Projects

I promise there are more Chicago posts to come as well as photos. There is just too much to write and I have a movie I want to watch before bed. In the meantime, I wanted to post a couple of pics of crafty-ish projects I made. The first one is made from an old window that came from our second floor and was taken out before we did our addition. I thought the window was charming and wanted to use it as a decoration. This window wasn't visible on the outside for some reason. They covered over it with siding. Now, it is a memento frame of sorts of our 2007 Florida beach vacation. All of the shells around the edge are shells we collected from that vacation at beautiful Pensacola Beach, FL. I get happy every time I see it.

The next project is a set of plantation shutters. I love plantation shutters, but this adds a new twist to them. This is now hanging in the girl's doll room. It has lots of ribbons in salmons, greens, & blues. It is a memory board of sorts, although I don't have many "mementos" hanging on it just yet since I finished it about 10 minutes ago.
I must also tell you about a super-bargain! My husband wanted some Crocs flip-flops while we were visiting Chicago. We trekked miles it seemed to visit the Crocs store on State. Well, they were like $40.00 and somehow we knew that they would be cheaper at home. These are cool Crocs and they look like regular men's flip-flops BTW. We went home and went to the local dept. store that sells them and sure enough...the first pair I touched was on sale for $24.99. They were his size so we took them to the register to pay. The clerk said, "that will be $4.75". My husband said, "how much did you say"? She repeated again $4.75. We paid for them and left. There wasn't a sign or marking indicating these were on super sale. Josh's first instinct was to check the bag to make sure they were indeed real Crocs. Yes, they were. I told my mom about them and told her they had more--although none of them were marked as sale. My family was also able to snag Crocs as well. In total, we got 6 pair of Crocs for less than the sale price of ONE pair!!! Now, that's a deal if you ask me. Everyone that got them has declared over and over how comfortable they are! Josh just shook his head at my "deal" radar that magically appeared.