Summertime - Grill Time!!

I've been away for a while but now I'm back with a vengeance... OK, maybe not a vengeance per se but definitely with enthusiasm!

Lately I've been working on making custom aprons for friends and family gifts.  They were a big hit and everyone has been encouraging me to start selling them so I put a few on Etsy and have spoken with a few local shops about carrying them!

Batter Up baseball apron

Smooth Mooooves apron

Men's Camo grilling apron

I've been having a lot of fun coming up with new and unique ideas.  The grilling aprons are particularly popular now that we're finally snow free!  I was beginning to think it was never going to happen lol.  If you want to check out my Etsy shop, the name is ADKdreams.

What's on the Agenda, Ginger?

I've got so many crafts and projects on my to-do list (and on my Pinterest, and floating around in my head lol) so I decided to write down a few and hopefully motivate myself to pick up the pace, get off Pinterest and finish some things that are way overdue!!

1) Organizing my master closet
2) Organizing my craft room (aka the shelves in the corner of our guest bedroom)
3) Upcycling glass bottles to decorative and/or functional pieces
4) Making the clock I promised for my daughter's new apartment
5) Finishing the darned plaque I started for my new granddaughter's room
6) Making an outhouse plaque for our guest bathroom
7) Sewing curtains for the house
8) Finish stripping the kitchen and painting it
9) Ditto on the living room
10) Start making the ornaments for our Christmas tree (I want to do a completely homemade tree with very rustic ornaments)

This is just the tip of the iceberg so if anything above sounds interesting (or you have any suggestions) keep an eye on the blog!

Keep crafy!

~ Heather ♥

Tiny Changes - updating decorative frames

We bought our beautiful home in the Adirondack Park about a year ago and, truthfully, I've been negligent with some things. I've stripped the wallpaper in the kitchen (well about 2/3 of it) but it remains unpainted. *update: all kitchen walls have been successfully stripped and painted a lovely blue color 😁 In the living room, I ripped up the corner of wallpaper on one wall....yeah, let's not talk about the big jobs. One of the small things I'd still not updated from the original owners was a pair of picture frames on the sides of the kitchen cabinets that surround the window over the sink. These 5x7 frames had matted pictures of spices on them. Sounds ok for a kitchen, right? But these were old and faded and just not attractive.

I pulled the frames down (which they had adhered with sticky-back velcro -good idea!) and removed the pictures and mats. Ok, so I'm cheap and the thought of spending money on new mats just never crossed my mind. Not even once. I went to my crafts supplies and picked out some scrapbook paper that perfectly coordinated with the cabinets, floors and color scheme of the house. After that, I went on my computer and simply printed out two little pictures - one says "This home seasoned with love" and the other "eat, drink, be merry", added some cute pics to finish it out and then put the frames back together.

And last, but not least, I put the frames back up on the cabinets. Will anyone likely ever pay attention to them? Nah, probably not, but I like them, they make me smile and I can also convince myself that I really am getting things done around here! lol

For me, the cost was, at the very most, a penny or two (I already had scrapbook paper, the frames and the pictures were only printed on plain copy paper but you could very conceivably do your own for less than five dollars. The Dollar Tree has a variety of frames for (you guessed it) $1 each and any craft store will carry scrapbook paper for anywhere from 50 cents to a couple dollars. After that, all you would need is the sticky-back velcro!

Keep Crafty! ~ Heather ♥