Weekend, a time for crafts!

This isn't going to be the most earthshaking entry, but I wanted to share some completed crafts with you all (mostly you Cori...).

This weekend, Dan and I were treated with a weekend with pretty much no obligations, so we took the time to relax and get some stuff done around the house.

Our dear dog, Jackson, has been a little crazy when we get home from work, so in efforts to have an enjoyable evening Friday night we decided to take him for a walk at this dog beach area I found on the bay in Cleveland.

 The park was really nice and after Jackson ran around with a couple dogs we decided to push him a little more and keep going on the path.

Then Saturday Jackson had a grooming appointment (which went really well), so Dan and I had a nice 4 free hours to go to breakfast and run some errands getting the necessary items for our afternoon crafts.

I had got a Living Social voucher for a place called Coffee Delish in Cleveland. We both got really nice meals and drinks and planned out our day.

Our main craft goal for the weekend was to finish this bar/shelf thing I've been dreaming of. I found a photo on Pintrest months ago, and then Amanda made a wine rack bookcase that looked great, so I really wanted to get ours finished to see if it lived up to my hopes and dreams.

Basically we wanted to turn some shelves into a unit that holds wine bottles, glasses, and liquor. We already bought and built the shelves, but we needed to paint the wine bottle holders we bought as well as finish the backing on the top part of the shelving unit.

So we were on a hunt for wallpaper and backing for the shelves.

Apparently wallpaper is harder to find than I thought, and Dan had the idea that maybe we could use fabric instead of wallpaper. So we went to a fabric store and Dan found the perfect fabric (he's turning out to be pretty useful isn't he...).

We got the fabric, then went and got the backing we needed as well as spray paint for the racks, picked up Jackson and went home to start the project.

To our surprise, our project turned out to go perfectly smooth (which never happens) and we're really happy with the end result.

The above image shows our craft in its finished form :). We spray painted the wine racks and nice grey to match our couch and then put the fabric backing on the top half.

The above is an up-close photo of the fabric backing. I really wanted a nice yellow, and this color is perfect! the print is little pears which I feel is cuter than plain dots :)

I was so impressed with us, that I decided to push my craft limits and start/finish a project I've wanted to do with the flowers from my wedding boquet.

I had wanted to dry out my wedding bouquet and then take all the petals and put them in some sort of form in a shadow box to then hang on the wall and have forever. However, I hung my bouquet upside down when we left for our honeymoon and due to the hot and humid summer we had in San Diego, when we got back from our honeymoon my bouquet was pretty much all rotten. So I salvaged the petals I could and took the fabric and finishings used by the florist and brought them with in hopes to come up with something. And since I somehow managed to get the petals into Australia, which I'm pretty sure is illegal because it's a plant... I thought now I have to do something with it because they've made it this far.

So I decided to buy an "O" (for O'Brien for any of you slower people out there...) and glue the petals and finishings to it.

Overall, I feel pretty happy with it, and sits on the dresser in our room.

We now are looking for more crafty projects since the first two went relatively well. Watch out world- we're taking over!

Stay tuned for more, and I swear in my next post I'll be putting up photos of the whole house. Just need to do some finishing touches :)

Until then...