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If you are still following me here, please consider joining me over at  my new blog!  I have imported everything to my new one!  Here is the link:

http://www.sodderbug.com/blog/

Craft Club- NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!!! .

February’s Craft Club was a HUGE success!!  Everyone was surprised to learn how easy it is to etch on glass! 

March’s Craft Club will feature POWER TOOLS!!  Saws, sanders, and drills!  And of course your own pair of girlified safety glasses!  Here is what we will be making:

 

  Don’t come in dress clothes!  You WILL be covered in saw dust!  Jeans are encouraged!    The cost for this project will be $15.  If you would like to pay now you can do so by clicking on this “Buy Now” button.

 

So simply pick a date, invite your friends and I do the rest.
BEST part of all, if you have 5 people attend, yours is FREE!!!
For more details, contact me at

janelle at sodderbug dot com

Old Electrical Insulator Sconce

And many more insulator projects to come!!!

New *Old Barn Wood* Sign

I made this for a friend’s birthday present!!

Finally, I am starting a craft club!

After many requests, I am going to start a craft club! Each month I will teach a new crafting technique. The prices will vary, usually $10-$20. The cost will cover all your supplies to make the project. The first class will be teaching how to etch on glass. For $10 you will get to make one of these candle holders!

The cost for this project will only be $10! I will have sand and a candle to put in them. This first one will be at Trish Naylor’s house on Sunday, February 27^th, from 4-5pm. Her address is 6319-B Highway 158 Summerfield, NC 27358. If you cannot make this event, you are welcome to host your own. Just pick a date and time and invite some friends over to your house. I will come to you with all the supplies and teach it in your house. If you have at least 5 friends then you get to make her project for free! Each month I will have a new project, teaching a new technique. At the February class I will bring the March project with me so you can see a sample. Let me know if you are going to attend the party on the 27^th or if you want to host your own party!

janelle@sodderbug.com

336-312-5170

A great gift for the man in your life!!

Or it can be for your wife, if there are any men reading this!  There are four glasses in the set and are $20!  I can also make custom pint glasses.  Custom glasses are $30 per set of 4.  Just email me the words, logo, or team you want on them!  You can purchase them on my Betsy page.

Burlap Wreath

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day today’s project is a super cheap, fast, simple, and cute wreath!

1. I bought burlap at Hobby Lobby. One yard is plenty and it is $2.99/yard. Use the 40% coupon from Sunday’s paper or print it off online and you have your burlap for $1.79!! Originally I cut it into 4 inch strips. I ended up cutting those in half. So go with 2 inch wide strips.

2. Unravel a little of each side of the strips.

3. Shape your coat hanger into a heart.

4. Put the burlap strips on the wire, accordion style. The coat hanger pokes right through it!

5. Keep putting on strips until it is thick enough that the coat hanger doesn’t show through.

6. Then fold over the pieces of hanger at the top so they are hooked together.

You are done! That easy! Total project cost, $1.79! Can’t beat that! It took me about 30 minutes, most of which was cutting out the strips. The hardest part is figuring out where you want to put this beautiful wreath!!

New Store is open!!!

I have been making a lot of projects with old barn wood lately!  I have received lots of great feedback so I have decided to open a store on my Facebook page!  You can find it here!  I will add new products everyday!  I am also adding them to my Etsy page. 

Valentine’s Day Charms!!!

I have made several Valentine’s Day charms that I want to share with you!!!  I also made graphics that you can save and email to your husband if you want a custom photo charm for Valentine’s Day!!  Check them out!  If you place an order for a custom photo charm in the next day or 2 then you can have it by the 14th! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can now purchase my charms on my Facebook page too!  Oh, and “like” it if you don’t already!!

Valentine’s Day Subway Art

A photo tutorial!!

Little Old Door

Check out this amazing little old door!  I got it from my secret source who takes down old barns!!  He is my jackpot!!!   I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this when I found it! 

Using my Silhouette, I made this stencil:

Next I laid out the stencil where I wanted it.  I put tape on the rest of the wood so when I spray painted it the rest of the wood was covered.

Then I spray painted!  Sorry for the terrible pictures!  My Nikon was in the shop so I had to use my phone camera!

Remove the stencil and here you go! 

I love it!  I have 3 extra doors so if you are interested in getting one, email me your established year!  I am selling them for $30!  janelle@sodderbug.com

Copying Restoration Hardware!

Here are some pictures of what I have been working on!

 

Bartering for Christmas

I am going to attempt to log all my Christmas bartering!  I think I will be impressed when I finish this post at how much $$$ I saved us this Christmas!  I will definitely email my husband a copy of this post so he sees how much I saved us as well!    A custom Sodderbug charm sells for $30 so keep that in mind.  Here is a sample of what Sodderbug is all about.  I make these custom photo charms.

2 Charms for 1 Nintendo DS and one Nintendo Gameboy    $110

2 Charms for  photographer, Wendy Riley, $$ saving up for s sitting fee towards new family pictures… priceless 

3 Charms in exchange for an amazing birthday cake made by Kool Cakes for my daughter (whose birthday is in Dec)    $90

Christmas charms for Total Bliss, an incredible local store.  I used my store credit to buy Christmas decorations.  $110  (my guess, not finalized)

1 Charm for a batch of the One Nutty Girl’s cookie dough, mmm.  That was just a straight up splurge!  $30

2 Charms for 2 gift certificates to Shane's Sporting Clays for my Dad’s gift.  $60

8 Charms for Slimdgm, I just call her Slim!   She made me a bunch of these!  I gave them to my mom, sister, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law!  Each clip board was custom made for their personality and with their names on them.  Oh, and she made me one with my Sodderbug logo on it!  $240

Running ornaments for Off'n Running, our local running store.  When it comes times for a new pair of running shoes they will be free!!  $130

4 Charms for Stephanie over at Fontastic Expressions.  She is going to make me $120 worth of vinyl cutouts!  She makes so many amazing things that I have not made my mind up yet!  I think I am going to get bible verses to put up all over my house!

I am sure there is more that I am forgetting about.  So far the total I can remember is… $890!  WOW!

Old Barn Door

This barn door is going to be the top of my new kitchen table!  I will let you know how it turns out!

Copy Cat

I totally admit it!  I am a HUGE copy cat!  Here are a few of “theirs and mine” pics!  I am terrible about giving credit to the “theirs” pics.  I never can remember where I got them from!  I promise to do better at that!

theirs

mine

theirs

mine, I need to learn how to do that dark staining around the edges!

Christmas Decorating for almost FREE!

Old Barn Wood

 

No time to write now but wanted to get the picture up!!

Some of my Halloween Embroidery Files

Here are a few of my Halloween embroidery files.  All of them except the skeleton are appliqués.  That means that where you see the background there would be fabric.  You can choose the thread colors!  Appliqués with a name or word or two are $8. 

 

 

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

From Pallet to Bed!!

We are in the process of turning my 2 year old son’s room into a big boy room.  I started with the canvas on the back of vinyl flooring.  Notice in the final picture how much of Bessie, the cow, I lost due to my terrible measuring!

I had found this picture of a bed and wanted to copy it!  I can’t remember which blog I got this picture from! 

One day last month I went to my husband’s work to have lunch with him.  As I was walking to my car I noticed their LARGE trash pile.  It was calling my name!!  My poor husband!  I may not be invited to lunch again!  I found this large pallet and asked him to bring it home.  To my surprise he did!

First Scott (and Nicholas) reinforced each board with a screw.

I found these 4 inch casters at Harbor Freight for $3.99 each.  I needed 6.   I was able to use Sodderbug $$$ to purchase them so that makes me happy that it didn’t come out of our household budget!

Nicholas handed me the screws and I screwed them on!

We carried it into Nicholas’s room and this is what we had. 

I had not measured it and thought I would not mind if it was a little larger than the mattress but it took up way too much space in him room.  So… we took it back out to the garage and completely undid everything we had just done.  We cut 10 inches off the width and the last 3 slats.  Then put it all back together.  I think it was totally worth it!  Nicholas is sound asleep in his new bed!

He loves that Bessie is right next to his head! 

I might turn the bed tomorrow so that it is on the right wall and not covering up so much of the canvas.  A funny note about the comforter… it is from my college days!  Inside of the comforter is my older comforter from middle school age.  My mom had taken two sheets and sewed them together and put my old comforter inside.  So it is 21 years old! 

Just a reminder, my blog has a new place but I am double posting until I get you all over there!  Here is the new location: http://www.sodderbug.com/blog/