Tile Coasters

If you are addicted to blogs like I am, you will have seen the directions out there for making ceramic tile coasters.  For me, a significant part of Christmas is making some sort of signature craft to share with family and friends.  One year it was wreaths, another was home made snow globes and another year was scarves.

This year my craft was tile coasters. I finally found an extra hour in my day to make some for this year's craft.

While you can find lots of tutorials around, making them are really simple.  All you need is some tiles, white glue, paper, felt and time.

This is the decorative papers I bought at Michaels.

I bought some tiles at Lowes on sale and some decorative paper at Michaels.  I picked out some coordinating papers to mix and match the finished tiles.

This is the glue you need, some super tacky glue to afix the paper to the tile and then the top coat with the other glue.  All available at Michaels.

These are the tiles I got at Lowes.  Pretty Standard.

After you cut the paper to size, apply a bit of glue to the tile and affix the paper to the tile.  Rub them to make sure  you get out the air bubbles.  Let them dry for a few hours. When they are dry, top coat the coasters with more glue.  Do a number of coats  and allow them to dry in between.  The top coat will seal them against wet drinks in the future. 









Now they are done, I just added a  bottle of wine for my friends and family. 





Live High,

Heather

Key of AWESOME

I'm 44.  I am not ashamed to admit that.  By virture of my age, it means that I was growing up in the 70s.  Full on polyester pants, patterns and plaids, and pepsi platform shoes.  NASTY.



I remember my mom attending many a house party, Avon, Tupperware and Copper Craft.  Copper craft was this plastic stuff made to look like copper and it was expensive and frankly ugly.  I mean ugly.  I could not help my mother get rid of that crap as soon as the 80s hit.  For simplicty sake, can we not discuss the decorating pitfalls of the 80s.

Back to the copper craft.  Did I mention it was ugly?

Come on, that is some ugly stuff right??
 

Fast forward to the shabby chic movement, frugality and using one's creativity to have a cool house.  I came apon this decorative key; all scrolly and low and behold - it had a fleur de lis on it!  I had to have it.  I giggled and thought how much my mom would love knowing that I had purchased some of the much hated copper craft stuff I had jettison from her home years before. 

Awesome right?!!

I am not going to leave it in its brutal 70s faux copper.  Um no, I am going to paint it flat black and stick in my Paris bathroom.  That is of course unless my eldest daughter does not get it first. 

I know, you can't quite see it with my crap o rama camera but I assure you, you can still see all the scrolls and stuff now that it is black.

I guess what they say about what's old is new again and what goes around comes around.   Uh oh, there is Rebekah wearing my parachute pants and my leg warmers.


Live High,

Heather

My Most Favourite Christmas Gift Ever

What is your favourite Christmas gift ever?  What is the one thing you look back on that fills your heart and maybe brings a tear to your eye?

I am a huge fan of Dr. Seuss.  I love every book Dr. Seuss put other there.

As a student at school and in a new relationship with a young guy, I shared with him my love of Dr. Seuss when I told him I could not go out to the bar until I had watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas.''  It was non-negotiable.  He did not laugh, but came right over to watch it with me.  I knew then that I had a keeper.

It was in the fall of that year that cancer took Dr. Seuss from us.  But what a legacy he left us.

When Christmas day arrived a few weeks later and there was  a lovely package under the tree for me from Ian.  I don't think I will ever forget opening that package.  Inside, was a battered, old copy of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  It turns out that this old book was Ian's when he was a kid.  Inside, the book bears his name and his address.  His address is spelled wrong.  A sweet gesture of more innocent times.

Every Christmas, the real sign of the start of the season is the showing of the original cartoon with Boris Karlof and at home, when pulling out the decorations, sharing my special book and showing the inscription to our children.

Best wishes for a warm, safe, holiday season.  Make many happy memories.

Live High,

Heather

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