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Not Your Mama's Lunch Bags

February 29, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
My husband starts a new job on Friday and we're very excited over here about it.  Now that he'll be brown-bagging it again, I got to thinking about how I could make his lunch bags a little more exciting: First I looked up how to spell the days of the week in French on Yahoo (not Google because I don't agree with their new privacy policy).  Once I got the spelling, I created a word...

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Inexpensive Easter Find of the Week

February 28, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
How sweet is this little bird's nest? It's a pretty mix of sticks, leaves and grass. And it was only... What's not to love about that?!  Thanks HomeGoods! Jeanine ...

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Embellished Starbucks Bottles

February 26, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
Last week I wrote a post on a French-y makeover I gave to a vintage-inspired bottle carrier here.  I'm happy to report that I found the perfect bottles to fit inside it!  Believe it or not - they are Starbucks Frappuccino bottles: I simply peeled off the Starbucks labels (after enjoying the Vanilla Frappuccino, of course!).  I replaced them with these great French images from The Graphics Fairy.  I printed them onto to clear Avery label...

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Spring Touches

February 25, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
There is less than a month until the official start of Spring.  Although we've had a relatively mild winter here, I am sooooooo ready for Spring!  I started adding some seasonal touches to the homestead yesterday.  Putting them out immediately made me feel much perkier! I have to thank my sister Kathy (Creative Home Expressions) for my acquiring these little cloches.  I have been admiring them on her blog for over a year and I...

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Champagne Anyone?

February 23, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
After a bit of a blogging respite, I'm feeling much better now.  I swear the germs in our house are going round robin.  In between blowing my nose and coughing up a lung, I remembered a champagne bucket and stand I got over the summer at a garage sale.  I wanted to paint it white but my husband talked me out of it.  Still, I had to do something to jazz her up: I decided...

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Paris Postmark Bottle Holder

February 19, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
I've been a bit under the weather this week.  It's been a germ-fest over here and I have not been immune.  Still, I worked up some energy last night to give a French-y makeover to this metal bottle holder I got from The Christmas Tree Shoppes last year. I bought the great Paris postmark from Etsy (graphique.etsy.com).  I simply printed it out on regular white paper and distressed the edges.  I mod podged an image...

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