A Girly Gallery Wall

The little lady has a completely purplicious room.  

She wanted all of her walls super dark purple, more like this:

We convinced her the lighter shade is called "fairy purple," and then she was more agreeable to it.

crisis averted.

So now I've begun working on a little gallery wall.  I'm liking how it's turning out so far. 

A couple years ago, I took a picture of her, cut it out, and used paper flowers and embellishments to turn her into a garden fairy.    It's one of my favorite things in her room.

The fancy frame it's in is from Cut it Out.  Have you seen these?!  Such cute designs!

A very vintage post card from my Aunt, sent to me when I was little.  It fits in perfectly with all the fairies in her room.  

I love this.  Every girl should believe these things about themselves.  This is actually from Amber May Be.  She offers a free printable on her blog.  

I wanted it BIG so I cut the words out with vinyl, stuck them on a blank white canvas, painted, and removed the letters.   

Her first dollar from her Great-Grandpa.  

HAD to be framed. 

It's a work in progress, but it's coming along...

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Boxwood Topiary

    I love the look of a boxwood topiary.  I wanted to make a couple, but I wanted to make them for cheap.  

After a while of keeping a look out for good deals I found a couple cute spring pots at Michaels for 40% off, and boxwood balls in the spring section at Hobby Lobby for 30% off.  

In the pot I put Styrofoam and moss (which I already had).  The munchkins helped me find the straight sticks.

Total cost for 2 topiary's was under $10.  Yay for being thrifty! 

Map Art (with a heart)

Yay!  Our computer is up and running again!  Thank goodness, too.  I love my iphone, but my eyes couldn't take one more day of using that little screen to check in on my etsy shop and emails.


Any way, with Valentines day just a few days off I thought I'd share a project with a heart. :)  I know you've seen heart map art like THIS one and THIS one, too.  Love them.  I thought it was a such a sweet idea.


I made my own version by printing a free map I found online.  If you do a google image search for the map of your state you'll get loads of results.  
I cut the word "home" from card stock and then stitched (to the best of my very limited ability) a heart with red thread around our home.  

The frame was one of those fabulous $5 frames from Walmart.  I love those frames!  Perfect price for crafting.

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Craft-O-Maniac
Pinkapotamus
Sugar Bee Crafts
A Diamond in the Stuff

An Old Window

So we have this huge empty 9 foot wall behind the toilet in our bathroom.  It drove me nuts.  It was screaming for something to fill the space.  The space is so tall that I wanted something big.

I wanted an old window.  My parents found one for me on one of their trips.  (YAY!)

It's simple.  I love it.

I'll decorate it for each holiday.  I think we'll add some hooks to the bottom as well.

Here's some more old window eye candy...

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Breakfast nook turned Toy nook

If you've been following my blog you know I'm a stay-at-home mama of two very busy little munchkins.  My four-year-old ladybug and my two-year-old little guy.  They are always in motion.  

At the end of the day, I could find toys everywhere.  My swiffer sweeper got a lot of use just by sweeping toys out from under the couches at the end of the night.  

This was the stash I swept out at the end one day's play...

 

It was time to make our house more functional for two active kiddos!  Since we don't need two dinning areas, we decided to turn the "breakfast nook" into a "toy nook".  

 

Why didn't we do this sooner?!  It's so nice to keep the toys contained when they play downstairs.  

 

I made this display for their art work using things we already had (woo hoo!).

  

 

All I used was clothespins, burlap, hot glue, and scrap wood.  Hot glue the burlap around the board and then the clothespins. The hubs screwed it into the wall for me.  Sweet guy.

 

This well loved little piano was mine when I was little.  It really needs a coat of paint. 

  

 

Perhaps a post for another day :)

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Last Name Art

I'm sure you've all seen the name art that's been floating around in the blog world.

If you haven't, these are some links to ones that inspired me...

Right @ Home

Full of Great Ideas

My 3 Monsters

I was just itchin' to make my own after checking out that eye candy! 

I used chipboard and metal letters from my scrap stash, and for the background I used pattern paper.  I had a little photo shoot and cropped the pictures.  Like I've said before I lack the fancy photo editing software, and I'm not familiar with any free and easy to use sites.  So...I copied my pictures into Word and resized them onto one page before printing in black and white.  I did it in color first, but I'm loving the black and white look so much more.

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Keeping it Simple

Finally made the wine cork board!

I have wanted to make a wine cork board ever since I saw one made over at The Stories of A 2 Z.  (Love her blog, by the way)  Today I finally made one!  I get excited when I finish something and get to cross it off a "to do" list.  

I bought my frame at Walmart for only $4.  The corks I ordered from etsy awhile ago (I for sure did not drink 100 bottles of wine by myself).  After deciding on my pattern I just hot glued each cork down.  Pretty simple.

I like the way it turned out.  I think I kinda love it.  Project success!  :)

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