New Kitchen Cabinets

I decided on Christmas Eve eve (the 23rd) that my kitchen wasn't big enough. SO I decided to visit my local home improvement store and buy a 5' pre-fab cabinet.

The only problem was it wasn't the right color and the counter top had to be customized...like the rest of the castle kitchen. So my creative mind went to work.

This was the frame the counter top sat on...it's not
your typical counter-top.

Here's the counter-top screwed together and mounted to
the frame to attach it.

I had to measure the length to cut the 2x8s

tools of the trade...

finished staining and all the modern day equipment in place

Had to "disguise" the controls for the central air/heat....
I just live in a home-like-castle...I have all the
comforts of modern day
technology!!

close up of the distressed counter-top

the customized counter-top

built in a day stained in 2... goes perfect with
the rest of my castle  ;o)

Santa-tizer

My 13 year old daughter wanted to make "goodie bags" for her teacher(s). We bought little plastic buckets and filled them with things that teachers would/could use.  The fun part about it was the way we decorated the hand sanatizer. I found the idea on Pintrest, of course.  ;o)  I never found any how-to's, but the picture I found was inspiration enough.

we used 2 oz bottles ( about 3" tall)

I printed the attached card from our computer. It read, "Ho-Ho-Hope you enjoy your hand Santa-tizer"

The red coat is cut out of felt and hot glued to fit the bottle. The belt is a 1/2" wide strip of rough, black scrapbooking paper. The belt loop is 2 slits cut in the back. The gold buckle is a square cut from gold scrapbook paper. And the buttons are Shapie marker dots.
They can be taken off and re-used during the season.

The rest of the bucket was filled with teacher's goodies:



Pencil's, highlighters, glue pen,
tape, pens, claw clamps, and candy.



Composition book, note pad, staples, sticky notes,
 and the Santa-tizer.



All packaged up an ready to give.



Here's another close-up of the
Santa-tizer...