Trading Tuesdays

Welcome to the first Trading Tuesdays! This is when I swap blogs with a fellow blogger. So go check me out @Dots Azules and give a warm welcome to Stina!

Hello crafty moms and new friends!  My name is Stina and today I'm am so excited to be doing a blogswap with Shannon and getting to share a recent project with you all.   

I love things to be beautiful, but I also believe that beauty should have a reasonable price!   I love garage sale shopping, Craigslisting, getting a good bargain...AND using what I have already.  Make it known to friends and family that you're always looking for materials for crafts and you will be surprised what they will share with you!  Old furniture, left over paint, light fixtures that you can paint and reuse...just think of the possibilities!  

Today's project was helping my cousin G with a set of vinyl children's couches that she got at a garage sale.  

I'm sure the people selling them had considered just throwing them out since the seats were torn and dirty.  Well, G saw the potential, got them, cleaned them up and gave me a call.  

She had considered taking them all teh way apart, removing the vinyl, recovering the wooden frame with new stuffing and then using som awesome chocolate brown upholstry material...and maybe some of you would be up for that task...but I am a "Get it done quick" kind of crafter so we cut patterns out of some scrap cloth of how we thought we could cover them whole using two pieces of cloth.  We used dowells that we cut to fit in the cracks between the sides of the chairs and the seat cushion.  

You can see one sticking out here (they were completely hidden when we were done).  These held the fabric to the seat in place.  Then we used a staple gun to attach the fabric to the back and underneath.  We also got some nice furniture tacks from Lowes for the back, they helped to keep the fabric flat as well as added something extra to the chairs.

I loved this project because we took some old chairs that were on their last leg and gave them new life to be enjoyed by a new family, we did it quickly (becuase we all already have TOO MUCH to do in our lives) and we did it cheap (because there are enough things eating away at the checkbook without letting our love of projects and decor add to it)!  

Thank you for reading, I hope you'll visit me in the future at Dots Azules and THANK YOU SHANNON for letting me swap with you today!

Happy Crafting!

Wasn't that project amazing?! Thanks again Stina for the fantastic idea! Make sure you fantabulous readers go check this and more projects out on her blog. Enjoy!

SCS Favorites!

Hello my Fantabulous Followers! I am so happy with how the very first Super Crafty Sunday turned out and can't wait to do it again next week! Here are some of my favorites:

Jennifer @The Magic Brush turns an old picture frame into a creative, cute and useful chalkboard.

Cheryl @Sew Can Do finds an ingenious way to turn those outgrown newborn clothes into bigger size clothes for your kids to wear longer!

Debra @Jeremiah 29:11 made this adorable house number plaque.

Thanks again for linking up to the first ever Super Crafty Sunday. If I featured you make sure to grab my button! :)

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Red, White, & Bloomin'

Hello! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend with your family! We had a lot of fun and I am sad to see it end because that means another week of the hubby being in school all day long and studying all night. Even though it is hard this is going to be great for our family and we are 3 weeks down and 13 weeks to go!!! Now on to something great!

Anytime I hear something about the military my ears perk up. As most of you know my hubby got out of the Marines in August so now I have gone from a Marine Wife to a Veteran's Wife. Well I am excited to say that Outback Steakhouse has added a new portion to their menu called the Red, White, & Bloomin'. Here is what Outback says:

"Order off our limited time Red, White and Bloomin' menu in the month of March and help us donate $1,000,000 to Operation Homefront. Select from our two new steak and shrimp combinations: the Outback Special® or the Victoria's Filet® & your choice of shrimp (Grilled Shrimp on the Barbie, Gold Coast Coconut Shrimp, or Shrimp Scampi) as well as many of our signature items. Operation Homefront provides assistance for our troops, their families, and wounded warriors when they return home."

What I am asking is that next time you are thinking about going out to dinner with your family, try and go to Outback. I know it is a little more expensive than most places but not only will you get mazing food but you will be helping a wonderful cause supporting military families. Thanks!

P.S. I would love to put together an appreciation/military support slideshow that would be uploaded to youtube for everyone to see. If you have any pics that you would like to donate please e-mail me at onecraftymommy@yahoo.com with the subject sldieshow. Thanks.

First Ever Super Crafty Saturday!

Hello Fantabulous Followers and welcome to the first Super Crafty Sundays! Normally I would open up the list on Saturday night but we were gone all day yesterday and church this morning, so here it is now. The list will stay open later since I am posting so late so it will be available to submit your links until tomorrow, Monday March 8 at 8:00p.m. PST. So I want to see anything crafty you have done lately. Here are some guidelines:

-Grab our party button below so everyone can get in on the fun.
-Include your name and the name of your site.
-Link to the specific post, not the main page of your blog.
-Have Fun!!!

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Baby Shower Gifts

Happy Saturday! Now that the baby shower is only an hour away I wanted to share with you what I am giving the mommy and daddy to be! (Just in case she reads my blog lol) Here is the complete present:

In the box we have a blanket I made (This is the first one I have made):

On top of the box is this bucket I decorated (The bottom is painted with ribbon and button embellishments. The top is covered in fabric:

Inside the bucket we have bottles:

Burp Cloth:

Name sign I made:

Hair bows I made:

And the hand made card:

I hope you enjoyed seeing those as much as I enjoyed making them! Now I'm off to the baby shower!

Even More St. Patricks's Day Decor

Happy Happy Friday! I hope you all are having a fantastic start to the weekend. I know I am because y hubby is home all weekend and we get to go to a baby shower tomorrow which should be so much fun! I will show you all the things I made for the shower soon but tonight is about more St. Patrick's Day Decor. With only 12 days left until the big day I hope you have all started decorating, but if not here are some crafts for you!

Adorable Blocks that you can use year round from Curly Q Crafts:

A tissue paper shamrock that is both clever and crafty from  Under The Table & Dreaming:

The most adorable and versatile seasonal wood blocks from Whimsi Kel. By making these 10 blocks you can make more than 30 words for all year long:

So there are so more fantastic ideas for St. Patrick's Day and more! Enjoy!

My Little World Blog Feature

Happy Friday! I hope all you fantabulous readers are having a great day in anticipation of the weekend! Even though it is supposed to rain here in "sunny" southern California it will still be a fantastic weekend! Speaking on fantastic, today I am here to introduce you to an amazing fellow blogger Melissa.

Melissa has the adorable blog My Little World: choo-choos, cars & lipgloss. She is a very happy and busy Mommy to two adorable little boys, Aiden (3) and new baby Holden and a loving wife to a great guy, Matt. They just moved from a small town in east Tennessee to the Nation's capital! She is currently trying to finish grad school and has been given the wonderful opportunity to be a stay at home mom for the next year or so.

Her blog is filled with everyday moments that we all have been through but almost every post I am cracking up. Especially when she posts pictures like these:

Aiden put on a movie for Holden to watch!  I could not stop laughing thinking this is so something my daughter would do if she had a younger sibling!

Each day she seems to bring laughter to her readers which is what I love about her blog. I hope you will all take the time to go on over and say hi to Melissa. Enjoy!