Today is a great day for all of you who love Christmas and love DIYs! I have teamed up with some awesome fellow bloggers to share some of our recent Christmas DIYs. Be sure to check them all out at the bottom of this post! Salt dough is not just for the kiddos! I have …
This week we are creating some DIY textured trees out using scrapbook paper, foam craft cones, and a couple of wooden pieces. I found everything for this project at Hobby Lobby. The base of the trees were these foam cones: To create the color and texture, I wrapped scrapbooking paper around the trees. I traced …
These West Elm paper trees majorly inspired me, but I did not love the price tag. I figured out that I could create a similar look using thrifted books! I had several old thrifted books on hand from a previous intended project that I never got around to, so I grabbed a couple and got …
In this post, you’ll see how I created a dupe of this Pottery Barn birch tree: I have a vision for my Christmas decor to fill the shelves on either side of my fireplace with wooden trees this year. At first, I wanted try to find turned style ones like these: But, as you can …
I’ve never been so eager to decorate the front porch as I am right now, now that the floor has been painted. You can see all the details on that in this post. I wanted to utilize the Halloween bat decorations that are so popular right now. Keep reading to see how I incorporated them …
I rolled calico all over with a small foam roller. Then, I used some super chippy brushes to dry brush 4 additional colors randomly on different bricks. Doing this helped to add variation and make the bricks looks more authentic.
Typically, I go pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas decor. I gravitate towards red and white, and that’s typically reflective in most of my decor during this time of year. However, since our little girl Ivy has been born, I embrace all things “pinkmas” in her room! Here is a look at our little …
Ivy’s room has been so much fun this year! I have a couple of DIYs planned, plus I found some ah-mazing things at Walmart this year to spruce up what we already have. The first of the DIYs: a bottle brush tree garland! There is a this empty frame/open door (technical names, of course) sort …
For Ivy’s 2nd birthday, we went with a Tea for Two theme! I had so much fun planning out the details of it. The actual day of the party, I injured myself while trying to put up the balloon arch, so my photos are not super extensive. I had a few ideas of ways I …
I saw these adorable tea bag shortbread cookies on Next to Nicx paper tea cup post. Of course, I wanted to make my own version for Ivy’s Tea for Two birthday party. Instead of shortbread, I used bagged sugar cookie mix. After making the dough, I rolled it out and used a pizza cutter to …