Mini Wreath Stand

I made this mini wreath holder from supplies I had on hand.
I used a 1" square dowel, a round base, a finial and a small hook.
I screwed the base to the dowel, screwed finial to the top of the dowel and then added my hook. The wreath holder is 15" tall.
I spray painted the whole thing and then sanded it. So easy and love how it turned out. Goes perfect on my little table.






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Family Birthdays

I have started making Christmas gifts, crazy, I know, but I want to be done early to enjoy the Holiday Season, and not feel crazy and stressed. I made this birthday board for my husband's mom.
I made a tag for each month of the year and then hung the smaller wood tags with the person's birthday and their name. I hung the tags with jump rings. I used small nails to hook the top jump ring to. I found the wood tags at Hobby Lobby, painted and stenciled them, sanded them to give them a rustic look. I punched the holes with my cropodile.

I love how it turned out. I think it will be great for her to keep track of every one's birthday.
Have a great weekend!!

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Fall/Halloween Frame

A few years ago I bought these wood pieces on clearance and when I saw this idea, I knew I needed to make me one to use my little wood pieces. Love how it turned out. I got the frame from Wal-Mart for $3.00. I took the glass out and wrapped burlap around cardboard and then put nails in the frame to hang my pieces. The wood pieces didn't come with the wire, so I drilled holes and added the wire.
Here's another variation for fall.
Here is what I have for Halloween. Variation #1
Variation #2

Decorated Porch

I went to parents house for a week, and while we were there we (meaning lots of family members) cleaned off my parents porch and Meleese - my sis-in-law (who also is a craft critter) and I decorated my mom's porch. While cleaning the porch I took the box that you see and put it in the junk pile. Later I asked my mom if she wanted her porch decorated and if she did I would use the old box. The box had peeled paint all over it so I sanded it and was going to paint it white, but Meleese suggested just doing a paint wash on the box to give it a more rustic look. Meleese took green paint dumped it on a damp rag and wiped it all over the box. My mom has several old milk cans, so we just grabbed one and put on the porch and added some flowers. The crate was going to be thrown away and my mom asked if I wanted it, which I did. But we used it on the porch instead, which by the way I was totally o.k. with. Meleese stained the crate with a walnut stain. Meelese found the old bottle laying around and stuck it inside the crate. While we were at my parents I was cutting a ton of wood my dad has laying around for my daughters boutique she is having to raise money for her student ambassador trip to Europe next summer. One of the items that we are making are the candle sticks, so I I just added those to the box. The candle sticks were also stained in the walnut stain and then I wrapped jute around the candle sticks. The old shovel came from my grandpa's house, and I made the bead board flag, which is another item my daughter is selling at her boutique. We filled the old dented bucket with flowers. We are all so happy with the results. It's amazing what you can do with a little junk. The only cost to this project was the flowers and two plastic chairs.
My two boys sitting in the chairs enjoying the new decorated porch.

Curtains

I have been making curtains for my family room and my bedroom. My family room is a room that is slowly getting decorated the way I want it, I know what I want, it's just going slow. I finally made curtains for the room and love how they turned out. I have been searching for curtains for this room, but since I have two windows and need four panels, it would cost me over $100.00, so I decided to make them.

This is the first window. My hubby made the shelves above the window, I'm still working on what to put on the shelves.
This is the second window.



BEDROOM CURTAINS:

Love how they turned out. Now I need to make some pillows for my bed.

Old Luggage

I have this empty space above my pantry in my kitchen that has been empty for awhile. I know what I want to do with it, but it's taking time to gather everything I want for this space. One of the things I have wanted is some old suitcases. The cool thing about these suitcase is that they are my grandma's, so not only do I have the suit cases I have been wanting, but I have some that have memory and meaning behind them.
The small suitcase doesn't even close, I remember my grandma using an elastic to hold it shut. I love how it's looking so far, I still want more things up there, but this is a start and every time I look up to this little space it makes me smile, because of the memories of my grandma.

Interchangeable Phrase Blocks

I'm not quite sure what to call these blocks, but whatever the name I think they are soooo cool. The blocks can be flipped around and can make over fifty different sayings. You need 15 wood blocks for this project. I sanded and painted all of the blocks. I then stenciled the blocks with black paint. There is a downloadable cheat sheet found here, that tells you what letter to put on each block and the blocks are numbered to make it easy to make the words. The cheat sheet also has all the different phrases the blocks can make. I also found that the blocks can say more than shown on the cheat sheet. BONUS!

I then took my sander and sanded the blocks giving them a more rustic look.

Now the blocks are ready to make fun phrases like this one. My littlest will be having a birthday in a couple of weeks, really excited to be able to display my blocks.

Since Valentines is Monday I thought I would show you how cute this one is, it actually can say "Valentines Day" plus the heart, but I don't have a space long enough for all of the blocks, since this phrase doesn't stack.

So I did this phrase for Valentines, it looks really cute on top of my hutch. I am so excited to be able to change the blocks as the seasons and holidays change.

Caleen

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Shutter Wall Hanging

I bought this shutter for $2.00 - SCORE- and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

I spray painted the shutter burgandy.

I then added a metal star and some floral berries.

I love the little white knob on the shutter.

It looks soooo cute on my wall. I LOVE it!

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