Okio B Designs

Have you been noticing all of the wonderful Christmas pins on Pinterest lately? Couple that with the fact that some stores here already have their holiday goodies out and it's no wonder I'm in a festive state of mind.   My husband just shakes his head but I know my bloggy friends understand why I'm 2 months early.  Last week I made a couple of Christmas mini pillows that I may or may not add...

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Sour cream and onion Pringles have never looked so good!  Yes, after enjoying the chips, I saved the canister so I could copycat one of my favorite Pinterest pins. This was my inspiration.  Lovely, right?  This blogger used an oatmeal canister.  And here's my version using the Pringles canister. I wrapped the canister in vintage sheet music to start.  Then I printed off this great French image (courtesy The Graphics Fairy) onto plain white paper....

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Here's a quick and easy Halloween project I whipped up last night. All you need is some sheet music, a printer and your computer. First choose a creepy font to spell our tricks and treats.  I found mine on Dafont.com. Then head on over to The Graphics Fairy for this great, vintage hand image.  I had it saved on my computer.  Next, you'll want to print out the text first so you can line it...

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Sharing a few Halloween touches around our house.  I still have a few more spooky projects and decorations to add but here's the progress so far. We don't have a mantle, so I decorate the top of our wood corner hutch as if it were a mantle. And here is the hutch. I keep this old typewriter out year round.  I just added an old crow to the top. Lots and lots of... Skulls.  ...

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I was toying around with this little wood frame that I picked up at a local thrift store.  First I painted it white.  It sat in the garage for 2 weeks until I decided to instead paint it black.  All this indecision resulted in a wicked makeover - literally! I used some Halloween-ish cardstock as my background. Then I went over to DaFont.com to spell out the word wicked in some creepy fonts.  I printed...

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After seeing my sister, Kathy (CreativeHomeExpressions) transform a thrift store clock into a beautiful cloche, I was hooked! Like you probably do, I see these clocks everywhere: garage sales, Goodwill, thrift stores, etc. This one I picked up from the Unique Thrift Stores last week for $5.99. After removing all of the clock pieces and tape (and boy did they have a LOT of tape wrapped around this thing!), I started by cleaning the glass...

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