truthfully tracelaine

You Guys!!  I am so excited!  As I have mentioned before, my husband has a wood shop that he allows me to make whatever I want out of the scraps that he discards. I use the scraps, along with wood glue, staples, paint, stain, scrapbook paper, and any other trinket I find to make a unique crafty project.        Well, putting these craft projects together has been such good therapy for me. It truly makes me very peaceful.  The only problem I have come across, (besides the occasional sanded knuckles) is that eventually I run out of space to put all of my little projects.  So, with that in mind, I decide to jump in and see what would happen if I made them available for others to see and buy.  I rented a flea market booth and decided to open my own little craft boutique.     It really took a lot of courage for me to jump out there. I worried that the product wouldn't be attractive to to customers.  I worried that n...

Aren't these the cutest things?      I love this little pumpkin trio, but it took some imagination to get them all stacked together.  You see, mm sister and brother-in-law are building a new house.  In this gorgeous new house you will find ship lap, hardwood floors and plenty of Farmhouse charm.  My husband is building the kitchen, bathroom and utility room cabinets for this house.  So there is plenty of various hardwood scraps for me to choose from when I'm feeling crafty.      One evening, my husband and brother-in-law were in the shop planing and ripping boards to make trim for stair tread.  The excess strips of wood that they felt were unusable were being tossed into a wagon to later be hauled down to the burn pile.  The thing that caught my eye was the curved edges along those discarded strips.  As I stared at them and felt my imagination start humming, I realized that stacking them side-by-side, presented a ...

     I know that you're not supposed to tell a lady's age, but somewhere along the way I passed my mother and she is now younger than I am.  Now, I understand that as women have more birthdays something happens, and they stop aging.  But since she had actually become younger than me, I thought it was time to celebrate with a pretty cool gift.  She had been eyeing a laundry sorter that I had re-purposed out of an old dresser, so this November, for her birthday, I made her her own laundry sorter.   You may notice the cute little bee on top, telling everyone to "Bee Happy".  This was purposeful.  My parents raise bees and sell the honey once a year.  They love their little free range bees.  ( We all love the honey!!)  So if it goes in the house, it needs a honey bee.  I think it turned out pretty cute.  It has also freed up alot of space in her laundry room and made life a little more organized.  Plus, she reall...