Tea Staining! Minus the Tea.

Here we go with more wedding $#*!.

I'm sure that all you crafty people know what tea staining is. 

Boil some tea, and dunk your whites, then BOOM. You just added a billion years to that newly crocheted 

doily.

Enter poufy, bright white and frilly flower girl basket...

My sister-in-law had these in her wedding. And me, being the penny-pincher I am, decided to use them in my country-fied wedding.

We're talking: weeds in the ground-cow patty-by the lake-middle of summer-cowboy boot- out in the boondocks wedding.

Obviously, these little baskets would not make the cut 'as is'.

Not that they weren't cute, they just weren't the perfect fit.

So, Mama D and I got to work.

We ripped off the black bow, and took a look at the naked basket and thought: "This thing is too dern white."

Mama D soaked it in tea and let in hang in the shower all night. Still, it didn't turn out to be as ivory as we had hoped, but hey, it wasn't in your face white anymore.

We ignored it. Glued the jute along with a turquoise bow and a lace trim. Instead of dyeing the super white trim in tea(that would have waisted a whole pot), Mama just whipped out a little bowl and some cheap vanilla flavoring and dunked the whole shebang in there. 

And it worked! Plus, it smelled like freakin' heaven. Whoever we showed the basket off to was more focused on keeping their nose buried in it than marveling at the cuteness of it.

We even died some white petals blue with water and food coloring.

ta-da!

Faking Fancy.

You see this?

Well, not the two goofballs stuffing each others faces.. This:

I made it. Out of two wine glasses and three plastic plates. Just glue em all together and you got an expensive looking cake stand that costs only about three dollars! wOOt.

Also, I stained the glasses and plastic with glue and food coloring (two drops green and one drop blue for turquoise) and painted it on like paint. 

Using glue makes it look more frosty and vintage-y, but if you prefer shinier looking glass, then just switch the glue out with modge podge. 

Here we did it with some mason jars:

And the best thing is, it washes off. Plus, we took it all apart and kept the nice glasses!

Yay, happy wedding-celebration-cake-time.

Okay, here we go.

So I started this thing-a-ma-jigg to keep track of all the jacked up stuff that I wanna make pretty and all the wacky solutions my mother-in-law and I come up with. Hopefully whoever cares to check up on here will get a few ideas to make their lives easier.

So the husband's g-ma and auntie came to visit a couple a weekends ago after the wedding. Lately, our favorite pastime has been garage sale hopping. So we went to a hand full of em that weekend, and g-ma got me this:

So here goes my first project! 

You can probably already guess where I'm going with this...