This just in

Did I tell you that I went out for lunch the other day? I ordered a salad and found a button in it. When I called the waitress over to complain I was told not to worry, it was part of the dressing.

(image found on Vintage Everyday)

Running on empty

I may be running on empty but for Gibbs it's always full steam ahead

Run Gibbs run. 

Catching up with cards

I guess I must have been in a slump with the index cards because I ran out and didn't have a new one to hang up on Sunday.

Monday I sat down and made a few more. Yesterday I forgot to post one because I had my craft project to show you.  Today you get two.

This was the card that I put up yesterday

 And this one will go up today

I'm thinking that the second one may need to hang for a few days or quite possibly get a permanent spot in my work area. 

The big reveal

First of all, Happy March. Did it come in like a lamb or lion where you are?

Now, yesterday I showed you this...

I started by taking strips of book page and gluing them on the top edge of the pringles can then I lined the inside of the can with some scrapbook paper.

Next I took apart those clothespins and glued the outside flat part against the outside of the can. I wrapped some twine around the can in all of the grooves in the clothespins and at the very top. Lastly I made a lid.

Now my pringles can is a barrel

The lid was a round wood disc. I glued on a round piece of scrapbook paper to match the lining then glued on a wood knob. To keep the lid from sliding off, on the inside I glued on a canning jar ring. The ring fit perfectly inside the pringles can.

Total was 6 completed barrels.  I might have made more but again it took me half the month to decide what I was going to make

I didn't like the blue paper on the lids as much as I did the other color but it did look nice inside the can