Ruffled Pillows

Yes I'm liking the ruffles!!!  I wanted to make some pillows and this is what I came up with.  I made one with smaller ruffles and one with larger ruffles.  They still seemed a little boring though.

So I added some bling, I had gotten some old brooches at a flea market last year and had them in an old dish, and decided to add them here. Next I think will be curtains :) If I can talk my hubby into redoing the bedroom hmmmm

Ruffled Tablerunner

I have been in a ruffled mood lately lol.  I love all the ruffles I have seen in the blogs.  I had this tablecloth that had some stains on it, but I love the material so I cut out a runner from it.  Then I added some ruffles on both ends.  My daughter made me these adorable rosettes out of some of the material.  I knew I would use them some where and this project was the perfect one.  Do not look too close a seamstress I am not :) lol.

My touch of Spring

I am sooooo tired of the rainy weather.  I had to get some projects done and I wanted something to remind me of Spring.  I took my clay pots and painted them with a green paint and then a metallic silver over the top of that.

They still needed something I thought so I decided to use some of my chalk paint :)

Something ate my real tulip bulbs that were in the ground last summer.  So I had to improvise if I wanted flowers right now.  Out came the silk tulips, I think they look pretty good .

My Damask Wall

I have wanted to do this wall in a damask wallpaper print for a while now.  Well, I decided I didn't want to spend the money on wallpaper and decided to figure something else out.

So I decided on a stencil which I got at Hobby Lobby and then I used a very high gloss paint.  I love how it has a sheen in the light.   I'm LOVIN IT!

I loved it so much I had to do a second wall :)

DIY Metal Tiles

I'm back!!  I went on a vaca to see my daughter in Virginia.  Now I'm back wanting to do all kinds of projects.  We will see if my body obeys my mind :)  It seems I always need a vacation after my vacation lol.

Before I left I decided to do this project.  I have been wanting the metal tiles to go behind my stove for a while now but didn't have the funds to get them.  So I had been thinking how could I diy these.  A friend of mine gave me her left over wallpaper.  And then the idea was born, as I said to my hubby I know what I am going to do with this.   Maybe I get a crazed look in my eyes, I don't know, he always looks scared when I say that! :)

Well before I left we did still have quite a bit of snow in our yard, but not to be deterred I went out with my strip of walllpaper and polished nickel spray paint.  I layed my strip on top of the snow (thinking this is good I wont get paint on the lawn)  And I sprayed away, just as a wind came along and this is no joke the piece flew up on my face and literally stuck on on the front of me.  Then I hear histerical laughing from in the house.  Yeh he was watching form the window!

I then got smarter and weighted it down (after I cleaned up).  I brought it inside to dry and then put it up behind my stove.  I love it!!  My friend didn't believe me that it was sprayed wallpaper.  I had to show her where it didn't stick down real good for her to believe me.  Now I have to decide wether to continue all the way around or not hmmmm.

DIY Apothacary Jar

  When I was in Indiana helping my daughter, I was using her much faster internet, (the baby was sleeping and mom was resting)  I found so many decorating blogs I hadn't discovered yet.  When I told my husband this he just gave me the look of, Great now she will have even more ideas, lol.  He is right!! He complains but I know secretly he loves it!! lol

  Anyways I came across all the apothacary jars being made.  And then when I discovered how easy they were, boy did I get excited.  I started planning how I could fit in a thrift store run.  I didn't know how my daughter would think that would be helping her.  Well she needed groceries, yep you know it the wheels started turning.  I graciously offered to take my two year old grandaughter shopping the next day.  Now granted the thrift store is not her favorite but I told her the toy store would be next, (toy store being the Dollar Store which she loves).  I don't think of this as bribery I think of it as a good opportunity to teach her frugality!

  So off to the thrift store we went.  As we were looking through the glassware I found a vase that would go  perfectly on a glass candlestick I had at home.  It was marked sixty cents and then half off.  And then I thought I needed a top for it so we looked for jars with tops I tried a couple on my jar I already had and the second one looked perfect so I put that jar in the cart, fourty cents and then half off, see I am teaching her frugality. 

  For fifty cents I got my jar, spent time with my grandaughter, and saved my husband a project because this is one I didn't need his help on :)  But there always is a next time!!

  Oh and we did get the groceries.

 






 

 

My daughters birthday was this past weekend.  So I spent a couple days last week creating some gifts for her. 

I made her two of these cupboard doors to hold her pics with.  She has been wanting to do a galllery wall and I thought these would make a nice start.  She seemed to really like them and they were so fun to make.