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 case you didn't know, Eleanor knows ever letter of the alphabet. She can identify uppercase and lowercase in various fonts. Pointing to letters and naming them is one of her favorite things to ...
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DIY Watercolor Shelf Vignette
This weekend Quinn and I sat down to play with watercolors. You know good old classic Crayola watercolor paints and a Crayola paper pad suitable for watercolors. See my coffee cup? I cannot tell you how many times I almost dipped my paint brush into my coffee. My lovely painting is the one with the yellow brush strokes? I was just getting started. I did random brush strokes and had fun with color. One of the best things about being a parent is reliving your childhood. I don't know that I ...
A Simple & Affordable Christmas Mantle
I tired the kids out with a trip to open gym at the local gymnastics center and a trip to great grandma and grandpa's house this morning. Now that they are off napping it is time for me to share our Christmas shelf. Before we get to that, I have gotta tell you about my weekend. If you follow me on Facebook you know that I was stoked about having a weekend with NO PLANS! I don't remember the last time that happened. With three Thanksgivings this week and the holidays around the corner, it is just ...
Paint Dipped Christmas Ornaments
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 would try my hand at some paint dipped Christmas ornaments. I was at JoAnn's and I saw these ornaments and they were like half off and I had coupons so I snatched them up along with some Martha Stewart ...
Velvet Pumpkins & $50 Jo-Ann Fabrics Gift Card Giveaway
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 ever looking for project ideas or inspiration Jo-Ann Fabrics does have a project page. Jo-Ann Fabrics also included directions to make these velvet pumpkins, which I loosely followed. ...