I was featured! :)

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It's so exciting to be featured on someones blog!   Reduce, Reuse, UPcycle featured my shower curtain turned nap mat.  One of my favorites! :) 



I haven't been on my blog (or anyone else's for that matter) in a while, what with family in town and then school started this week AND in another week I'll start back teaching.  My guess it'll get even worse then! :(

I have several projects I'm in the middle of -  hopefully I'll get them done sooner than later, but for now I wanted to give a shout out to Reduce, Reuse, UPcycle.  Her blog is all about featuring items that were made from an old unwanted something.   Saw some cute ideas on there!  Check it out!

Inkodye is on its way!!!

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I've been wanting to buy some inkodye ever since I saw this project:


If you haven't heard about Inkodye, go check out their website - this product looks so cool and I can't wait to try it out.  I ordered a small bottle of blue/green and got my shipping order and they said because I was a brand new customer they threw in an extra bottle!  SO COOL!!!!

Can't wait to make some fun stuff (and post about it of course).

Inkodye failures....

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well so far I'm not having much luck with my Inkodye project.  My vision was a beautiful chevron lampshade.  First off the lamp shade is a drum shade and of course the pattern won't go on straight and that just drives me CRAZY!!! So I moved on to an argyle print which works much better.  I used cut strips of a gold vinyl that I'm not ever going to use.  Nice and thick so the light wouldn't penetrate but it did anyway - I was okay with that because it made a two toned design -NICE... BBUUUUUTTTT, I can't get crisp lines and that is #2 thing that drives me crazy!!  UGH.. not sure what to do about it.  I'm letting it stir around in my brain for a couple of days but wanted to hear from anyone who has worked with inkodye before..... tell me your successes (and failures) and show some me some projects.  :)

You will be amazed and disgusted all at once!!

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K, so it's been FOREVAH since I've posted or even visited my blogger page.  I'm teaching 5 classes this semester so I've been seriously busy!  But that's another long story that no one is interesting in.  So let's get going on what is so amazing and disgusting that I had to bring myself back from the blogger dead. 

Even though I have been absent from blogger I haven't been absent from Pinterest (what can I say - I only have time for one addiction).  I came across this Pinterest post...

How to clean a micro fiber sofa.




So we got a micro fiber sofa and immediately the kids did their magic on it and it looked horrific.  Finally got a leather sofa and stuck this one in our "play room".  I hate throwing things out and my hubby assured me that someone that worked in his restaurant would need a sofa and so it sat and sat and sat.  I had reached my limit and was ready to send it curb bound and if my husband would have been home to help me carry it out it would have been gone.  So while searching on Pinterest I saw this "How to clean micro fiber".  I figured it was worth a shot.  So check out her blog to see how it's done. 

Now for the amazing and disgusting part.  Here is my sofa.  I don't think I have to tell you which part I haven't gotten to yet.... How amazingly well just a little bit of rubbing alcohol cleans it and how absolutely disgustingly filthy this sofa was!!

 

Can you believe that?!?!?!?!?  It a miracle in my book!  If you have a micro fiber sofa - you MUST do this!!