Spring crafts!

So wow, it's been a bit busy lately, but I did manage to get a few crafts done. I have a bunch of things I wanna share, but won't be as fast as I'd like, so please be patient with me for a bit. :)

I don't know about you, but I'm soooo ready for Spring. Winter, once again, has overstayed its welcome. ;) Here's some fun Springy these I made:

This cute lil pomander flower ball. So springy and go well with my cherry blossoms!

My sister and I made some fun easter eggs! Get some styrofoam eggs (I like the smooth ones, got mine at Hobby Lobby), paint (optional, but so cute!), dry, spray with adhesive and sprinkle glitter evenly all over. Poke hole in top and hot glue ribbon on. Show off wherever you want, I hung mine on some branches I spray painted white with white glitter and stuck in a tall vase. Love it!

Aren't those boingy carrots so cute?! Got them at Tai Pan.

Faith's super cute new room!

This was such a fun project to make the dreary month of January pass by more quickly. I was SO excited to incorporate my ideas I had in mind. I gotta say, redecorating/painting rooms is my most favorite thing to do....next to planning parties of course. :D

My dad had a brilliant idea he wanted to do in memory of Mikkie. He's pretty much the best contractor/painter there is and has hook-ups with Sherwin Williams. I took a bunch of different paints and mixed them up, when I came up with the colors I liked, my dad took them in and had them named after Mikkie. "Mikkie Pink" and "Mikkopotamus"! How COOL is that?!? If you want these same colors, you just have to go ask for these names!! They're available to the public. I was so excited to have some meaning go into this.

Faith was uber excited about getting a new room and was a pro at helping me paint. She's had practice helping her Grampa before. :)

Her drawers before and after! Complete difference, eh! And these knobs I found at Hobby Lobby.....Perfect!!

What's more fun than Polka dots! Seriously. This was time consuming, but so worth it. It was my favorite part. After trying different things and not finding any easy way to make perfect circles, I found THIS tutorial and it worked like a charm. See those nice, crisp edges.
Before and After. Refreshing change, huh!

Faith painted most of the little cubby all by herself!

I took down her toddler bed and repainted my old bed. She's very excited about her 'big girl bed'! It was just a very hard day taking down Mikkie's crib. :'(

We finally got this girl some blinds! It was very much needed and I think it's helping her to sleep better. Yay!

I love the zebra print in the quilt, so I found a valance to go with it. CUTE!
Searching around for a light fixture wasn't easy either, I knew it when I saw it though. This bright chandelier added the perfect touch to the room! ahhhh I'm so excited all over again! :)

Needless to say, Faith is a VERY satisfied little girl. So happy she started dancing! :)
I love it so much, I'm thinking about swapping rooms with her. :) Her and her daddy can both not sleep together. hehe ;)

Perfect room for my sweet girl!

Mini wreath stand

I've seen a bunch of tutorials for those cute wreath stands and as I was looking at my candle rings, I thought it would be fun to hang those up.

I wanted to come up with a different style of stand. Here's what I used:

1 wooden heart plaque
15 wooden wheels
1 wooden ball
1 metal hook

I got all these from Hobby Lobby. I used wood glue to glue all wheels on top of each other (it's better to glue a few together at a time, wait til dry, then glue a few more on, etc..or it will slide and become crooked). Once all dry, glue them in center of heart plaque and glue ball on top. Let dry completely. Screw in hook. Spray paint. I spray painted it candy pink first, let it dry, then heirloom white. I sanded it on various places and it brought out the pink underneath.

Hang your candle ring or any other small decor and enjoy your cute Valentines wreath stand! Things are so much cuter when they're mini, no?

Candy heart ball

This was a low-energy, simple task for Faith and I to do while stuck sick in the house this week. Gluing candy onto a ball...doesn't get much easier {or tastier} than that. :) It's a great activity to do with little kids, I did the glue and she put them on the ball, she had lots of fun doing it and she was so proud to show daddy our decoration we made when he got home!

Project Master bed and bath: completed....finally

Does it take anyone else forever long to put together a room?

We started our room last year and have just finished it....well, good enough anyways.
I got my beautiful quilt last year for Mother's day and our room painted. This year we got a much needed new bed and painted our bathroom. I'm not afraid of color, as you probably remember from my girls bathroom. :)
I was so antsy to get everything finished that I didn't take any 'before' pictures, but just picture....plain, boring, dull, absolutely no life at all......and compare that with this...

I've always loved these two colors together and have seen lots of people use it in their kitchens, but since I was already in love with my brown and turquoise there, I decided it would look awesome in our bedroom. I love it! It makes me even more happy knowing that Tim loves it too!

It worked out perfect to do our bathroom red and our room the creamy yellow because it woulda been a tad overwhelming if we did our room red.

I took a pic of our tp holder cuz I think everyone should own one just like it. hah why? cuz we had one of the regular old ones with the spring in it and it would get stuck and was too retarded to get back on, so our tp was hardly ever on the holder. This one you just slide it on and off....instant gratification, ooooh yea! :)

Thanks to Rod Works and Real Deals, I was able to find the perfect colors for decorations!
And Expressions Vinyl for good priced vinyl!

Wooly to Ruffly pillow!

One of the things I love seeing (and doing) is turning ugly or old things into new and improved things. I see the pro ones out there where people totally transform beaten-up furniture into gorgeous masterpieces.....I'm not even close to doing that yet (probably would look like a toddler did it), but I'm starting small. Pillows I can do, and with each one I'm getting more practice to make the next one even better.

Well, I'm not sure this one is better than my last, but I do like it. This is the ugly wool pillow I got from DI for $2!!.......

..............and transformed it into this loverly vision of white. :) with 2 messy girls, let's see how long it STAYS white. haha
I didn't really find a tutorial on this one, and was not thinking at the time to make my own. I just saw a ruffled pillow like this at a store and guessed on how to do it. If enough people want a tute, then I'll go ahead and make one just for you. :)

Framed vinyl

Something else to take up some wall space. I can do shelves, but wall space......I never know how to arrange it! I did this for starters.....

got a cheap-o, ugly old gold frame from D.I. and painted/distressed it. The vinyl I cut with myself with my Cricut.

"A family that prays together, stays together". how true that is. :)

ahhhhh, me likey how it looks! I just gotta figure out what to fill my jar with now.hummmmmm...

Burlap canvas

This is my version of the fabric wall hangings I've been seeing a lot of. This is residing on the wall between our Living and Family rooms; adds a great touch, me thinks. =)

Just made a wood frame, pulled the burlap over (probably could've done it tighter) and stapled it down. The flowers were some of the hair clips I've been making (Post of those coming soon). I hot glued those on and then stitched some squiggly vines with brown thread. Not too shabby, eh.

Decorative balls

I've had a bunch of tutorials bookmarked for a long while that I wanted to get to someday, and that someday finally came! =) Now with the holidays over and out of the way I can focus on making some "regular home decor" for my house. I want to finish up my downstairs first since I've already started and since that's where people are the most.

These cute twine covered Styrofoam balls were on my to-craft list. I had some balls from Faith's party, so it worked out perfect to just use those and not have to buy anymore. The only prob with the bigger ones is they took about an hour! so....easy, but time consuming. I think I was using smaller twine than the tutorial where they used hemp cording. I wish I used that, but they still look good.

I found the perfect turquoise color at Walmart to spray paint some balls and others I used a brown I already had.

While I was clicking around, I came across a picture of rolled fabric decorative balls.

There were no instructions, just a picture. But it was easy enough to figure out. Just roll/twist fabric and hot glue it on the ball as you go along, same as the twine, just with rolled fabric. Such a cute match to go along with the twine balls. Love it!

Last but not least, um....more fabric balls (for lack of a better name). Same technique is used on these that I used on my Valentine Wreath, just used on a ball instead of a heart. LOVE these also!

I had to buy ZIP-ola for all these balls! well, I bought them at one point, but ya know...I've had them on hand for a while. =) These ones were made from old skirts, and the turquoise one from an old pillow case. I feel very resourceful. =)

More home decor on the way =)

Ruffled Pillow!

We've had these pillows since we got married (4 years ago) and now.....well, they're just a tad hammered n hashed. Not so pretty anymore, not to mention they really don't match. I don't think we had anything that matched, we took anything we could get! ;)

A few days ago, I looked at my pillows with a sigh and then remembered a tutorial I saw HERE to make some CUTE ruffled pillows! I also had some extra fabric that I got on clearance from Hobby Lobby and it just happened to be the perfect color! WOA that hardly, like next-to-never happens.

So, this is the result:

I am totally in love with it! It definitely made quite a change to the look of the room. Wahoo!