Okio B Designs

Hope everyone's holiday weekend is off to a great start!  It's a bit overcast here today but I am hoping to get some garage sales in.  In the meantime, here's a cute autumn/Halloween project I did earlier this week using an old tobacco tin. I saw something similar on Pinterest (although I think the person made it for Xmas) and since I had some old tobacco tins lying around, I decided to give one of...

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The winner of the Country Living magazine 101 Halloween ideas book as picked by Random.org is... Barbara Jean from Treasures from the Heart! Congrats Barbara Jean!  I'll be in touch to get your mailing info shortly! Jeanine ...

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Just a reminder, tomorrow is the last day to enter my Country Living magazine book giveaway. I'll be picking a winner after 5 p.m. EST.  Good luck! Jeanine ...

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This project literally took 10 minutes to do from start to finish. Since I'm pressed for time this week, it was perfect. First I cut some old dictionary paper to fit my frames.  I change out these frames every few months.  They've previously displayed Christmas, Valentine's Day, beachy, etc. themes.  And now it's time for Halloween! I used my Cricut and some black cardstock for my letters.  Since I only have the three frames, spelling...

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**Don't forget to enter my Country Living magazine book giveaway here!** It's a bit of a rainy, miserable kind of day here.  The kind of day when you don't feel guilty staying indoors.  While the boys were busy playing this morning, I broke out some jewelry pieces and whipped up these two necklaces. Each is backed with French book paper.  Then I added some of these lovely religious images.  For this piece, I added a...

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**This giveaway is now closed** The folks at Country Living magazine have an amazing new Halloween book out.  It's called Spooky & Bright, 101 Halloween Ideas.  If you've been following my blog for a while, you probably know I'm both a huge fan of Halloween and of Country Living!  So how thrilled was I when a review copy landed on my porch?! It's loaded with tons of great Halloween ideas, including unique pumpkin decorations, spooky...

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I can't believe school starts here in two weeks!  It's going to be hard to get some crafting in during that time so forgive me if I don't post a lot and don't get a chance to visit.  Once the kiddos are back in school, I'll have more time to whip up some fall pieces like these.   Yup, these are Starbucks coffee bottles.  A lot of fun to envision but kind of a pain to...

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Have you seen H&M's new home collection?????  I'm swooning over here as I try to decide what I'm going to get first. Photo courtesy of H&M Love these pillowcases for the bedroom.  It'd be great if they came with matching sheets, but for $5.95, I don't mind! Photo courtesy of H&M These storage baskets are super cute and under $15 each.  I love their Pottery Barn-ish look minus the hefty price tag.  You could use...

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Imagine my surprise last week when a writer from the New York Daily News contacted me after she saw the Jane Austen tags in my Etsy shop. She was doing a piece on the new Austenland movie and wanted to chat about "Janeiacs."  We talked about the movies, the books and of course some of the Jane items in my shop - all images courtesy of the Graphics Fairy. The article came out today and you can...

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Can you believe I'm still working on pieces that I picked up at AmVets a week ago?!  This is the wood caddy that I got there that originally came from Michael's.  It was pink and had the word spring on both sides.  Here it is now: I gave it a couple of coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Louis Blue.  I popped over to The Graphics Fairy to pick some French text I could quickly...

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Yes, I know I'm incredibly early for fall, but I just couldn't resist making some shabby fabric pumpkins this morning. I've been seeing them all over Pinterest and they are just so darn cute that I couldn't resist. I used some fabric pieces that I had stashed in my craft room for over a year (one of the benefits of never throwing stuff out!).  I used some tea-stained seam binding a French fabric tag for...

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Just some quickie makeovers for White Wednesday. Drawing inspiration from Petite Michelle Louise, I turned an ordinary ceramic canister (from AmVets) into a Frenchie piece.   I simply printed off the image onto label paper, peeled and stuck!  Super duper easy.  What's nice is, when I get bored with that image, I can just stick on another one.   This little flower frog I picked up at a garage sale over the weekend.  It was...

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In my ongoing quest to organize my craft room (so I can actually enter Where Bloggers Create next year), I upcycled these little metal baskets to hold some random crafty pieces. These were another AmVets find.  I gave each a few coats of white spray paint.   For the twine one, I just added a rusty clip (I did a post on how to give metal clips a nice rusty touch) and a hand-stamped tag...

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This is another makeover from my AmVets loot.  It was/is a coat hanger that originally came from Home Goods.   First thing I did was give it a few coats of white spray paint (it was originally black) - hooks and all.  Then I sanded it down around the corners to give it a more aged look.   Then I popped on over to The Graphics Fairy for the bee with wreath image.  I needed...

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Here's the first of my makeovers from yesterday's AmVets loot.  Remember these wood candlesticks before? Not very pretty.  And here's the after.   I gave each a couple of coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Louis Blue.  Once they were dry, I broke out some sandpaper and just sanded them in random areas for an aged look.   I love how the original brown wood shows through now.  It's just enough dark to play off...

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