Hanging out with wood and Mod Podge

Last night I worked on three projects involving wood, mod podge, and my stash of scrapbook stuff. First, I did a quick Easter project. I found this egg shape at the Dollar Store. I had envisioned getting all fancy with layering and ribbons, but then I found one piece of scrapbook paper that was already layered for me. I guess I'm a simple girl at heart.I needed a little help seeing what it would look like, so I cut a template out of scrap paper before, I cut out the real paper and used mod podge to attach it. I should have bought three more to make a little set, but oh well.

Remember this board?? Well, sometimes being cheap works out and something it doesn't. I didn't want to buy jumbo clothespins, so I used regular. Then they all fell apart. So I broke down and bought some.
And while I was there I bought a couple more of the bigger kind to decorate for picture holders:
Nothing too exciting, but these were my project this week.

Important Papers Board

Please tell me that I'm not the only one who gets piles like this:

Whatever happened to a paperless society? Anyway, sometimes in my pile of important papers, the most important ones get lost easily. Imagine that.

When I saw this board I knew exactly what to do with a board I had with vinyl letters that no longer matched my decor. I'm not going to use it for drying art projects though. I'm going to put the most important of the important papers on this board. And they will stay there until I don't need them anymore. Notes for events at school, this weeks recipes etc. etc.

To make, I just painted the color I liked, sanded the edges slightly, and used Mod Podge to adhere some cute cut-outs I had in my stash. Then I add paper to the front of some clothespins and used my GLUE GUN to glue those onto the board.

Don't mind the hand. It probably won't actually be hung on my wall until my husband is done with his busy time. But, I had to check #4 off my list. Because isn't checking things off of your list the best-virtually or not!

Gobble Gobble Gobble

It's kind of a late post, but when I went to my parents house for Thanksgiving and she had made the cutest thing.

Isn't it just so cute! If you go to http://www.thewoodconnection.com/ they have these wood letters you can buy along with a whole bunch of really cute ideas!! Click on the wood crafts tab and watch the slide show. You won't be sorry!!!