Keeping Busy

Hello everyone! Thursday tomorrow...one day closer to the weekend. I know we are not suppose to wish time away...but...it has just been a busy week. A lot of picking up and dropping off. Getting to the gym to workout..and still have something good on the table for supper. We have two sick little boys again. Coughs and runny noses...I am just sick and tired of everybody being sick and tired! I am ready for us to all be well again! Me included...I am coughing now too...Ugh!

I did find some time to do a couple quick projects and I do mean quick! These were both easy and fun! The first project I did was make some prim grungy eggs. An idea I got from one of my forum friends! Finally got them made...with Easter being right around the corner I wanted to have them done. I am really happy with the way they turned out. Some of you may already know how this project is done but for those of you who don't I will give you a brief rundown. You just start with simple plastic Easter eggs....the ones that snap open and closed. Then I took Modge Podge and brushed it on the eggs....cut cheesecloth squares (that I dyed in coffee first) and stuck it to the eggs. Then I brushed Modge Podge over the cheesecloth and then I rolled the egg in cinnamon and apple pie spices! My little boy said "what's smells so good Mom"?! :) And that is it....done and done! And they do smell good..all evening my family has been asking me "What smells so good in here". I tell them to "go look in that bowl over there"! Haha! Here's how they turned out. Notice the little blackened beeswax animals in the bowl too...those are from a great website called Gramma Frans Fixins The little bag of animals included a couple bunnies, a lamb, a rooster, a horse and a few others...oh they are so cute~ so I thought I would toss them in with my eggs~

Time for something different...again! :) I had some little green apples in this bowl on my doughboard. I switched them out for some blackened prairie cakes (also from Gramma Frans Fixins) And I also switched the braided cloth out underneath for this little stitchery with houses and trees on it. I am constantly changing and rearranging!

My next project was a set of shaker boxes. I got this set of paper mache boxes from JoAnns Fabrics. I didn't take a before picture...But here are the after pictures. I took one picture with the flash on because it showed the detail so much better and I took one picture with the flash off because I like the softer colors.

Flash on~

Flash off~

I have one more set of paper mache boxes....the next size bigger than these...can't wait to do those too!

That is about it for me this time. I have so many ideas in my head and so many things I want to get done...but unfortunatly there is not enough hours in a day. And the more projects I get done..the higher my stack of laundry gets! :( Speaking of laundry..that is what I am off to do now! Until next time. Take care. ~Sarah~