TEAM ELAINE

     "Team Elaine"

 These are all sweet friends that came together to show love and support to one amazing girl!  

Some sweet ladies at a church made Elaine this prayer quilt.  Every time someone prays for her a knot gets tied...we tied alot of knots that night!

What a blessing she is to me!!!

A beautiful purse from Tara Byrd

Well...there has not been much "redecorating, crafting or organizing" going on around here.  What's important is taking precedent and that would be taking time to help out my girl Elaine as she recovers from surgery and soon will start chemotherapy to treat her breast cancer.  So I would like to share some pictures of a very fun night we had last friday.  We had a PJ party and got to spoil the heck out of Elaine for the night :)  We had Thai Basil for dinner and an endless amount of yummy desserts and snacks...food is so good for the soul :)  She got a ton of gifts...yeah!  After opening up her goodies, we had a very special time of praying for her...God is good!  

On the way to the trash...now it's a treasure!

So I have had these wood pictures for a very LOOONNGG time.  In this house they were in my laundry room...because they just didn't go anywhere else in my house and probably really didn't go in my LR, but hey, I had them...might as well use them.  Anyhoo...I got on this kick to clean, reorganize and decorate the LR.  These pictures were going to just HAVE to go UNTIL...I had an idea...my very own idea!  And here it goes....I have selected the pics I want to cover this already and we are outside ready to go!
The photo was cut to fit the front of the picture already.  I had a couple really really cute pics of the kids left over that were PERFECT for this project!
Then I used some spray adhesive to have the photo adhere nicely to the wood picture.  

This is sort of the finished idea...except I want to paint the edges of the picture black and change the ribbon color.  I already had this black/white toile, but it's just too bland and needs some pop!  I am also very impatient and didn't have time to run to Michael's, so I went ahead and hung them for now.

Another new do...this is for Mandy since she has given up FB for lent!

So...I cut off about 4 inches (well, I didn't personally cut it...you know what I mean!).  The back is alot shorter and from the side the angle is very sharp.  I love it and will probably keep it up until I get bored and do something else!