This past weekend

Its been a few days since my last blog post, I know.

I am not sure why, but I have it in my head blogging is not for the weekends. I know thats crazy, and occasionally I may break that mentality, but really...don't people need family time away from all of it? Maybe its just me...

Life with my husband home 24/7 is different. I really can't complain, because the truth is we are blessed.

I never thought about it until we talked about it this weekend, but in the past 3 1/2 years, we haven't spent so much straight time together. He was deployed for 9 months, went directly into recruiting school for 8 weeks, and then we moved for recruiting duty where he worked 80 hr work weeks...
 the fact is, its been about 3 years since we had to "live" together daily...for days...consecuctive days.

We are learning a lot about the way we are...and now we have kids! Whew!
Anyway, this past weekend was fun, as I got to go to IKEA and get 2 shelves to make myself a crafty corner. My poor kitchen table won't be abused anymore by my paint and glue everywhere ;)

What this also means is, I will have a place to devote to my online shop reopening soon. It will be small, and some new and old things I have done will be in there. Since my free time really comes after 8pm everyday, it will be small, but a joy.

Take a peek! ....I tried to utilize every space I could without it looking cluttered. I inserted dowels into these leftover holes to store my tapes and ribbons!



                  

It is perfect for me, I think. I am thankful to get any space in this house!









Also, I got to go to a friend's house and attend her drawing worshop, where she taught us about perspective. We practiced a lot of 3D-looking figures such as boxes, and pyramids. I am not a drawer at all, but it was fun to learn some new "perspective" about how drawings can be!

This week I will show you more of what I have planned for LifeCreated....a professionally done blog makeover...shop opening, and more :)

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I LOVE IKEA

In my mind, thanks to my 2 year old, IKEA is now known as the "blue castle with meatballs". In my house I have MANY IKEA things...bookshelves, rugs, fake flowers, picture frames,pots.....you name it!! Ive always wanted one of their couches, but for some reason, my husband isnt with me on that one.
Thanks to pinterest, there are many ikea-insprired projects out there........here is mine:
Yesterday we ventured 10 minutes down the highway to IKEA to explore and to find these:

I have quite a few recipe books/magazines that had been sitting on my IKEA bookshelf also in my kitchen, and was tired of having the messy bunch visible.
IKEA sells several kinds of these magazing holders, but the wood ones are most durable, and can easily be painted.

Don't want to paint? Decorate the fronts with wallpaper pieces cut from your favorite pattern...cut the strips to fit the fronts, and when all of the cases are placed side by side, the patterns allign.

Here is the way I painted mine...with my daughter's help on the first coat of white.
(Pardon the low-quality pictures....90% of my crafting time is at night :) )

I love my little $2.99 flower pot!....and I love hiding all of my recipe books too.

I would have found so many more things there to explore, but I remembered I had left 2 candles lit at home! I left in a hurry.............
What do you love from IKEA?

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