happy mantles & sticky paintings

Let's do coffee, k?

I'm stickin' with these babies, because I can't get enough...I've gone through 2 gallons of cold coffee and I've got another 2 gallons steeping in the fridge as we speak.

(to be fair I did NOT drink that all myself...a few others partook in blended goodness too)

So, since you're here I'm going to show you the activities of yesterday...

just the fun parts.

I'll leave out sheet washing a kitchen floor mopping.

My girlie and I did an art project on the patio...

hot, yes!

But here's what I think:

We Midwesterners are a buncha complainers...you should hear these people in my town...

they're all freaking out about hot weather.

Well, I get that it's hot, but 6 months from now we'll all be frozen solid and planning vacations to someplace hot.

I'm not sayin' a word.

Karma, baby...a figure when I'm outside in the sticky wonderland, at least I'm getting a facial :)

How's that for optimism?

Ok. Back to the project.

We mixed corn syrup with food coloring to make our paints.

Then we drew an outline of our drawing with oil pastels.

Then fill in the drawing with your paint.

It's so pretty.

I love how the paint is shiny.

But just for the record, it takes forever to dry.

I think it'll always be pretty sticky...

Sophia's

Mine.

Ok, now I have to show you the little mantle redo I did yesterday...

Here's what it looked like before.

Pretty boring.

and sad :(

and now!!

Now it's happy :)

I had this old door thingy and the idea just hit me on Sunday...

"this could be a little piece of art or something."

So I came up with stamps, a phrase and colorful fabric.

I used some fabric I had to make a little semi-circle banner

and then some more fabric for the mini triangle banner.

I added these photos too because it needed a little more something.

Side note:

I need ideas for displaying some of my photos.

What do y'all do?
Also, I need to organize my photos...they're just all sitting on my hard drive,

so needing to be organized.

Does this make you happy?

Because it makes me smile every time I walk by...

since yesterday.

Thanks so much for coming on over today.

By now I'm so hopped up on caffeine, I'm feeling very productive now :)

Oh and since you know me well enough for coffee, you

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Yeah!!

Ok...bye now.

xo,

{alicia}

LInking up with Amy @ Lucky #13...you can go have coffee with more cool peeps over there :)

Also linking up with Alison @ Stuff and Nonsense

and

Jen @ Tater Tots and Jello