(Re) Chic

So for those of you who don't know I'm obsessed with Pinterest.   And there has been a lot of crayon art pictures popping up like this one: via Light & Spoon And I've been really wanting to try it, but so many of the silhouettes (like the one above) are overly cutesy and romantic, this one has him proposing , and I wanted something more inspirational so I saw this and decided to combine the two.   Via Too Much Time So here's how I did it...and how it turned out:   The Finished product.           All the colors were lined up and the words added and now for the fun part! It melted super slow...even with my blow dryer on the highest blast possible, so it certainly took a lot of patience.   It looked pretty cool just like that but I really wanted to see what it would be like if I removed the letters: Since it was hard to read plain like this I went in with a Sharpie and tried ...

I seriously have the DIY bug but feel that I don't have the tools to make it happen. I have this excellent coffee table that I want to refinish that I "rescued" from Josh's alley but have you ever sanded something that has multiple layers of grossness with just sandpaper.  Someone forgot to take her patience pill when the DIY bug bit her!   And today I just found this EXCELLENT idea of how to turn an old pallet into shelving that I LOVE.   Kim at Too Much time on My Hands is BRILLIANT!  And I want to make one of these for every room.   But I'd have to rip the pallet apart with my bare hands. My cabbage plants are nearly ready to begin their journey into becoming saurkraut (I'm determined to make this myself) but I also lack a recepticle large enough to make it in *(my family has promised me a crock that I've yet to receive).  I'm also ready to try making Pesto.  I've always said I was going to but its always been daunting.  I f...