The Adventures of a German Girl

    Do you remember my ugly chair ?       After transforming it to a nightstand I had pieces from the back leftover.     It just looked like the perfect frame to me, don't you think?   I sanded it down put some wood glue on it and clamped it over night. It completely fell apart the next day and I had to redo the whole thing..   Playing Find Waldo on our floors..     I then painted the whole frame turquoise - my new favorite color   Then I used brown glaze over the dried paint and wiped it off. This gives it the old look I so like.   I cut a piece of plywood for the back, used chalkboard paint and gave it a good cover.   After it was dry I used my nail gun and nailed the plywood to the frame.   I hot glued parts of the board with wine corks and used another piece of wood to separate the corks from the chalk board part. ...

  While I was offline for several months I was still doing what I love to do. I crafted, wood worked and spent time with my hubby and our dogs. Not that I need to proof myself but I wanted you to have a little insight of the things I created and not shared with you.   What I was working on most is crafts for our wedding and then moved on to create items I could finally sell. I opened my own little Etsy store. My new store is called Schilderwald, which is German. I thought I bring a little bit of my German culture with me when I sell American language on wood! :)   I will expand my store with wedding crafts and new ideas as I go. So far there are only signs available for any kind of occasion. Wedding, Birthdays, Anniversary, Announcements. Also quotes, bible verses and of course I do anything custom. Check it out if you have some free time. I would love to create something for you too.   Not sure when I started with crea...

For the last year or so, we have two lovely chairs being part of our family.   Every other weekend Brian wants to drive around checking out yard sales, and every time he comes home empty handed while I bring home STUFF.   While I was on a business trip though several months ago, he called me so very excited and said he found the coolest chairs and without seeing them I told him to get them if he thinks he can do something with them.   I came home to this - 2 of them     Do you see the little wheels on the legs? One chair still has two, the other one only has one and is wobbly.     So while those chairs were living with us for many moons, I finally started cleaning out our basement trying to get rid of things we definitely won't need anymore. Of course he hasn't touched them to redo them. He buys stuff to buy it, but then forgets about it. Or hopes that I get to it sooner than he will.   I carried those ch...

Hi Friends, It's me! I know you might not even remember... For New Years I made the resolution to find time to blog regularly again. One might think that this is not hard at all and a stupid resolution. Let me tell you. When I look at my last post from JUNE.. I think this is just crazy. Life gets so busy at times that it is almost unthinkable to have just a couple of minutes left in the day to do something out of your schedule. Now that it is almost April, I think I'm going to start with my resolution and at least keep you in on all the cool new things I have planned. No need to show you all the old saved drafts of our wedding décor/signs etc. Maybe I do a one year anniversary post in 5 months to remember this once in a lifetime event, the crazy and fun times beforehand, the amazing honeymoon in Thailand afterwards and the now blissful marriage! :) With all this said, we have a lot of work coming up - we bought a cabin in Blue Ridge, GA and are going to close...