Happy Friday- A Button Rainbow!
Just thought I’d share a delectable selection of buttons with you. Naturally you can find them all in the shop.
Jul 30th, 2010
Jul 28th, 2010
Before and After- Mailbox Spiffer-Upper
Our house was born one hundred and ten years ago with cuteness infused into its soul. It lived hapilly adorable for 59 years before something horrible happened. I’m talking about The Sixties. A lot of the cuteness got replaced with flimsy wood paneling. Then The Seventies, The Eighties, and the ugliest parts of The Nineties happened and a little more cuteness got replaced with side-opening aluminum windows, florescent box lighting, and cloudy-day-colored vinyl siding. So we’ve got a lot of re-cutification to do! Some ugly bits I can live with temporarily. Like the carpet . . . we’re just gonna have to deal with that one for a while. But the sad, sad porch and it’s even sadder mailbox had to be put right asap. The poor mailman has had to see that every single day for who knows how long. Read on for a How-To at the end of the post!
Ooh-la-la so official and fancy!
BEFORE- Dusty, lidless, crooked, and cheap looking- blegh!
How did I do it? Although it took me a while to figure out the best way to get the lid to attach, this project actually cost me $0!!! Pretty fancy for zero bucks, huh? I used materials that I just had laying around, but you could certainly purchase everything you need for under $15- minus the mailbox.
1.) Remove all ugly bits from your mailbox. The fleur-de-lis just popped right off with a knife. Measure the widest part of the mailbox and cut molding(s) to size. I used baseboard molding that had fallen off, plus added some cute scalloped molding left over from another project.
2.) Paint your molding, and spray paint the mail box if necessary.
3.) Embellish the front of your mailbox using wood bits (from Michaels) and E6000 glue. I happened to have some vintage 3D sign letters laying around, which I spray painted black.
4.) Attach a small brass hinge to the back of the mailbox lid. Double check that it will open in the right direction. Then attach the rest of the hinge directly to the inside of the back of the mailbox. Hang your mailbox and voila- postal cuteness!
Jul 23rd, 2010
Strawberry Fever!
What do you think about this little lovely, huh? I promised you something crafty and here it is!
Or how about these little lovelies?
Now for sale in your favorite notions shop.
Jul 19th, 2010
Home Sweet Home- At Last!
Our POD is finally unpacked, ladies and gentlemen! That means that Eric and Polly are vagabonds no more! After 3+ years of moving from place to place, storing our precious things here and there, we finally have a whole house to ourselves, including all of our STUFF! It’s been so much fun to open boxes and find nostalgic things that I haven’t looked at in ages. And it feels really good that our scattered belongings are at last all within our reach whenever we want them.
So far we’ve only had 1.5 tragedies. 1. We couldn’t get the boxspring mattress up the stairs. It seemed illogical that it wasn’t fitting and we wondered what we were doing wrong, until we remembered that the previous owners slept downstairs so there were no beds upstairs since probably 1945 when beds were smaller or something. The regular mattress fit just fine and now our bed is just a touch lower than before, no biggie. And tragedy no. 1.5 is that two of the screws to the bed disappeared sometime during the move. We put it together anyway and hopefully the bed won’t collapse while we sleep!
Now we get to begin the overwhelming task of making our living room into a living room and not a labyrinth of boxes and assorted furniture. It’s going surprisingly fast and soon I’ll be back to posting about actual craftiness! I miss my sewing machine so much!!
I promise that next time I write I’ll a.) have something crafty to say and b.) I’ll have pictures!
P.S. The pups are LOVING the new house! They get a really big kick out of running up and down the stairs over and over again- crazy mutts!
Jul 15th, 2010
Tears of . . . um, Joy?
Okay, so up to this point I’ve just been really excited to move to our new place and explore a new state. I’m a “band aid” kind of girl- don’t think about the painful bits, just do it. But now I’ve actually had to start saying goodbye to people and I’m feeling really down about it. Today is our very last day in L.A. sigh.
The really sad bit is that we’ve been so busy doing last minute things like cleaning out the house and going to the bank and the vet that we haven’t even gotten to say goodbye to everyone we love here. Ugh. I hate to ever be not happy on my blog, but it would be weird to pretend that I wasn’t really sad today.
I was planning on posting pictures and a post about this awesome diner Fel took us to this weekend, but to be honest I think I’ll save that one for later. Instead, here’s a list of all the places in L.A. that I’ll miss the most.
* Griffith Park & the Griffith Observatory
* Silverlake
* Daichan on Ventura (we have yet to find anything that fits the bill in Portland)
* Cliftons
* Canters
* The drive to Canters
* The thin pancakes at Pie N Burger in Pasadena
* Last, but not least, In N Out- tragic. I may have to have some for lunch today.
Next time I write to you my lovelies, I will hopefully be much more cheerful and I’ll tell you all about the 5 Cent Diner ( my keyboard doesn’t even have the “cent” symbol, how sad!). Maybe it’s called the Nickel Diner, but I think it should be called the 5 Cent Diner personally. Look out for that post and wish me luck on a 16 hour car journey with 3 pups and a singing Eric!
Jul 4th, 2010
Move Dates and Shipment Info
Okay, lovely readers, I’ve officially got some dates. Shipments in the shop will be on hold from July 7-21. This means that anything purchased before the 7th will ship on the 7th, and anything purchased thereafter will ship on the 21st. The good news is that this is quite close to my current shipment times, so no worries unless you need a rush order. I won’t be able to do rush orders at all during these next two weeks.
The other good news is that even though HQ will be topsy turvy, packed up in boxes and I’ll be running around like a crazy woman, posts to the blog will be business as usual right up until the move, and again right afterward! Yay technology!
Now I’m going to go fantasize about how to turn that ugly space under my wonky kitchen window into a glorious mini-greenhouse a-la Hogwarts! In the meantime, here’s another sneaky peak- of my roses!
Jul 1st, 2010
New Danger Headquarters
I’ve been trying really hard to restrain myself from posting pictures of the new house, especially since we’re still living in the old one for the next two weeks. But I just can’t help myself ’cause it’s SO DARN exciting!! So here’s a look at the future Polly Danger headquarters.
Check out that incredible wallpaper, huh? What I’m most excited about is getting to stare out at my future fantasy garden as I iron! As you can see in the photo, I’m practicing. Believe it or not, when we first looked at the house I had no idea that there was wallpaper there because the room was closed up like a cave! The blinds were drawn, curtains closed up tight. It was incredibly dungeon-like for a sun room!
As Eric put it, the house is slowly absorbing our cuteness! It’ll take a boatload of elbow grease to get some cute absorbed into the electric blue melamine counter top in the bathroom. I’ll spare you the “before” photos until I’ve got a few “afters” to show you.
In the meantime, check out this beefcake mowing our lawn!
