Old to New

DO you have furniture that needs a face lift??  I did big time and I just had no money to buy new stuff and I felt stuck until a friend started to give her furniture a face lift.  She would share her finished produces on face book and I said to myself I can do that!!  My first project was a desk, chair, and book shelf for the guest room. Then I worked on my dresser but only painted the drawers.  Moving to the kitchen I re-did a hutch with a material back ground.  My daughter's room has been the last room I have worked on, in fact her dresser has just been finished.  I hope you find some inspiration in these projects I have done.  I loved every moment in working on them.

Of course I painted the desk: bottom cream and the top a green.  I found a glass shop in town that made the top for me so that I could add pictures underneath.  The handles I found on eBay.

Guest room desk



The desk chair was an old chair handed down and I painted and recovered.  I have fallen in love with the material I found for this chair.

 

My dresser happened on accident, I had first found the handles on eBay. Then I found this blue that I loved.  I was planning on doing the whole dresser in the blue but once the drawers where done I realized it would be way to much and stopped at that point.  It took a few days of looking at the finished produce before I feel in love with it. 


Master room dresser
 

My kitchen hutch is one of my most favorite pieces.  I painted it the same green I did the desk and chair.  But I found a piece of material for the backing that helped give it the character that I wanted.  To add material to anything you only need Mod Podge paste and Mod Podge finishing spray.  I was not told about the finishing spray and I used Mod Podge paste on many things such as the hutch and it stuck to my wall and that did not turn out good.  With the spray it will take away the stickiness of the paste.  I got the knobs at Lowes.


Kitchen Hutch
 

Now to the dresser in my little girl's room.  I used many different things to create this look.  I painted the main body a fancy pink.  The top two drawers I covered with a fun material and the rest of the drawers I used chalk board paint.  I thought it would be fun to write on the drawers so I went with the paint.  Now with using Chalk board paint you will need to put many coats on.  With each coat you need to use a very thin sanding paper and sand each layer.  Once you have finished take chalk and coat the top to prepare it for writing on, and if you do not prepare the surface then wiping off the words will not be easy.  The knobs came from Hobby Lobby.

Lit' girls dresser

 

Supplies needed to redo your furniture

 

The piece you want to redo :)

Sand paper

Primer (Zinsser 123)

Paint (latex)

Protecting (water based Polyurethane)

Of course if you are wanting to add a little character with material you will need:

Material

Mod Podge Paste

Mod Podge finishing spray

 



 

High Heals

Happy Birthday to my wonderful and younger sister!! 

Katy was going to spend her birthday weekend with my little girl and I, which made my mind start spinning.  I wanted to make her a treat what would scream KATY!!  She is very fashion forward at least way more then I am so I found a picture of High Heal cupcakes.  And those scream Katy all the way.  So I make two sets of heals and a cup cake center piece. 

Things needed for the cupcake heals.

cupcakes

Melting Choc.

Frosting

graham crackers

card board

stick cookies

Wooden skewers

decor items

Steps:

1.  Make the cupcakes and allow to cool completely.

2.  Measure the cardboard about 3 inches for the flat part of the heal and make a pattern.  Cut out enough card board cut outs for all your shoes.  With melting choc. attach the graham cracker to each card board cut out.  Set into the fridge and allow to set.  Once set trim off extra graham cracker.

3.  With melting choc. add the wooden skewer onto the back of the card board at the end that will stick into the cupcake.  Put in fridge and allow to set.

4.  The cookies used for the heal part needs to be measured so they are not too high.  With melting choc. attach the cookie to the base of the card board and allow to set. 

5.  Frost your cupcake and the graham cracker to match and then add the foot part into the cupcake.  I added a little melting choc. under the heal to help it from slipping.

6.  Decorate the cupcake heal!!!

Make your heals look fabulous!!!



Girly, Girly Birthday party

      I was asked to make special treats for a young girls birthday party in July.  She wanted a very girly party so I showed her many different examples and this pattern is what she wanted.  I decided to make a trio of treats with this pattern.  The center piece was a cake pop display and I feel in love with it once it was done and will now make these pieces for cake pops from now on until I find a new, fun display.  I also made brownie bits some with cream cheese frosting and some without.   I also planned on making sugar cookies but a family emergency came our way so I gave the decor for the cookies to the mother who made the cookies.

Brownie Bits

Many people love my brownie bits and they think I have a big secret on how I make great bits.  NO secret I use box mix but just make sure not to over bake them.  Many people have that problem with brownies and they get dry hard bits.  I bake my bits a couple minutes shy of that the instructions call for on the box.    I do make my frosting and many times add different flavors for different settings.  Here you see the pink on top of the frosting.  I used Mr. Duff's product which was like a spray paint for cakes.  It was a cool look to these bits.

Cake Pop display





Things needed to make a center piece like this:
A base
A foam ball  (something they use for flower arrangements)
One piece of tissue paper
metal rods (also found in the flower arrangement section)
Mini cake wrappers
cake pop sticks
Glue gun and glue

1.  Cover ball with tissue paper and place into base.
2.  Poke holes with an unused cake pop stick into the ball.  Make as many hole as you plan to add cake pops.  I found it was hard to make the holes with the cake pop already on the stick.
3.  Make the wrapper flowers.  Cut the metal rods into the length you want then to be.  Heat up glue gun.  With the metal rod poke a small hole into the middle of the bottom of the wrapper.  Bend the end of the metal just a little in order to hold it inside the wrapper.  Place a little drop of hot glue to the inside of the wrapper.  Once cooled crumple the wrapper to make into a flower.  Stick into the foam ball.
4.  Make cake pops and add a wrapper, finish by sicking it into the center piece.

Sponge Bob Square Pants B-day treats

My little (but tall) brother just had a birthday over the week of the Fourth of July.  He loves himself some Sponge Bob and so I wanted to give him a special party all about Sponge Bob.  But also his most favorite dessert is cheesecake and I had to think how I could make that fit.  I made these different treats for his fun little party.
They were:
Sponge Bob Rice krispie Treats
Pineapple cake pop homes
Cheesecake in a jar

Cake pops

These where not so easy for me to make this time around.  As you can see they do not have the green tops like a pineapple would have because what I made just did not set right.  But the Cake pop itself did look good. 

Sponge Bob Rice Treats

What you will need:

1 1/2 tablespoons butter

2 1/4 cups small marshmallows
3 cups Rice Krispies cereal

 Yellow, black, white, and blue melting choc.

Make the rice treats and add in some yellow melting choc before pressing into a sheet pan.  Once treats are set cut into squares and add the cookie sticks into one bottom.  Pip on the face!!

Cheesecake in a Jar

 Ingredients:  Small jars will make about 15 jars

2 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
8 tablespoons butter, melted
4 8-ounce packages of cream cheese, room temp.
3/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
zest of lemon

Toppings: be creative!!
I make choc. chip and Carmel nut and plain

Directions:  Pre heat oven 325 degrees F.            1.   Spray all the jars with spray oil, really make sure the bottom is covered well.                           2.   Blend the graham cracker, 2 tbs sugar, and melted butter.  Place a heaping tablespoon into the bottom of each jar.  Press down with the spoon until packed down well.                             3.   In a large mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese and sugar until well blended.  Add the eggs, one at a time and mix well.  Add the sour cream, vanilla, and lemon zest and mix well.  Using a 1/3 cup fill each jar with the cream mixture.       4.  Place the jars into a large baking dish. Make sure they are spaces will apart in order for even cooking.  Fill the base of the baking dish with water until it fills up to about half of the jars.  Place into the Oven.  Bake for 30 mins., once done remove with tongs and allow to cool.