A Clever Idea & Kitchen Sneak Preview

Check out Design Sponge for details on this project. I'm going to give this one a try someday!

Here's what's going on at my house...

Woohoo, new subway tile is being installed in the kitchen!

Our plain old white melamine cabinets are being painted today - I can't wait to see the finished product. In the meantime, I have to vacate the house due to all of the fumes. Off to the in-laws house for a few days.

Getting A Little Crafty For Chrismakkah This Year

I'm patting myself on the back right now for finishing up a crafty, little family tree project to give to my grandfather-in-law as a Chrismakkah gift.

(We're a part of a huge interfaith family so we celebrate both holidays - yaaay me!)

I found two shadow boxes at Michaels on sale for $15 each.

I used numerous textured scrapbooking papers (although my crappy camera doesn't really show it in detail) for the tree trunk and the leaves. My total for supplies was approximately $35.

I also left a few spaces open for future additions to the family and I'm hoping to do more research in order to add more ancesters. Overall, it was a fun project to put together and hopefully it will be a nice conversation piece in their home.

I definitely can't take the credit for the idea. I was inspired by this beautiful family tree from red envelope, but I didn't want to shell out the moola for a kit I knew I could probably make myself.