I just wanted to thank Romantic Homes magazine for including my blog in their October issue. I'm in good company too! On the same page with Gina from Shabby Creek Designs. =) Jeanine ...
This is the last week off before school starts here next week, so it's going to be quite chaotic. I'm hoping to blog (and comment) regularly once the boys are back in school. Until then, here's a quick project I did over the weekend. I'm sure you've seen the spray painted mason jars all over Pinterest. I decided to make some for Halloween. I really love the candy corn ones but I only had black...
I was fooling around with my stamps and ink, and made these spooky spider web candles for Halloween. I know some people roll their candles over the stamp, but I actually do the opposite. I roll the stamp over my candles using Staz On ink. It's a little tricky with smaller stamps, but, overall, I have good results. I added some orange rhinestones to the middle of each web for a little sparkle and then...
In between the beach and a bridal shower this weekend, I was able to hit my local Goodwill on Sunday. It's not as good as the one near my Mom's but I got some goodies to share. My 7 year old picked out the plate. He wants to use it this year for Santa's cookies. How could I refuse - especially when I saw the Paris postmarks on there! I swear I was just about...
I'm sure I'm not the only one drawing inspiration from Pinterest. I love it when I find a pin and have all of the components needed to be a copycat. I saw a beautiful knife block someone did and knew immediately, I had everything I needed to make one too. Our boring, old knife block now looks like this! Of course, when I took my pictures most of the knives were in the dishwasher - doh! I...
To make me smile. I haven't had a lot of crafty time the past few days. School starts in roughly three weeks and although, I'm sad for my little guys to go back, I am looking forward to having more craft time! Last week, I treated myself to these little bottles and crate from Save on Crafts. Speaking of petite, today my baby turns 5. He's a big boy now, he tells me. Sigh! Where...
With all the Halloween pins popping up on Pinterest, I have actually started making some Halloween items. Crazy, right? Maybe it's also because I'm dreaming of cool, crisp weather on these sweltering hot days. Seriously, it's so steamy here, I can't even muster the energy to go garage sale-ing this weekend. And Pottery Barn isn't helping with this cute Halloween banner. I'm debating on whether or not to have a costume party this year. I...
I can't seem to get enough of cloches. I have to admit, I'm running out of places to display them in the house. That did not deter me last week, though, when I found my latest one at my Mom's local Goodwill. The first one I made over, I did pink so I wanted to do a robin's egg blue this time. I gave it a few coats of spray paint and then sanded some random...
I picked up this little wood crate for $2.99 at Goodwill last week. It was just a plain ol' run-of-the-mill boring wood crate. I decided to jazz it up a bit with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White. I gave it two coats and then sanded down the edges for a shabby look. I used this great French banner from The Graphics Fairy on both sides. I added the "le jardin" using the French Script...
A couple of days ago, I picked up some petite, metal, hanging chairs from Goodwill. They were red and black - not quite my top color choices. So today I gave them a shabby makeover: I gave them a coat of white spray paint before I broke out the pink. Once that was dry, I printed out this Marie Antoinette image I bought off of Etsy a month or so ago onto white cardstock. I...
