50's gaming table

While junking in Vegas...only me...right?  I found this 50's game table.  It has presidents up to Truman and spaces that I think once had cars to move around.  It also has the multiplication tables.  I certainly don't need another table but it was just too cool to resist so I brought it home and took off the hinges.  Now it's a magnetic board!

Cricut stencils

I made this apron for my beautiful daughter, Bri who is working as a cook at a camp this summer. My family has a passion for word plays, so they were a must for this project.  

I started by cutting shapes  from the kitchen cartridge.  Then I laid wax paper over the shapes I was not using and sponged paint into the area I wanted.  You can see that I goofed and went outside the line.  Luckily for me, I was able to rub it off.  I used plain old craft paint.  You know it doesn't wash out of clothes, if you ever gotten any on you!  (I've also painted rugs successfully.) Finally, I outlined the shapes with a black paint marker and added the words with a white paint marker.  She loved it and so do I!

finishing touches...complete

I finally got the finishing touches on the valances and put them back up. Now they at least look like I tried to make the old blue valances work in the green room.

Whooo's graduating?

I made one of these owls a couple of weeks ago for my son's graduation card. My twin decided that she needed 3 of them so I thought this would be a good time to share such an easy idea. I started by using 2 colors of brown paint on my sponge and made several ovals. I cut one out so it's a little bigger than my thumb. I added small circles with distressed (try using a make up sponge on your ink pad)edges for eyes. I like them a little cross-eyed. Then I glued on to a small square of paper, also distressed and added feet and a beak. Finally, a tiny square of color with some embroidery floss makes an adorable hat.

Garden Party

I've been working on this project for quite some time and am delighted that the end is in site. These are centerpieces and gifts for end of the year luncheons at my twin sister's school and at mine. The trowels along the edges are gifts for people that I work with. After the luncheons are over, we'll use the flower pots and birdhouses for parent volunteers gift. The rest I hope to sell at school or on my etsy site: (search sellers for pjjunker).

I used water bottles that I cut off, in the center of the flower pots that have the paper flowers on the bamboo sticks.