Making A House A Bookend

What...that isn't how the saying goes?  Well, in this case it is because yup, I took a house

and made it a bookend...

As I said last week, my daughter no longer has a changing pad filling the top of her dresser so I had some extra room to play.  I had my eyes peeled for some bookends but just couldn't find the right thing.  Well, that isn't entirely true.  I found some of the right things with the wrong budgets and some of the right budgets but the wrong thing.

For example, I loved these bookends from Serena & Lily, but the price - $54 - not so much!



And I loved the price on these babies - $4.58 - but um they are hideous!


So what is a DIYer to do?  Oh yeah, DIY!  So I picked up these cardboard houses from Michael's for a few bucks a piece.

I also bought some stones, from the floral section, as I knew I would need to weight them down.

Once I filled the houses with stones I started spray painting.  The cardboard absorbed quite a but of the paint so it took 4 coats to get them covered.

After letting them dry I fished through my scrap fabric bin, cut out doors and windows, glued them on and my houses were now bookends!  And both my style & budget where happy.

Whoa Is Me

I have a love / hate relationship with my glue gun.  I love it because I use it all the time.  It is actually the one thing in my craft room I use the most.  So why do I hate it?  Well it pains me to say...actually no it just pains me literally.  I burn myself every time I use it!

But aside from the hatred it is an absolutely essential tool to anyone who crafts even a little.  So that is why you will all understand the tragedy that struck late Sunday night.  But let me start from the beginning.

My daughter is let's say 6/10th of the way potty trained.  She has #1 down.  The other stuff gets a little more dicey.  But that 6/10th means that we no longer need the diaper changing pad on top of her dresser.  Which in turn means I have a space to fill!  So I am putting together a few crafty projects to fill this now empty space.

So Sunday I was working on one such project - covering letters in fabric when something happened.  I ran out of hot glue!  What?!?!?  I thought I bought a 1 million pack of glue!!!  How could I be out???  Just look at where this catastrophe left me...

Oh that poor little "a".  What did it ever do to deserve this?  And with work and my husband and daughter starting school this week I just don't know when I can get out to get more.  Seriously people, we are talking serious stuff here!  But all you can do when a challenge presents itself is keep calm and carry on so if you need me I will be taking deep soothing breaths until the hot glue mystery is solved...those mangy kids!

Side Note: If this is your first time reading MD and you took any of this seriously I apologize...I'm just messing with you!