Crafts
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Valentines Kissing Booth Decorative Sign with Video Tutorial
With Valentines Day right around the corner, Avry and I thought it would be fun to add a few new Valentine Decorations to our collections. Looking at the pieces that we already had we decided to create this Valentines Kissing Booth Prices Decorative Sign. It’s a fun and different type of Valentines sign. Most of the projects we make are quite simple and only require basic crafting supplies. To create your own Valentines Kissing Booth Prices Decorative Sign you will need: 1 piece of wood cut at 9″ by 9″ in size (Any type of wood board should work) White paint Red vinyl Transfer tape Paint brushes Personal cutting machine…
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Easy Valentine Sweetie Pie Gift idea
Valentines Day is right around the corner, often we think about our spouse, kids, family, school classmates. I also like to give a little something to co-workers, friends, and neighbors. I am always looking for fun ideas for people who I appreciate in my life. I found some fun printable tags over at Lil luna done by Bloom designs that say sweetie pie on the them. I thought how fun and fitting they would be tied to a pie for valentine’s day. Follow this easy DIY tutorial to make your own Easy Valentine Sweetie Pie Gift idea. While I was shopping at Wal-Mart I found these darling little mini pies…
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January Snowflake faux Chalkboard Sign
These past few years we have been on a mission to create winter themed décor for our homes. It seems that after the holidays when the tree and all the decorations come down, it can feel depressing. What could be better than decorating in a blue and white snowflake theme that is perfect for the month of January. This year we created this January Snowflake faux chalkboard sign to add to all of our winter décor. Would you like to create your own January Snowflake faux chalkboard sign? To make this January Snowflake sign you will need: 1- 12″ by 12″ cut piece of wood A large snowflake (wood, metal,…
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Mini Christmas Snow globes from Gumball machines
I’m always looking for new fun and interesting ways to decorate. So, when I came across these darling winter scene gum ball machines at Kikicomin on instagram , I knew I needed to create one for myself. The only problem was I didn’t have a gum ball machine. I looked at several different options to create my own mini Christmas Snow globe gum ball machine, I wanted it to be budget friendly. I ended up finding some mini gum ball machines at the dollar store which was perfect! I purchased some mini trees , Snow, gold paint, and snowmen at the craft store. Once home I took apart the gum ball…
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Stenciled Burlap Christmas Delivery sack
Right before Christmas last year. We found a darling design over at Fyens designs and knew that We wanted to create our own Santa delivery sack. By clicking here you can see the Burlap Santa Christmas Special Delivery Sack we made last year. This year we still had a bunch of the soft burlap leftover we decided it would be fun to try a new design and make a bunch of Stenciled Burlap Christmas Delivery sacks to give for Christmas gifts this year. First cut a Burlap strip of fabric measuring 15″ in width and 54″ in length. Then surge the two 15″long (or stitch)edges of the rectangle shaped burlap to make sure the burlap doesn’t fray. This will…
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Rustic Bead board Christmas tree Plaques
There I was surfing along the internet when I came across these darling simple farmhouse Christmas signs at Craftaholics Anonymous. The moment I saw this project I knew I wanted to make them for Christmas gifts. I looked at the blog post and found that she had purchased all of the items at a local craft store and just simply glued them together. Which is easy and wonderful but, I knew I wanted to make several and that it probably wouldn’t be in my budget. I began thinking about wood scraps and items I already had on hand, items I knew I could substitute for the craft supplies that Craftaholics…
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Fall/Thanksgiving Feather Slat Board Sign
Have you ever had that moment when you pull something out of storage and find that it is in pieces? This happened to me a few weeks ago. I was pulling out my Thanksgiving decorations and as I lifted up my large Gather shutter it came apart in a million pieces!!! I wanted to cry! My Gather shutter was a key decoration for my front porch, and it was broken beyond repair. As I stood there looking at all the shutter slats everywhere, I realized that they could be repurposed and made into something different and, I had a large void to fill on my porch. I decided to create…
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Round Framed Skeleton For Halloween Home Décor
Have you ever seen a round frame where the glass inside of it bubbles outward? The thing I love about garage sales is the ability to find random items and recycle or up-cycle them. So this bubbled frame got revamped and turned into a fun Halloween frame Skeleton skull. First I found a copy of this Vintage Anatomy Skull which I thought was absolutely darling! If you want to create the same print the skull out. Remove all the explanations below by cutting the skull print to the size of the frame. Once you have the piece of paper to fit the size of the frame you’ll want to put a little…
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Halloween Candy Corn Shadow box Decor
Often during our many yard sale adventures we find many treasures that we can redo. One of our favorite things to look for at yard sales are shadow boxes. There are so many simple ways to transform a shadow box, one way we like to transform them is to add small loose items in the box portion and add vinyl on the front of the glass. I recently purchased 4 shadow boxes at a yard sale they were all new still in the plastic. I kept looking at them and deciding what I should fill them with. As I was looking online I came across this fun Halloween saying by…
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Easy Fall pumpkin bead board decoration
I had a few scrap pieces of bead board hanging around my house. With our annual Halloween party coming up, I was trying to come up with ideas of what I could use this extra bead board for. I knew it would be easy to cut a large pumpkin shape out of the bead board. This was how the idea for an easy fall pumpkin bead board decoration was born. To make your own Fall Pumpkin decoration you will need: Scrap piece of bead board Tree limb cut to size Fabric Jute Ribbons Hot Glue Jig saw Sander First you will want to draw a template for your pumpkin size and…
