Coming to the Blog!

I want to post more. This is true. I want to post about a variety of topics - family life, faith, home making, history, silly pop culture, etc. Essentially all the things that I love. I've always had a hard time organizing and compartmentalizing these interests into blog form, so in an effort to better document and share our lives, I want to try a little "system". Yes, unfortunately I am just that sort of dork :) I may or may not stick to it, and there will be other random posts mixed in among the "system posts", but I would like to do my best to at least give you these three things weekly...
Made it Monday (MIM)
- will be posts about projects ranging from sewing to home remodeling

What's up Wednesday (WUW)

- will be a brief weekly update on our family life

Found it Friday (FIF)

- will be a time to share discoveries that I a) Love b) Think you will love too.

So....

Welcome to my first "Made it Monday" - A Message Board for the girl's room The sweetest lady gave me this antique frame at a garage sale. I further antiqued it using a spray bottle of water and a can of flat white spray paint. I first sprayed droplets of water all over the frame and second sprayed a thin layer of paint on top of that. Once the paint dried, I wiped it with a clean dry washcloth which removed flakes of paint from wherever there had been a water droplet beneath. I repeated this process two more times to give it a deep rich weathered effect. I love the way it turned out!I recruited my mom to help with the board part of the project. We used a piece of corrugated cardboard, some quilted fabric (from an extra quilt a bought for the girl's room for just these sorts of projects), some white twill tape, and some mother of pearl vintage buttons. The assembly involved Fabric Tac for the fabric and needle and thread for the twill tape and buttons.

I love it and it is a great place for the girls to display cards and photos.