If I can do it, You can do it too Tuesday…

These last couple of weeks have been tough on the Frangenberg household.  With me being unable to do so much, I spend way to much time on the computer and the doctor has told me I need find ways to reduce stress.  Fine if I didn’t have 4 kids and these are not just any kids, but they are 4 of Mike and Lisa kids.  Tornado’s.  I think I’ve mentioned this before.  So, sometime before I was told to reduce stress, Pinterest entered my life and I’ve never been the same.  I’ve turned into a pinning maniac.  But I thought I would show that I’m doing what I’m pinning and how I do it.  I follow directions but I don’t follow directions.  You follow?  Good!  My first projects were food.  I didn’t take pictures, but they were good!  Last night we had bacon wrapped jalapeño cheddar brats with caramelized onion and peppers on top. My life was never the same. Things hurt today, but it was worth it.  It was so good!   Along with the food, Mike built me a little work area for my wood working and sewing stuff.

Here’s my work station.  Don’t be afraid to use scraps or other peoples left over’s, people.  Mike got the benches from work that couldn’t be used and were going to be thrown away.  The other wood was from our walls in the basement that we are redoing anyways.  So it worked.  I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS AREA!

 

 

My first project that I did on pinterest I got from

 www.ana-white.com

Love this site by the way…

It’s a sign that didn’t take me all that long and I found some really good deals around town that allowed me to finish it.  And lucky my wonderful husband Mike had some tools on hand.

So it started like this.  I got a pallet….Okay Mike got the pallet from work, but what does it matter.  Okay he’s great!  I get it!

He also got me a hand sander while we are at praising Mike, it was on sale (I’m helping him go Dutch..I’m Dutch…so this is a good thing!)  It worked great!

Back to this…I got pallets.  He gave me a handy tool that I don’t have a picture of and don’t know the name of but I will in the future.  It was great.  I supplied a hammer.  Yes me.  I got tool kit for a graduation gift over 10 years ago and it was one of the best gifts I got.  I , me, all by myself, tore apart the pallet and it was wonderful.

**side note on this…wear ear plugs.  I couldn’t hear for a day.  It was good and bad..good cause I couldn’t really hear kids fighting and bad cause my ears rang.

It felt great, taking out anger on this poor pallet.  When I got done I found the piece I wanted and went to town

 

 This is what we call a redneck painting stand. I used Black spray paint that you can buy at Wally World or pretty much anywhere.  I got mine at a local hardware store.

 

 

 

 

 

Spray paint one good coat over one side of the board and along the sides.  And it looks like this when its done. Let it dry quick, it doesn’t take long.

 

 

 

 

I then got some Valspar Antique White Eggshell at the same hardware store.  And painted 2 coats over the board and it looked like this:

 

Again this is a redneck paint stand.  I like to use my imagination and local products. This one in particular is Pizza Ranch..I believe it was Pepperoni and Cheese.  Go crazy!

 

 

I went to my computer and printed out the words Laundry in the font of Times New Roman, to fit my board.  Cut out the letters and traced them on the board.

I made a little mistake on the “N.”  Don’t look, okay look.  I traced it upside down.  I fixed it and I was nervous that it was going to show in the end.  See if you can see at the end.

 

 

Next I took black craft paint that we’ve had in the house for almost 2 years and painted in the letters.

This is what it looked when done painting the letters.  I was happy but then I got to use power tools.  I felt the inner me roar….

 

 

 

The end result looked like this:

I am going to hang it above my laundry door using pop can tabs as holders. We’ll see if this works!  I did this all because a girl feel in love with pinterest.  I think it turned out good.  Now you go make one!

Crazy Life: Just Another Manic Monday….

Crazy Life: Just Another Manic Monday….: Today has been one of those days where you want to run and hide under the covers, praying that God would have mercy on your soul and just en...

Just Another Manic Monday….

Today has been one of those days where you want to run and hide under the covers, praying that God would have mercy on your soul and just end the day.  But such no luck has happened yet.  I have 2 children home today that have given me my 1000th gray hair this year. I know because I’ve been keeping track of them very, very closely.  I mean very, very closely!  I almost saved my first one and put it in my daughter Anna’s scrapbook cause I found it while I was having a fight with her in the bathroom about hair.  It was a good memory.

Anyway, on to the subject at hand.  This morning was filled with so many trials and errors that I don’t even know where to begin.  It all started with pink eye, Mason not even realizing it was morning and remembering how to get dressed, Anna acting nice and letting me do her hair, and Matt saying, “Noooo! No, No No!”

Side note.  Let me take one moment to brag about Matt.  You see, I have a little genius on my hands.  Yes a genius!  He can pick up on things I never realized was possible.  Mike and I started telling me no, no, no when he wasn’t supposed to touch something or get into something and now that’s all he says.  I bet you can’t beat that!

Getting back to the my crazy morning.  I new I had to prioritize what had to happen first.  Mason memory loss and Anna’s weird notion of being nice to me, had to be put first.  After of threating Mason’s life to get his clothes, shoes, and coat on.  I let him catch a few more zzz’s.  Then I turned more attention over to my adorable, wonderful daughter and did her hair.  She even let me comb it.  It was magical.  Mike came home and dragged Mason out the door; dragged the perfect daughter out of my arms and brought them to school. 

Then I had to turn my attention to the destruction brothers.  Nick and Matt.  I do not lie when I call them the destruction brothers. They are tornados, tearing through a room destroying everything in their path.    I had to face the fact that I had to get drops in Nicks eyes for his pink eye.  A situation I was not looking forward to.  As a mom there are a few things you’d rather do than others.  Like I would rather have a nail driven through my foot than deal doctor my kids.  Oh you don’t have this?  Lucky you!  When they are sick it’s different.  But when it has to deal with a splinter, paper cut, one time Mason put a zip tie on Anna (because she was arrested) to tight on her hands and we had to try to cut them off, you would have thought we were cutting off her hands.  Trying to get drops in Nicks eyes are kind of like driving a nail through a foot.  Today he was screaming at me cause he couldn’t see.  Never mind that he was closing his own eyes and I wasn’t even touching his face yet.  So after, ohh about 15 minutes of getting his 1 drop in each eye.  I tried to relax, because that’s what the doctor’s have been trying to tell me.  Matt spilled my orange juice.  Okay clean that one up.  Go to the kitchen, Nick goes to the bathroom.  Funny thing is Matt loves the bathroom.  Nick doesn’t really think about small things like flushing, or shutting doors.  Matt zones in.  And because I’m cleaning other things up that Matt did in the kitchen, like throwing papers on the floor.  His mind zero’s in on the kitchen and then my mommy senses pick up that Matt is not in the living room. I look and yes, he’s in the bathroom, looking in the toilet at his prize washcloth in the toilet,  surrounded by pee.   He had fun though.  Cause there was a whole bunch splashed on the floor like he took that wash cloth and flung it in a circle over his head.    Fun, I know.  Quick clean up.  Before I knew it, the laundry was done.  I  got the laundry out of the dryer and when I came back I found Matt like this:

 

Nick had to pose real quick with him.  By 10:00 a.m.  I seriously was looking at my wine and wondered if it was too early to drink the rest of it right now.  The rest of the morning went much of the same as the first half.

Have a good rest of the Monday everyone!