car-creates

Just seeing what creations I can come up with

  • Dish / Hand Towel Apron

    So a couple of weeks ago I bought a BUNCH of dish towels at Sur la Table at a great price & knew I wanted to do something different with them – make an apron … yea, I always have these great ideas & then don’t know how to follow through … thank goodness for Read more

  • Getting the Glass removed

    Hey – finally getting back to my window frame – this time I removed the wood edging around the glass – so cute & it was relatively easy! – I eased the tool at certain parts between the edge & the frame & gently moved the tool to separate the 2 pieces & it came Read more

  • New friends & paste

    Sooo – I met a couple of wonderful people thanks to another good friend of mine – Mike Coon – I met Ralph & Audrey Driscoll of Driscoll Antiques & Restoration – Mike had told me awhile back to go & visit w/ them and ask them about my window frame project – how to strip Read more

  • What a mess – continuing stripping of paint

    Ugh!! what a mess – but I have found a better stripping material – it’s a thicker paste type of stripping stuff – it really pulls the paint up but still ugh what a mess!! I sometimes feel like I am never gonna get to the wood … my first intention was to strip the Read more

  • Greatest tool ever for Metal Tooling & stamps!!

    So – another craft thing I am involved in is metal tooling – Lynne Phelps of Savvy Sisters Studio (OHMYGOSH – HOW AWESOME IS SHE?? sooo talented so very freakin’ talented – just browse & see for your self) well she introduced me to that with her Metal Tooling Letters (scroll down on right hand side of her blog to see Read more

  • Working window frame #2 – glazing

    I mentioned in my 1st post that I found some large frames out for trash pick-up that I picked up (this is where it all started, mind you) & they have been hanging around in my back yard for a LONG time (LONG TIME!!!) so finally decided to do something with them – I want to remove the old Read more

  • CAR Creates – 1st blog entry

    So – here we go…. 1st blog entry … so my blog will be about what I am working on at that time –which could be anything from painting terra cotta pots, canvas painting, stripping paint from a window frame to create something from that, metal work, potting plants, putzing in my garden … & Read more

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