Janet of All Trades

I am in full swing with fall now and can't stop making decorations with a pumpkin theme. My latest uses good old rick rack and spray paint to produce a Chevron Pumpkin. I started with project by pin pieces of rick rack to a piece of muslin. Then gave it a few coats of orange spray paint. Then removed the rick rack when it was dry. Lastly I traced a Pumpkin from the piece and sewed it to a old Dictionary page. Then framed in Black and it is perfect for Halloween! Enjoy! Linking up these parties!

A few weeks ago I found this four drawer mini metal cabinet at an awesome Estate sale. It measures about 6" x 6"x 8" and had four drawers with different space configurations inside each drawer. It was loaded with nails,nuts,bolts and some old bulls eye papers from the 50's. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I knew I could find a use for it. So when the weather was right I broke out the spray paint and painted it white. It took many coats but it looks great now and I even painted the inside each of the drawers.  And to add some interest inside I add just a little bit scrapbook paper to line each drawer. Plain paper for the larger drawer. Plain and striped for the other three drawers. They are the perfect size for thread,buttons or beads. The cabinet looks lovely with my sewing needs and rest on yet another newly painted metal cabinet that my Brother-In-Law gave me about a year ago. It had been patiently waiting for a fix up as well. It will be storing...

Do you ever have a multitude of projects that are not quite done or close to being done? Well I have a few that I hope to finish up this weekend and here is a sneak peek at what they look like to far. (1) Painted Metal The spray paint was out in full force last week and I just need one more coat to make this cabinet beautiful. (2) Train Case. Just a little deconstruction,Frebreeze and some new fabric and this train case will be a thing of beauty. (3) Pennants Just a little finishing work and these are ready for the Nephews! Can't wait to share them with you next week along with a tutorial as well! (4) New Etsy Logo Worked on this last weekend and still needs a little tweaking. Hope to change some item photos as well on the page as well. That is it for my Sneak Peak Weekend list and hopefully with the holiday I will get a few things done! Enjoy!

My list of projects keeps growing and this weekends list is a little bit of everything from sewing to spray painting. So let's see what is on the list the weekend. (1) Shift Dress. A cute dress from you can make this  that would work in the summer or fall. Let's see if my sewing skills are up to the task. (3) Box  of buttons. Found at an awesome estate sale last weekend. I have already made a few pieces of jewelry with them, but I have more ideas in the works. (3) Strips of leather. More leather that needs to be recycled in to what? I am not sure yet but it will surely be something amazing! (I hope). (4) Metal Chest. Another Estate sale find that needs a bit of a bath and a bit of spray paint. I am sure it will turn out to be a winner and great piece for storage. So that is the list with a little bit of everything! Enjoy!

I love recycling projects and now that summer is here I can be outside to paint,create and recycle. The most recent recycling project has been to find a use for leftover chip cans from my favorite snack and Krylon Dual Paint & Primer  Spray Paint in Gloss Leather Brown.  To start my project I needed just a few items from my craft stash and my garage. A few washers in different sizes, pony beads, single nail,hammer,glue gun and battery operated candles Next I took the nail and proceeded to make random holes in the chip can. Being careful not to bend or hit it to hard so as not to make any creases. After the cans were all full of holes, I next took washers and applied one to each hole with hot glue. Then I did the same with the pony beads. After the beads were all adhered, I sprayed each piece with a few coats of brown spray paint waiting about 25 minutes in between coats. It took about 3 coats to get the cans completely covered a long with the beads and washers.  Las...