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I am making and selling these custom calendars. They are completely dry erase and customizable. 

You can choose your size, colors, patterns, and layout. Or pick colors and let me go crazy! whatever works for you. 

I am making monthly calendars, weekly calendars or menu boards,  Message boards, and even bulletin boards! Why not get a whole set? ;-) Perfect for back to school! 

Put your order in now as things are getting busy! 

Check my etsy or email me to buy! http://www.etsy.com/shop/ACreativeWife?ref=si_shop

Jewelry Displays

Hello! I hope you are having a fabulous summer.

I finally have the time to work on all these projects that are not school related! This week we celebrated the 4th of July with family and friends. My husband spent most his free time last week off with the guys building a great fire works display. I spent my free time building a display for my Paparazzi business! 

I followed a lady's tutorial on you tube and you can see that HERE. 

My pictures are poor quality because I used my phone. Sorry!

My adventure began with a trip to Home Depot. 

We picked up peg board, vecro strips, S hooks, and paint! 

I ran to Target and bought a garment rack too! 

We had some fun painting the back side of the boards.

I followed the You tube video to set up the displays. 

Then filled them with my inventory! 

Here are some close ups! 

I am so excited to host my first party soon and grow my inventory! 

Each piece is for sale for $5.50. The children's stretchy headbands are 5 for $5.50. 

Hosting an in home party or an online party gets you TONS of free jewelry! 

Everything sells straight from inventory with no catalogs. No waiting! No competing with other consultants. 

I can sign you as a consultant on my team and you can sell yourself! I can connect you to fabulous women to learn more about the group. There is really nothing for you to lose here these fabulous things sell themselves! 

The best part is making other women sparkle.  

I am so excited about my future with this fabulous company! 

Email me with any questions at acreativewife@gmail.com

Visit my paparazzi Facebook Page!

Coffee Bar Update!

You can see my original coffee bar post HERE. I haven't fixed my menu board yet after discovering the Oops!

However, One day I was looking around pinterest and such for inspiration for mug and supply storage. I knew I loved this idea...

It didn't lead me to the original poster so If you know who this is let me know!

I LOVE the 3 teared look for supplies! I even have a few little bowls just like that so I was excited. I decided I would look around local thrifty antique type shops for something with a bit of character. I hadn't stumbled upon the perfect piece though and I was growing impatient. Okay really, I had hardly looked. But I wanted something NOW! Ha, just so typical me. So I began pondering ways I could make the look myself! Hey, if I can make it myself for free... WHY NOT?!

I then saw this idea... 

Image from somewhere on This Site

I love the cups on the platter! Actually I love the everything in the picture. I knew I had a platter I hardly used too! So my wheels got spinning... 

I had also seen people make layered trays and cake stands by gluing inexpensive pieces together. So I thought maybe I could find something cheap in a store and make it.. 

I decided for now I'd grab my platter and then keep looking. So off to my kitchen I went to grab that bugger. I opened my cupboard to see my cake stand sitting on top of my platter. 

DUH!!!

Seriously, I should have thought of that. I took the two pieces but did NOT glue them together. My cake stand sat firmly on top and since it is the only platter and only cake stand I own I wanted to be able to use them when needed. 

The results..

Now, I will keep my eyes out for the the perfect piece so these pieces can easily be used for entertaining or Birthday cakes. This cake stand is special to me and I would hate for it to take a beating. However, for now this works great! I'm sure when we move (hopefully in the next few months..) The whole space will be entirely different anyway! 

Seriously, look around before you spend any money. You might just score some great storage. :) 

Love!

Annie

A Creative Wife

Esty

I am pretty excited to announce...

A Creative wife is now on Etsy! 

My Etsy Shop

Right now You can find photo restorations and my weekly and monthly calendars in a few color schemes or custom order a color scheme! 

I am currently working on building my stock up and will be posting more listings of other fun stuff very soon! 

Enjoy!

A Creative Wife

Restoring Photos

Today is my parent's 28th wedding anniversary! I was ready to share one of their wonderful wedding photos on facebook with a shout out to their wonderfulness. I knew there photos were a little beat up. As are a lot of our family photos. I few semesters ago I discovered my love of restoring photographs. I just wanted to share a few examples with you. 

Today I worked with a few of their images. 

I'd love to work with your images. 

E-mail me at acreativewife.blogspot.com 

Oops!

Well even the best projects goof. 

Last week I showed you my coffee bar I've been working on. See it HERE.

I made and wrote out a fabulous menu board. 

I liked the idea of dry erase for easy changes. However, my choice of placement or materials did not account for the steam from my coffee pot. 

Haha! 

OOPS! 

Well, Sometimes we try and flop. I think this was a flop. 

I either need to move the coffee pot, move the menu, or choose different materials. 

This might be a project for after the move to see what kind of space I have. 

Don't get beat up when a project goes wrong learn to laugh and move on! 

I want to hear your projects gone wrong. I might even show a few on the blog! 

e-mail me your best story @ acreativewife@gmail.com ! 

Love,

A Creative Wife

Coffee Bar

I love everything about coffee, hot chocolate, and tea.

My coffee bar is still a bit of a work in progress as I find the perfect things for it. However, I wanted to show you it today because I just finished creating a menu board! 

I know my images are not the greatest quality. It was tricky to get a good image with the glare from our windows and with our dinky camera. Good thing we are saving for a new camera! 

My coffee bar is in my dining room. My kitchen is small and there just wasn't room for it all! But it turned out to be the best choice. When we have company over everyone can easily help themselves to their favorite beverage! When we have big get togethers this also gets used as a buffet! 

I used a dresser we didn't have room for in our bedrooms. 

Then there is a collection of things necessary for the best cup of yummy goodness you can dream up! 

I had a few things I was using to store mugs out here too but I haven't found the perfect thing quite yet so they are back in the kitchen for now.

I made this dry erase menu board using a large picture frame.

Once again the picture just does not do this justice. 

Also, I need to get some more colorful markers! 

We have coffee, teas, hot chocolates, and goodies!

Now come on over for a good cup! 

All our goodies are stored in one of the drawers

The two main parts of my coffee bar are my fancy coffee maker and my electric tea kettle! 

You can read about the coffee maker HERE

I will update when I find the perfect mug storage! 

Enjoy your coffee! 

Love,

A Creative Wife