So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, adieu...

Sad day for the record books. My two cats, Luna and Sol, have destroyed my pie stand and my darling little lemon pitcher. They will remain sheer figments of my imagination.

Luna on the right, Sol on the left. Getting into trouble but being caught in the act!

How can you be mad at those faces?

NOTE TO SELF: Don't display anything glass in house for the clumsiest cats in the world to demolish. Point taken.
I suppose an upside to this is finding replacements! The hunt is ON!

You are my sunshine...Family, Art, & Lucketts!

What a fantastic weekend I had! It was so busy, but that kind of busy that keeps you buzzing on Monday, because the previous two days were so stinkin' fun!
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Saturday mornings is when I go into super-woman-cleaning-mode! Cleaning from the baseboards to the shower drain and everything in between. This is also when I find myself noticing the things in the apartment I want to change or enhance. Like our laundry room, its a little nook that's off the hallway that leads in from our doorway, so it's the first thing people will see when they come through the door. This bothered me because who wants to see our dirty laundry? No one. I had found a shower curtain a while back at Target that was on sale for under $5.00 and a left over shower rod that had traveled with us for this exact purpose (not). To boot, I had just recently found some curtain hangers at Joann Fabric for under $2.00. Throw all these together, and what-a-ya get?

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This was just the beginning, because once you get me going, there's just no stopping me! So to the thrift store I went! Just call  me bargain-opolis because I made out like a bandit! Let's see; 2 bolts of fabric, 4 candle stick holders, 6 plates, and 2 matching solid wood side tables, all for 25 dollars! All purchases are to be used in future projects. One project I fulfilled within this trip; I introduce you to my PIE STANDS made from candle stick holders and vintage plates:

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Next it was off to the Mechanicsburg Art and Wine Walk with my MIL, Kathy. What a beautiful day it turned out to be! After a week of nothing but rain we lucked out by having a full day of SUNSHINE! It was nice supporting the local artists and businesses! So many cool places, people, and finds! By far two of the coolest shops were my Aunt and Uncles Violin Shop and Gallery and The Lavender House. Mechanicsburg sure does have some hidden gems!

Kathy and I starting at my Aunt and Uncles Shop

Teapot Collage in the garden out back of the Lavender House

Pretty Tibetan Prayer clothes fluttering in the wind

My husband joined me<3

Small world: The lady on the left is the mother to one of the designers for a clothing line by Kohl's Department store. She comes out of the trellises and remarks to Kathy, "nice shirt", and proceeds to tell Kathy about her daughter and how she got the shirt fresh off the press for mother's day, before it went out for public sale! Can you say, "whoa"?

Saturday ended with a always delicious dinner at the Bostic household when the spontaneous plans for a trip to Lucketts was planned for early Sunday morning. Smiles all around!

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Oh Lucketts, there are no words to describe my infatuation with you, you never let me down! So much inspiration packed into one tiny section of Virginia!

Project ideas galore! I focused in on two projects, well tried to anyway. You will see I failed, but more projects=happier Sarah! If you could have seen my mind gears a-turnin', I sure was in rare form! I fell in love with a pillow from the get go, hah, yeah, you heard me right. It just wasn't any pillow, it was a pillow made from a vintage feed bag! The feed bag was from "Stickell's", a feed company out of Hagerstown, MD. There were vendors selling empty feed bags so-a-sewin' I will go! 

Bought a book of poems entitled "Sunshine and Shadows" finding it fitting for all the right reasons! But then I step foot into the Lucketts store and find this:

My rendition will be slightly different and about $50 cheaper:). I bought a $5 hanging plant holder, took the mossy stuff out of it, and will hang the pages from my poem book from it. Take a look:

Sunlight and Shadow

The bowl is upside down, I'll flip it when I do the project! Final pictures to come!

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Too many ideas to pile into one blog! There are projects in my head to last me for ages! These will do for now:).

 

"There is some sun, let us chase it!"--Sense and Sensibility

Well, today reminding me so much of scene from a favorite childhood film, "Sense and Sensibility".  In this particular scene, To try and escape whatever gloom is lurking from her father's recent death, Marianne takes a dash for the hills with her younger sister. When a storm approaches sans run, they spot a hole of sunshine in the clouds that give them a glimmer of hope, hence, "there is some sun, let us chase it!". That glimmer of hope is all lost as Marianne stumbles and twists her ankle, unable to "catch the sun". The happy ending that Hollywood always promises us was the sun catching Marianne in the form of a man. Not just any man; a handsome, strong, dashing man, who sweeps her off her feet and carries her to safety.
Without delving into too much detail about my day, let's just say the scene from "Sense and Sensibility" was a grand metaphor to the day I had. 
There isn't a thing that a good game of Scrabble can't fix! Plus Scrabble letters make fantastic DIY art! Don't have a Scrabble game at home, or don't want to use the tiles you have, ordering the tiles from Hasbro isn't difficult at all! You get an entire bag of 100 letters for $6.50 plus S&H. I'd recommend getting 2-3 bags depending on the words or sentences you want to create!

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Nest yourself a little SuNsHiNe

Nothing says "bring it on spring" (and all the sunshine you have to offer, please) than a charming little necklace to grace a mother's neck! It's easy!

Make one yourself! CLICK HERE!

Inspired by the Rain

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain”

I'm singing in the rain today because I just found out about one of the greatest craft sites online! Don't let the rainy weather bring you down! This website gives you a plethora of reason's to dance in the rain, and to show up with your own sunshine!

From trash to treasure

Our paper towel tube collection at school was stacking up faster than I could think of projects to whip out with the kids, so I took a few home with me. And by a few I mean like 30 paper towel tubes, leaving a nice collection yet at school. Most would just trash these, but no sir-ree, not this lady!
A website a great friend of mine shared with me shows an awesome project you can do with the rolls I have. You can use any kind of rolls; toilet paper rolls, wrapping paper rolls, or in my case, paper towel rolls is what I am choosing to use. This great friend of mine that I spoke of (who gave me the website I'm going to share with y'all) her name is Crystal Elworth, and she and her sweet family moving into a new pad at the end of the week. 30 Paper towels will go a long way, so she's going to get a housewarming, homemade, piece of home decor that has sunshine written all over it! The end project will be very similar to the image below, except I'm spray painting it yellow!

www.designsponge.com

Keep It Simple Sunshine (KISS)

I was given advice from a very close, dear friend, that I needed to start a blog to chanel all my creative thoughts and actions.  Hm...where to start? Check back later, you will not regret it:) PS. Go! Quick! KISS someone you love, and don't regret it. It's simple. And full of sunshine;)