For years now I've kept our ironing board in the tiny hall closet, wedged between the door and the shelves. As soon as you would open the door the ironing board would hurl itself at you, eager to be needed. Fortunately for me and unfortunately for the ironing board I usually just caught it, got what I needed, and stuffed it back in. Now that the laundry room is finally complete I feel like I need to give the board a permanent home.
Honestly, ironing board wall hangers aren't expensive in the …
Read More
Crazy Easy DIY Art
I'm finally getting around to posting about some of the DIY art that adorns my new industrial bathroom shelves. Sorry to leave y'all hanging! We had a family wedding this weekend (yay for awesome new sister-in-laws!) and I've been up to my eyeballs in trim for weeks. I'm just caulking and painting so it's not even blog post worthy, but it is looking awesome and I'm happy to finally working in the boy's room again. I'm getting ahead of myself though...we're supposed to be talking about DIY …
Read More
Snowflakes in a Frame
Today I'm sharing with y'all my third and final Christmas craft. This one is a little more difficult than the other two, but still super doable. You should probably read the tutorial though, instead of just scrolling through the pics and taking off on your own. Yeah, I'm onto you.
Yesterday's idea was for all those old frames that are missing glass, today's idea is for all those frames lucky enough to keep their glass intact.
Materials -
Frames with glass
Spray paint …
Read More
Empty Frame Christmas Ornament Art….or something like that
Alright, today we have Christmas craft number two! I really enjoyed spending time with my glue gun for craft number one, so we (that would be me and the glue gun) decided to keep a good thing going and we made these things (I honestly have no idea what to call them)...
Materials -
Empty frames
Spray paint (I used Colonial Red by Rustoleum)
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Miniature ornaments
Twine, string, cord or something similar
I started out by collecting some …
Read More
How to Make a Jingle Bell Wreath
Well, nine days till Christmas! Are y'all ready? I'm just now decorating...we got our tree up this weekend and I completed a few Christmas crafts to share throughout the week. Then this weekend I'll have my Christmas house tour - Domestic Imperfection style.
Let's kick this week off with Christmas craft number one, a classic jingle bell wreath.
Materials -
Bells
Wreath form
Hot glue gun and glue
Ribbon
Instructions -
Alright, so here is how I made the wreath. …
Read More
Crazy Easy Folded Pillows
I've posted a few insanely easy projects over the years, but the one I have for you today takes the cake. I like to call it the "one minute pillow" because you can literally make it in under a minute (unless you have to take pictures of it for a blog post, then it takes significantly longer). There's no sewing, no gluing, no buying pillow forms, and no commitment.
Here's the (crazy easy) tutorial...
First step, grab a pillow from somewhere in your house and a piece of fabric. …
Read More
Bright & Rustic Button Sign
Last year I made something that I never blogged about. Saying I 'made something' is a really bad description though, what I mean is that I made something that is pretty stinking awesome and one of my favorite projects ever. And then I gave it away before taking pictures of it. Like a giant dork.
So what is it? It's a huge button monogram for my unborn niece...
Well, she was unborn when I made it...now she is very much born and almost walking. Even though I made the sign over a year …
Read More
Make Your Own Birdbath
This project is an easy one, though it still started off as a DIY fail. So the first part of this post will be the perfect sparkling tutorial on how to make your own birdbath...then I'll let you know what NOT to do.
I made my birdbath out of a terracotta pot, saucer, and an old brass lamp...but you can really use anything. Go crazy. The motto here is "if you can glue it, you can do it." I literally JUST came it with that.
First I cut the cord on the lamp base and pulled all the extras …
Read More
Poured Paint Pots
Today I have a super easy project for y'all....so easy, in fact, that you should round-up your kids and have them help you. They will love it. Not that I let mine help... I waited till they were napping to do this, haha. I'm not crazy after all. Also, I am giving away a $250 Home Depot gift card! If any of you are at Home Depot half as much as I am then you just got really excited.
So here is what we are making today...
Yup, poured paint pots. You probably don't even need a tutorial to do …
Read More
15 Ways to Give Your Furniture New Life
Let's face it, buying new furniture is expensive. So expensive, in fact, that I've never actually done it (besides couches, because I'm not awesome/crazy enough to DIY a couch). There is also the problem that new furniture is, well... boring. To me it all looks the same and basically has zero personality. A great (and super cheap!) solution to this is to redo old furniture. But what do you do with your ratty old thrift store furniture once you get it home?
1. Paint it a fun …
Read More
Shutter Wall
Today I have a project for y'all that is not actually mine. That is, it's not in my house, it wasn't my idea, and I didn't have to do most the work. I didn't even take a single picture. So it was pretty much the easiest project ever, haha. Sometimes it's nice to take a break from your own projects and blog about something that you didn't slave over for weeks (coughpaperbagfloorcough). This project is actually in my friend Amy's house, she had a ginormous blank wall in her dining room that …
Read More
Yardstick Framed Kid Art
Happy Friday! I had fully intended to post three easy projects this week, but then Friday was here and I hadn't blogged about anything. Ahh, life. It happens. So I'm in the process of decorating my new kitchen shelving and have been doing lots of small projects for them. This particular project started when I was cleaning out my craft closet and came across a painting done by Elijah, it's the first time he had ever painted. I remember stuffing it in a bag full of scrapbook paper because I …
Read More
Sometimes I Give Terrible Advice – A Plate Wall Update
I mess up a lot of DIY projects. In fact, I mess up nearly every single one, though usually I am able to fix my mistakes before I blog about it and give y'all terrible advice. That was not the case with my plate wall though (original post HERE).
After hanging the plate wall I waited a couple of weeks to blog about it to make sure all was well. Then about a month after that, things went south. Quite literally. (That is if you are assuming the sky is north and the ground is south, which I know …
Read More
Kitchen Command Center
So this whole command center project started one day when I was at World Market...I saw this one and thought "man I could really use a command center in the kitchen".
I kinda sorta liked this one, so I looked at the price tag...it was nearly $80 bucks! It's just some plywood, chalkboard paint, trim and a basket. I bet I could make it for $15... probably less since I have most that stuff on hand.
So, I (of course) decided to make my own, more original, more useful and more unique command …
Read More
Custom Name Growth Charts
I'm back, and I actually finished a project! Did you think I was going to leave you hanging till after Christmas? I thought about it... December has been a hard month so far, it feels like one or both of the kids has been sick the whole month. Just this morning Elijah threw up twice..once in my bed and once all over my lap/the couch. It's just a barrel of fun around here!
The project I managed to complete was some custom growth charts for Christmas gifts. These were fairly easy and really …
Read More
Crazy Easy Placemat Pillows (and Napkin Pillows and Dropcloth Pillows)
So pillows. We all love them and use them. We like them for comfort, we like them for decoration, we like them to add color to our neutral couches. The more the merrier really...except for one little problem.
Throw pillows are freakin expensive.
Not like Rolex and Mercedes expensive, but even cheap pillows are $20-$30 a pop. I've seen plenty a pillow go for well over a hundred bucks and that is insane....especially in my house where they are just going to get peanut butter and boogers wiped …
Read More
Blast From The Past: No Sew Ruffle Tree Forest
December is nearly here and the internet has been taken over by Christmas crafts. Trees are going up, wreaths are being made, baking is being done... and here I sit all bah humbug-y with nothing Christmas in the works. So I'm going to cheat and repost the only Christmas craft I managed to eek out last year. My blog was still super small then so I'm pretty sure this will be new material for at least 90% of you. I probably could have even tricked y'all into thinking this was new material if my …
Read More
Dining Room Windows – Done!
I'm slowly working my way around the dining room, finishing one section and then moving to the right and finishing the next. It feels pretty good, since I usually don't finish something before I move on. I call it 'new project enthusiasm'...my husband calls it something very different. So far I've finished the chalkboard, the pantry door, the plate wall, and now the windows. I have one more area to finish after this and then we will have nothing left to do besides actually finish the kitchen. …
Read More
Make Your Own Plate Hangers & My Dining Room Plate Wall
I've been wanting something fun for the big blank wall in my dining room. Something colorful, something cheap. I wanted a plate wall. I excitedly told Adam my idea...and he seemed confused.
Adam : "A plate wall? Like dinner plates, on the wall?
Me: "Yes."
Adam : "You mean like grandmas have in their house?"
Me: "Ummmm....well, yes...kinda."
Adam: "Okayyyyy, but if I come home tomorrow and you're wearing a muumuu I'm gonna nix this whole idea."
I promised him I wouldn't be wearing a muumuu, …
Read More
DIY Screen Door For The Pantry
Way back in February, when I organized my pantry, I mentioned that I was looking for an old screen door to replace our current pantry door. I looked for an old screen door for a while, then a new one...but then realized that finding one in the size I needed was a pipe dream. Our pantry door is so narrow (24 inches) that screen doors in that size pretty much don't exist. Which is okay, because new screen doors cost about $150 - $200, and the one we built cost us a whopping $18.
Here is the …
Read More
Updating The Updated Barstools
So you probably remember last month when I took my uber brown craigslist barstools and lighted them up.
I love them, they look great...but they needed something. Nothing crazy, just...something. A reader suggested numbers and I knew right away that's what I wanted to do.
I also knew that I did NOT want to hand paint them...I can see that going very very wrong. I've seen some tutorials for freezer paper (some tutorials call for wax paper) stenciling floating around and figured I'd give that …
Read More
