You've Got Mail!

I have been searching for the PERFECT way to keep our mail from cluttering up the counter space.  Wa-lah!  How Does She featured an idea back in January that I stumbled across and would LOVE to try.  This means breaking down and purchasing the power tools that I dream about.....

....Husband, Dear?!?

Check it out HERE!

I love how the sides are open so it can fit any size of mail.  In her post, she talks about how a friend wanted one of the boxes to read, "Coupons"....me, too!  I would do: MAIL, OUT BOX, & COUPONS.  

...but that's just me!  :)

I'm IN LOVE!!

Hmmmmm....do you think I should tell my husband about this??  Tee....hee...

Seriously, Stacie at The Creative Crate ROCKS!!! 

 I am LOVIN' this photo display she made with CUPBOARDS!! No kidding!

Auuggghhh!!!  Just look how AWESOME it looks against the brown background!  She gives a GREAT tutorial and if you are wondering where she GOT the cupboards...she answers that question in her comments.

Check it out HERE!

Rag-a-WHAT??

...A RAG QUILT!!

(My husband and I LOVE that commercial where the baby says, "Milk-a-WHAT?"  ...it cracks us up everytime..  Have any of you seen that one??)  

ANYWAY - I have recently fallen in LOVE with the website:

www.kevinandamanda.com

...Which is where I went for a LOT of help on my blog makeover AND where I found her helpful pics and instructions on how to make a rag quilt. 

Here is the first quilt she made...with PICS of her and her honey on it!

Here's her second one...

I have seen these everywhere and it's usually for babies....such as baby shower presents....BUT Amanda made one for her living room and I'm liking that idea!!

The blanket WE curl up under when we watch movies...is pretty hideous!  It was a homemade wedding present...made with love.....and SUPER comfy which is why we have kept it.....but ummm....it's just SO not pleasant to look at!!  :)

Click HERE to get her FAB pics, hints, and directions.

MORE Fab Frames!

Homemade Christmas Post #4:

THIS was one of my favorite presents! I wanted to keep it! (I know, I know...that thought only lasted for a moment....or two....)

Jamie's sister, Jen, was married a year after us, and I had her send us the "color scheme" of their home....and this is what I came up with...

I have made a few of these before.....but I LOVED the dark inking around the edges of the cream frame....I have to give the credit to Jamie! He thought it needed to be a little more dramatic...and he was right!

An "up-close & personal" of the scrapbooked section...

The couple themselves!

Totally RAD Tile!

Homemade Christmas Post #2:

I have a HUGE tile like this in our bedroom...and my sis-in-law, Holly, admired it out loud one day. ...she doesn't seem to remember that....but she did! :) I decided to make this their Christmas present. When you get married....you only get ONE present! :) Darn, huh!

My older bro, Jerek & his bride. Thanks for being such GOOD sports & taking this pic! We crashed at their place in Boise, and we kept them up late (playing games) almost every night! Go "Bean" Game...."I'll trade you two chili beans for your cocoa bean..."

Fabric Flowers!

Design Dazzle highlighted a blog that posted a tutorial on how to make the love-ly fabric flower below. I can TOTALLY see this in a plethora of different colors on a headband on a little girl! (Big word, huh! Did I use it correctly? Oh...I'm the teacher?!? Hey....I teach Elementary.....)

But, hey! If you don't want to put it in your little girl's hair OR on your sweater OR on a FUN winter beanie...you can alway use it as an embellishment on a pillow.

This pillow looks so dreamy to me!!

Old Lamp...NEW Lamp....

One Fish....TWO fish...

Oops...that just kinda reminded me of a Dr. Suess book.... :)

SO - I found a tutorial on HOW to recover a lampshade. Now, the lampshade SHE recovered was a tube shape....I am still on the hunt for one that is more like the "normal" lampshade....CUZ that's what I need to to know for MY lamp makeover!! OR - would this tutorial work for the "norm" lamp??

Anywho....here's HER re-covered lamp with some CUTE fabric on it:

....and HERE is her tutorial!

A MeMoRy Tray

An Altered State of Mind came up with this "Memory Tray." She is a VERY crafty gal and I love her take on scrapbooking. This would look DARLING on a shelf in her little girl's room!! I LOVE the "K" and the swirls around it! One day...I will be duplicating this!!

Custom Basket Liner??!? I'm In!

I LOVE this post from Make It & Love It!! She showcased a tutorial on how to make EASY (key word) basket liners! I think this caught my eye because I just "jazzed up" basket that are on a shelf above my washer & dryer. What can't a girl do with spray paint and a sewing machine?? Oh, and modge podge, and paint, and a glue gun, and a SAW.....

Practical Home Decor....YEP!!

Seeing this post from Be Different.....Act Normal...gave me a flashback to the last time my darling hubby called out from the shower...asking if I could please get him another bar of soap. Hmmmm....rather than go down the two flights of stairs to get to our basement...where our EXTRA soap is stored....why not try out this idea which is not only cute decor....but it can come in quite handy as well!

Future Ideas For My Home....

One of my FAVORITE vinyl companies is "It's A Sign." They have a blog where customers send in pics of what the vinyl looks like AFTER being put up in their homes. I loved two of the pictures....The overall decorating style was darling....so I am bookmarking my two favorites for the world to see. What do you think? Someone's got some stylin' sense!

A ZIPPERED Pillow....

OK...so I have done the pillows where the two panels in the back overlap...and you can slide the pillows in & out. This design makes for an EASY time washing when the "design" pillow covering gets dirty. BUT - now....here's the "zippered" pillow treatment. And yes, "zippered" just officially became a word. Like...right now! :) One Pretty Thing posted this pillow tutorial found here. Enjoy!

Soap Cubes

While in the process of decorating my home for less....I could use an idea like this....homemade soap that is also quite decorative. Find a pretty container (we have tons of different types of glass that we used for our wedding) mix up the concoction discussed HERE, and fill 'er up....WALA!!

Yeah....actually, I am sure it's a little bit trickier than that, but it sounds like something I would like to attempt at least once.

Awww....My Gi-NOR-mous Tile....

Is ginormous even a word?? If it was...the definition would be the HUGE tile I purchased last summer on a whim....which then sat in our bedroom cuz I had no clue what to do with it! I then stumbled across a brilliant idea that I found on Adhering Thoughts blog...and WA-LA...

This is in our Master Bedroom....LOVE the saying, LOVE the key, and my gi-NOR-mous tile now has a home! What a happy ending! :)

Candles, Candles, & MORE Candles....

LOVE candles!! Just a Girl did a tutorial a while back on her candles. I had previously done a version of what she did....but I liked her take on it...and tried it out....here's the results......

These are in our Master bedroom....we are going for a "SPA" feel.....beige, tan, brown, white, and a soft blue color...

These are in our Master Bathroom....they are a little beat-up, I need to fix them! These are the candles I had done previously....they were actually on display at Jamie's sister's wedding in October.... I really need to change out the metal saying on the right and put a smaller one in....hmmmm....maybe when I get my NEXT burst of creative energy!

These wild candles are in our guest bedroom. I am LOVIN' how funky they are!! It's a black & white room...with a splash of this gorgeous green color! This is the room I made curtains for....I will have to take pics of those soon! The scrapbooking paper matched the curtains exactly! I was SUPER excited about that!

An upclose look at the end-product....

And...just in case ya wanted another look! Tee, hee!

Baby Fever...

So Lovely Creations posted about some of her favorite nurseries! How delightful.....AND creative are some people?? Nurseries AKA baby's rooms...makes me think of soft things and sweet dreams!! These are SOME of my favorites that she found...

This last one is a little wild, huh!! I think a "tween" girly would ADORE this one!! Click on the link at the top to see the rest of the nurseries she highlighted.

MIA?!? Yep, That's ME!!

I know, I know...I have been Missing In Action for a while. Kinda missed my daily keyboarding therapy!! We have been crazy-busy trying to get our home ready for potential buyers to walk through. Ugh! Stranger walking through MY home! Sounds delightful!! I may have to post a pic of our house...I bet you would ALL fall in love wid it! I have to admit....we did a dang good job picking everything out....when building!! But - time to move on....

In the meantime, here is my latest craft...which we will be making at our next Craft Club night! Isn't my hubby SUPER cute!! Yep, I agree! I have been antsy wanting to do this craft. Hope ya'll like it!

And NO....it's not for Valentine's Day...{{GASP!!}}...this matches the color scheme in our Living Room....which I absolutely LOVE after our l'il makeover! I substituted the hearts for a big flower on another frame I have...and it looks just as cute!!

I am going to add a vinyl saying in white....to put in the top left-hand corner that says, "LOVE"...and then there will be a wispy font in dark red vinyl going across it that will say, "Always & Forever." It's ordered.....YEA!!

Framing BoRiNg Mirrors...

We are in the process of "staging" our home....in hopes that we will be able to sell it in this crummy market....THUS, my current obsession with inexpensive home decor. LOVED this idea on how to make a plain mirror a little more FABULOUS....by adding a dah-ling border to it! Click here for more info!

SUPER Cute Decorating Idea!

LOVIN' the way Wonderfully Wordy has decorated her pantry door! Great taste, fer sure!!

Some Home Decor....Mmmmmmm...

Becky Higgins is a WONDERFUL scrapbooker...but she also has some darling ideas when it comes to decorating. She has been sharing a few of her displays around her house and I just wanted to post MY favorites!

She used the frameless clip frames (that you can get at IKEA)....CUTE! (I am a SUCKER for black & white photos!)

THIS was neat because it is celebrating their ancestry! All of the kid's great-grandparents pics are in the frame. The middle is a scripture is found in Malachi 4:6. "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers."
LOVE IT!!
This is a pic of her guest bedroom....I think I just really like the PINK! Gosh, am I turning into a MAJOR girly-girl, or what?