A Beach Porch Welcome

I’ve always loved the beach and living in Nebraska, the nearest ocean is south of us.   Way south of us. 😄

I brought the beach to our porch with one of Hobby Lobby’s unfinished wood signs.  This was fun to make. One side is the beach and the other is a reminder at Easter of what Jesus did for each of us. So get yourself a drink and relax with us on the porch.  

For God So Loved The World 

Happy Fourth of July 2024

 

All supplies were acquired from Hobby Lobby Stores. 

DIY 18 inch Doll Sushi Bar

18 Inch Doll Sushi Bar

It was fun and easy to put together this sushi bar for my granddaughter and her friend's 18 inch dolls.  

I went to Hobby Lobby during their sale on craft wood items.

I picked up one of their unfinished plaques and dowels as shown below.  

Buy two of the 5/8 inch dowels with the red paint on the ends and cut four table legs with each measuring10 inches in length.  You will have some extra left over.

Space measure and drill four partial holes 3/8 of an inch deep as shown in photo.  

                                                                         

    Place the legs into the drilled holes and make sure the bar is level.  

I used the Alizrian Crimson from the student Liqutex line at Hobby Lobby for the color on the sushi bar.  You can wait until these are half off during their sales.

Here you see I painted the legs first before gluing them in with the Gorilla Glue below.  The Japanese style paper for the top of the bar is from the Birdsong line over at Graphic 45 Papers.  The entire line has beautiful papers to choose from. You can use any scrapbook type paper you choose.   Cut the paper to fit on top of the bar table and Mod Podge it down smoothly with no wrinkles or puckers.  Do not Mod Podge over the top of the paper to the bar table until the paper is completely dry underneath the paper and the edges are  glued down all around the top.  

Next, glue the dowels into the drilled holes under the bar table.

Make sure your sushi bar is level.  Glue the legs into place and if desired, at this point you can spread a coat of Mod Podge over the top of the design paper and let it all dry overnight. 

 One of the My Life extras over at Walmart featuring the Roman Dinner Play Set I picked up in the clearance isle.  Sometimes this is in the store, but you can order Japanese play food at Walmart online too.  

Sydney and Penny enjoying their lunch date together.  I made a tray using a piece in the Roman Dinner Play Set packaging.  See below.

 

Plastic piece from where the menus were located inside the packaging.

  

 

 

 

 

DIY Doll House Kitchen

DIY Doll House Kitchen 

My 3 sweet neighbor girls and I had so much fun making this little kitchen for their dollhouses.  It's fairly easy to make and I provide a PDF file at the link below with all the instructions and printable for building your own doll house kitchen!

Materials are listed in the file along with measurements for a size kitchen that will fit in an 8 1/2" by 9" room or larger. Hope you enjoy building!

 Acknowledgements

Special thanks goes to Gardening Timing for their wonderful idea on creating the sink with a cup hook and snap drain! Also, to N & L DIY for their youtube video on how to create a doll house kitchen. Thank you so much everyone! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=-HuXXkAfHdU

http://gardeningtiming.com/how-to-make-miniature-dollhouse-sink-using-cap-snap-as-a-drain-and-cup-hook-as-the-faucet/

We used the plywood 1/8" thick by 12" found at Hobby Lobby, but you can use the PVC foam board found at any craft or frame stores if you prefer.  Here is the link to the PDF file.

https://sites.google.com/u/0/s/1KDi6i9nWzAdi-xkylA1pvNslHzkZA2hd/edit

If you have any questions concerning printing of the PDF file or building your kitchen, please contact me here in the comment section.  Thank you! 

Stained Glass and Art Studio

  Stained Glass and Art Studio designed by my husband, Larry and myself.  This was fun to put together down in the northwest side of the basement.  I'm looking forward to getting started in my new studio!

 I'm excited about the bulletin board Larry built for my grand kids when they come and do their artwork with me.  Now they have a great place to display their art.  I'm really proud of that wall Larry added with drywall too!  He's so talented!

 Here is my art and stained glass table Larry built.  It is 78" x 43".  The bottom shelf is 74" x 39".  Plenty of room for 4 people to work their art magic on 

at one time. 

  Here is the top and I love the idea of the strips of wood down the left and bottom edges of the table.  Now I can build any size stained glass window.  Can't wait to get started!

 Another bonus is the wheels Larry attached to the bottom of the table.  Easy to move out of the way if I need to 

have more room.  

Here is the table with a heavy plastic table cloth covering the top that we will use for scrapbooking, painting 

art work and more! 

 Another Pinterest Idea I couldn't resist!  I love this look of cross stitching on a peg board.  Such a neat idea by painting on the "threads".  My thanks goes out to Haley Pierson~Cox over at makezine.com.  Thank you Haley, for this fun idea!

  Larry picked up this hunters cleaning table at Menard's.  I thought it would work great in the studio to set my glass grinder on.  The water can drain into the drain groove that you can see runs around the edge of the table on that left side and into the sink.  Water will splash out the back of the grinder at times when you're using it and can collect on a table or counter.  I'm anxious to try this idea out.  I'll keep you posted on how it works. 

   Shot up top of the Hunters Cleaning Table.  Love the splash guard Larry made out of plexiglass.

I am thrilled with Larry's idea of getting PVC pipes for storing my zinc and lead came.  I have the lead came in the large PVC pipe.  The end for the back of the large pipe is a clean out cap and the other end of the pipe has a screw on cap.  Works great and they are up and out of the way in the studio.  The small one holds the zinc came.  It has a screw on cap at one end and a slide on cap at the 
other end.
 

Screw On Cap on the Large Pipe

Lead Came Inside the Large Pipe

Screw on Cap on the Smaller Pipe

Zinc Came Inside the Smaller Pipe

  Larry built this awesome cabinet for my stained glass sheets out of 3/4 inch and 1/2 inch plywood.  I love it!  It has doors and a panel on the back with wheels on the bottom so that I can turn the front of the cabinet to the 
wall when I'm not using the glass.  
Great safety feature!  Especially when there are children in the studio for the day.

Doors open to the front.  I really like the idea of being able to store glass in the front of the cabinet and also in the back.  The cabinet is 24 inches deep by 18 inches wide and stands 36 1/2 inches tall.  That height is without the wheels.  They add about another 2 inches.  

3/8 inch Dowels were used as dividers for the glass.  I really like this idea because when the doors in the back are open, I can see all the colors of glass well.  A big thanks to everyone over at everythingstainedglass.com for this great idea!

That's my Studio!  Looking forward to wine and painting classes with friends and family and of course, stained glass crafting!  Happy Creating!!

Nutcracker Suite Sugar Plum Fairy Lawn Ornament

Sugar Plum Fairy Lawn Ornament

Artist Diana Rudolf

We always dreamed of a Nutcracker theme for the front yard at Christmas.  This year we were able to fulfill that dream with the Nutcracker and Sugar Plum Fairy.  We're hoping to add to it as the years go by.  Hope you enjoy!  

 

A Big Thanks to those over at Pinterest who came up with this idea!  This was fun to make.  I want to add that if you plan to work with the insulation spray foam, be sure to wear a mask when using hot glue on it.  Toxic Fumes!!