My Finished Wood Sign

I finally finished my wood sign! It took me forever to decide what I wanted it to say or if I wanted to use paper letters or vinyl. I decided on a simple one word phrase with vinyl. It definitely is inspired by the one I saw at Shanty 2 Chic! 

I don't have a power saw so I had to wait until I could utilize my handy dandy dad to cut the wood for me.The materials used were:

2-planks of wood (whatever size you want) cut in half

wood stain in walnut

wood glue

silhouette SD and light gray vinyl

Once the boards were cut in half, I glued them together, one on top of the other.  When the glue dried, I took a wash cloth and wiped on the stain.  I used 2 coats but that is all to your preference.  Once it was all dry I added my word.  Seriously my simplest project yet and I love the way it turned out!

What have you been working on this week? I'd love to hear about it!

Wood Sign Art and a WINNER!

Hello everyone and I hope you are all having a beautiful day!  I am constantly inspired by Pinterest!  I know I have talked about that a lot in the past but it NEVER fails me!  Lately I have been wanting to replace one of my old vintage windows in my living room with a handmade wooden sign.  I have been seeing these a lot all over different blogs and Pinterest and just cannot make up my mind what style or exactly what saying I want.  So why I am still deciding, I will share with you my favorites!

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I feel like they are all so lovely and different in their own way.  Which one is your favorite? Maybe I'll be influenced by my peers! ;)  

Now for the winner of the Ruby Jean handbag giveaway, comment #46! Sally! I will be sending your info to Ruby Jean and she will contact you soon! Thank you all for entering!

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT...and Giveaway!

**THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**

Hello hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your January even though it's almost over! Time is going by so quickly I can barely keep up!

I have an AMAZING giveaway for one lucky winner! One of my lovely sponsors Ruby Jean has decided to give away one of her gorgeous handbags! 

If you haven't had the chance to get over to her shop/blog lately, you need to! She makes beautiful aprons as well and has adorable style as well!  I am a very lucky girl to have her sponsor with me. :)

So here are the details and the "rules" for the giveaway. I will choose one winner via Random Number Generator on Friday, January 27th.  The giveaway will be open until 7am Friday morning. The winner will then get to choose which bag (pictured) they would like.  Either Gray or Yellow.

RULES:

1. You must be a follower of A Cozy Cup of Tea

2. You must be a follower of Ruby Jean

3. Leave a comment here telling me which color you would choose!

So that gives you 3 chances to win! Leave a comment for each entry please so that I have an accurate number.  

Thank you everyone and good luck!

And it's a....

We had our ultrasound appointment this morning and received very exciting news! WE"RE HAVING ANOTHER GIRL!  My husband and I could not be more excited!  Kaydence has also been telling me for weeks now that I have her baby sister in my tummy. :) I am so excited to get back to crafting, sewing and I also have a dresser re-do coming up as well.  Thank you all for hanging in there with me while I was MIA most of the time.  Hopefully very soon I will be posting some DIY baby clothes and some fun stuff for the room.

I wanted to also give you all a heads up that I will be having a giveaway later this week with an ADORABLE tote bag from one of my wonderful sponsors, Ruby Jean!  Make sure to click on her button on my sidebar! TO DIE FOR! :)

I will be seeing you all very soon!! Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the day!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you and your lovely families! Now that I am finally starting to feel better this month has just flown by! I promise in the new year I will be back and blogging as regularly as I can :) Until then though I truly wish you all the most blessed Christmas and New Year!

Christmas Time is Here

I hope you all are having a wonderful December so far!  I want to share with you all my home during Christmas time.  I think my decor is my favorite during the holidays :) 

We don't really have a mantle.  We have this weird wall that separates our family room from our living room.  It doesn't go all the way to the ceiling and has little stair steps at the end. An very annoying "shelf" to decorate.  This year, my husband thought of adding these three trees to the top of it to add some depth.  I love when he gets good creative ideas!

Added some oversized ornaments and greenery to my lampshades.

 These last three pictures are all on top of our piano.

 Shots throughout the house

And lastly, our tree.  LOVE

I made some fun little waterless snow globes that were inspired by Anthropologie and will be doing a post on those this week!  I hope you all are well!

Love,

Happy December 1st! And a Giveaway!

It's December 1st and that makes me happy.  One of the reasons being, I will be 12 weeks in a few days...so hoping and praying that the nausea will go away and I will finally get some energy back!  I miss crafting, I really really do! I also miss sharing all of my fun projects with all of you.  This also means that the weather is finally and hopefully going to cool down and stay cool here.  Where I live it has been known to be 85 degrees on Christmas!  Not hoping for that this year. And lastly, but most definitely not least, celebrating my Saviors birth.  I love our Christmas Eve service at church. It is always such a great reminder to me of WHY we celebrate. What is your favorite part about December?

With the arrival of December, I have decided to do a little giveaway.  Nothing fancy, just something to add a little festivity to your homes :)  If you have ever visited my shop, you will know that I love working with burlap! Well I made this banner that is perfect for winter and Christmas! One you of you ladies will have it to hang on your mantle this holiday season.  

The giveaway will only be open until Wednesday, December 7, so that I can have it out to you a little bit before Christmas.  There are 3 ways to enter:

1- follow my blog and leave a comment saying that you did.

2. - Share this giveaway on your blog, fb or twitter and leave a comment saying that you did.

3. leave a comment telling me what your plans for Christmas are. :)

That's it.  Good luck and Happy December!

***THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***

Love,