Daughter Nina's latest project

Nina saw some very cute and very expensive fabric playhouses that fit over card tables on Etsy. At their home, the play area is in a nook beside the dining room and Nina wanted to use their tall dining table as the base.
She used low-cost brown sheets for all the walls and roof. Her big shortcut was using the finished edges of the sheets as the bottom of the walls so she would have less sewing.
She used fabric from my stash for the curtains, window boxes and door. _the door is not quite tall enough and will need to be adjust though.

The windows have clear vinyl in them, she bought it at Hobby Lobby and it looks good but my machine did not like sewing over it.

Pretty cute isn't it? And it can easily be moved and folded up at meal time.

Spice shelf - make do and mend project

BEFORE

My spice shelves just looked so messy to me.

I had some of the Starbucks bottles left from Nina's party so I started with those.

I painted the lids cherry red with a can of spray paint in the cabinet.

Then I printed off some free labels from

http://eatinginisin.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/round-labels-for-spice-jars/

I just printed them on regular paper, cut them out with scissors and glued them on with glue sticks. You could certainly use a cutter, sticker paper, pre-made labels - all kinds of ways to be more high-tech. There are also many free printable labels on line, just look around until you find ones than suit you.

AFTER

I also had a dozen tiny 4 ounce canning jars. I used them and the labels in their package to hold the smaller spices.

labels on top - easy to read

a few of the spices needed to be shaker jars so I re-used some of the original plastic containers with shaker tops. I covered them with red paper and added labels.

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Now if only all of my house was as neat and tidy as the spices