Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Valentines DIY!!!!
It's time for another Holliday! And of course I have not decorations, so I went to the craft room to see what I could come up with!!!! Our house needed a little "love" in the air! The first thing I made was a wreath. I must really like to make wreaths! It turned our cute for the most paft but I can't decide what to do to finish it off. Ill post new pictures when I decide what to do with the top but for now the rest of it turned out cute. I just covered a foam wreath with white fabric with red polka dots, then I cut hearts out of red fabric and made flowers out of pink and purple silk fabrick. The flowers were really easy I just folded the fabrick over a bunch of times and then cut on the non folded edge some flower pedals and then open it up and theres a flower. Then you place a dab of hot glue in the center of each petal and bunch the fabric and then repeat for the following layers! I decided to add a little bling because everyone knows life is better with Bling!!! The wooden letters I painted and hooked on with ribbon. Again adding bling!
The next thigs I made were the good old pictures frame art with paper and what ever else I could find!! The big one is kind of hard to see in the pictures but it says BE MINE. I did the letters with pink ribbon. the heart inside is purple fabric and of course some bling. The smaller one is my favorite. I made it with some coordinating scrapbook paper. It says love and the o is a heart made our of little half pearls. I cut the letters out in two colors and layed them over each other to add a little flair!
I bought the cady jar you see bove from Tia Pan in Utah for like a dollar and filled it with candy hearts! I also filled another one like it with some sparkle hearts and valentines tissue papers as well as a large vase. I decided rather than fake roses I would use some heart sticks. I got everything I needed for the jars at the dollar store!!! The final craft was a wood block. I had some sitting around in the craft room so I painted it pink and cut out some paper to go over it. I used some other wodden letters I bought at Joannes for like $2 to make the I and U, then cut out a big heart to go behind them and then I added some Bling of course. a little bow and a small purple heart! ( I used Modge Podge as the adhesive). Hope you can find some fun easy ideas here! Happy Valentines day may your house be filled with "Love!"
Friday, January 27, 2012
Home AT Last!!! The Nursery!
After a number of months of being homeless( we had places to live just really close or underneath other people!) We were finally able to get back into our home in Chubbuck. I decided to share with you some of the fune things I have made for our home! Hopefully you will get some ideas for something that might work for you!
I'll start with The nursery. I made some of these things when I first had Lexi but it took the second time around to finish it off how I wanted. I painted this mirror and then baught some christmas ornament birds after Christmas at Joannes and I painted them to match her room and put them on the mirror! sorry not a great pic.
Matt and I made these when we knew we were having a girl and I decided I wanted the nursery to have an earthy feel to. I wanted birds and trees and flowers. We cut some willows from behind his parents house and made this mobile to go over her crip as well as the letters that spell her name. The flowers I bought from hobby lobby and just cut them out of the boquet and placed them around the ring. Willows are a really wet wood so we formed them while they were wet and then used wire to hold them im place. After they dried we removed most of the wire and this is the final product.
Above is pictured wall art I made. I often times get my ideas from Pottery Barn because I love their stuff, but I can't afford most of it so I copy them and add my own twist. That's where this idea came from. I painted art canvases pink and then cut out the pictures I wanted with some old fabric my grandma had given me. I then hand stiched the cut-outs onto the canvas. I was really excited how they turned out****.This item is pictured above with the flower mobile.*** Hope you enjoyed some fun Ideas from our nursery to yours!
I'll start with The nursery. I made some of these things when I first had Lexi but it took the second time around to finish it off how I wanted. I painted this mirror and then baught some christmas ornament birds after Christmas at Joannes and I painted them to match her room and put them on the mirror! sorry not a great pic.
Matt and I made these when we knew we were having a girl and I decided I wanted the nursery to have an earthy feel to. I wanted birds and trees and flowers. We cut some willows from behind his parents house and made this mobile to go over her crip as well as the letters that spell her name. The flowers I bought from hobby lobby and just cut them out of the boquet and placed them around the ring. Willows are a really wet wood so we formed them while they were wet and then used wire to hold them im place. After they dried we removed most of the wire and this is the final product.
Above is pictured wall art I made. I often times get my ideas from Pottery Barn because I love their stuff, but I can't afford most of it so I copy them and add my own twist. That's where this idea came from. I painted art canvases pink and then cut out the pictures I wanted with some old fabric my grandma had given me. I then hand stiched the cut-outs onto the canvas. I was really excited how they turned out****.This item is pictured above with the flower mobile.*** Hope you enjoyed some fun Ideas from our nursery to yours!
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