Yay! It’s spring! Okay, not really. We have a fresh 7-9 inches of snow outside and the ten day forecast doesn’t even hit 40 degrees. In my head: December, January & February are winter, but that is it. After that, I am all about spring. Four seasons, 12 months means each season only gets three [...]
Pillow for E’s Room Using Mod Podge Photo Tranfer
February 18, 2013 By 14 Comments
Eleanor’s room continues to progress. I shared my progress on Eleanor’s big girl room along with a Mood Board for her reading nook last week. No reading nook is complete without pillows. Today I am going to share with you how I customized a pillow I already had using Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium. In [...]
Stenciled No Sew Faux Roman Shade
February 5, 2013 By 18 Comments
Not to long ago I stenciled drapes for my living room using Cutting Edge Stencils Nadya Damask Stencil. I intended on doing something for the dining room, but wasn’t sure what. Mostly, I was just too lazy to get around to doing anything. It bothered me everyday. There was no pattern in my dining room, [...]
January In Review
February 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
Ahh…the month of love! Hard to believe that is February already. Only 10 weeks until baby boy graces us with his presence. We still need to get Eleanor’s big girl room ready, transition her into a big girl bed (at 21 months) and give the nursery some boyish charm. All in ten weeks. Did I [...]
Paint Dipped Christmas Ornaments
November 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
Too early to talk Christmas? It is only 7 weeks away! Eek! I have one gift bought. I know we still have Thanksgiving, but if I wait until after than to share my ideas you will all be scrambling. So paint dipped everything is completely the trend right now. I mean EVERYTHING. I thought I [...]
Velvet Pumpkin Place Card Holder & Thanksgiving Table
October 26, 2012 By 14 Comments
I had so much making the velvet pumpkins the other day. When I got to putting together a Thanksgiving table I decided I wanted needed place card holders for my imaginary Thanksgiving dinner at the end of October. Yeah, us bloggers are way weird. This is like play time for me though. I had so [...]
Velvet Pumpkins & $50 Jo-Ann Fabrics Gift Card Giveaway
October 25, 2012 By 154 Comments
I was lucky enough to receive a box of goodies from Jo-Ann Fabrics & Craft Store, which included everything I would need to make these lovely velvet pumpkins. Here is all the fun stuff I was working with. Jo-Ann Fabrics generously donated a $50 Gift Card for one of my lucky readers. If you are [...]
Halloween Mantle
October 2, 2012 By 8 Comments
Me and my shelf are like that (picture me with fingers crossed). We are always hanging out, switching it up. Just this fall, the shelf went from: fall, to decked out for Quinn’s pirate birthday (I’ll share later), to Halloween. We have done it up for Christmas, and Valentine’s Day, and just regular old days. [...]
DIY Trick-or-Treat Bag
October 1, 2012 By 15 Comments
I was lucky enough to receive a box full of Martha Stewart Crafts products and they did not disappoint. I already whipped up this chalkboard tray, and I couldn’t wait to craft more! This is little Miss E’s first Halloween. Well not her first, she was this unbelievably adorable strawberry last year. Oh-my-word they grow [...]
Puffy Paint Glow Pumpkin
September 24, 2012 By 12 Comments
I can’t believe it is possible that I am a craft blogger and this is my first pumpkin blog post. What? Crazy, right? I found this pumpkins at Target’s Dollar Spot. The name is a tad misleading since the pumpkin was in fact, $2.50. Either way, cheapest pumpkins I’ve seen. I was fortunate to be [...]
