I got this lovely little basket back in October at a garage sale. I used it for Halloween and now with a simple switch of some ribbon, I'm using it for a place to display some holiday postcards: I simply added some plaid ribbon and tied it in the front. Then I added some white tissue paper and added my postcards. My mom gave me the vintage Santa ones last year. The larger black and...
***You still have time to enter my giveaway here!*** After searching just about every Dollar Tree in a 10 mile radius for bottle brush trees, I was just about to give up. Luckily, I popped into Home Goods this morning and lookie what they had: I'm so happy that I found these two pretties! And I love the fact that I really don't have to do anything to them. Right now they are on a shelf...
Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday. We enjoyed a nice, quiet, peaceful day at my Mom's. I needed the relaxation because today I officially started to decorate for Xmas. These are just little packages to put under our tree (which hasn't gone up yet) while we countdown to the 25th. With two little boys who still believe in Santa, I can't have the actual gifts under the tree so I decided to do some faux...
Because sometimes you just want to keep it simple: Vintage scale, petite cloche with bird, white Xmas tree and a simple white candle which reads: I am at Peace. Linking to Faded Charm: White Wednesday. There is still time to enter my giveaway here! Jeanine ...
I'm pretty sure I saw this idea in Martha Stewart Living. I had the bags. I had the number stamps so it was really a no brainer and the kids think it's the coolest: This is just a temporary hanging place. I'm still not sure where to hang them from nosey little hands. I got the striped bags off of Etsy over the summer and wouldn't you know it - there was exactly 25 of...
I don't know if these exactly qualify as bottle brush trees. I haven't been able to find them in my local dollar store or even at my local Target. These two minis are from Michael's and they go with one of their little Xmas villages: I did not do much to the trees but I did paint both little wood spools white. Then I glued each tree on top. For my finishing touch, I stamped...
***Don't forget to enter my giveaway here!*** This basket sits in my livingroom and normally holds all of my favorite magazines: Country Living, Romantic Homes, Martha Stewart Living, etc. I wanted to make it a little more exciting so I turned it into a basket o' book stacks: I picked up some old books this morning from the church thrift store and started tearing them apart once I got home. Once they looked good and...
I promised a giveaway and here it is! I've spent the past couple of weeks picking up craft items for me and YOU! Here's a bird's eye view of what I'm calling Crafter's Delight: The winner will receive a paper mache dress form, paper mache cone (or tree depending upon which way you look at it!), black tulle netting, ribbon galore, pre-strung mini wood plaque (great for using with chalkboard paint!), a fat quarter of shabby...
I'm not the biggest fan of working with glitter. Mainly because I always seem to make a mess with it. But I do love the look in the end. This week I broke out my German glass glitter and some Martha Stewart glitter for some quick Xmas touches. First up is this old pocketwatch: I've seen this look on Etsy and wanted to take a crack at it so when my husband dug up this...
First I wanted to send a big thank you out to Karen at The Graphics Fairy for featuring my sled on today's Brag Monday. It really made my day! And thank you to everyone who left such lovely comments about it! And now onto today's project. I had a ton of leftover Dollar Store matchboxes from two years ago. Yup, you read that right. I bought them two years ago to do a copycat Country...
I popped into my local Goodwill earlier this week and came back with a lot of goodies: The bucket was only 99 cents. The candle holder was $6.99 - pretty pricey for Goodwill but I couldn't resist considering it came from Target where it was probably originally double the price. I also got 5 little bottles that I plan to embellish. First makeover is the bucket: Can you tell I ran out of white spray...
Got to play Martha Stewart yesterday. Well, not really but I did use the fabulous stocking template mentioned in the December issue of Martha Stewart Living. You have to go to: marthastewart.com/stocking-template to download and print it, and then you get to make one of these: I used the larger template for this stocking. I have been wanting to do a burlap stocking for the past two years. I don't know why I never did one...
I'm still happily transforming some of the goodies I got at my local church's thrift store sale a couple of weeks ago. The sled was my first transformation, and yesterday I put the finishing touches on these cute shaker boxes: I spray painted both of them black. Once they were dry, I added some vintage sheet music to each top. Then I tied them together with some of the plaid fabric I also got at...
I've had these little tart tins for a while now. You've probably seen them in blogland and in Somerset Living magazine - they even sell them on their website but I got mine off of Etsy. I knew I wanted to make them into ornaments so I got the hubby to drill a little hole in each one yesterday so I could make these Santa ornaments: Both images are from the Graphics Fairy. First I...
I was at my local Marshall's last week and could not believe the gorgeous wrapping paper they have this year! Lookie what I picked up. It's so pretty that I actually framed it: I really am a sucker for sheet music and I can see lots and lots of faux presents under the tree wrapped in this paper. I have some other plans for it on some petite boxes and such. And of course I...
It was a bit mild here today so I was able to get outside and do some spray painting. First up was the little wood sled I got last weekend at a church thrift store fall festival. I gave it a few coats of black paint: Then I sanded some random edges to give it a more shabby look. I traced some sheet music around the "seat" part and cut it out. Break out the...
Popped over to the local church thrift store this morning and picked up some goodies that I think will work for the holidays: The cake stand is missing the bottom piece but for 50 cents, I can deal with it. I love the little rag heart primitives wreath. The colors are very Xmas-y to me. The little urn I think would look lovely with some candies. Here's a close-up of the lion handles: And I...
