Alberta Street Team May Madness Sale

The Alberta Street Team on Etsy is having a May Madness sale. It will start at 12:01 am May 1 (tonight) and run until midnight on May 7th. This is your chance to get great deals on some hand made goodies. 36 shops are participating each with their own unique sale. For a complete listing of shops you can go to The Alberta Street Team Blog by clicking here. You can also search Alberta Team on Etsy for a list of products.

I'm a proud member of this team and I'm participating in the sale. I will be offering a 10% discount and I will include matching gift tags with every order.

Go take a peak at the blog and get ready for some May Madness!!!!

Lil One Gift Tags

New product in the shop! Lil One Gift Tags (set of 8). Pumpkin, Sprout, Monkey, Munchkin, Pea, Cupcake, Stinker, and Peanut! Tags are 2.75 x 2.75 and come with 3" envelopes. Doesn't get much cuter than that. You can see the complete listing by clicking here!

Two Treasuries, One Huge Thank You

My Octopi cards made it into two Treasuries this week. Woo hoo! A huge thanks to lindesigns and Crazy Daisies Designs for including me.

Sometimes it pays.....

......to be lazy and not put anything up on your walls for a few weeks. That's how I got these very cool pics (or at least the top one) of my little monkey. He's decided that the wall by the front door is a good place to hang out and I've decided it's a good picture op.

Check out his giant red ball that the Easter Bunny brought him. Lucky boy!

Even his messy toys everywhere look better with Lemon Grass walls. haha.

You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!!!

April 26, 2009. These pictures were just taken out of my living room window. Need I say more?

And the Winner is......

Kim!
Congratulations! You'll be receiving a set of Hoot Greeting Cards - Variety Pack. Please e-mail me your mailing address so I can send your cards to you.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who entered. I really appreciate all of the blog love, follows and kind comments you left. For those who didn't win don't worry May is coming up soon which means another giveaway! Check back often and thanks again!

Please Note: the winner was choosen randomly out of a flower pot (fun, fun)

Can a Door be Sexy?

Is it possible for a door to be sexy? If so then I have the sexiest door on the block. My front door makes all the other front doors in the nieghbourhood jealous. Judge for yourself. Here's a before and an after.

Johnny Mathis is in my Mailbox

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a print from Fall Down Tree on Etsy. Today it arrived...in a Johnny Mathis Album cover! What a fun and creative way of sending out mail. I loved seeing this album in my mailbox. It always amazes me what you can put in the mail. I guess so long as it has an address on it. Here's a picture of the actual print I purchased. I love everything that Fall Down Tree makes. I had a hard time choosing but I thought this print might look good in our new Buttermilk kitchen.

See Fall Down Tree's shop by clicking here.

April Giveaway

What:

Hoot Thank You Cards - Variety Pack (set of 8, 2 blue, 2 green, 2 pink and 2 orange)

How to Enter:

Leave me a comment saying how you heard about Crafted By Lindy. Was it through Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, a friend, another blog (which one), etc. That's it! (Please include your email address so I can get in contact with you if you're the winner. Thank you!)

WANT TO UP YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING? FOLLOW ME! SIGN UP TO FOLLOW ME (on the right hand side) AND I'LL GIVE YOU A SECOND ENTRY INTO THE GIVEAWAY. Good luck! (if you are already a follower then just leave a comment and I will automatically give you your second entry)

Details:

Giveaway will be open to enter till this Friday (April 24 at 12:00pm MDT). Winner will be choosen randomly and they will receive this set of Hoot Thank You Cards.

Good luck and thank you for entering!

Reno's 2009

Yeash it took a long time to upload all these pics. I sure hope this works. WARNING - this is a photo heavy post with lots of before and afters.

The project started when we decided to convert our storage room in the basement into a guest room. This is Jason scraping the popcorn ceiling off.
This is what was in the storage room. It's now in the open area of our basement waiting for me to go through and get rid of most of it. Wish me luck!

Here's a picture of the doorway in the storage room (now bedroom). The whole room was drywalled except for the area by the door.

Just another angle.

This is the after. Drywall, paint and some carpet. Ooooooo......

This is a shot of our new mirror in the bathroom. We had a much smaller round one over the sink. It sucked.

Before we started on the bedroom we decided (with much convincing by my mother) to put a pocket door in between the new bedroom and the bathroom. This is the transformation from the bathroom side. No hole.....

.....now a hole....

.....and a door.....

....and paint and carpet.

And now the transformation from the bedroom side.

Drywall.

Paint and Carpet.

Once the bedroom was done we moved upstairs. The week before Easter my family came up to help us paint the kitchen, nook and hallway. Here's a shot of the nook. Check out the wicked wallpaper. (Now would be a good time to mention that we bought the house with this grey/green colour on the walls. We hated it but managed to live with it for 5 and a half years. You just get used to it after awhile.)

Wallpaper gone, patching begins.

Primer.....

And now Buttermilk.

This is the hall....now a dark grey/green.....

...to Buttermilk with white doors.

Kitchen.....more grey/green to.....

....well this is primer. I don't have a buttermilk shot but yes, more buttermilk.

Behind the fridge.....before.....

....primer......

.....after.

We got a new dining room light in the process. We lived with a hole for about 4 months. Before.....

....after.

Then we had a break for Easter and for me to have a cold. Then the week after Easter my family (this time including my brother) came up again and helped us paint the living room and dining room. These two rooms went from grey/green to Lemon Grass.

Before....

....after. (doesn't look like much of a change but believe me it is!!! The new paint colour doesn't transfer well through the camera.)

Before.......

.....after.

Before.....

....after.

Before.....

......after. Not that the stair well is still grey/green. This will match the rest of the dining room eventually, once we get a ladder that we can use on stairs.

We're still missing curtains and some artwork for the walls but the colour change has made a huge difference. It's so much brighter it's amazing and our house feels so much more modern. What a lot of work though. I'm exhausted, my whole family is exhausted. Thank goodness they came to help or I'd be at this for another two months!

I hope you enjoyed watching my reno's take place. You're now free to go. ; )