For the love of Vases

Yes! I will admit that I have a slight OBSESSION, to put it lightly, with vases.

I love all shapes and sizes. 

I seem to have too many just piled up in my "gonna do something with this someday bin".

So you can imagine when  my son came home with this for my Mothers Day present I literally teared up. 

His little 7 year old hands made it all by himself!  Oh, I just love it!

I finally got around to putting it up. I painted it several different times until I decided on black! (Shocker! I know! But hey I LURVE black!)

And I have the perfect spot to display it!  

My favorite vase ever!!

Toodles!

{ Bon }

Thrifty Tip

I don't know about you, but I am constantly changing my mind about decorating. I will find something that works and a year later I am already wanting to do something else. That is why I LURVE decorating on a budget. I can change things occasionally.
So I have had this bedding for about three years now for the boys room.

Don't get my wrong, love Americana colors, but I am SOOOOO over it! Especially after building the boys new bed!

I have had an idea of colors. I knew I wanted orange and black, for sure, but just couldn't seem to find anything that fit into my budget! Everything was either way to expensive to buy two of, or sooooo not my style!

But then I found this beauty!

I loved that it had the colors I wanted, plus more! 

I was instantly in love! 

All the Bed-in-a-Bags were $39.00 no matter what the size. $80.00 isn't bad, and I almost grabbed two twins, when I got another idea. What if I bought a King Size and made two twins?

So I snatched one up.

 When I got it home and pulled it out, I knew that this was the bedding I had been waiting for!
I seriously LOVE it.
But then started to wonder what the heck I was thinking. I mean, I sew straight lines people!
(And if you look close they aren't even straight.)
Why in the world did I think I could do this?

Slight panic set in and then I remembered a fabulous friend  that is a amazing seamstress too!

So I gave her a call!
And she totally rescued me, making my dilemma seem like nothing!
(Oh I just love talented friends, don't you?)

So she cut the bedding in half and used the bedskirt for extra fabric. Which she added to the sides for extra length, making the bedspread long enough to tuck in.

And now two bedspreads for the price of one! Which made each bedspread about $20.00 each!

Total steal!!

Plus I am one of those gals who has to have at least 5-7 sheets per bed. I know crazy, right!?
But I hate having to wait for a sheet to be clean. So the King size sheet that came in this bed-in-a-bag is an extra score for my own room! 

Oh I am sooooo excited to start working on pillows and accessories for this room now!
Can't wait to show you more!

Organization

I love school time.

Don't get me wrong, I miss my kids and all, but I do love the structure.

I don't know about you , but with school comes the endless paperwork, reminders, school order forms, and more. My fridge starts looking crazy disorganized like this.....

Oh BLECH! 

I am totally cringing that I am even showing you how jumbled and cluttered my fridge gets!

It drives me CRAZY!

And trust me, four kids has somehow fried some of the most important brain cells in my head. Ya know, the ones that help me remember things. 

(O.K. so maybe it isn't the kids, but the Krylon I am always using! TEHE)

So I have been on the hunt for something to help me stay organized!

And look what I found for $1.50!

 A plain wretchedly ordinary  file box!

So I got out my trusty companions.

I spray painted the box with two coats of spray paint. 

Then I found some wrapping paper I had laying around and modpodged the paper on the sides and top.

And finally.....

A perfect place to store the kids homework and school reminders. There is a shelf for each child and one I put their daily chore list in too! 

Ahhhhhhh.........Much better! 

Now I can walk past the fridge without cringing! 

Picture Frame Makeover

I love finding little goodies at the DI (local thrift store) for my home. Little accessories can make or break a room. So I am always on the hunt for a little extra something to replace on my shelves or keep around the house!

I found this GORG goodie for $2.00. 

Yes once again the $2.00 Holla dance on my part!
WOOT WOOT!!
(You would all LURVE my saweeet dance moves...ha)

 The perfect frame for a 11x14 picture.
Exactly what I needed!

So I spray painted it high gloss white. 

And then of course, sanded the edges so the old paint and edges were exposed!
LURVING IT!

Then I found another old frame I had laying around and took the glass out of it to fit this frame.
(I seem to be collecting frames also! I have a whole shelf devoted to frames that I will SOMEDAY use!)

And now for the best part...Hanging the PICTURE!
Found a knob I had laying around and glued dotted it to the wall!

Then hung the picture and tied up some ribbon....

 Now I get to enjoy!

Have you found any goodies lately?

I am linking up to...

Back 2 School BLING...

Shout out to Beyonce ( meet you at the Ivy later,Wink... Wink!), "If you like it then you better put a ring on it!" Wa Oh Oh, Wah ah ah Oh!

We had this FABULOUS idea to make button rings for us and for our little girls. First, we tried it with some posts we found at the craft store, but they were too cheap and they just didn't turn out. Finally, we discovered this stretchy cord that worked famously! The buttons fit right to the finger, and look way too cute to Boot!~ We can't get enough of them, and have become quite obsessed. We thought this would be a great back to school project with the girlies. You can use buttons, old earring's that have broken, beads, etc. We have even used fabric! ( tutorial on fabric flowers found on earlier post HERE!) We hope you like them and start working on rings to go with all of your cute, new, back to school outfits!

First, purchase your materials. Beading Cord found at fabric or craft store, and buttons Galore!

Next, Cut off the back of the button.

Then, cut the cording to fit around your finger.

Now, place a dab of hot glue on the back of the button.

Next, hook each end of the cording to the glue.

Finally, cut out a small piece of felt to put over the glue and help hold the ring together.

Now put your bling on and sing with me..."All the single ladies, All the single ladies!"

"Now put your hand up... Wah ah oh, wah ah ah oh!"

Hello Sweetness! Don't you just Lurve? ( The purple one is an old earring that broke..Two for the price of one! Holla!)

Here are the fabric goodies!

HUMMMM.... If only we had our nails done? Oh well!

Linking up to

http://todayscreativeblog.blogspot.com/

Special Delivery

Thank you to all of our supporters and followers. Summer has been hectic and busy, but we are all ready to get back to posting. We have lots of new fun and fresh ideas to show you!

We also wanted to send a sweet shout out to our sister Alison who just had her precious new addition a couple weeks ago! Mommy and baby are both doing great! 

Thanks to all your love and support!

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Check back soon for more crafting updates!

This Mama is excited for her baby girl to come

Oh nothing...just made up a diaper bag...since I can't buy the one I REALLY want at Target!

Of course those followers who have followed for a while know I'm a 80% and so I made this up...really not so hard...but did forget to take pictures along the way...so I thought I'd just share.

I'm JUST A LITTLE giddy about our newest-soon-to-be-arrival

(whom we have not picked a name for???? HELP)

You go ROCK it......

                     LOVES, Ali