:: Christmas - scrabble ornament

When I'm at thrift stores, I'm always on a lookout for scrabble games.

Do you know how many crafts you could make with those pieces?!

Anyway, I found a game and they've been 

sitting in our laundry room gathering dust.

{side story - - we don't play scrabble at our house cause the hubby despised it.

although now his favorite computer game is 'words with friends'

and now all of the sudden he wants to play scrabble.

but, because sometimes I'm too prideful and so annoyed that

he complained about that game for 5 years - whenever my family played it, 

I decided to do with it what it was bought for - to make a craft.  :)  don't worry.

I'm sure I'll find another scrabble game soon and we'll actually play it.}

I first saw this idea here.

All you need is:

scrabble pieces

the wooden stand they sit on

a chop saw

twine

ribbon

hot glue

Pretty self-explanatory, huh.

Cut the stand down to the length of the word you want to create.

Sand edge.

Hot glue the letters to the stand.

When you get to the letter in the middle, first hot glue the twine and then 

you can hot glue the middle letter on top of the twine.

Place ribbon around

and you're ready to hang it on the tree!

I think I'll be making these with our names on them

to go on the present with the Christmas pajamas.

{we get a new Christmas ornament each year}

Be careful though.  

Little hands love these scrabble ornaments.  

"Always looking for" obsession: wingback chairs found!

Okay. So I'm back from my little blogging break. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. We had a nice, little break. We went up to Vegas and also to SLC to be with family. But we're back and I'm ready to post.

I do have a few posts that I hope you'll like (I'll post in the near future). And I can't wait to tell you that I did find my wingback chairs! I've been looking for months and didn't want to spend too much on them. I found them for $20 each. The only problem is that they're up in Utah. So hopefully I'll be able to start working on the slipcovers at the beginning of the summer when the chairs are down with me. So stay tuned.

"Always looking for" obsession: wingback chairs

Ever since I went to a restaurant where everyone sat at the table in a wingback chair . . I've wanted them. I know. I know. Wingback chairs don't always remind you of modern, stylish, decor. Especially in a dining room. But check out these pictures. They might just change your mind.

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So, for the past few months I've been searching . . . and searching. Still haven't found the right price for my wingback chairs. It doesn't really matter what the fabric looks like because I plan on making slipcovers. And I found a great tutorial on how to make slipcovers for your amazing wingback chairs. It's here on Sew, Mama, Sew!

Craigslist, garage sales, thrift stores . . . here I come!