New Home Tour Part 1- Craft Area

Wow I can't believe we've already been in our new home for about 2 months now. I have been decorating, organizing and re-organizing like crazy! Today I am going to share with you the room that you see when you first walk in the door. We decided to make this a craft area since I no longer have an extra room for that. We have a lot of built in bookshelves in the new house so I utilized them for organizing my craft supplies.

 

This is my entryway with our vintage Victrola cabinet. My husband and I realized that is the only piece of furniture that we have kept since we lived in our first apartment! I made the little greeting at the entryway to say hello when we have visitors :)

 
Here is a view of the room from the entrance.

Some of my organization. I used mostly bins, jars and boxes from Ikea and Target! They house everything from Washi Tape to all of my fabric!

A couple fun crafts that I made. I redid this table to fir the room a little more with gold and white stripes.  I also took a frame found at the Salvation Army, painted it and added some twine for a fun photo display!

Another thing that I love to do is scrapbook. I recently joined the Studio Calico Scrapbook Club and get fun little goodies every month! If you enjoy scrapbooking you should definitely look into that!  These pages hang directly over my desk and can be changed whenever I want to display a new page!

I hope you all enjoyed my craft area tour! I'll be back later in the week with Kensie's nursery!

Life Lately

For some strange reason I feel like life is just flying by! Little Kensie is almost 8 months already. How has that happened??!! Here are some fun pictures for my iphone from the past couple of weeks!

 

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!

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,

DIY Ornaments- Inspiration

I'm starting to get a little bit of my energy back and am really wanting to make sure I craft as much as possible for Christmas!  I LOVE ornaments.  I love how you can use them for so much more than just hanging on a tree.  You can attach them to a gift, hang them from the ceiling with fishing line, stack them in vases...the ideas are endless.  I am wanting to create a lot of ornaments this year for sure!  On Pinterest, I have found a lot of cute ornament ideas that seem very easy to duplicate.  Here are just a few of my favorites.

all images can be found on my Pinterest Christmas board

All of these can be done with scrap pieces of fabric or paper.  Easy and inexpensive...my two favorite words while crafting!  I made a few ornaments last night, but am hoping to get quite a few more done soon!


What is one of your favorite Christmas crafts?  I want to do them all this year! :)

Love,

The New Martha Stewart Paint Line

I'm sure you've all heard about the AMAZING new products that have come out for Martha Stewart Crafts. Miss Martha has outdone herself again! She is my hero! You can see all of the new products here.  It is all pretty amazing!  The tool that I cannot wait o get my hands on is the spray paint converter!  It lets you turn any of her paints into spray paint!  Anyway, I was so excited to be able to get one of the stencils, paint and foam roller to update a project that I did earlier.  

I finally feel like this project is finished.  It always seemed like it needed something else.  The color that I used for the stencil is Lake Fog and the stencil set is called Arabesque.  All available at Michaels.   Have you used this new line at all?  What have you done? I would love to see it!

Etsy Shop Sale

Happy Wednesday everyone! I have been thinking a lot about Christmas shopping...yes I said it, Christmas shopping! I always have the best intentions of starting my shopping early, but never seem to follow through. So, I decided to help you all get a little motivated by having a sale until August 15th. I am offering 20% off all orders placed before August 15th with the coupon code HOLIDAY. And yes, that coupon code is good on EVERYTHING! So happy holiday shopping!

Vintage Carnival Brial Shower

I love how you plan and plan and plan just to have a moment fly by so quickly then it's over! It did turn out exactly as I hoped for. My sister-in-law, Sara, is getting married on August 5th and I had the honor of throwing her bridal shower. We decided to do a vintage carnival style theme. Since it was a bridal shower, I still wanted to keep it as classy as possible. Here are some of the wonderful shots that Sara was able to get before it started. Enjoy!

A nice little welcome wreath on the front door let people know they were in the right place.

 

We had caramel corn and cotton candy on the entry way table as favors. 

 Okay, I know this cake is a little amateur, but it is my first tiered cake! :)  I did however think the bunting made it perfect.  I will be adding these buntings to my etsy shop soon!

 

 The snack display was by far my favorite!  I loved the cotton candy in the martini glasses. It felt so elegant yet so carnival...perfect!  The vintage popcorn and peanut bags were also an etsy find found HERE.

 Here are my fabric jar labels that served the mustard, ketchup and brown mustard. You can find them HERE.

I found these vintage carnival tags on etsy HERE.  They added such a nice touch to the water glasses.

I made red and white pennants to hang throughout the house and a banner with her name to add some personalization.

The ADORABLE ribbons and little top hat were made by our cousin Kalie! So cute!!

I think all in all the bride looks like a happy girl! 


EDIT: Check out my daughters Carnival themed First Birthday Party here!