Gettin' My Craft On

This morning was a shock to wake up to the rumbling of the snow plow outside on my street. I got out of bed and was surprised to see several inches of snow on the ground!

Needless to say, the kids were ecstatic!

Sophie started begging to go outside before the sun was even up.

I finally gave in when the kids had to leave for school. She spent the whole morning outside.

She even got me to help her build a snowman.

Or two...

(the bigger snowman's parts are my wooden snowman kit I made last year & never got to use)

Later, after some hot chocolate, I started craftin'.

Today's project was fabric flowers.

I really want to learn how to make more fabric items, but the sewing machine intimidates the crap outta me. So for now, these will have to do.

I'm not a very good photographer. I blame my 10+ year old camera.

This was a $5 lamp at DI. I had the shade already (thanks mom!). When I bought the lamp it was an ugly brass, but I LOVED the shape. I had some white spray paint on hand, so...

Voila!

I wish I would remember to take before pictures too, but I'm always too impatient to start on the fun part.

I absolutely love this lamp. Someday it will probably be a fun yellow or something, but for now, the white is nice.