give that a try.

Playing around with transfer

I read a blog where you can transfer any image from the computer to wood by printing it on wax paper.  Sounds easy.  Not so much! The transfer part is easy enough but have you ever tried to run wax paper through your printer?  So after messing around with bare wood I thought I would see how it went with painted wood.  So I went out to our woodpile and found this piece of left over 1x6. I printed the vintage turkey then found a nice Thanksgiving saying to go along with him.  distressed the whole thing of course and it's not too bad! P.S. the saying is "Thanksgiving was never ment to be spent on a single day"

Chalkboard signs

I picked a bunch of these easle things up at a garage sale for 10cents each.  Still need to spray them black.  Then I scored these cute little picture frames at a yard sale for 25 cents each. They had a reddish wood tone to them which you can see showing through so I just added black spray paint and distressed and painted the glass with chalkboard paint.  Now I have cute little (and they are little!) signs to use for labeling food or drink at our next BBQ! And all for less than 50 cents each!

New dresser

Forgot to take a before photo of the whole thing so here is the drawers.  I picked this up at a yard sale for $10. Good solid wood dresser but the inside was yucky and someone had done a poor job on trying to use a stain paint.  The knobs where cute though.

So I spent $6 on paint for the outside as well as inside the drawers to cover whatever yucky that was and a little country chick distressing an whalla! My new set of drawers!

4th of July

The 4th was pretty low key for us but we did go up to our friends on the hill and watch the town light off their money...I mean fireworks.  Zeph made this American flag treat as a snack.