Urban Hoot: DIY

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

That Desk has Balls…Baseballs!

So there is this competition called Creating with the Stars that I am entering. I have to submit my best ‘project’ that I have made, but, since I have soooo many awesome ones, I knew that I would need some advice as to which one to submit. After I asked some friends what they thought, I brought up the question to my husband and my 8 year old son. My son looked at me and said, “Mom, the best thing you have ever made came from your belly…ME!” How stinking true is that!?! No matter what I have made or will make he is by far the best thing and I can in no way top that! So, with him in mind, I decided to submit him and his baseball desk, that I made this summer (I made the desk this summer not him)!

We lived in our old house (we just moved last month) for 5 years before I started ‘doing’ my son’s bedroom. Since he loved sports, especially baseball, I decided it would be a sports themed room. My son and I worked all summer painting it and redoing his furniture to fit his new themed room. When it was done I realized that it needed a desk. Now, I could have gone out and purchased one, but where is the fun in that?

I went back and forth on ideas and still was not quite sure how I wanted to proceed until…I came across these beauties!

My local Sprouts was throwing these awesome crates away! And NO, I am NOT lying! I couldn’t believe it either! I scored 20 amazing crates for free!!!! I don’t think I had been this excited since…well, I am not sure, but you get the point!

After congratulating myself on repurposing these crates for the base of the desk, I went to work. First I cut one of the crates in half and then added shelves to each crate.

Ok, how creative and cool is the bottom of this desk? This is by far my favorite part of the desk! I didn’t want the crates to sit directly on the floor and I needed a little extra height so I added baseballs as the legs! To keep the balls from moving I attached the rings from mason jar lids to the bottom of each crate and then attached the ball to the crate with screws!

I did not take pics of the rest of the things I did, cause I did a lot of trial and error and I just didn’t want to have to stop to write down the measurements I used and so forth.

I just love how this desk turned out and how awesome it looked in his sports themed room! But, don’t worry, I brought the desk with us and it is now in his new bedroom!

Aren’t my 2 top things I have ‘made’ just awesome? I totally hit a home run with this desk! Yes, I did just write that!

Wish me luck in the competition! Thanks!

Linking up:

Savvy Southern Style

The Shabby Creek Cottage

SNAP

Whipperberry

Friday, May 25, 2012

Forget Birthdays No More

It has been forever since I last posted, ok, maybe only a few weeks, but it seems like forever. My internet has been working on and off, mostly off, which is soooo frustrating. And of course it is kind of hard to blog with no internet access! Then last week my husband ruptured his Achilles Tendon in his right foot, so he has a cast and is non-weight bearing for at least 6-8 weeks, so I am now his designated chauffer. Then a couple days ago, my son fell at school and now has a cast on his arm! So to sum things up, my husband and son each have a cast!

Anyway, enough about my craziness here, it’s time to show you this awesome Mother’s Day gift I made my mom!

This was such a fun easy project to make.

I only needed a few things, all of which I had on hand! Yipee…love when that happens. Here is what I used:

cupboard door (which I had bought from a thrift store for ONE whole dollar)
small wooden clothespins (Hobby Lobby)
burlap
stain/spray paint/vaseline
scrapbook paper
wall hooks
hot glue

The first thing I did was stain my cupboard door. I mostly stained the edges.

Next I cut out ‘Birthdays’ using my Cameo, then centered it (as best I could) on the door.

I decided to try Shanty 2 Chic’s vaseline method, so I rubbed vaseline along the edges where I wanted the stain to show through. It really only needs a little, I think I put too much on! Oops!

After the vaseline rub down, I gave it a couple coats of Heirloom White spray paint and let it dry. I love how fast spray paint dries! Yes, I am impatient!

Once the paint dried, I took sand paper and gently rubbed the areas that I had put vaseline on and the paint came right off, revealing the stain! I love how it looks, but I couldn’t quite get all the vaseline off, so not sure if I would use that method again or not!?! Next I took off the word ‘Birthdays’ to also reveal the stain.

After gathering as much birthday info I could find, well as much as my dad could fine, I used the Print and Cut on my Cameo to make tags for the names/birthdays and months on some fun scrapbook paper. My son helped me pick out the different colored scrapbook paper to go with the different months! I also made some blank tags she could fill in for the people that I missed.

Then I glued on 7, spray painted and stained, clothespins onto the bottom of the door. I really do NOT like measuring and usually just eyeball distances, but decided that I wanted it to look perfect, so I pulled out the measuring tape to get them all equally spaced. Then I hot glued them down and hot glued one in the upper corner to hold the ‘month’ tag.

Once I was done, I thought it was missing a little something, so I made 3 burlap rosettes and hot glued them on in the corner! Now it looks awesome!!! And yes, I got another blister from the hot glue!