A Blooming Good Time

A few weeks ago I went to Blooming Butterflies with my daughter.  It is an annual event held at our local and fabulous Olbrich Botanical Gardens (a must see if you ever come to Madison).  Thousands of beautiful butterflies are released into the indoor conservatory while the kids (and some adults maybe) run around and explore.

In addition to all the wonderful gardens and flying creatures Olbrich has a great little shop with all types of things to entice.  And on this particular trip I was enticed by all the lovely seed packets.

I loved the colors and vintage look so although I was unsure of how I would use them I took a few with me (oh, I paid for them too).  I actually find myself doing this all the time.  I only purchase bigger ticket items if I know exactly how they are going to be used but sometimes smaller items just grab me and I figure out the details later.

Well yesterday I figured out how I was going to use them!  I spotted this trellis while cruising through Home Depot.  For $4 it was the perfect solution.

I sprayed a few clothes pins with my favorite spray paint, Oil Rubbed Bronze...

 ...which I recommend everyone has a can of.  I use it all the time!  And when they were dry I put together the trellis and seed packets and had something I was pretty happy with.

And even if you don't have seed packets to display (I mean who doesn't have seed packets to display!) you could use this same idea to display pictures, postcards, fabric, all sorts of goodies!  And I did it all for just a few bucks.    

I'm Getting Paid!

I'm back!  A week long vacation with the fam was exactly what I needed.  We biked, we hiked, we beached, we hung out with farm animals, we boated, we shopped, we ate and we wrapped up the week with a drive-in movie...SO FUN!  But now it is time to get back to work on all the projects I left hanging and the first one to talk about is one I am getting paid to do.  Wait...paid...you betcha!

Can you believe it, someone is actually paying me to do this stuff!  One of my Personal Training clients is also an MD reader.  And after seeing the two headboards I made (here and here) she asked if I would be interested in making a couple for her.  And I said No.  Ha, just kidding, I said Heck Yeah!  (I'm so professional).

So Barbara (that's my client) and I have been putting our heads together and we have come up with a plan.  I must say she has been so fun to work with.  In addition to being a friend, she actually thinks my ideas are great, imagine that!  In her very own words "I welcome your ideas.  I'm sick of my own."

My work includes an upholstered headboard for her master bedroom.  I'm not going to give away all the details but I will tell you I used one of these fabulous shapes...

  

and there is a chance this fabric is involved

And as I said above, Barbara loved the re-purposed headboard I made for my master so her new guest room headboard will be very similar with a few new features of course.



So as soon as I complete these two projects I will officially be a professional.  Ha!  That is funny.  I am so not a professional, but it is nice to have someone appreciate what I love to do.