Little things that help

Here is a typical look into the family bathroom on most days. 

(Don't judge me by my 1960's bathroom floor)

 I bought and decorated four cute hooks, one for each of my kids.  They have my kids' first name initials so I would know which hook belonged to whom.

  I also hung them low so there was no excuse for them not hanging their towels up.  It is probably the design of the peg, but the towels don't always like to stay hanging... I have lived this way for 8 years and finally decided that enough is enough.  Something had to be done to help these towels stay put.  I have actually known what to do for some time but I finally got around to doing this little, tiny really, project to make life a little bit neater. 

 I measured a generous amount of ribbon to sew to the middle of the length of each towel.  I folded the end of the ribbon under and stiched it in place.

Easy peasy and done in just a couple of minutes. 

  Ahhhh! I love neat!

Moss covered letter

Although it just snowed last night and all the decorations have been taken down - I'm not saying they have been put away, but...  anyway, it was time for a springy project.  I saw this project done on the beautiful blog Dear Lillie last year.  I had gotten a box of paper backed moss through Freecycle before Christmas.  Freecycle is a program where you can offer and request things through an email group.  It's done to keep still usable items out of the landfills.  The groups are localized so that you are not travelling far.  So someone offered this paperbacked moss and I responded as fast as I could so I could eventually do this project. 


So now I had all my supplies for my project.  The back of the letter is cut out of a pizza box.

I cut a template out of newspaper.  As you can see the H is a little wonky but I figured the moss would cover alot of imperfections. 

Once the letter is cut out,

I laid the H on the back of the moss. 

I was going to cut right around the H but decided to make some cuts in the paper to fold it around to the back.  Since the paper was really brittle, probably old but since it was free to me I can't complain,  I spritzed the front and back of the paper to soften it a little bit.

While it was sitting for a minute and the glue gun was warming, I spritzed my poor fern who is neglected in the winter.

Once the glue gun was hot I just glued the moss onto the cardboad and folded over the edges as shown below.

A couple of spots were missing moss so I just took some extra moss and hot glued it in place. 

I'm so pleased with the end result.  I have tons of the paper backed moss left and need to think a some projects to use it.

Happy New Year!

This is the year.  Is this the year?  I think this is the year I will get it all together.  Right?  Things seem to be working out great for me.  I got a laptop this year for Christmas.  I have always hated disliked sitting in our"computer" room.  So, with my laptop I will be able to sit wherever I want to.  Right now I am sitting by the window in the library.  It's so calm here.  Not to mention the laundry isn't nearby waiting to be folded, the dishes in the dishwasher waiting to be put away, the dogs wanting another walk.   So I am happily starting 2012.  Not to mention we have a great year ahead of us.

New Year's Eve 2011 at The Tinker's Son

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