Working on a few projects...

I have a baby shower of a friend coming up and this started me on a few projects.

I also really have started indulging my creative side since someone demolished my organized apartment.

So I started on a search of a new way to organize a few things. Mostly my shoes. I have extremely narrow doors and doorways and the only way I have successfully stored my shoes for the last seven or more years has been hanging pockets. It isn't so successful as cumbersome now. Haven't found many ideas as of yet... but my brain took many other journeys on my search so here I am with a few projects in a hand and a stained tee shirt on :D

Also my jewlery box is positively a disaster, so I am working on that as well. Throwing around ideas of vertically hung utensil drawers or making a miniature rack from pretty molding and small hooks. all painted the same color.

I grabbed a couple plaque shaped pieces of wood and wooden letters and brackets to make them hangable at hobby lobby. Then a sanding sponge and wood stain at Walmart.

I am painting the plaques lavender and have stained the letters American something its sort of a medium dark, which is why I am going with the lighter purple. I am going to glue them together with wood glue and put the brackets on the backs. so that she can hang them in the baby's room.

The second project is this square trunk I have. It was trash picked by my dad when we lived in Virginia. It is covered with a picture of a cat. Basically a wall paper material. Think, cheap, and damaged by water. So I ripped off the paper and am staining it with the same stain. It is cheapy material as well. Particleboard, so not as pretty as the plaque boards and wooden letters, but it is coming along nicely. better than a picture of a grandmotherly cat.

I will put up pix soon, but am not committing to that much work right now.

Adding to the creative mayhem I am going to a quilting shop tonight.

In other news, I am stalking blogs and subscribing with no abandon and thouroughly enjoying it. :D

Ever since the "break in" and my phone starting to malfunction leading me to delete a large game I have been attempting to be more adult like. Mostly in the cleaning department. Not that it has lead me to fold clothes. :/ But I feel very good about the direction this is going.

Keep you posted.