New pages for my Blog book.

I am not going to be making many posts this week because I am working hard to get my blog book done and printed. 

Here are some of the Cub Scout pages that are completed. 

Working towards the completion of my Digital Scrapbook.

I am working hard to get my Digital Scrapbook done.  I am in the fine tuning stages of the book.  I will be posting some new pages tomorrow. 

Blog being turned into a digital hardcover book

My Blog book is almost complete. If I continue to work on it every day, I will have it by the end of September. I have final page count at 285 pages. This is one full year of posts. The only thing I did not put in this book are all my Family Heritage recipes. I want to make a separate book for that. To see more of my pages you can go to Blog Book, Sneak Peak, New Pages.

Here are some new pages I completed recently.

This is what my cover will look like. I'm not sure I am going to keep it. I am trying to decide if it looks too much like a bridal shower book.

 

The race starts...NOW!!

Now that the fall season is quickly approaching we are going to be packed with activities. Keeping up with The Cisco Kids homework and practicing his guitar nightly is one thing. Keeping up with all The Cisco Kid’s activities is going to be another story. Starting August 31 we have our first Soccer practice. Starting September is church and Cub Scouts. This means we will be busy every day of the week except for Sunday and Monday. I can't forget that I have to fit in my Antique booth somewhere in there.  I go there a couple times a week to spruce things up. So... The race is on to keep up with everything. 

With School starting this week it has been several days since I have been to my Antique booth and it was in much needed re-arranging. Here is what I spend a few hours on today.

  

The first day of school

Second Grade!!!! I can’t believe it. The Cisco Kid has so many great qualities. I walked him to his class today and I purposely walked about ten steps behind so he could have some space. He loves his independence. It was a touching moment as I watched him great all his friends and introducing himself to the kids he didn't know. He is so happy in his every move. He walks with pride and confidents. He's only 7 years old and he is very secure in his own skin. All I could think of was what a great person he is and what a tremendous person he will be.  

The Cisco Kid's first day at school.

This is one of his friends going all the way back to 3 year old pre-k and another friend from 1st grade.   

The Cisco Kid is putting away his supplies and setting up his desk. 

Every morning Mr. M has all the children move their name on their food choice for lunch 

The Cisco kid's name will remain on the Chicken Nuggets all week except on Pizza day. That is his way of switching it up.  

We are very excited that school is starting.

I'm not sure who is more excited, me or The Cisco Kid. 

This morning we had orientation at school.  We found out who his teacher is and where his new class room will be.  The Cisco Kid is very excited that he has a man teacher this year. His new teacher seemed very nice and ready to teach.  It was very exciting to the Cisco Kid when he walked into his new class and it was all about baseball.  Everything in the class has a baseball theme.

The new statue for the school. 

The Cisco Kid and Mr. M

All of Mr. M's baseball memorabilia.

The Cisco Kid loves the Mad Scientist center.  I can't wait to see what Mr. M has in store for the class.

The reading center.

The Cisco Kid getting comfortable at his new desk, reading. 

Monday is the first full day of school. 

Have a great weekend.

I re-purposed a coffee table.

It is fun to re-purpose something old into something usable. My project went from this ....

To, this...

 

This coffee table is very out dated and has a terrible green coat of paint on it. I decided that this table would look better as a bench instead of a table.

I had some old fence posts that I cut down to the right size and used them for the back of the bench.

I laid the fence pieces down on the ground in a couple of different patterns to see how they looked. I liked the overlapping pattern the best. Once I decided what pattern I wanted, I braced them all together with wood and screws. I had some leftover pieces of wood that I used for the decorative sides. I used a jig saw to cut out the curves.

I had to cut a small amount of wood off one side of the table so the fence would sit flush against a large part of the wood. This is to give the back stability. I then screwed everything together and painted it.

 I put two coats of paint on it. 

For a finishing touch I made the cushion.  A four foot cushions usually costs about $50.00 and up. I made this cushion for 11.00. The material I used to cover the cushion is a shower curtain. I found it for 5.00. I thought the pattern would match well with the whole look. If anyone has every made pillows before, knows that stuffing is very expensive. I was not going to pay $25.00 for stuffing this cushion. I went to Big Lots and got two of their pillows for $3.00 each and used them to stuff the cushion.

I had this brass bow in my junk drawer forever. 

It finally came in handy. 

The table cost me $7.00, the cushion cost me $11.00 and I used about $2.00 in paint. So this bench cost a total of $20.00 to make.