Crafts
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Winter Pom pom wreath
Happy January! It seems like after the holidays and the house gets cleaned up, I need a little project or something new to help bring in the new season. This year I made a winter yarn pom pom wreath for my front door. I have been having this love affair with yarn wreaths lately. I made this one for fall, and this one for Christmas. I decided to make another one to get my porch through the winter months. I wanted to choose winter colors, and I wanted the yarn to have thick texture, like a warm sweater. I grabbed this thick yarn at the craft store. It was almost…
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My fall yarn wreath
Yea! Fall is almost upon us. I am busy getting all my fall decor ready to display and enjoy. Fall is my favorite season of the year. I think it is the funnest to decorate for because it stays out so long. I love the textures, colors, and smells. The house just feels more cozy when my fall decor is out and around us. I was looking at my fall decor the other day and I decided two things. I need to refresh what I have, and my daughter needs a fun craft to do with me. So we got busy and came up with a fun wreath design for…
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Easy Pom Pom Wreath
Hi, Danica here.The Fourth of July is one of my all time favorite holidays. I love the fun summer barbecues, fireworks, and decorations. I absolutely love crafting, so I couldn’t let the season go by without making my own Fourth of July craft. So my mom and I went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some supplies to make a fun pom pom wreath. All we needed was a foam wreath frame, about 200 pom poms, and some hot glue. And so, we set to work gluing the pom poms on, trying our best to avoid getting burned by the hot glue. I wasn’t so successful, unfortunately. Before we knew it, we had a cute, new…
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Easy, fast, no sew silhouette project
It’s Monday, it’s snowing, and it’s cold. Perfect for a fun and easy craft. Silhouettes. I love Silhouettes. They have such a fun vintage feel to them. I wanted to hang a silhouette of Danica on her wall since her room has such a vintage feel to it. I thought long and hard about how I wanted to create it, and I finally decided on fabric. I bought an old wooden frame a while ago at an antique store. I love cool looking frames, and I was looking for just the right thing to put in this one. I took a picture of the side of Danica’s face, and had…
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The story of a frame
A long time ago when I was younger I had a neighbor who was an artist. I loved going over to her house with my mom and visit her. She painted the most beautiful paintings. She always had something fun to show us, and she had great style. I was lucky to get a few of these old frames to use in my home. I had one that I wasn’t using in my storage room, and I thought what the perfect thing to use for a display board for D’s room. It was white, and had great detail, but I wanted to change it up a bit and paint the frame dark…
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Christmas on my porch
I have spent all of last week decorating and getting ready for Christmas. One of my favorite spaces to decorate is my front porch. I kept it pretty simple this year. I took the lantern from my front porch and sprayed it a new color. That was when the grass was still green. I took that lantern and put it on my porch and added a bit of greenery and lights to it. Then I took this fun find and made it into a chalk board to hang a wreath on. We just cut some wood, and I sprayed it with chalk board paint. Then we stapled it onto the…
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A bit of spray paint
I can’t believe it is November already. Time is flying. I love the fall, and decorating for it is so much fun. That being said, I also love Christmas, and decorating for that is a lot more fun. So every November 1st I start thinking about how I want to decorate. Little touches I want to change from previous years, or crafts I want to do. This week I have been thinking about my porch. I have had this fun lantern for years now and it has recently been out in my back yard. I painted it yellow so that it would stand out in the yard. I cleaned all…
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Grain sacks
I love love love antique stores. I have found one that I especially love here where I live. This is pretty random, since where I live doesn’t exactly have the greatest home decor stores or selections. So I was shopping around this summer and found some old grain sacks that were like five bucks each. I couldn’t resist picking a couple of them up. I spent the summer while the kids were home from school thinking about what I wanted to do with them, and I came up with a couple of things. The first and obvious thing I could think of was to make a pillow out of one.…
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Layering
So I spent part of the day Monday working on my front porch. Fall is by far my most favorite season to decorate for, and decorating the porch is no exception. In general, my style is pretty simple and colorful. I like a space to have fun character pieces that speak for themselves. Usually when I put a room together, I like to layer decor. This was no exception with the front porch. I had purchased a burlap pumpkin wall hanging last year to use on my porch. When I hung it by itself, it just blended right into the siding so I came up with an idea. I grabbed a spare piece…
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Fall Book Wreath
When I think of fall I think of going back to school, new clothes, backpacks, apples, and books. This thought inspired me to make a wreath for my home from pages of an old book. I started with a foam wreath form I had laying around my house. I covered the form with some strips of burlap fabric I had left over from my dining room valence. I then tied a bow using some strips of straw to add that fall feeling to the wreath. Then I went to work ripping out pages of the book and rolling them into tubes. I glued three together and tied jute around the center.…
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September
No matter what, on the first day of September I start getting out the fall decorations. I can not help myself. I love fall! I have been excited to start decorating my house. I have hung my wreath, and I have a fun project up my sleeve. Happy September!
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Think outside the box
When I decorate a space and start investing in accessories for that space I try to find things that are a little unique, maybe something that everyone might not have. This fun lantern is an example of that. When I was on the hunt to find some lighting for my family room I quickly became discouraged. Everything looked the same to me, same lamp, same shade, same same same. It was so boring to me. That is when I saw this fun lantern. It was intended to hold a candle, but we saw it a different way. When I picked it up at the store, my hubby said that would…
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DIY wreath
We just finished our upstairs hallway and I have been having fun decorating and adding some accessories. I bought this hook originally to hold pictures, but I decided to put it in the hall and hang a wreath on it. I wanted something simple and without a lot of color. I looked all over for a wreath I liked, but I couldn’t find one. School is out and I have some extra time, so I decided to make one instead. I found these fun burlap flowers at JoAnns and I was excited. I am not fond of silk flowers, so these were just right for me. I got a grapevine…
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Mud Room
We are making progress on our main level. This past weekend we worked hard getting the new mud room ready for paint and tile. This room is right off the garage and use to be the laundry/computer desk/mudroom. We have moved our laundry room upstairs, the desk will be in the kitchen, and now I am going to have a for real mud room with cabinet lockers to store all the shoes, backpacks, coats….. Lets just say I am excited for this room! We painted this room the same notre dame gray that I used throughout the main living space of the house. I used the same vintage black and…
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My fun clock project
About twelve years ago my hubby built me a clock for Christmas. I love this clock, and have been looking for the perfect place to put it in our home. After we got the wood done in the upstairs hall, we decided the natural spot for the clock would be in the hall. I was so excited, the only problem was the paint color. The color that I had painted it matched the rooms in our old home, not this one. I am keeping the hallway pretty neutral, just black and white photos, even the chair in the landing is black and white. I knew I wanted a pop of…
