Roman Shade from Broken Vinyl Blind

As you may have seen from my previous post, I have been updating my kitchen. Well now the 2" vinyl blind that is dirty and has a broken string does not look good any more. So I searched the web for an idea and found this roman shade idea. 

 So after and hour at the fabric store, I picked this one. It has a bit of gray, and I had just painted the walls gray. But I really wanted to add an accent color, thus the pretty blue.

 Then I measured, measured and measured again, and cut the fabric 2" longer that the blind both ways (length and width. My blind was 34" long, so I cut the fabric 36". Then I folded it over the excess divided evenly on all side and ironed the seams.

 Then I untied the knots and the very bottom of the blind to the main string that lifts the blind, pull that string out of the slats and leave it out, but don't cut it. Then cut the ladder string shown in this picture, they are no longer needed, they can go. I then laid out the fabric and put slats even place on the fabric (I did them about 8" apart measuring from the center of the slat). Next, I restrung the main string back through the slats and back through the bottom rail, attaching them as they were before it was disassembled. I used fabric glue to glue the slats to the fabric all the way across and glued the seams down. Then I used the hot glue gun to attach the top rail and bottom bar (they were heavy and the fabric glue I had wasn't working). You will want to leave a couple inches on each end of the top head rail unattached so you can get it back into the brackets. I attached those ends to the brackets with Velcro.

Teapot Wind Chime

 I made this teapot wind chime for my mom for her Christmas gift.

Step 1:
 I went to my favorite second hand store "Needful Things" in Murray, UT, and picked out 10 random spoons and a metal teapot.












Step 2: We bought some chain at the local hardware store, about 12 feet.

Step 3: We used a drill to drill holes in the bottom of the teapot and smaller holes in the spoons. I drilled holes in the top of some spoons and bottom of others so they would be alternating when I hung them. I strung the chain up into the teapot and out another hole (so used one piece of chain per 2 holes and 2 spoons. Then my husband drilled a hole through the top of the teapot and the bottom and strung chain all the way through to hang it.) We used an S hook as the hanger.

Roxy Update

Roxy is still with us. She was given 2 months to live in Sept. of 2014 due to having cancer in her mouth. She is still eating and happy to see me when I come home. She does sleep all day and night, you can tell she doesn't feel well. I think she is nearing the end, but I am grateful she has made is this long. She is a wonderful pup, I have been spoiling her rotten too. I take her out and buy her pepperoni sticks every other day, the human ones from the gas station. I carry her up and down the stairs (even though she do it herself).We love this gal!
UPDATE: The cancer finally became more than Roxy could handle. She was in pain and could not do more than lay on the couch. It was time to let her go. She passed away on Monday, March  2, 2015. We will miss you Doodle!

Wedding Sutff

Here are just a couple of more things I made for my daughter's wedding, the 150 cupcakes.

Then I was afraid I would not have enough center pieces, so I bought 4 bouquets of daisies from Costco and put them in my extra vases and tied them with bows. Simple, pretty and they added a lot to the venue. I did these the morning of the wedding.(Bought the flowers day before).

These are the flower girls baskets I made. I bought 3 clearance brown baskets from Joanne's for about $1.50 and painted them with white craft paint, wrapped the handles with ribbon and used left over porcelain flowers from my own wedding years ago. They turned out quite pretty, if I do say so myself.