We bought this dresser for my daughter when she was a toddler (about 10 years ago) and it finally became to small to hold everything and since her desk was "little kid" size as well I took the dresser and turned it into a "big girl" (don't tell her I said that!) desk.


It turned out to be a lot easier than I expected, the hardest part was waiting for drying times. 
And since I used the hardware from the the dresser the only thing I had was the paint and polyacrylic.


She picked out the stencils and I used the paint we had leftover from painting her room:


I also gave her a chalkboard square (2 tablespoons unsanded grout and between 3/4 and a cup of any paint)


There are more progress pictures and information on my blog if anyone is interested.
http://yellowhouseon3rd.blogspot.com/2012/04/old-to-new-dresser-to-desk.html
Thanks for looking!

Since my husband is in the military we have moved away from many of your friends. One of my friends has been having a rough year and I wanted to be able to give her a hug. So I made her this and sent it out without telling her.



In addition to the rules/goals of the challenge I wanted to use more stash or personal items and do less shopping, so the blocks I used are actually mine from when I was a kid! The only things I ended up buying were the red paint and the glue. The short details: I spray painted all the blocks black, painted on the white and red details with acrylics, glued them around the frame, gave it a clear coat and inserted scrapbook paper into the frame (inserting the chocolates was the hardest, only because I wanted to eat them).



I made sure when I put it together that I did it right-side up so it could be used as either a small candy dish or as a picture frame.



My friend actually got it in the mail yesterday was was super surprised and happy! I love it when I can make someones day!

If anyone is interested in the how-tos of it I posted it in my blog: http://yellowhouseon3rd.blogspot.com/2012/02/random-acts-of-crafty-kindness.html

I finally made the cat plushies, the first thing on my list:

Love the zen garden and the orange and blue/green mini quilt!

Finished another thing not on my list, a travel changing pad:

It's been awhile since I posted anything, but I have been busy. And congrats to the May challenge winner!

First off I reconed the half used comp notebooks that the kids brought home at the end of the school year:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=350334.0

Then I tried out a few different patterns for market bags:

One pillow case:


Two pillow case (from instructables website):


The market bag from Joann's website;


Group shot:


I think I like the two pillow case one the best, it was easy to make and works good for the thin pillow cases that I seem to have a bunch of.

I finished one of the three sets of name letters I'm making, the A was a pain to stuff, so thinking about changing the font:


And the top of a novelty fabric lap quilt for a friend's birthday (I plan on finishing it this weekend):

I took all those half used composition notebooks that the kids bring home from school at the end of the year and turned them into travel notebooks for our cross country trip.

For those of you that may not know what notebooks I'm talking about here's a before pic:


I kept two sets of covers and all the unused pages. And added to that some calender pages from last year and a ribbon. After spending lots of quality time with a hole punch, and a sore hand later, the final product:



Thanks for looking!

Love the crochet work!

First project of June is done. My hubby got me a DSI XL (bigger then reg DSI) for my birthday and being unable to find a case I liked I made one. Don't mind the lopsidedness, straight lines and I don't get along well, but I'm working on it!

All closed up outside:


And the inside:

I've been making fabric bowls over the past few days and after my first one, full of mistakes, I developed a new addiction. I made two more bowls and then "had" to make lots of coasters. And now I'm out of rope. 

The learner bowl:


Two shots of the other bowls:



Coasters:

Two more things done, or at least caught up, since scrapbooking is always on going.

I updated my husband's Army life scrapbook, so now it's up to date. Two of the many pages:



And I started a "because I'm the mom" scrapbook of all the things my kids have given me over the years. Here's the first page:

Love the bath goodies! And the cupcake bag, really wishing I could knit or crochet, with out throwing everthing across the room after a few minutes, after seeing all the great work everyone on here has done.

I managed to finish two more things,  two stenciled shirts for my son
and two Rapunzel scarves, one is an Xmas present the second one was because my "darling" daughter just had to have one too!