Where did I put my "finds"?

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My friend Angie asked me to post what I did and where I put all of my "finds". So....I am going to show you! I have got to finish a few projects so I can post them today....ugh...so much to do and so little time. :) Here are a few pics......

 I just put some pillows in my fun basket.............(I have got to take the time/date stamp off my little camera.)

 I put some letters and a vintage valentine on my fun shutter. I might paint it this summer.

 I bought this crate initially for my son's lego men but instead decided to use it in my family room. Sorry Preston. :)

 Do you love the laundry on the couch?

My new vintage bread box I am loving. It reminds me of my grandmother's house when i was growing up, except hers was silver.

That's it.....HOPE (the operative word) to post more projects later today!

PS I LOVE Saturday night church so I can hang out Sunday morning, drink coffee, have donuts with the kiddos, and look over blogs!!

Please follow me with my new "linky" tool.....Google friends will be no more!

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Hi everyone,

Did you know that as of March 1, 2012 Google Friends Connect (GFC) will no longer work on most blogs?  I know.... it stinks!  And there is a lot of chatter that eventually GFC will phase out completely. D

id you Can my GFC followers be automatically moved over? NO. Google won’t allow access to those accounts but more importantly, YOU really shouldn’t sign up someone to a new service. They should voluntarily sign up themselves.  t

I have removed my GFC widget in anticipation of this. In you follow me through GFC, you will need to follow me through my new LINKY on the sidebar....or you can follow me through email or through a feed.

at as of March 1, 2012 Google Friends Connect (GFC) will no longer work on blogs?  I know.. stinks!If you have been following me through GFC you will still receive my info for a few more weeks… but I encourage you to follow me through one of these other ways if you can!

And Angie, just for you.....pics later of what I did with my "finds" and my V-day mantel. :)

Thanks everyone....I appreciate you so much.

~Hugs~

A birthday present and a few more finds......

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I was FINALLY able to meet up with my friend (whose birthday was in December!) and give to her the birthday and Christmas presents I had been holding on too!

She really liked it! Unfortunately I didn't take any "tutorial" photos.....I still sometimes forget to do that! But, suffice it to say, it wasn't hard. I just painted the old reclaimed fence wood, attached some cool knobs, one from a booth at McKinney trade days (the old one) and the others, from Hobby Lobby. :)

I had a couple more finds I forgot to share with you. I picked these up at McKinney trade days......a local trade show here that is one weekend a month.

 Another sign for our wood wall upstairs...oh how I hope to finish that so I can share!

 An old shutter......housing my "LOVE" letters (photos soon), and......

these two old boxes which I have no idea what to do with! But I LOVED them and they were $1.50 each!!

Lastly, I wanted to share with you a pillow i made. I picked up an old sweater from the Goodwill for $2.99 last week. I have been wanting to add some off-white to my family room so i thought new pillows would be perfect! Unfortunately, I cannot find the picture of the sweater but trust me...I took it! Anyway, I washed the sweater then I cute the arms off right below where they started.

 Then I sewed the top shut..........

 and then the bottom shut.......

and there you go...a new pillow!

Hope to be back later with some valentine posts and projects! :)

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Been awhile....and week 5 memory verse!

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Hi there! One of the first things I read when I started to blog was never apologize for being "absent" for awhile....so I won't! :) But..I have missed posting and have quite a few things to post! I think I will start with the memorization verse for Week 5! YIKES! I SHOULD have had this on Sunday. Sorry. :(

2 Corinthians 5:17

New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁷ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

OK! That is done!!! Now go memorize!

Now..I want to show you a few of my "finds"! I headed out to downtown McKinney a few weekends ago with a friend. We found some great things! Here are a few.....

 An old crate.....supposed to use for Preston's LEGO men but it has since found it's way to my family room on the "coffee table". I will share soon!

 An old vintage bread box! I have been looking for one for awhile. My boys and Rhett are kinda scared of it even though I assured them I had washed it thoroughly! :) Chandler asked me just the other day,"Mom, where is the bread?" I replied," Well, in the bread box of course!" I was the only one who found that funny. Lovin' this old wire basket thing too. Not sure exactly what I am supposed to use it for but it is housing extra pillows in the family room now. Photos to come.

Have a great day!

Bible verse for week 4.....

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Hi everyone~




Week 4's bible verse.....Proverbs 3:5.




5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.




This is a good one and an easy one. Good luck! Hope to have all my "finds" posted tomorrow that I found shopping last weekend and this one. Also, I hope to finish up my valentine's day mantel and decor and show you my straightened legos and my sweater pillow!! :) (Still need to make it!) Good luck with the verse...good night!

Projects to come......

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Besides the chair I posted a few days ago, I am working on some organization things around here. One of them is this.....

Can you see where I am going with this......stay tuned. And the other project involves this Goodwill sweater I picked up for $2.00 yesterday. :)

Hope to post at least the sweater "surprise" tomorrow. The legos??? Who knows? I think it will take me a year to sort them all! :)

A valentine's project....or two......

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Good morning! I wanted to post a quick valentine project I worked on the other day. I wanted something for my front door. I had this wreath with this tinsel galore on it...I think I got it last year at Big Lots after valentine's day....but I wasn't diggin' the red tinsel.

So, I realized I had a bit of red burlap left over from a previous project. So I jumped right in! I wrapped the wreath in the burlap. I just wrapped it right over the tinsely-stuff.

So there you go. Then....and this next part I forgot to take a picture of...sorry.....I decided I wanted to do a burlap flower forit. I cut a piece of burlap, pulled a string out to "bunch it up", then wrapped it in a circle.....ta-dah! A flower! then I took my scrabble tiles and spelled L-O-V-E on the flower and glued it on.

I took some upholstery webbing and hung the heart from that, and then put an old white frame I had around it and hung it on the door. Done! Whatcha think?

The last project was a wreath for my chalkboard in the entry area. I bought some old sheet music at an estate sale awhile back. I just folded it up, hot glued the papers to a small circle wreath form I bought at the dollar tree, and attached a heart in the middle. Since this picture the heart has fallen off. I need to find something lighter. This is a plastic plate. :) I forgot to take pics again. I am trying to remember but sometimes I get to creatin' and just forget. :)

Have a blessed day!!! ~hugs~

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Week 3's verse is......

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This week's verse is Luke 9:24. Remember we learned Luke 9:23 last week, then Romans 8:18 before that.  So...continuing on in Luke 9 with verse 24......

New Living Translation (©2007) If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.  Luke 9:24 Good luck!

Another before and after.......and my "beach" wall

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I have been meaning to post this pic for awhile and keep forgetting...story of my life! Does anyone else "forget" as much as I do? :)  I bought this awesome little table from a garage sale last summer for $4.00! $4.00!!! I moved it to the  side as I continued to shop and people continually wanted it....the lady in charge kept having to turn them away from MY table....you know.....it was MINE! OK. Sorry. Anyway...she told me they used to have it in their ANTIQUE SHOP and it was from the 1930's or 40's I believe....anyway, I loved it. I knew paint could fix this baby right up!

So....I painted away and then I sanded. And here it is....this was taken at Christmas, hence the lights. :) And please ignore the dust/particles of whatever under it. This is my reality folks. If I try to take pics when all is perfect, I will never get a picture taken. :)  Anyway, I love it!

And while I am at it, I wanted to show you my BEACH wall, which is where this table sits now. In the picture, I have a bench I LOVE under the pics but have since moved it to the foot of my bed. :) I am sure at one point it will be here again. :)

We have had beach pics made with the boys every year since they were born....minus two or three for family things/emergencies/issues. I treasure these. To see how my family, and how my boys have grown, blesses me every day just passing by it. These photos used to be upstairs and I didn't get to enjoy them near as much. Much to Mr. KKP's dismay, I moved them...again. :)

One more item I purchased at that garage sale......this baby........lovely, huh?

She will be once I am finished. :) Stay tuned........off to continue celebrating with my middle son who is 14 today. I will post the memorization verse for this week later. ~Hugs~

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How is Luke 9:23 going?

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HI...just checking in to see how everyone is doing on the verse memorization for the week??? I think all of us have memorized it here. :) Well.....except Preston. I need to incorporate the easiest version for him. Note to self to do next week. :)

Loving what this verse says this week and what it means......taking up our cross daily. Wow. That is a hard one but God knows this is hard. I guess that is why he says daily. Day by day....the only way. :) The part about "turning" from our selfish ways....good one too. Jesus says not to just stop, but to "turn" from it...literally to turn our back on it, repent, change. Whew. Working on that one.

Enjoy the three-day weekend if you have it. We do. Lots of family time and maybe some craftin'. I am due. Need to get some new pics up. Hugs~

Today's frugal facts

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OK...At the risk of sounding "cheap", I am going to put two frugal facts out there that I have done quite a bit and it has been wonderful and a great money-saving tool. Ready?

Re-use ziploc bags! :)

That is easy right? I know this is not rocket science, and I am definitely not the first to come up with this idea, but it is really a great one.  Now, don't judge or be afraid to ever eat here again thinking that cookie I gave you might have been in an "old, used ziploc bag" that housed yesterday's dinner. :) Nope! Not even close. I try to label them as I empty them. I might write BREAD on the outside knowing it housed leftover rolls, dinner loaf, etc. That way, I can go back and put bread in it again. Now, I don't re-use them for 3 years or anything like that. When they get worn, I throw them out. But think about this....I was cleaning the kitchen this morning, and had two brand new baggies that I stuck left-over deli bread in (that we used to make french toast last week) and another I used for about 10 ginger cookies I had left from a box. Why throw those baggies away? They were used ONCE. Really. So......save them. Find a place that will work to house them, and that you will remember :), and re-use them. :) Also, wondering what happened to the content of those bags? That brings me to frugal fact #2.

Freeze "old" or left-over cookies and bread, cereal and cracker bits, and use them for your next dinner. :)

I put the bread in the freezer and the cookies too. Next time I need a pie crust, or ice cream topping, I will grab the ginger cookies, and crush them or stick them in the food processor and add them to the crust or add them to ice cream. :). The cracker bits/cereal bits have been known to find their way into the same baggie and then processed together to cover country fried steak, chicken and/or pork chops. :) Of course, you can't use Fruity Pebbles for this, but you can use Life, Cheerios, Crispix or Chex, which are a few of the cereals we eat. The bread will process great too and then I use the bread crumbs for the same thing. Try it....and you won't have to buy bread crumbs in the box again. :) Good luck!

Week 2~Bible verse memorization challenge

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Luke 9:23

New Living Translation (NLT)

 ²³ Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me.


This is our memorization verse this week! We (the family) actually studied it in church today and Chandler and Rhett wanted to do this one this week, though I had another one planned. I love it though! Chandler actually wanted to do Luke 9:24, so I said we should just do both together.....but they opted for this one this week, and the other one the next. 


I hope to have some projects posted later today. I just wanted to get the verse posted! Hope your Sunday is wonderful!

Another "late" Christmas present project

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Well, my friend Sheri and i have this deal.....I actually think most of my friends and I have this deal......we DO NOT have to give birthday and/or Christmas gifts on time! Whew! Thank goodness! :) They know me all too well, and hey, it is kinda fun to get a "late" present, right? Keeps the fun going and going.....anyway. :) Awhile back she told me about a saying her grandma used to use all the time and how much she loved it. I made a mental note about it and decided I would do "something" with this info regarding a gift for her for Christmas. Well, in Niki fashion, I TOTALLY forgot what she said the saying was and then one day it just came back to me (whew! and thank you Lord) so I thought...I better get started on this. I forgot to take pics of the whole process unfortunately, but i still got enough for you to get the picture. First, using the old reclaimed fence Mr. KKP retreived(still loving that we have SO MUCH wood left), I asked him if he would secure the boards together for me. (And in doing so I got another tutorial on the nail gun...yay!). So...he did.

 First we lined up the boards the way I wanted them. As you can see, I had already painted two of them thinking the words might fit on there.....NOT! Then we turned them over to secure the other boards on the back.

 Isn't my craft room lovely in the background? :) And TA-DAH! Perfect. :) Thanks honey.

Umm....the next part is where I forgot to take pics. Sorry. I then painted all the boards a different color. I just dry-brushed some paint on the other boards and then stamped the saying on it. I didn't want it to be "perfect" as I wanted it to look kind of "oldish."

And there you go!

She really loved it and it made me SO HAPPY to see her like it so much!

If you haven't jumped on the "52 verses in 2012" with the Blake family, please do! We are learning Romans 8:18 this week. I hope to post the verses in the side -bar some time this week. Hope your week has been great!

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