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Spring Chalkboard Fun

3/21/2016

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"Welcome Spring!"
Here in the Missouri Ozarks!
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Chalkboard art is easy, using these techniques.
***** Pictures below are from a previous blog*****
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I print my quip with my printer on a 12" x 12" paper, only because that size fits perfectly on my chalkboard.

Turn your print over and use the chalk on its side and rub the chalk over each word.

Then place your print right side-up on the chalkboard, sorry no picture for this. I tape my print onto the chalkboard. Trace the outline of the letters with a pen onto the chalkboard. Remove your print and fill in the letters with chalk on the chalkboard.
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Spring Topiaries

3/2/2016

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Easter is early this year, March 27th! Here in southwest Missouri the forecast is for warm weather, I am hoping that is true. I will take you on a little tour of my 2016 Front Porch here in the next couple of posts. The first post is these bright pink egg topiaries.

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​The plastic eggs are a set of three eggs within each other from Hobby Lobby (the pink ones are the ones on the outside and the largest). The green egg is inside the blue ones which are inside the pink ones. I will use these extra eggs for Easter fun for the grandchildren.
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Directions:
The eggs have a hole drilled in the bottom with a spade bit. The 1 inch dowel rod was painted and distressed and then pushed through the hole to the top of the egg. The dowel rod/egg is then set in plaster paris which is poured into a coffee can. The can is then set into the urns and covered with colored grass.

I bought these urns years ago and continue to change the topiaries seasonally. 

Here is a previous post of how I make the topiaries also:
​ http://www.shellknoblakegirl.com/milestones/fall-front-porch

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Finally a cute rabbit that looks like he is praying and Toby, my Wheaten Terrier.
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Plastic Bag Holder Tutorial

3/1/2016

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A plastic bag holder you can make in a couple of hours out of nothing but stuff you probably have around your home.
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Okay, be honest, is this how your storing your bags. Maybe one that has chili peppers on it that used to match your kitchen (10 years ago)! Yes, that was me. I've been going to replace it with something, but what?
​I started looking on Pinterest, maybe an idea would come to me? I saw a really cute one from a man's shirt and that's where I started. I wanted mine to be a little edgy but with some bling or girly stuff though.

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The ring off of a koozie. You can still use​ the koozie this way for a larger drink bottle.
A man's shirt. Of note I couldn't find an old shirt that was the color I wanted, so I did by this size 2X shirt at Walmart. An old dress of mine that I used to make the flower and a piece of old lace is laying on top of the shirt and dress.
An old shirt that I cut the lace off of the collar, just like what is going down the front of the shirt.
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Tutorial:
​Cut one of the sleeves off of the shirt.
​Cut from the underarm sleeve straight across. (Photo1)
​Turn the top of the sleeve over onto the inside of the sleeve about 1/4" and using a zig-zag stich, stich the top of the sleeve. (Photo 2)
​Place the ring of the koozie onto the top of the sleeve and hand stich the sleeve over the koozie ring. (Photo 3)
​I used part of the bottom of the shirt hem to make the loop that is sewn onto the back of the sleeve. (Photo 4)

Optional at this point: (Photo 5 and 6)
​I stitched on the lace from the white shirt onto the cuff of the sleeve and made two flowers (lots of tutorials on Pinterest on how to make flowers) a black/white flower and  one from leftover black lace.  
​I did place a button on the sleeve placket.
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Loving!!
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