Ideas...

I need some input here people!  Firstly, I would like a new name for my blog.  I like to DIY/Craft/Design stuff but it needs to be catchy, but not gimicky.  

The other thing is a project I recently undertook.  I refinished our coffee table because the top was rather beat up from years of abuse.  I've painted it but it still needs some help because the wood filler wasn't sanded down that well and it gets used as a dinner table almost every night so water and food landing on it is inevitable.  I was thinking first of tiling it but realized that may become rather expensive and very time consuming.  

My next thought was that I could use an acrylic bar top coating over some river rocks.  This may be relatively economical and look quite stunning.  This is a picture of some grey/black river rocks that I picked up at Target to test out.  5 lbs of rocks does not seem to go very far!  But I'm still debating it.  My hubs isn't sure about the boarder I would need to create in order to keep the acrylic from over flowing.  If I can work out a way that I could use the boarder but then take it off once the acrylic has solidified that may be even better.  

Finally, I think the house needs more greenery.  I have shyed away from it in the past because of all the animals in our house but I'm hoping that it may help filter the air a bit more to give a fresh smell.  Maybe I'm completely crazy but I think it will help.  This is my first plant idea. 

The current state of the living room.

With our new ficus!

Just a little photoshop magic to help me decide.  

January Project

Now it doesn't take me a whole month to make my projects but it does take that long to post them.  

This is what I used to organize some of my crafting supplies.  There are many other places in the house but I like this because it is mobile and stores things nicely.  What I don't like is that its kind of ugly and you can see everything in it, especially when its out and around the house.  So I had some left over fabric from a table cloth I bought at Target and made this...

Pretty cool slip cover if I may say so.  To make this I placed the fabric on the drawers upside down.  Then I pinned it all together at the seams, which are around the top three corners and one long seam down the back in the middle.  I then simply sewed it together.  It was a bit trial and error at first.  My sewing skills are coming along slowly.  


I had enough fabric left over to make the pillow in this picture below.  

I'm going to try to post more projects as I go along, but since I'm working on finishing up my masters degree things might take a while.  


Until then,


~J