My most recent find

Recently while out riding my bike one morning I came across a pretty cool find - well I thought it was cool anyway.  But by the time I had finished riding and got back home I had completely forgotten about it.

Then that same night I was online and saw something similiar that reminded me of the find earlier in the day.  I immediately got in the car headed back to the house where I had seen it and wrote the phone number down.  I returned home and called the number and talked to the sweet lady on the other end, had a brief conversation with her and was quickly headed back to her house (in the truck) to retrieve my treasure.

What is this treasure you ask?  Well here it is----

Is this cool or what?  I have been looking for one for some time.  I can't wait to start redoing it - although it is at the bottom of a long line of other projects. 

The best part of it - It. was. FREE.  The lady has more like this (and some of just the desk) that had been given to her for her homeschool and she just didn't have room for them anymore so she was downsizing.   She just wanted it to go to a good home.  If you look close you can see the hole in the top - you ask what that is for - it's for the ink bottle.  How cool is that?

Homemade birthday gifts

Sierra's friend Rachel (see previous post) recently had her 17th birthday. We wanted to do something special for her but wasn't quite sure what. We decided that we wanted to make her birthday gift this year. So we dug in the craft room for supplies I had on hand and came up with two separate gifts. The first was a keepsake box. We started with this:


And finished with this:

We did have to buy a few items: the tin and the flower on the front. Everything else I already had. Now Rachel has a box for all her "keepsakes" or "treasures".

Next it was on to this: I hate to admit it but this project cost exactly $.60 - don't call me cheap, just thrifty. I found the frame at a yard sale last fall for $.10 and just knew that it would come in handy for something - just didn't know what at the time. The letter was $.50 at Micheal's and the ribbon and the spray I already had on hand , so that cost doesn't count.

So this:

turned into this:

There is no back on the letter it just hangs there freely.