DIY Hair Feathers!

I love the new trend of feathers, 

Here is some famous person wearing them, I'm sure I should know who it is but I don't care.

I even have two in my hair, a yellow rooster and a peacock.

They are super expensive!!!

Even for me, and I'm a stylist.

SERIOUSLY they are rooster feathers, they aren' worth $23 a piece.

so I made my own,

I tried it out. Proof of concept is the rainbow feather on the left

on the right are the markers

the feathers I purchased from the HOB LOB.

$2.49 for the feathers and I had the markers.

 I started just by coloring the feather in.

 easy peasy!

Then I stripped the part I didn't want just by pulling against the grain.

 Cute aye?

 I still wasn't sure about the feather so I cut it down and viola! cuteness!

 That was easy right? let's make a blue one!

 I stripped the feather the same way as I did before.

 Here are all the ones I made threaded and glued to a bobby pin so I don't have to choose what one I want for a long time.

once the glue dries I will cut off the rest of the ("stem"??)

What ever.

I hope you all have fun making your own! If anyone knows someone on a farm that can get rooster feathers that would be the way to go but I don't know anyone on a farm anymore!

plus roosters are MEAN!

Thanks for stopping by!

so you made a flag out of molding?

So did I!!

 I nailed molding to a 1x8 with a brad gun that my mom lent me.

finds out it doesn't have a safety pressure thingie.

 when you have to press it all the way to the surface before it will shoot the nail?

yeah..... no serious injury... my poor thumb will be fine.

Any way I painted the molding with craft paint.

 I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler so did you really think I could paint one?

me either.

so I sanded it down to distress it and here she is!

I did the traditional saw tooth hanger on the back to hang it but now I just need a huge ladder.

 Here are the artsy fartsy shots:

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molding signs.

I've seen all around the interwebs of people making signs out of extra molding.

so why not jump on the band wagon?

I love the vinyl letters and sayings you can buy or make but I don't like my cricut that much to buy vinyl for it. so whats the next best thing?

Stickers.

 Last week when I was making moulding planters I painted a few pieces because I knew I wanted to make signs. I just used craft paint.

Heres one of my favorite sayings. I don't cook very well so this sums up my feeling.

 I added it to the wall in the kitchen where every thing hangs.

 I also love the laundry room sayings but I couldn't decide which of the two to use.

Both was a good answer.

 " the laundry room- drop your pants here and we will have loads of fun"

Last but not least the one for the bedroom.

 plain and simple. just the way I like it, you can even see my skinny legs!

And I know that the letters are not quite straight but really? I don't have time to measure.

To hang them I just used 3m poster strips. the pieces are light enough not to warrant nail holes.

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day off.

Today is not going to be a very busy day for me. Its 10 am here and I am pooped. I need coffee or something. I've just been dragging my feet for the last week.

I know I need to sort through my house for my rummage sale and I know that I need to clean my house

ENTIRELY

before my husband gets home.

Today my friend kelsey is coming to bleach my hair out so I can go back to blonde.

the only thing I want is to go back to is bed.

I'm a grouchy old man when I wake up.

I am also finishing a ton of projects.

including

molding signs 

a molding flag

and that seems like a ton I guess.

off to work I guess...

Laundry room.

I'm not very creative when it comes to my entry ways or my laundry room. as you can see here.

this is the entry way from the garage. fascinating isn't it?

I thought it was boring too.

But Figured that the laundry room right off to the left is all about storage.

 I keep all the important stuff behind the door in a shoe organizer.

Random chargers and cords get corralled here so I can always find the right one.

Dryer balls and downy balls also have a home on the bottom.

lost socks also lived here for awhile.

you can see the water heater to the left, not much room.

 This is the look to the left of the room, 

I have a clothing rack on the left and the basket sorter on the right.

if you haven't heard of ana white you need to google her right this second!

My dad built me the basket sorter out of an old book case!

I also have a clothes line that runs over the washer and dryer, you can see the unmentionables on the top right corner. Yes I know I should edit it out but I don't have the slightest bit of shame.

 It's hard to take pictures in the tiny room.

This is a better view of the basket storage.

the top holds my hubbies boots and other gear.

and the bottom holds his "bag drag" stuff.

Your guess is as good as mine on why they do it.

I also love these hanger organizers my mom bought for me, I have four that are usually full.

This is my new lost sock catcher!

 I carefully edited out an essential letter in our last name so you wont know it.

no it just fell off and I haven't replaced it. its a piece of wood with paper glued to it and clothes pins nailed to it. easy aye?

Sorry for all the underwear shots. I'm lazy.

thanks for stopping by!

Working hard for the money.

I work 40 hours a week now, its very hard to get crafting done when all you 

want to do is go home and sleep.

But I managed to get some stuff made on my day off on sunday and today.

I made this small shelf out of the scrap wood I picked up at menards. 

I also whipped together two sign bases for what ever..

I'm not sure what to make yet.

 I even did some planting on sunday..

I went to target and menards to pick up more seeds and planters.

 This was my porch on sunday, boooooring!!!

I really needed some more planters and fast!

 I had this great idea to use moulding and turn it into planters!

AMAZING! I did the miter corners ( not near perfect but who cares? )

Also to line it I used a dollar store garbage bag.

you can't put garbage in there any way!

I just nailed it to the molding.

 So here is what I did with the first sign panel I made.

the paint is still fresh so I didn't dare try to sand it and distress it. tomorrow that is the plan!

Yes I know it looks like some little kid painted it, and I'm ok with that.

 This is what I did for the rest of my afternoon:

 The basket is from my bathroom and lined with a menards bag, it does say to recycle it!

the blue ones were 1/2 off at the hob lob and the rest from menards.

 So I have a miter saw and left over molding, what to do? 

 Make window boxes!!

I didn't even bother with miter corners, the dirt will not care.

I lined them with these clear lids for seed starting trays, the were 75¢ at menards.

I managed to make 5 but only two were right, oh well no one will look that close!

As soon as the flowers spring up and it stops raining I will take photos of my new porch!

Although I'm finally getting a backyard fence so I will have to move most of the stuff back there!

I need enough room for the hubby to sit out there as well I guess!

Thanks for stopping by!

A whole flood of ideas!

I knew that I needed to pick up some chairs I special ordered from Ace hardware today,

But I had no idea exactly how bad the flooding has been getting.

I took the by pass around most of the city but it only took me 45 minutes.

It usually takes me 10 maybe.

the water was all the way up to the bridge and then some.

the one bridge I take to work I guess is gone. how the heck do I find my way now????

crap.

Any way here are some random photos I gathered from the internets.

This is the highway leading to my neck of the woods... 

About a month ago.

This is the same region today...

 Here is some new aqua farmers....

 This is the road I take to work... last week.

This is what people living on the river have to do to protect their expensive houses.

 The national guard with the "spider" sandbagging machine, its rough to work with, your hands are sore for a week afterwards...

 This is the river that winds through the town.

 literally through town..

 This is the river view while standing on the bridge.

 heres the side view.

 It rained really hard yesterday and resulted in this:

 I learned that my car is very water proof. I wonder if you can get snorkle gear for a caddy?

 This is north of Cole Harbor... thats hwy 83.

 This is the satellite view of minot ND.

ok now that you have that, give me directions to work!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for all the thoughts!

ps. is it bad that I was thinking about how to build life rafts out of hair supplies?