Today is my mom's birthday so I treated her to her local Goodwill this morning. Of course, she picked out one thing while I, on the otherhand, went a little crazy: The Target shelves will look great in my 7 year old's room. I never pass up faux eggs and vase fillers (also from Target). The little frames were a steal! I will be adding those to my Etsy shop once I add the perfect...
This weekend is my boys' birthday party so the last few days have been tough in terms of crafty time. I did manage to whip up some quick numbered, burlap lavender sachets, though. I used a black fabric pen to trace each number onto my burlap bags. Then I colored each one in. I like that the ink isn't dark-dark; kind of gives them a more aged look, don't you think?! I filled each one about halfway...
I used to be quite the organized person. I am a Virgo, afterall. However, once I had kids, my life sort of resembles the picture below: Yes, that is a drawer in my craft room holding my tea-stained seam binding. It ain't pretty. In my quest to get more organized, I did a copycat of Creative Carmelina and my sister, Kathy from Creative Home Expressions. They both made sweet little cards to add their ribbon...
I didn't participate in the Where Bloggers Create party - even though I really, really wanted to. You see, my craft room also doubles as my office for my day job. Still, I wanted to give a small peek inside where I do most of my crafting: When you enter, you walk past two big cabinets. I just got this frame at an estate sale. I was going to paint it until I noticed it...
I get to enjoy summer Fridays from Memorial Day to Labor Day. And even though today was a rainy mess, I ventured out to an estate sale not too far from my parent's house. As luck would have it, it was held by a woman who is a mixed media artist and shabby chic collector. I could hardly contain myself! The two painted wood frames were $1 each. I plan on painting the memory box/letter...
I've been dying to try the Mod Podge transfer method for months now. I finally took the plunge last night using a pail duo that I got at Goodwill yesterday. First I painted over the floral pattern with white spray paint. Once that was dry, I used ASCP in Antoinette for a pretty, pale pink color. I printed off this great French grain image (be sure to mirror the image first) on plain white paper. ...
I popped into our local Goodwill this morning. The last few times I was there, I left empty-handed. Not today. Lookie at my latest finds: I've been searching for these very pyrex dishes at every garage sale I've been to this year. The set of three was $5.99 - a steal! I also picked up the little pumpkin candleholder, peat pots and pretty blue glass dishes. Aren't they a gorgeous shade of blue? Lastly, I...
Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. I didn't have much crafting time this week due to some wholesale Etsy orders, but I did manage to pop into Michael's and pick up these incredibly cute mini chalkboards: I added some magnet stickers to some of them so I could hang them on the fridge. I love the color! I even used some to hang these great old family photos my parents gave me this week....
This is another redo of a redo project. We had this slate plaque for years. It had some horrible "welcome" design on it originally. I had painted it white and then added a vintage coffee label sticker from the Graphics Fairy. Unfortunately, the label peeled off due to the heat so I had to start over from square one: I gave it a few more coats of white spray paint. Then I printed out this...
I'm melting. I'm melting...No kidding. It is seriously hot as you know what here. I have a bunch of makeovers planned but I just can't spray paint in this heat. =( So I've been doing some indoor projects. I made these French hotel pillowcases yesterday. Excuse the awful photos: Ignore the paint on my bedroom wall. My husband has exactly three weeks to paint it before my sons' birthday party. Anywho back to the pillowcases. ...
Hope everyone had a safe and happy July 4th! Now that I can upload photos again, I wanted to share some random projects. This is the dress form I got from Home Goods earlier this week. Ain't she pretty? I also picked up this birdcage while I was there. I loved the one my sister Kathy (CreativeHomeExpressions.Blogspot.com) did last week. I gave mine a quick birdy makeover. I added some faux dollar store moss, hand-stamped muslin...
I was in need of a little retail therapy yesterday, so I popped into our local Home Goods. Here's what I found: I'm not sure if this crown is a candleholder but I added it to my French tray. I put one of these petite cloches inside. The religious tag I picked up at the local church thrift store on Friday. They also had quite a few dress forms. However, Blogger is telling me I've...
A girl can never have too many tea towels...even if she doesn't drink a whole lotta tea. =) I made this quick Marie Antoinette tea towel over the weekend: I got the beautiful image off of Etsy. I printed it out onto transfer paper and then ironed it onto the front of my dollar store towel. Once that was set, I added my ruffle trim on the bottom using fabric glue. Easy peasy! Now I...
