Halloween wreath and a project with old keys

It's Monday peepers!!!  I'm tired and have no motivation.....just sayin'.

Let's talk about craft projects because this is a picture of our poker table, which I was so conveniently using for craft projects.

Would you say I possibly have too many projects going on??  nah......

Well on Friday night I got the glorious pleasure of cleaning all this up.  I went to Canton on Saturday with LL and it turns out a poker game was planned.  I should mention all three kids home this weekend...whoop whoop whoop!!!   Soooooo, the poker table needed to become a poker table and not my craft table. bummer!!   It may have prompted me to get these projects moving along a bit since I finished three of them!

First one was Mere's wine bottle lamp

cute and fun and funky....love it!!!  Mere liked it too and that's a wonderful thing!!

Off to crafty project number two.  Back in February hubby and I traveled to North Carolina to pick up some things from his mom's house.  I found this pile of old keys in a drawer and no one wanted them but I just couldn't let them get tossed so I brought them home with me.  After scrounging the Internet for some inspiration this is what happened to them.

First I found some shadow box frames and bought some burlap material. Cut the material and glued it to the frame backs.

Used some teacup hooks (that I sprayed black) and twine to tie the keys together.

Next they need to go in the frames.  Some I hot glued directly to the burlap and others I used the teacup hooks.

Used the picture inserts to layout the pattern on the wall for hanging the frames, then it's nothing but popping some little nails in the wall.

This is my favorite

But I like this one too.

Here they are, all hung up on the wall.

MUCH cheaper than some catalog pics I'd seen and they belonged to hubby's mom....even better.

Final project of the weekend... got all the other Halloween decorations up so I needed to get the wreath for my front door finished.

I used this one for inspiration and then added a few little twists of my own.

 First things first, let's get that outside and get the straw wreath sprayed black.

 

Now I realize you are thinking..."man, she sure could have done a better job spraying that wreath" but hey, it's Halloween and this is a rather rustic looking wreath and I didn't want it all perfect looking.  BTW, those are the teacup hooks from my previous craft project. Spray once, craft twice!!

Now let's get those letters for the wreath started. I just purchased the thin wood letters and some Halloween scrapbook paper.  Let's just decoupage those little letters and see what happens.

Sorry to the wal of mart advertising section, you were needed to contain the wet decoupage items. :0)

While those are drying let's grab that nifty feather boa with the green sparkles I found at the hob of lob and wrap it around the wreath. It was short so I skipped the area where I was putting the letters.

Now it's time to grab some black burlap fabric, cut into strips and just tie in knots all around the wreath until it's nice and fluffy. 

(this is where I apologize for lack of photos, you see I became distracted by decoupage glue, Halloween candles that dripped and the fun in lighting the candles and putting them out by licking your fingers, playing with the colored wax from said candles, laughing really hard about NOT burning the house down while playing with the candles, the hot tub at the gym, sending the Abogg and his friend Tdub back to college...shall I go on or do you get the picture here??)

Anyway when you finally realize you have a huge mess working on the kitchen table you want to come back and attach a really big ugly plastic spider.  'Cuz it's Halloween and all!

Then you get those letters to FINALLY finish drying (or you restrain yourself from putting 18 layers of Modge Podge on them).   Now let's take it to the front door!

It's cute it's fun and it's soooooo Halloweeeeny!!!

This is the front porch area.  I still love my flying witch so much.  She came from an incredibly hilarious shopping trip to the big o lots with my friend Mel after a very successful yard sale in which we commenced to spend every penny we made in the yard sale on Halloween decorations because that's how we rolled!!!  oooh how I miss the yard sales with Mel... so many stories and so many good times and sooo much laughter!

That's it for today peeps 'cuz I gotta get motivated and get the chores done!!!

Peace, Love and Yummies on this beautiful fall Monday!

Grinders...the sandwich kind

Happy Friday Peeps!!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEE, it's been a weird but wonderful week.  I have accomplished all items on my to-do list with the exception of cleaning up my car and my son is working off some debt and doing that for me later. niiiiiiiiiiiiice....real niiiiiiiiice!!!   Crossing off to-do list items and not having to do them is da bomb!

Anyway, we had sandwiches last night so here you go.

That's the ingredients

First up we need to get the garlic (1 clove) and bell pepper into about 3 Tbsps olive oil and getting all yummy goody on the stove. We're only cooking them to crisp tender. 

Now when those are tender but still crispy (i.e. not mushy) sprinkle on about 1/2 tsp. onion powder

swirl them around in the pan and get that onion powder all in the mix

Now take those off the heat and let's get to sammie building

You are gonna take a loaf of french bread and slice in half lengthwise.  At this point you can cut the bread into sections or leave it long. I find it's easier to cut now rather than later, plus if you need to leave a particular ingredient off for someone it's easier.

Let's put ham on the bottom layer then the tomatoes (middle section was the Abogg's...no tomatoes) and then the green peppers.

Now we are gonna take that yummo olive oil and drizzle over the tomatoes and peppers, then sprinkle some oregano over those veggies. Let's slap on the Mozzarella cheese slices and then I like to throw on a little more ham, just to top things off nicely. 

Now let's wrap up those in foil and send them to the oven.  I believe you were supposed to put them in at 350 for 15 or 20 minutes.  We took off for the health club so I popped those babies in on 170 degrees and just let them hang out and do their thing. They were nice and warm and cheesy and delish when we arrived back home.

As you can see we also had roasted potatoes. Now I did not fix them the same ole way....SHOCK AND DISMAY!!!    hehehe  Actually I do normally give them a coating of olive oil, salt, pepper and thyme. Today I left off the thyme and used some oregano and instead of salt I used some onion salt. Picked up some of the seasonings from the sandwich and they were yummo as usual.  I'm telling you sometimes simple is best!

Now if you would kindly excuse me I've got a batch of PW's Monster Cookies to bake...no worries, I'll post later but I've got a house full of teenagers headed my way and I gotta be prepared!!!

Peace, Love and Yummies peeps!!!