Creating a Chalkboard from an Old Picture Frame

I needed a place, to write all my goals, in my craftroom.

Did I mention, I didn't want to have to go buy anything?

Well, I did it! I made a wonderful chalkboard out of stuff I already had.

What do you think?

This was so easy to make and it turned out wonderfully.  Here's how you do it...

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Deployment Gifts

On Friday, my son's teacher contacted me to help her in honoring a student's step-father who is being deployed this coming weekend.  I was more than willing to help out.  The only problem is I was recovering from a nasty sinus infection and all creativity was out the window.  Thankfully, I asked many of your wonderful followers who were on Facebook for help.  The ideas that were shared were fantastic.  Thank you most of all to Sarah Hasse for giving me the ideas for the gifts I made!  I really appreciate it!

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Monogrammed Picture Frame Tutorial

I am still in the process of changing out much of the artwork in my living room.  It has been almost 10 years with all the same stuff.  Most of the artwork were lighthouses.  We had one picture that was a lighthouse and then everyone added to our collection and we were overwhelmed with lighthouses!

The first thing I switched out was a long frame that had pictures of lighthouses in it.  I found a beautiful collage family picture frame from Hobby Lobby to replace it.  I then used that long frame and made my Pray Picture Frame, which replaced another lighthouse decoration.

This past week, I replaced a lighthouse wall hanging with this Monogrammed Picture Frame that I have been wanting to make for a long time.

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Versatile Blogger Award

We are so thankful to receive for The Versatile Blogger award from  Doodles and Doilies!

We are very excited about our growth as a blog in the 10 months we have been blogging.  We both started blogging to share our love for crafting and cooking.  We've realized that growing a blog is a ton of work in addition to just maintaining, posting and of course crafting!

Thank you to all our followers on Google Friend Connect, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest!  We love it when you take the time to leave us a comment!  It makes us proud of what we are doing and thankful that our ideas aren't just being lost in cyberspace.

Here are the rules to accepting the Versatile Blogger Award:
1.  Thank the person who gave it to you.
2.  Share 7 things about yourself.
3.  Nominate 15 versatile blogs you have enjoyed lately

Thanks Erica for thinking of us for this award.  We really appreciate it!  Check out Erica's blog at Doodles and Doilies!

Let us share about both of us.

1.  We both love crafting and thanks to our supportive husbands we each have our own craft rooms.  Shannon's husband recently converted one of his three garages into a craft and holiday decoration storage room. There's still work to be done in there but she promises to share it with us soon.  Mine is a shared space with a couch and tv, plus I claim other areas and closets for my yarn needs.

2.  We are both lucky to have children that enjoy are crafting, cooking, and cleaning "habits"!

3.  We are both imports to Georgia.

4. We both have an older brother named Daren (Jill's) Darren (Shannon's).

5. We both have parents that have stayed married, to one another. Shannon's since 1964.  Jill's since 1963.

6. Shannon's favorite food is chocolate. She's just as happy with a Hershey's milk chocolate bar as anything fancy!  Jill's favorite food isn't a specific food but anything that contains butter, sugar, bacon or cream cheese.  You just can't go wrong with those can you?

7. We treasure our friends and family.  They add so much to our lives and we work hard to never take them for granted.

Here are the blogs we want to share with you:

Lemon Tree Creations

Eighteen25

Big Organic Life

Sarandipities

Auntie Lolo Crafts

Easy Makes me Happy

I am Momma Hear Me Roar

Pinterest Picks of the Week 9/22

It has been another great week on Pinterest.  I am amazed at all the wonderful things I can find on there.  I used to follow over 100 blogs, but I just don't have the time to keep up with them.  Pinterest helps me find the best of the best!

Love this jacket, I think my sweet Anna would look precious in this for the winter!  I need to get the pattern.

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A Great Halloween Decoration for Under $10!

Here's the "BOO" sign I created for under $10.

Here are the materials you need:

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Banana Bread

The smell of Banana Bread baking in the oven is a childhood favorite of mine.  Now, I am bringing that same love of Banana Bread to my kids.  If you have notice from my Sourdough Bread and Zucchini Bread recipes, I like bread, especially if it is melt in your mouth goodness.

My Mom has made this recipe for as long as I can remember.  She makes it anytime our whole family is together.  The recipes makes two loaves and both will disappear as quickly as you make it.  My poor mother didn't have a chance to let the loaves fully cool before us kids took a piece or two.

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Jack O Lanterns in a Jar... A Brilliant Idea

The drop in temperature has gotten me all excited about Fall.  I need inspiration for new Fall projects.  As I was cruising different blogs, looking for great ideas, I came across something absolutely adorable. Ashleigh, from Bee In Our Bonnet guest posted on eighteen25. This is what she made:

It's a Jack-o-Lantern in a jar.

She used various cookie cutters to create these great shapes.

She got Halloween inspired icing colors.

She decorated the cookies amazingly well.

She used orange paper plates to create the most amazing Jack-o-lanterns!

Don't you think these make the greatest gifts?  Ashleigh's label is printable from her blog.

I don't know if I'm patient or talented enough to decorate as well as Ashleigh, but I'm pretty sure my girls will think this is a great project.  I'm so glad they shared it with us!

Stay tuned, we plan to share many more of our favorite finds with you!