I love crafting and I love creating, but I actually have no true skills. This means if I can do it, anyone can do it. Literally! I love me some bunting! Hmm...What do I love about it? I love that it is festive and quick and easy. I love that scraps of fabric, a dollar spool of ribbon, a hot glue gun and a pair of pinking shears are all that is required. I literally trace right onto the fabric with a pencil using my fancy stencil (pictured below). Then I cut out my ...
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My Valentine’s Wall
I wanted to break this down in a few posts, but I am just so excited to show you it I cannot sit on it anymore. I figure I can give you the run down on a few things in future posts. The dining room wall has sorta become our holiday decor hot spot. The shelf (post on that here) kind of turned it into our "mantle" (Check it out at Christmas here and the non-holiday version here). When we first hung the gallery wall I didn't know that we would be switching out the art and playing with it as much as ...
Valentine’s Day Wreath
Yesterday I filled you all in on my newest crafting obsession, fabric flowers. If you need tutorial on those click here. Today I am going to show you where all those fabric flowers are now taking up residence. For starters, I would like to point out that my decorating budget is, well...pretty much nothing. So to get my house Valentine's ready I had to be creative, using what I already have on hand. Being a crafty lady and all means that there is quite a bit lying around. One of the ...
Fabric Flower Tutorial
I am getting my Valentine craft on. In the midst of this crafting I tackled my first fabric flower (quickly followed by a dozen other). They are addictive and just so darn cute. I thought I would whip together a little photo tutorial for you all. I used scrap fabric I had lying around and a glue gun. You could also use fabric glue...whatever works! REAPEAT If you give these a whirl you will be totally ...
Dining Room Shelf
We always envisioned a shelf on the gallery wall. Because this is such a popular walk through we didn't want a table. They were too deep and none were long enough. Thus, the shelf idea was born. I wanted something rustic and reclaimed, but rustic, reclaimed wood can get pretty pricey. Instead we picked up a piece of wood from the hardware store for $6.00. Gorgeous, right? We used a sample can of stain and some 2x4's scrap wood we had. My husband sanded the wood down, not to much, but a bit ...