diy silhouettes

I have wanted to make silhouettes of my kids for a long time.. I am so glad I finally got around to it!! They were pretty simple.. well they would have been but I am a spaz and probably did them the most difficult way possible. I took a picture of my children's sweet little profiles and then realized our printer cartridge was out of ink. I was too impatient to wait to buy a new cartridge so I just put a piece of paper over my computer screen and traced the silhouette. Then I cute that out and traced it onto vinyl and cut that.. as I was doing this my husband came inside and said" uh, hun.. you know that I could have scanned the image and printed it out on vinyl so it was already cut right?" DUH- but I totally knew that- lol!! Then I placed the vinyl ( I cut by hand :)) onto the canvas and painted over it with black paint. When I ripped the vinyl off this is what I found...

I really wanted to hang them right away so I found a few more frames and threw together a little frame gallery!! I sorta love it :)

chicken wire photo display

I found a roll of chicken wire in the back of our garage- random right?? I swear I should look back there more often... who knows what else I could find!! I decided I would use some of it to make a frame for displaying pictures in our bedroom. I made this frame out of some 1X4's - I wont lie it was a struggle. I have had the hubs make them for me before - but I was to impatient to wait for him to get home from work. I messed up ..ALOT .. it works though. I just used hot glue to attach the chicken wire to the back of the frame. I still want to paint the little clothespins.. I will get to that eventually. It looked s little plain so I added a little fabric banner.

I think I love it.. its a fun and easy way to change out pictures. I may make 10 more:)

I love us

Are you getting sick of my bedroom yet? Hope not.. I feel like I am finally nailing it!! It is getting there people- it only took me 2 years and 15,000 holes in the walls to get here. That's ok right? I need you to enable me :) So I know I just showed you this yellow dresser here -, but I switched it up again. I made this cute little sign .. and decided to change the frames to black and go for a more simple look.

I love it.. like love it so much I wont change it. Or I will try not to change it - I can make no promises!!

What do you think?

Book page wreath

I have been DYING to try one of these for a while. it was a super nice day today so I took all my supplies outside and went for it.
I love the way it turned out .... and it was really easy..


I think it fits in well in this little corner in our room. I think it will be best friends with Mr.Owl the Lamp.



I know .. I know- I have got to do something about my camera.. and that chair. I am not brave enough to tackle that project just yet!!!

I am in LOVE.....

with my handy husband... and this HEADBOARD!!
I have been drooling over this head board for like ever and wishing I could find a way to talk my husband into making it with me. I am pretty savvy in the tool area but our OLDER THEN DIRT hand held jigsaw is a little too sketchy for me. This is where the hubsters comes in.. he can man handle that thing in ways I can not:)
We have an abundance of old barn wood out in the middle of the field behind our house and he agreed to take a trip out there with me to snag some. It was so much easier to put together then I thought. The hubby LOVES it too - he said it looks so much better then the picture he had in his head!! YEAH!!



I love how it looks with our new bedding. This bed set is from Ikea- I had to go back 3 times to get it, but I am so glad I didn't settle for another one.


There you have it.. hope you adore it as much as I do. I seriously can't stop staring at it:)

Our spring/easter mantel

I put a picture up a few days ago of our mantel all decked out for Spring.. then I deleted it because started spring cleaning and just wanted to de clutter EVERYTHING!! I try to pace myself but I cant stop once I have started so I cleaned non stop for 2 days. I lived off coffee .. but guess what ??? I am finished- and it feels so good to sit in my nice clean house.. even if my back hates me!!
ANYWAYS.. are you wondering what this has to do with my spring mantel? Me too!! I think I was trying to tell you that it was to cluttered and crazy before and now I fixed it :)
Here it is..

Refreshing

Our master bedroom is sad.. it has no idea who it is anymore!! All the furniture in this room has been painted atleast 2 times. There is one piece of furniture that has been painted 5 times.. yes you heard that right!! Funny side note - that piece of furniture is on my list to strip as soon as we get warmer weather- I want to restore it to natural wood . My husband thinks this is pretty comical since he told me to leave it that way 5 paint colors ago...
Anyways I digress...
This dresser used to be white as seen here .. but is was always meant to be yellow!!


Can I tell you how much I wish I had a better camera that didn't make my pictures look so shadowy...


After I painted it I glazed it and used Minwax Paster Finishing wax to protect the finish. It was my first time using it .. and I love it. I have used it several times since and am very happy with the shiny finish it gives.


I also changed the gallery wall above the dresser.. I am a frame hoarder!! I just think you should know that before we continue :)
I spray painted some of the frames gold and some white and filled them with fun family photos and a cute card from this shop