Lobster Buoys

Hello my friends! I hope that you have had a great weekend. Hopefully you got a chance to slow down a bit and enjoy the weekend, there are not many summer weekends left! This summer has FLOWN by!!!

It is a little cooler here in Michigan (at least where I am) and I got a chance to finish up a project that I saw on one of my favorite blogs Simpledaisy. They are lobster bouys. These buoys are used for lobster fishing and they mark where fisherman have set their traps in the ocean. They are also great decorative pieces that give that coastal feel to your home!

Click here to see how Heather made these great little buoys!!

My hubby was kind enough to cut the buoys for me! (no power tools for me this time :( ) I could not figure out the angle and where I needed to cut, good thing he is an engineer!!

Three great little buoys!!

I decided to paint them cream, yellow and green. I have these colors in my house but they are scattered throughout so I thought that these would bring those colors out a little more. And...those are the colors that I had left over from other projects.

I painted a red five on the cream colored buoy using a template that I just quickly printed out from Microsoft Word.

Super easy!!

Painted a red stripe on the yellow buoy.

Left the green bouy plain, drilled the holes for the rope, sanded them to give that "old and worn" look and........

Ted-ah!!!

I loved how they turned out!!

I had them sitting in a corner by my hutch in the kitchen, but I think I like them in my entry way where they can hang for now. They will have to find a new home when the weather turns cold, that is where we hang our coats.

Hope everyone has a good start to the week!!!

Driftwood Sailboat

Wednesday turned out to be kind of a long, HOT day! I spent most of it running around trying to find some ribbon for a frame that I am finishing up for a customer and going to appointments that didn't exist! Oops!! Not such a good thing when you prepare a 4-year-old for the dentist all day and then come to find out when you get there that the appointment is actually NEXT Wednesday! Oh well, he was relieved but now I have to think of a new speech about how great the dentist is..

Anyway, I got some alone time at night and decided to make the driftwood sailboat that I so loved on Simple Daisy. Heather is so creative and inspiring and I loved her driftwood boat, she did such an amazing job! These boats were also featured by Maya at Completely Coastal (along with other cool driftwood crafts and inspirations)

So, I dug into my bag-o-driftwood that I collected from my vacation up North...

(did I mention that I kind of like driftwood?)

found some pieces that I thought would work..

(alot)

grabbed the power drill.......I love power tools!!!!!!

This is my "Oh Yeah, Power Tools" face!

I do not, however, love mosquitoes! They were everywhere!!

I quickly drilled the hole for the pole, twisted in some eyelets that we had and glued the pole into place and ran inside!!

I picked up some fabric squares when I was getting the ribbon, cut them into triangles, tied them down with twine that I found in the garage and.....

here it is!!! I love how it turned out!

I placed in on my fireplace to bring in some more of the aqua color over in that area.

There is another great craft idea from inspiring blogger friends, and a nice way to end the day!

Off to find the next one!!