I have to thank my sister Kathy for pinning this great technical drawing of a Lego onto Pinterest. My boys are both Lego fanatics and I knew they would love something like this for their rooms. The one that was pinned, I believe was from Gilt.com and was $65. Ouch! My version cost about $4. I picked up the frame from our local church thrift store for $1. I spray painted it black and cleaned...
One of our local churches - literally steps away from our house - had its annual country fair yesterday. I popped in and scored some great goodies! I scooped up some vintage books, some ornate wine stoppers, a Santa ornament and a bag of vintage calendar pieces. And... A Frenchy jug (originally held chocolate malted balls) and a vintage mini muffin cutter (I'm guessing that's what it is - see it with the wood handle?)....
For some reason, I'm wild about reindeer this year. I've never used them in my holiday decorating before but there is so much cuteness out there that I can't resist. I made this super easy reindeer print using a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy. I printed it onto some craft paper I picked up at Michael's for 29 cents. The frame is from the Dollar Store. Using the same image, I made some tags...
Although I'm definitely not ready for snow, found this little cutie in the $1 aisle at Target yesterday. They have some really adorable stuff this year. Check it out next time you're at Target! Jeanine ...
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Upcycled Santas
Away went the Halloween decorations and out came the Xmas decorations this weekend. No, just kidding! Although I did hear Xmas music on the radio already, which was perfect for my trio of upcycled Santas. Well, the Santas themselves aren't quite upcycled. The pieces I used to make them are: a Pringles canister, an old Hershey's tin and a random tin we had floating around the house. I really love how this guy turned out....
Hope everyone survived the madness of Halloween. If I never see another piece of candy again, I would be quite happy! I'm still getting over a nasty sinus infection so I didn't have much time to craft this week. I did, however, finish up this wood tray that I started painting last week. I had picked up the tray at our local church thrift store. It was an ugly brown so first thing was to...
