crafty thoughts

I have to get back on the crafty "stick"....I've been slacking off....

My friend Mary has been busy though.....her husband had a fiftieth birthday party for her and she dressed like Cindy Lauper....

she made her outfit which was a skirt from goodwill that she decorated with shower scrubbers....you know the foofy girly kind that come in all kinds of colors....

well apparently when you pull them apart they are one continuous piece of netting.....she hooked those in multiple colors around the top of the skirt and then tied them onto the straps of her shirt....it looked really good.... :-)  she is so creative...

this is Mary and her sister Trina...so fun!

March Quilt Block

Quilting Anyone?

finally got my March quilt square picked up and done....now onto April's square....

Can't wait to get the whole thing finished.... :-)

Customized LightSwitch Plate

You can make your very own customized switch plate by

selecting a picture from a magazine....

thicker pages work the best

I tried to use white glue to decoupage the picture but

it was too wet and wrinkled the picture....

so I switched to spray adhesive. That worked much better...

you can get spray adhesive at  Walmart or Michael's

first trim your picture so that it fits on the plate and decide where you want the actual switch to be on your picture.  

Then lightly spray the switch plate and then and smooth

your picture onto the plate.....fold the edges over to the back side and then I sprayed about 4 light coats of clear coat on it....

to keep it from getting dirty...

you don't want to get it too wet or it will bleed through the picture...light coats are the way to go.  :-)

this is the glue mess....too wrinkly...

and when I tried to smooth it out....it ripped... :-(