Letters From War

This is something I did a while ago, I folded up one of the letters Dust sent me from Iraq and stuck it in a frame. I love that ppl who come to our house can't read all the things he had to say, but that piece of our relationship is still on display. Obviously I know not everyone has a letter from a deployment, but I assume you at least have a post it note with a quickly scribbled "I love you". Every time I see it on my dresser it makes me feel so loved. Much better than sticking it in a shoebox :)

Turn an old bottle into a Vase!

 Today Miss Zoey was sick so as we watched cartoons for hours upon hours I decided to make some vases. You can use any kind of bottle! Don't mind the three with the bottoms unfinished, they sit on top of my bookcase so you can't tell. Lol. I figure this post was pretty self explanatory. All you need is something to wrap around the bottle (I have three yarn, and the gray one is some scrap Jersey knit material from a previous project) then left one plain because i loved the color of the glass.

The bottle on the far left I simply wrapped some yarn in a random pattern and then sprayed it with the same paint as the post below. I would NOT recommend using yarn. It was too thick making ridges in the paint and left little fuzzies. Tape or ribbon would have been a better idea. :)

Ugly Soap Dispensers?

 These are my soap dispensers, they were on sale for a dollar. Somehow I lost all my cute matching ones when we moved to TX and didn't want to spend the money to get new ones. They're ugly... esp when I refilled them with ugly orange soap.

 I was at Lowes the other day looking for paint to make an old coffee table into a bench (Exciting, yes? That post will be here once I get around to finishing it!) And saw this Paint, it's textured and looks like a rock. Then I started to get excited, my palms got sweaty like they do when I get into creative mode. Lol. It was a little pricier than I wanted (six dollars) but I could fix EVERY soap dispenser in my house with it! Also, I obviously dropped it, and cracked the lid. I blame my excited sweaty hands. :)

This is the finished project! Isn't it cute? The picture doesn't do it justice. But all you have to do is peel the labels off your old dispensers and spray! I actually love the shape, it looks like a little oval stone. And this was SO easy. I actually completed it when Paige was napping. Success. If you try this project be sure to show me pictures!