Refresh Of A . . . Um . . . Thingamabob

As you can tell, I’m not really sure what to call this “thing” I picked up for $3.00 at our community garage sale about a month ago. 

It’s got two baskets {that lift up}and four hooks on the bottom.  I think it would be great to use in a kitchen displaying some dishes and holding either towels or aprons, in a bathroom with rolled up towels in the baskets, or even outside with the baskets planted with flowers and the hooks holding some small garden tools.

I wanted to give it a refresh because I wasn’t feeling that green color.  I sprayed it with Rustoleum’s Heirloom White 2x coverage spray paint.

I found a spot where I could hang it up and style it to give a few ideas for its use. 

I will ask my daughter if she is interested in it, otherwise it is going to the booth.

Linking up with

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

Tuesdays At Our Home at Our Home Away From Home

 

The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop

Welcome to The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop! The Creative HomeAcre Hop is hosted by me and,

Manuela from A Cultivated Nest

Mary from Back to the Basics and Mary’s Kitchen

Alison from Mumtopia

Andrea from Opulent Cottage

and Lisa Lynn from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

That means that when you link up your posts each week, they will be viewed by even more people! Each host will be sharing her own picks for Featured Bloggers. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured and increases your exposure to new readers. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured!

There were a few posts I was going to feature but there was no link back to the blog hop, so if you want to be featured make sure you have a link back to one of our blogs within your post.   

Tammy from My Little Corner of the Prairie shared a great wine cork project.

Cheryl from The Creative Me and My McG shared some lovely blooms in her garden.

You can find all the posts that I have featured on my Pinterest board, The Creative HomeAcre Hop Features.  Don’t forget to visit the other co-hosts to see who they have featured.  If you were featured, please feel free to grab the I Was Featured button!

The rules are simple for linking up:

1. Share up to 3 of your Creative Home posts featuring home decor, home cooking, eco-friendly crafts, your gardens, vintage finds, thrifty tips, objects d’ art, fiber arts and sewing, farm girl fashion, food preservation, photography, creative writing, and gardening helpers, hand made ‘wholesomeness’, and good ol’ fashioned homemaking news. Etsy sellers are welcome to share here, too.

2. Please link back to the hop in your post. If you don’t take a couple of seconds to do this, you won’t be featured. You can use the cute buttons, or you can use a text link in your post. Thanks for sharing the hop with others!

3. Please mingle! Visit a few of the bloggers posting. Don’t just link and run The whole point of a hop is to build a community of like minded bloggers who share and support each other.

4. You are welcome to link your archived posts here, as long as all of the content you share is your own.

5. Link your posts once. Please do not link the same post you linked last week! Let’s keep it fresh and fun!

6. By linking your posts here you are agreeing to let us share your post and images on social media and our blogs.

I’m really looking forward to seeing all of your inspiring posts!

A Quick And Simple Gift For The Baker

My son-in-law is a wonderful cook and a fantastic baker.  I don’t often get to taste his wonderful baked goods, {because I have Celiac Disease and am gluten free} but enjoy hearing the raves he gets from others who can.  For Father’s Day this year I wanted to put together a little something for him.  I took a mason jar that we already had on hand.  You can find these all over the place now {our supermarket is even stocking them}. 

I bought a bunch of packages of cupcake liners ~ five packages fit inside the jar perfectly.  I purchased a cupcake stamp from Hobby Lobby and stamped on a round of cardstock that I cut to fit the top insert of the jar lid.

Instant baker’s gift!  Now he will have plenty of cupcake liners on hand, all in one place and easily stored.

I should include a gluten free cake mix in with that to get some of his cupcakes that I can eat!

Prepping For The Mad Tea Party

Busy making preparations for this year’s annual Mad Tea Party over at A Fanciful Twist! 

Part of the preparations this year included making up t-shirts {and a onesie} for the party invitees.  We’ve got three other little girls {and one’s baby brother} joining in with my granddaughter for this year’s party and all four girls will be sporting Alice tea party tees!

I used this same graphic on all the girls’ shirts. 

Our little Dormouse will be wearing a onesie with this graphic ~ the March Hare and Mad Hatter trying to stick the poor Dormouse into a teapot.

I added the text underneath the picture, which is from the book.  You can find these images and many more on Pinterest.

We are hoping Saturday will be a nice day so that we can head to our location and take some pictures.

Rag Quilt Baby Gift

Last week, I showed you here where I was going to make my first rag quilt.  That post has some inspiration pictures and a link to the tutorial that I followed.  I wound up also following this tutorial, too, and went back and forth between the two as needed.  Here is the finished crib quilt.

I chose my fabrics based on the nursery theme that will be in this baby boy’s room. 

I think the hardest part of making this quilt {not really hard but time consuming} was cutting into the seamed pieces to create what will be that lovely raggy look.  Since I had enough fabric left over, I purchased a pillow insert and made a pillow to go with it.

I am actually ahead of the game and have my gift all ready before the baby has even arrived! 

I think a crib size quilt was a good first time project to take on.  I will have to get those spring loaded scissors before I make a bigger one!

Linking up with

Inspire Me Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Swing Into Spring at DIY by Design

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style

Be Inspired at Common Ground