Okio B Designs

Remember the scale bucket I picked up over the weekend at a garage sale?!  Here it is with its new makeover. First, I gave it a few coats of flat white spray paint.  Then I printed off this great French grains image from The Graphics Fairy onto waterslide decal paper.  I added it once the paint was dry and am loving it! It's just how I imagined it would turn out.  It was calling for...

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I am the world's worst wreath maker.  Yup, I admit it.  And while I could probably easily plunk down $20 or so to buy one, I'm just too frugal to do it.  I wanted to add something, anything to my front door for Spring... This fleurs basket is from Marshall's.  It's normally hanging in my tearoom.  I bought it a couple of years ago and as luck would have it, it fits into the skinny...

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I always have an abundance of lavender buds on hand for sachets and such.  I've always stored it in a ziploc bag.  Not very exciting.  This morning I decided to make this lavender bottle and jars: The bottle is an old lemonade one.  I used this pretty image from the Graphics Fairy on the front.  I printed it onto label paper (ssssshhhhh...don't tell UPS but I used some of their label paper!) and simply stuck it...

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What is it about bees?  They drive me insane outdoors but I love, love, love them for craft projects.  A certain irony there, don't you think? My sister Kathy (Creative Home Expressions) used some great bee images for some items in her Etsy shop from The Feathered Nest.  She directed me there a couple of weeks ago and I downloaded this sweet little bee image. I thought it would look pretty on this shabby floral...

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Sticking to my new year's resolution to use what I already have for future craft projects, I whipped up this sweet little lavender sachet today.  I have a gazillion of these little glassine bags and thought they'd make for a nice sachet: I simply hand-stamped the French script on the front.  I added the little birdy as an after-thought and I quite like it now. Then I added some lavender buds.  I stitched the opening...

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