Fixing ripped snow pants - a tutorial...

Having moved to rural Iowa, my kids horizons have expanded (well their area of play has expanded)  There's a lot more places to explore, climb, hike and scale.  It appears my daughter decided to either take on her first barb wire fence or some sort of tree with her new snow pants on...

I was trying to figure out how to fix this without slapping regular old gray duct tape on it.

While cruising the aisles of Michael's yesterday I came across the stuff.  It is beyond genius!!! Duct tape on a sheet in cool colors!

I gave my daughter the option of this pattern or a plain purple that would blend in.  I was so excited when she picked this one!  Girl after my own heart!

Next, I needed to figure out how to cut it in a cool pattern...

Cricut to the rescue!!!

Locked and loaded!  At this point I am patting myself on the back for being so smart :-)

Mission accomplished!

As Always, Karie

uhoh...

I found my childhood desk in my dad's basement and thought it needed a little makeover.  There is nothing safe from my paintbrush...

Here is the  before picture.  It's your basic black little desk and when I was little it help all mine and my sister's treasures.  I don't know that we actually ever studied at it, but it was there for us to do our hair and in the 80's there was a LOT of hair to do.

Here is the priming...

Here is where the UH-OH comes in...  I have a mystery on my hands.  What could have made this mark on my newly primed desk???

hmm... they left a trail...

How could she possibly be the culprit?  She looks so innocent...

NAUGHTY KITTY!!!

She was lucky that I was able to get it off the sofa.

Not a very good after picture but I love they way it turned out.  I painted it a very nice blue and glazed it with a black.  I think I should have asked Santa for a better camera...

Now that it's all painted it will hold all my bills.  It was much more fun when it held my childhood treasures.

As Always, Karie