A Few Odds and Ends

A few random projects to catch up on. While out quadding, Todd found this antler and brought it home. Casey promptly hid. For some reason she's terrified but fascinated with any antlers. I eventually decided to mount it on a plaque after seeing something on pinterest.

I found the wood plaque at Michaels for a few dollars and Todd helped me drill a hold into the antler so it wouldn't split when I screwed it onto the plaque. He's very helpful that way! I then sprayed the whole thing white. He doesn't understand this as he likes things 'natural' - but he still goes along with my ideas :)

This now hangs in the bedroom where I promptly hung one of Todd's hats off an antler. This adds to our slightly 'country' decor in the bedroom. I'm not really into country per se, but we have three cross stitches that Todd's mom made for us (two wolves and an Indian chief) and some other objects.. it's *very* loosely country, and I think of it more of outdoorsy.

I also redid an old farm desk, that weighs about three million pounds (according to *some* people haha) and seems to be made of old doors. I color matched an old can of paint that had gone 'funny' and I'm loving it! It's very deep, and while sewing there is ZERO desk movement!

 The light is not very good in this picture, but the shelf in the picture below is the same color of glossy grey.

A product I like a lot is the Dritz Yellow Marking Pencil.  I have been through so.many.pencils.
Seriously, I have probably 10-15 different pens and pencils. And some of them are ok. The Nancy Zieman washable felt (I think it's by Clover) is alright, but the ends tend to get funky and you can't iron over top as it might not wash out afterwards. The Dritz pencil marks so clearly and tends not to fade after being handled. I don't like the fact that the 'lead' seems to break so often after sharpening but hey, I've found that problem with normal pencils and pencil crayons as well! I recently picked up the dark colored pencil and that seems to be working well too!