Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Choose Happiness

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Treat your friends like family

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Christmas Countdown

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This design was created in 2008. 
You can find many variations out there... but here is the original!

Bloom

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Fun way to add color to your front porch.
Stacked pots with vinyl lettering.

Home

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Pray Always

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Through Him Who Gives Me Strength

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Creative Backgrounds

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A Woman Who Made History

Katherine Switzer made history and is known as the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. Her finishing time of approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes was nearly an hour behind the first female finisher, Bobbi Gibb (who ran unregistered).

She registered under the gender-neutral "K. V. Switzer". It was not done in an attempt to mislead the officials; she had long used "K. V. Switzer" to sign the articles she wrote for her college paper. 

Race official Jock Semple attempted to remove her from the race, and is noted to have shouted, "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers." However, Switzer's boyfriend Tom Miller, who was running with her, shoved Semple aside and sent him flying. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines.As a result of her run, the AAU barred women from all competition with male runners, on pain of losing the right to compete.

Switzer, with other women runners, tried to convince the Boston Athletic Association to allow women to participate in the marathon. Finally, in 1972, women were welcome to run the Boston Marathon officially for the first time ever.


How to Make Creative Backgrounds 

Step One: Find some old books.* 

Step Two: Use some Mod Podge to adhere the pages to your board. Put a coat both underneath and on top of the pages. 

Step Three: Scrape paint over the entire board and let the board dry. 

Step Four: Once it’s dry, put a layer of glaze over the entire board. 

Step Five: Apply your vinyl expression. 

*You can alo use sheet music, scripture pages or other meaningful papers to use as a background. 



Friday, July 27, 2012

Love

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Chair Makeover


Upcycle Furniture

Step One: First things first, you want to make sure your favorite piece of furniture is clean, so use a damp rag on all of the surfaces and let it dry.

Step Two: Once your furniture is dry, sand it lightly, then wipe off the dust.

Step Three: Grab some paint and paint the under color—this will be the color of the graphic when the piece is completely finished.

Step Four: Let the paint dry! This might take some time depending on humidity and temperature. Be patient.

Step Five: Apply your Uppercase Living® vinyl. Make sure you push it and smooth it over the curves of your furniture, so it looks perfect. If you need to, cut some darts in the transfer tape for proper placement.

Step Six: Grab some more paint and paint the top color!

Step Seven: Wait until the paint is almost dry, but still a little tacky to the touch.

Step Eight: Remove the Uppercase Living® vinyl carefully. You can use the edge of an XACTO knife to lift up the edge and peel off the vinyl.

Step Nine: Go to bed and let the paint cure overnight.

Step Ten: Distress your piece of furniture by sanding the edges to create a years-of-use effect.

Step Eleven: Wipe off any dust from your previous sanding efforts.

Step Twelve: Glaze the entire piece of furniture with a stain or antiquing medium and let it dry.

Step Thirteen: Apply two – three coats of polyacrylic to finish it.

Step Fourteen: Enjoy your furniture!






Dark Walnut Stain works great to antique. 

BIN primer is a great product.


Krylon gloss and semi-gloss is a great product to use when upcycling furniture.
Can be purchased at WalMart.
Rustoleum Painters Touch 2X can be found at Home Depot.


Great product for the finishing protective coat.




Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Beautiful Places

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Inspiration can come from many places... 
I love visiting my aunt's cabin by the Madison River in Montana.

The colors of nature are breathtaking and inspiring!






Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Looking Outward

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"Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Friday, July 13, 2012

Laundry Can Bring Blessings

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Moms serve their family in many ways!
Bringing blessings to their homes and families.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Love never fails

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Be You

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Be Kind to Everyone

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The Lord's Prayer

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One of my favorite designs ever...

When I was thinking about which words to highlight, I wanted to show that Our Father in Heaven will Give us what we need... He will Forgive us and help us to forgive others... He will Lead us to where we need to go and He will Deliver us.