What's Cookin' Sign

With my friends and my busy schedules it is not super likely that we will be able to sit down to a "family dinner" but I do plan on cooking as much as possible so I will need some sort of organization for who is planing on cooking and what each night. I will admit that most of the boxes will be empty most weeks but this is just a good way to make sure that everyone knows if some one is planning to cook a bigger dinner at some point during the week.

What You Need: 

• 16X20 Picture frame (I don't do anything to mine but you could DIY yours if you have one handy)
• Pencil
• Sharpies
• Ruler/Straight edge

Let's Get Started:

1. Aquire a frame.
   
2. Take the "picture" that the frame comes with out of the frame and flip it over. It should be white, but if you don't want to use it just buy or cut yourself a 16X20 piece of paper.
3. Measure out where each box will go and the space you give yourself for the title and mark it with a pencil.
• MY MEASUREMENTS:
• Boxes are 4X4
• TOP ROW: 0.5 inches from the edge and about 7 inches from the top.
• About 1 inch apart
• BOTTOM ROW: 3 inches from the edge and about 1 inch from the bottom.
• About 1 inch apart
• The 7 inches that I left at the top I used to write the title. Just make sure that you leave about 1/2 an inch at the top to allow for the frame. 
4. Draw what you are going to write in PENCIL FIRST. You don't want to mess up and have to start over on a new sheet.
5. Trace your pencil marks with your choice of sharpie colors. (I chose pink, black, and gold)
   
6. Put the paper in the frame.
7. You may now write on the frame's glass to tell your family/friends "What's Cookin'"
8. Enjoy!

Laundry Hamper

So the other day I found this really basic white wicker hamper for like $15 and had to have it. Now I am not a fan of all white wicker, but I figured I could give it some love and end up with a beautiful place to hide my dirty laundry.
For this project, I didn't really find a tutorial on Pinterest, so this one came out of my own brain: First of all, I am going to recover the lid cushion. Then I am going to spray paint the wicker brown, and finally, I will make a laundry bag to go inside so I am not lugging the entire hamper with me to do laundry.

What You Need:

• An old hamper to repurpose
• 2 colors of FABRIC (About five yards for each color)
• Lace (About 5 yards. Does not matter the width)
• Sewing machine
• Thread
• Fabric glue
• Rope
• Your choice of spray paint (I used brown)

Let's Get Started:

1. Aquire the hamper. 
   
2. Take the top off the hamper.
   
3. Spray paint the hamper bottom. (I recommend doing this outside. I just took the picture of it inside)
   
4. Make the bag for the hamper.
1. Cut the each piece of fabric so it is the same size as the perimeter of the basket with about a foot of extra fabric for the bag to fold over.
2. Sew the two pieces of fabric together leaving about 2 inches, so we can flip it inside out to get rid of the seams.
3. Flip the now sewn fabric inside out. 
4. Choose which side is going to be the inside of your bag. We are creating a tube and one side of the fabric will have a seam on it. 
5. Fold your fabric in half where the wrong side is showing (the side the seam will go and sew the long side and one of the short sides closed. Now you have a bag. 
6. Flip the bag right side out. 
7. Cut a slit out of the edge of the bag.
8. Sew about 3 inches from the top of the bag along the circumference of your bag to create the spot for your rope.
   
   
   
   
9. String your rope inside the bag and tie a bow.
   
10. Place the bag inside your now spray painted hamper.
11. Use the fabric glue to attach your lace over the seam you just created for the rope. 
    
5. Recover the hamper's seat.
1. Take the strips of fabric you cut off at the beginning of making your bag.
2. Line them up so they become stripes. sew them together so they are one piece.
3. Attach the same lace you added to your bag to cover the seams.
4. Staple the new fabric onto the seat by covering the top and attaching it to the bottom of the seat. (I just used the same fabric glue and it seemed to work fine)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Put the seat on top of your hamper with the bag inside.
   
7. Fill with your dirty clothes.
8. Enjoy!