OH! You want a CLOSER look? OK! (Good thing I had my close up filter on the camera!)
I just LOVE those...in your face...(I mean stamen)...kind of pictures! LOL!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Garden In June!
The garden is gorgeous right now! All of the summer flowers are blooming! I just wish it wasn't too hot to go out and enjoy them more! I had sweat rolling down my face, just trying to take a few pictures!
OH! You want a CLOSER look? OK! (Good thing I had my close up filter on the camera!)
I just LOVE those...in your face...(I mean stamen)...kind of pictures! LOL!
OH! You want a CLOSER look? OK! (Good thing I had my close up filter on the camera!)
I just LOVE those...in your face...(I mean stamen)...kind of pictures! LOL!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Glass Etching With Cricut Machine & Vinyl!
I saw this really cute idea, that I fell in LOVE with, while visiting Living With Lindsay's blog. She put her dish, and hand soap into olive oil bottles and sat them next to the sink!
She boosted the "WOW" factor by sitting them on a white dish and adding a tiny vase of fresh cut roses. How COOL is that? Check out her blog to see her version of this fun project!
Well, I had been buying the smaller bottles of soap, and then refilling them, because you could see my kitchen sink area from the living room, and I really didn't like seeing the taller plastic bottles over the top of the counter. It was not attractive AT ALL! So, I decided to make my own pretty soap bottles!!
Because our dish and hand soap are both purple (or slight variations of it) I decided to take my bottles a step further by etching on the fronts of them. I made a stencil for the "H" and the "D" out of vinyl on my Cricut machine. Then I put the stencil on the bottles and applied the etching cream on top of it. I let it sit for about five to ten minutes, and washed it off! TA DA! This is the final result! I totally LOVE the way they turned out!
This one is a little blurry, but I wanted you to see the letters better, so I moved the flowers off the plate, and sat them on the counter.
And, the bottles by themselves.
I will definitely need to dilute the soap down some, but I wanted to fill them up high enough to see the color behind the letters.
The letters were cut using the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. I found the bottles at Old Time Pottery. They were sold as a set for $4.99! You can't beat that!
She boosted the "WOW" factor by sitting them on a white dish and adding a tiny vase of fresh cut roses. How COOL is that? Check out her blog to see her version of this fun project!
Well, I had been buying the smaller bottles of soap, and then refilling them, because you could see my kitchen sink area from the living room, and I really didn't like seeing the taller plastic bottles over the top of the counter. It was not attractive AT ALL! So, I decided to make my own pretty soap bottles!!
Because our dish and hand soap are both purple (or slight variations of it) I decided to take my bottles a step further by etching on the fronts of them. I made a stencil for the "H" and the "D" out of vinyl on my Cricut machine. Then I put the stencil on the bottles and applied the etching cream on top of it. I let it sit for about five to ten minutes, and washed it off! TA DA! This is the final result! I totally LOVE the way they turned out!
This one is a little blurry, but I wanted you to see the letters better, so I moved the flowers off the plate, and sat them on the counter.
And, the bottles by themselves.
I will definitely need to dilute the soap down some, but I wanted to fill them up high enough to see the color behind the letters.
The letters were cut using the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. I found the bottles at Old Time Pottery. They were sold as a set for $4.99! You can't beat that!
Monday, June 08, 2009
WICKED Clouds!
This is what we saw when storms came through earlier. The pictures of the clouds are straight out of the camera. They are not black & white, and they haven't been touched up at all. Pretty WICKED!
This sign is beside the highway. This is the area that funnel clouds were reported.
From what we have seen on the news, areas just a few miles Southeast of the highway were hit up pretty hard. We haven't ventured out that far.
This sign is beside the highway. This is the area that funnel clouds were reported.
From what we have seen on the news, areas just a few miles Southeast of the highway were hit up pretty hard. We haven't ventured out that far.
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