Drawer turned into Dog Bed! It's a RUFF life and I'm lovin' it!

Hey y'all! Goodness, what a long time it's been since I posted something on here! I got a job and didn't have as much time for crafts, but now that I have a little more free time, I hope to starting posting more! I also have another blog with my sister that is about couponing so if any of y'all would like to learn how to coupon, check us out at Southern Coupon Junkies! I'm not sure how well I will do juggling between two blogs, but I'm willing to try! Hopefully with the help of my mom & sister, we can make it work :) I'm super excited about this dog bed that I'm going to share with y'all today. My mom and I made it out of a drawer that we got at our local Habitat for Humanity. It's super simple to make and your little furry friend is sure to love it :) I used my Cricut to cut the saying out, "It's a RUFF life...and I'm lovin' it!" I also hand painted the little doggy paw prints across the front. I think it turned out so cute, but I'll let y'all be the judge of that! Just be nice, please :)

 

 

 

 

What do y'all think!? :) You can leave me a comment on this blog post or over on our facebook page, The Raspberry Room! Also, this one is available to buy on our Facebook page, as well as some other items! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! :)

-Kara

 

 

Pinterest Paint Party

Hey everybody!

 It has taken me FOREVER to get this post up because blogger has been so aggravating! It wouldn't hardly let me upload pictures. I read that some other people were having this problem too. I finally got it though! :)

Last Thursday night, my mom and I attended a Pinterest Paint Party! Our local Habitat for Humanity - Restore put it together and it was SO much fun! If you have a Habitat near you then you probably know that they build houses for people, so all of the money they made from the party went toward helping with houses.

With all the money they raised, they were able to paint a WHOLE house!! So wonderful!!

We got to paint a cabinet door and I really love how they turned out. 

We had a great teacher :) Her name is Lori and she has done a lot of paintings including some on the walls in a local mall!

Mine is on the left and my mom's is the one on the right.

We got to put a piece of cork on the bottom of ours, but you could also use chalkboard paint, magnetic paint or combine the two for a chalkboard that holds magnets. The possiblities are endless :)

We started with this ^^^

Then, we white washed it....

All you do is take regular latex paint that's white and mix it with a little bit of water and brush it on then use a paper towel to wipe it down.

It'll look similiar to this once you do that.

After that, we painted our background color. We did this in turqouise and we just mixed our paint in with the white and water mixure that we already had so that it would lighten it up.

*I didn't mix mine as good so my turquoise wasn't very light*

You then paint that on and wipe it down with a paper towel.

Next, we figured out where we wanted our images...

She had printed out, on regular printer paper, the images we would need and then she gave us some tracing paper (I don't remember exactly what it's called) and when we drew over the picture it showed up on our cabinet door. Does that make sense? lol

After that it was time to paint! :)

Then it was time to cut our cork piece to fit at the bottom

And then we were done! :)

My mom (left) and me :)

It was soo much fun and I really enjoyed the time I got to spend with my mom!

Hope you like it! :)

I'm linking this up to:

P.S. - I got a new job! I'll be working at a daycare and I am sooo super excited! I love kids and I've always wanted to be a teacher (I'm going to school for it actually!). I have been praying and asking God to show me my path and I believe that this is his way of showing me! I feel like being around kids is what I'm suppose to do and I couldn't be happier about the path that God has chosen for me! I've applied for other jobs with no luck so I was so excited when she said that I had the job!  It couldn't have came at a better time either! I am truly blessed. I haven't started yet, I had to have my fingerprints done and get a physical and TB test. I also got a flu shot! lol I'm hoping she will let me work a few hours tomorrow because she told me she would just start me for a few hours a day til I get use to it. I'll have a room of six 18-24 month olds! It will be 5 days a week and with that and school, it won't leave much time for blogging except on weekends. I'm hoping I can make all three work :) lol I have a feeling I'm gonna be so tired, but it will be so worth it!

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Owl Painting on an Old Window

Hey everybody!

Can you believe it's already February!?! I wish time would slow down a bit! lol

But, I have a really cute project to show ya'll today and what better way to begin a new month than with a NEW and CUTE project??

I don't know about ya'll, but I just LOVE old windows! There is so much that can be done with them. You may have seen my 'All you need is LOVE." window  that I did a while back using vinyl. It has been a big hit with everybody! 

So, today I wanna show ya'll a painting I did on a window.

I love owls so I chose to paint that.

(I've also done a bird with branches window painting that i'll show ya'll later :) My sister has made me promise to keep it for her so that she can put it in a nursery! lol)

 I love love love this one though so it's going in my room!! :)

I free handed it on some printer paper that I had put on the window and taped together so I would know how big it needed to be and then I put it behind the window and painted it.

I'm super excited to start selling these and my vinyl ones in a local shop here. They are so much fun to make. I already have 3 more windows ready to be decorated :)

I better get busy!

Thanks for stopping by!

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