A New Kit and a New Shop have Arrived...

I added a new kit to the shop and would LOVE it if you'd go check it out.

I designed it for the Wood You Like to Craft? theme for April which just happens to be

 "APRIL SHOWERS".

I'm hosting this month which means the tutorial for this baby will go up on Monday on the WYLTC site. Be sure to head over there next week to see a week's worth of fun projects and ideas and to share your own.

And a little side note, I opened up a new shop. It has the same name {...Well Good!} and will have some of the same items as my etsy shop but this one will feature

 only finished items.

It's still pretty empty, but I'm working on that. I've got some fun things to add.

You can find it at:

 http://wellgood.bigcartel.com

And if I haven't said so lately, THANK YOU!!!! for you're continued support and encouragement.

It still amazes me every time I think about it.

Happy Crafting.



Bunny Tales and Carrots!!!

Happy Friday all!

We here at my house are on the cusp of SPRING BREAK and I could not be more excited.

Pretty much just because I won't have to turn the alarm on-but I do have a lot of "plans" for the upcoming break. Hopefully my girls will still like me when it's over...

So do you need a project or two for the weekend?

Well, jump on over to Wood You Like to Craft! It's been a fun week the ladies I hang with have once again put up some terrific ideas.

I posted today, want a peek?

The theme this month is silhouettes and the linky party starts tomorrow and runs through next Friday so there's plenty of time to play along.

If I can figure out what is wrong with my scanner I'll post the patterns...

have a great weekend and happy crafting.



It's Oh "SO TWEET!" at WYLTC plus an extra little something...

Happy middle of the week! Hope it's shaping up to be a good one.

It's my day to shine over at Wood You Like to Craft?

Want to see what I'm sharing...

The theme this month is "LOVE" so I made a set of Love Birds and a tree for them to hang out by.

Jump on over to WYLTC to check out the particulars!

Do you like them? Do you want some of your own?

You're so in luck, cause I'm sharing the patterns.

**I cut my birds and the tree trunk from a pine 2 x 6 and the wings, feet, and tree leaves from 1/4 inch MDF. The detail pieces are all paper covered while the chunky stuff is painted.

**To create the round base for the leaves I traced a 9" dinner plate.

Just click on the image, save to your computer and then print!

Have fun and happy crafting.



 

Guest Posting at So You Think You're Crafty!!!

Hello! And happy Friday to you all.

Just a quick note that I'm over at

So You Think You're Crafty? today sharing a little winter magic...

If you're not familiar with Missy's blog you should go give it a look. TONS of fun ideas, it's very worth a peek...and I'd love it if you'd say hi!

Have a great weekend-



It's Wood You Like to Craft Time!!!

I got an email from my sister the other day stating that clearly I must be dead because I hadn't updated my blog in over a week! HA! Not dead just super busy, it's a crazy but wonderful time of year.

So while my posts have been lacking, I haven't slowed down any.

In fact you can jump on over to Wood You Like to Craft? to see what I threw together this morning...

It's pretty "SWEET", at least my 4 year old thinks so!

Stop by and say hi and have a super Tuesday.

Happy Crafting.



It's SUPER SATURDAY time!!!

It's (one of )my MOST favorite time of the year!

SUPER SATURDAY SEASON!!!

If you are by chance unfamiliar with what I believe should be an official holiday, Super Saturday is a wonderful day of crafting, chatting, eating, learning, friends, laughing, and pure joy that is hosted by the Relief Society at my church.

It really is just a "super" fun day to hang out with friends doing all kinds of girl things, and who couldn't use one of those? So what will we be spending our special day creating?

Let me show you...

(This post is being shared with the super fab gals from my ward, so if that's you,

please read the descriptions carefully and feel free to contact Dustie or myself with any questions you might have!

Also please note that we have chosen projects that we feel are VERY USER FRIENDLY, we don't want anyone to feel like you can't make any of these projects. If you have a question about something please ask, also we will be there all day on the 8th to help where ever needed.)

**If you choose a project that allows you to bring your own paper/paint contact me for the pricing difference.

For those of you not in my ward I will provide links where appropriate to the ideas we were inspired by and too, feel free to ask any questions you might have...

Dress Form Hairbow Holder

Inspiration site: Lil Zoe

Cost: $18

Includes: Wood Form, paper to cover, tulle for skirt, all ribbons and flowers, mod podge, brushes, and paint for the back.

You supply: glue gun and scissors if you have them

Count Down Blocks

Cost: $10 per set

Choose between Days 'til Christmas

or

double-sided Days to Vacation/Days until Back-to-School

Includes: blocks and base pieces, sandpaper, paint and brushes, pre-cut paper squares and vinyl numbers, labels, mod podge, and we will have ink pads available for your use.

Family Chore Chart

Cost: $12

(Additional frames can be added for $1 per frame)

Choose between Black or Brown base/papers

**or supply your own papers

Includes: base board, pegs, hanging chalkboard tags, oval label cutout and flourishes, 5 frames, 5 clips, all paper and embellishments including ribbon, paint and brushes, mod podge.

You supply: glue gun and scissors/paper cutter if you have them

Count Your Blessings Board

Lil Luna

Cost: $15

Choose between Black or Brown paint/papers

**or supply your own

Includes: Base board, 4 picture boards, paint and brushes, papers, mod podge, vinyl lettering, all ribbons, clips, and embellishments, and ink pads will be available for your use.

You supply: glue gun, scissors if you have them

Temple Block/ Mission Block

Temple Blocks via Lil Luna  Mission Bliocks via me!

Cost: $3 ea

Choose from Houston or SLC Temple

 with either "I'm Going There Someday" or "I Love To See The Temple" saying.

Missionary Tag for Sister or Elder, photo reads "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission"

Includes: Block, paint, snad paper, photo, mod podge, embellishments.

Family Rules Board

Vinyl provided by Under My Umbrella

Cost: $15

Choose from Black or Brown Paint **or bring your own paint

VINYL ONLY AVAILABLE IN WHITE

Includes: base board, paint and brushes, sand paper, vinyl lettering, spray sealer

Initial Pillow Covering

Cost: $3

Choose from brown or black paint

Includes: fabric pillow case, stencil, paint, ribbon, needles and thread 

Be sure to leave your initial choice and ribbon color.

*does not include pillow form

Holiday Blockheads

Well Good on Etsy

Cost: $10

Includes: full kits-everything you need will be there!

You supply: glue gun and scissors if you have them

(if you have any scrap pieces of paper you'd like to get rid of, this is a great way to do it)

JOY Word...of the Month Kit

Well Good on Esty

Cost: $8

Includes: letters, bell, and base piece, paper, bow, paint, brushes, mod podge, ink pads will be availablefor you to use.

You supply: glue gun and scissors if you have them

Family Yahtzee Game

The blog where I originally found this idea, The Thrify Chick is no longer running but you can find other tutorials by searching "handmade Yahtzee games".

Cost: $7

Includes: storage box with personalized label, blocks, sand paper, score sheets and rules, numbers for blocks, paint and brushes, and mod podge.

You supply: scissors/paper cutter and pictures!!!

You need 5 copies of 6 different pictures (can be families, individuals, your dogs, stickers, whatever you want on your dice!) It would be helpful if you have your pictures cut down prior to coming as this is the longest step, they should measure 1.25 x 1.25 inches each.

Wooden Block Nativity Set

Cost: $4

Includes: 13 character blocks and the stable block, sand paper, clipart pictures, mod podge and brushes, 2 jumbo craft sticks and star cutout, ink pads will be available for you to use.

You supply: paper cutter/scissors and a ruler

**paint if you wish to paint the blocks versus leave them natural

30 Fast & Easy FHE Ideas...Bucket

Cost: $12

Includes: paint bucket, 30 individual lesson icons, typed lesson plans with binding, paper to cover and label for bucket.

How it works: Simply reach into the bucket and pick out an icon. Match the icon to the lesson plan and FHE away! Everything you need to pull off a successful, fast and easy FHE lesson is on the corresponding card-super fun idea for the kiddos!

(Whale= Jonah and the Whale, Play Money= Tithing, Baby in a Basket= Story of Moses, etc)

Initial Plaque

Signs by Andrea

Cost: $8

Includes: Base plank, large initial stencil, vinyl overlay, sand paper, paint, and brushes.

Be sure to leave the initial and name you want on each board!

Families are Forever Blocks

Cost: $12

Choose between black/gray (shown) or brown/blue papers and paint

**or bring your own

Includes: blocks, sand paper and paint, pre-cut papers, lettering, ribbons and embellishments, mod podge and brushes, ink pads will be available for you to use.

-the back ground paper on the top block will be lighter so the lettering will stand out more!

You supply: scissors and hot glue gun if you have them

Alright! There you go, hopefully a little something for everyone. A few things to remember,

sign ups/money should be turned in to Dustie by Sunday 9/25.

This is such a great time to invite non-member friends and family, or even your older kiddos so spread the word-

the more the merrier.

We are offering TWO FREE PROJECTS!

Come learn how to make( and take) a sweet little necklace

Then She Made

or hand sew a simple holiday project.

We'll have everything there for you, we just need you to show up.

For planning purposes there will be a sign-up sheet, please add your name if you think you might like to make one.

Limit two necklaces and one tree per person.

 And last, even if crafts aren't your thing there will be SEVERAL class available for you to attend to learn something new as well as a great lunch for you to enjoy.

So join us for a great, SUPER day-

Saturday, October 8, 2011.

Happy Crafting.





WYLTC July 2011 Project...Super-Sized Bird House!!!!

*Did you notice there was no August "Wood You Like to Craft?" project?
Our lives all got a little crazy this month so we decided to take a break until September.
If you follow along with WYLTC you'll need to know that all the action will now take place on the main site page-no more hopping from blog to blog trying to find a project!
If you don't follow us, you should!
It's a ton of fun and so many great ideas are shared there.
Just a head's up, September's theme is "SHELVES". If you've got one, built one, redone one or want to create one we'd love to have you share it with us. Stay tuned to the Wood You Like to Craft? site for all the fun, and until then here's a recap of my July project for our bird house theme...

Hey there!

 It's Wendy here, visiting my buddy Melinda all the way from Texas!

I'm so happy to be back at her place, just hanging out, sharing a  little girl talk, conjuring up a little something...we used to do it daily, now we have to do it through our blogs.

But I'm so glad we do!

 I personally think Melinda is one of the most creative people I've ever met and being able to share in her talents, in-person or on-line, I'll take any day.

On that note, let me introduce you to my take on Melinda's bird house project...

Once again, I went large.

 (I seriously think I have a size problem!)

I'm working on creating a fun, relaxing space on my back patio and needed a piece that would fit in, so the Super-sized bird house was born!

Super easy to make, and better I had all the supplies lying around my house.

(Yeah, that might not be a "better" thing...)

Anyway I used a few scrap pieces of 1x6 for the "house" part, a chunk of 2x3 for the base, and a few pieces of 1x3 for the roof line.

I took a page from Melinda's book and officially measured nothing, totally eyeballed it!

I started by mitering the ends of my 1x6 boards. Two at a solid 45 degrees and for the center piece, I found the middle and did a 45 degree cut out from there to create the point.

From there I laid the pieces side by side lining up the cuts of the roof and decided how big I wanted the house to be and cut the boards off there.

I sat and stared at the pieces for a while and decided I didn't like the house that square. So I marked off a slight angle on the two outside boards and cut it with my scroll saw.

Much better!

Here she is all cut and ready to get pretty.

The base is just a bit bigger than the 1x6's.

 To get the roof pieces, I lined up the 1x3 even with the top of the roof line on one side and cut it.

 I then laid that cut piece back into place and put another piece of 1x3 on the other side of the roof so that the top point was squared and then cut it.

(The second piece should be about 3/4 of an inch bigger than the first)

I painted and sanded each piece next.

I really wanted to emphasis that it was pieced together so I hit the edges pretty hard.

From there I nailed her all together and she was looking kind of house-y.

Big! and house-y, she stands just over 2 feet tall!

I wanted a display piece so I simple added an eye screw to the base so I could change my decor with the season or my mood.

Right now she's sporting a pretty heart bucket filled with flowers to match my patio color scheme.

I just ran a length of ribbon through the eye screw for easy changing.

There we go! One really big, chippy, happy bird house!

Start to finish in just over an hour.

Super fun and super easy. Thanks Mel for the play date! Let's do it again soon-

Feel free to stop on over at my neck of the woods anytime.

Happy Crafting.

Easy (One Board) Flag Holiday Hanger!!!

Need a quick and easy Independence Day decoration?

Give this a try...

You need a 1x4x6 and some scrap cardboard.

A little bit of craft wire and some paint. That's it.

Cut the 1x4 into 4 pieces.

1 Header @ 12 inches long

2 small stripes @ 15 inches long each

1 long stripe @ 16.5 inches long

Paint the boards, header = blue,

small stripes = red,

long stripe = white

Drill holes into the stripes so they can be wired together.

 4 in the white stripe, one in each corner about half an inch in. 

2 in each of the red stripes, in the corners that match up with the holes drilled into the white stripe.

Thread a piece of wire through the holes, twist together, and then give a little curl to the ends.

Line up the header across the top of the stripe pieces.

Drill 3 holes along the bottom of the header and co-ordinating holes into the top center of each stripe.

Wire the header to the stripes.

Add two more holes across the top of the header to create a wire hanger. Wire pieces together.

Make your stars next.

Draw them out onto the cardboard then cut them out.

Separate the cardboard layers to create some texture.

Paint the stars, distress the edges if you'd like.

Glue the stars onto your flag.

Almost done!

 Add a few embellishments like ribbon, buttons, berries, or glitter.

(You could add some lettering like "Stars & Stripes", "Old Glory", "Bless the "USA" etc.)

Find a spot to display your work, and enjoy!

Happy (Independence Day) Crafting!

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Wood You Like To Craft? June 2011 Star Lantern Tutorial!!!

Happy June! I've been waiting four long months to get my turn to host a WYLTC event and it's finally here!!!I'm SOOOOO excited. If you still haven't caught the bug yet, here's the quick run-down.Wood You Like to Craft is an on-line craft group hosted by four super-awesome-wood-loving bloggers-(okay, really there's five of us but only four blogs) you'll get to meet the rest of them throughout the week. Each month one blogger designs an inspiration project and the other four knock it off adding their own personal take to the project. We share them, hoping to get your creative juices flowing, and then invite you to do the same! Knock off the original project and then share it with us through the WYLTC linky party held at the end of the reveal week.(We even give a prize to our favorite one) Make sense? Great, cause here we go... Wood Star Lantern

 This project was so much fun to make, and if you're a newbie to the power saw world, this is a great piece to practice your skills on. (Simple straight cuts and easy corners!) If you're not a saw girl yet, you can still make this project as most hobby and craft stores carry similar supplies.I also made it in two different sizes, a large version that stands 18 inches tall and a smaller one that is 15 inches tall.The tutorial is the same for both and measurements are given for both but the KIT that is available for purchase is of the smaller sized lantern. Here's the good old supply list to make your own:

1/2 inch MDF to cut the 4 stars and the lid/base squares  ( lg star pattern HERE, sm star pattern HERE)  LARGE LANTERN MEASUREMENTS:one 8.5 x 8.5 inch square lid and one 6 x 6 square topSMALL LANTERN MEASUREMENTS:one 8.5 x 8.5 inch square base, one 7.5 x 7.5 inch square lid and one 5.5 x 5.5 inch square top  2x10 pine board squared to 9.5 x 9.5 for the base piece of the large lantern only*check the scrap wood bin as you only need a small piece or use 1/2 inch MDF 4 one-inch blocks for the lid-I actually stole these from my kids toy blocks because it was late and the store was closed. (bad mom, I know)You could use a 1 inch dowel cut to 1 inch pieces or a 2x2 cut to square blocks Dollar store Oil Warmer for the handle, black craft wire to link the stars, and a clasp and hinge to open and close the lid. ***PLEASE  NOTE THAT I PAINTED THE HINGES AND CLASPS BLACK TO MATCH THE LANTERN WIRE AND HANDLE PIECE, THEY DON'T COME THAT WAY. JUST GOOD OLD BLACK SPRAY PAINT WORKED GREAT!!!  

And a few basics like paint, stain, sand paper, wood glue, hammer and nails, wire cutters/pliers, drill, and a screw driver. Get started by cutting your stars, base, and all lid pieces.I used a scroll saw on the stars and a miter saw for the square pieces, a jigsaw would also work well for this project. *You might notice the large hole in the bottom lid piece-totally unnecessary, not sure what I was thinking there but you don't need it a solid piece works just fine! 

Stack up the stars and drill a hole large enough for your wire to slip through in the far right and far left point of the stars. 

From there give everything a pretty coat of paint. Be sure to paint both front and back, as well as the sides cause you can see them!*I used Krylon spray paints in Banner Red, Global Blue, and Almond.* 

 {I always sand off the paint on my edges so unless the wood is really rough, I don't sand until after I've painted, why do it twice, right?}Sand or "distress" your edges and then top off everything with a layer of stain.Minwax in dark walnut for me... 

Once everything is good and dry assemble the lid piece. Add a dab of wood glue (I like the Gorilla Glue brand) to the top of each of the four small blocks and then place one block in each corner of the smallest lid piece. Once it's dry, turn the piece over and run a nail into each block. 

Add a dab of glue to the bottom of the square blocks and then center that piece onto the large lid square. Carefully flip the entire piece over and run a nail into the blocks from that side as well. 

Add the handle next.The oil warmer comes like this... 

Carefully rock the tea light holder back and forth until it pops off leaving you with just the oil cup and the base. Use your pliers to help pry off the circle rim.  

Run a bead of glue around the edge of the oil cup and then place it onto the center of the lid piece. Once it's dry, add a few nails to keep it secure.  Set the lid piece aside. 

 Wire the four stars together next. I used 16 gauge craft wire on the large lantern and 20 gauge wire on the smaller one.Cut a fairly long piece of wire, about 10 inches, thread it through the pre-drilled holes, bring it back to the front and give it a few twists.  

Be sure it's not to tight or the stars won't bend around the base.Curl the excess tails of the wire around a pencil. Use the pliers to help. 

Once you've got all 4 stars wired together, set them on top of the base piece. Shift them around until they are centered on the base and then glue the stars onto the base piece. *I actually used my hot glue gun here, I just needed them to sit in place so I could get a nail into them and well...I'm not a patient crafter!

Drill a small pilot hole into the base of each star corner that touches the lantern base and then nail the stars into the base. Be sure to add the pilot holes or you might split your MDF. Whew! The hard stuff is over-only two more steps and you're there.Center the lid piece onto the stars and add the hinge piece. 

Turn the lantern so you're looking at the opposite side of the hinge and add the clasp or locking piece and... 

WAHOO!!! You're done, just add a candle, small plant, or festive holiday somethin'somethin' and enjoy it! 

Also, remember kits for this project are available HERE if you can't cut or find your own supplies. And please, if you have questions, need clarification, or ideas on substitutions just email me. I'll help where I can. Happy Crafting- 

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