Household Printer tray

I most always have a hiding meaning in all the work I do. Most people wouldn't know where to look or what they were looking at. I also really love the printer tray deco that is so hot right now. So I found this tray at Micheals and thought I woould do one that means more then me then what anyone would understand. I have been asked to teach a class on this tray but you cant really put together a kit when everything in this tray has a meaning in my life! Mostly everything in the tray was "found" at my house.

 Over at Tammy Tutterow's blog she did a tutorial on how to make your house out of paper. I loved it! So yes that is my house at the top. If you are looking at my house on the right side is a tea garden that my husband and I built. And on the left side is the boat. As you can see in the tray both of them have their places! I love how the "garden" turned out! I used flowersoft to make the potted plants. I used muddpuddles for the "salt life" side.  

Above is the 4 boxes in the middle. Each person in my family has their own box. Everything in their box has a meaning behind it. The "dolls" and film ribbon are from Tim Holtz. The paper line I used to line the tray is Gabrielle from Bo Bunny.

So as you can see this is a very personal tray!! You can do it also!

Everyone loves to recieve!!!

So in my last post ya'll saw what I made for the Homemade exchange and today I got a present in the mail!!! LOVE IT!!!! I think that its funny that we both made something purple for each other!

Shell glasses and frame

My cousin is getting married and her theme is Beach! Around here everything is BEACH and these glasses go for $30.00 a piece!!!! NOPE don't think I'm gunna spend that much (not that she isn't worth it). So on the hunt I went.

The glasses I found at walmart. They were 4 for I think about $5.00.

Next I found the Grout at The Home Depot. I think it may have been around $10.00 but there is quite a bit in it. (I have made 1 frame and 6 glasses and haven't used 1/2 of it) I picked a sand color but a friend of mine picked a white color. She thought she might want to add different colors to it later.

Next I added his and hers and the date of the wedding in a permanent pen. This has to be done on the top of the bottom and backwards so that when you tip the glass to drink this is what you see. You also don't want it rubbing off when cleaning. Now it's time to spackle the grout on and add shells.

These I added a star fish on them. Star fish are hard to come by so the other 4 glasses got sharks teeth.

The frame I did the same way but I painted it first. To save more money you could just take any old frame you have laying around and use it. 

If your wondering. I donated a set of glasses to my son's school for a silent auction and I still have the other 2. Trying to decide who I want to gift them to. They have a smaller stem.