Easter Basket Cake

This is the best photo I could get from her, but one of my fellow "crafters" has the corner on cakes (You'll see more of her creations when I get her to hand over the photos!)

For Easter, she created this 2 layer white cake, complete with "grass and eggs" and a handle. The handle is not edible. Click the comments link below to see full project details!

Peep Topiary

Nothing says classy like a peep topiary! This creation comes from one of my 'aunt-crafters' who recently visited the Philadelphia Flower Show, and became inspired.

90 peeps were harmed in the creation of this topiary, I feel their death was well worth the sacrifice. How else could you get such a charming and tasty centerpiece!

The Craftiest Baby Shower Gift

I saw these diaper cakes online for $65, and thought "Wow, what an adorable shower gift. I bet I can reverse engineer that thing and create my own for half the price." 50 diapers and some floral foam later...walla! I had myself a diaper cake.

The trick in creating a diaper cake is that no diapers can actually be harmed in the construction of the cake. I don't think this gift would win any favors with mothers when they took it apart, placed a diaper on their baby, and promptly had the thing leak. As well as being functional, they make a great center piece for the baby shower. Click on the images for a larger view.

Free Furniture! Whoopie!

Now that I had created a headboard for our guest bedroom. on the ranch, I was on a hunt for furniture to fill the room. At our neighborhood annual garage sale, I struck gold! My neighbor offered up the piece pictured here for FREE! There was great debate as to whether I should be "refinishing" these pieces or "painting" them. Much to my fathers chagrin (who believes painting over any wood is a crime punishable by law) I went with painting. After all, I was looking to match the existing "door-headboard."

All the hardware came from Van Dyke Restoration. An incredible company with an extensive catalog of period relevant hardware and refinishing tools for any project. I went with 1940's milk glass drawer pulls. Post for specifics.

New Life to an Old Room

Back to the ranch...we inherited with the purchase of our home a 1970's dining room set. The site of which was so ugly, no one, would even bother to remove it from the house. Because we were poor (and would have no where else to sit, if we trashed it) we kept it.

It lasted about 2 years in it's original heinous state before I got my mc'crafter hands on it. After some careful conversation with my friends at the Benjamin Moore Paint Barn, and a visit to Frank the Upholsterer...I no longer eat dinner on the set of the 'Wonder Years'

I used to be a Door!

Three Years ago my Husband and I purchased a 51 Year old Rancher. The house was, by far, our biggest "craft" project. As we began to replace all of the old single panel wood doors with white, 6 panel doors, I began to think, "I could give at least one of the old doors a new life, as a headboard!!."

A couple pieces of crown molding, quarter-round and some high gloss
white paint and I had a new headboard, much to the amazement of my better half :) The final product is displayed here, post if you are interested in specific detail, or if you want to see what the original door looked like. (It was ugly, I promise)