Well, the day I placed my new spring wreath on my front door, the temperature dropped 30 degrees, there was crazy wind, and oh so cold, but the calendar tells me it’s spring.
Today a short and simple post sharing a $1 thrift store find and a $2.49 hyacinth.
I was attracted to this odd shaped container right away, not only the shape, but the fact it was white.
Scrubbed the container and gave it a fresh coat of paint.
White, of course!
One of my local stores had a display of spring bulbs outside as you entered the store, some were already starting to bloom.
I chose a pink hyacinth for my new pot.
Oh how lovely my little spring project turned out.
Adding a bit of moss to the top finished it up.
For $3.49 I have a sweet spring and Easter piece for my home.
It brings spring inside with a lovely fragrance.
Simple as I said, in fact, there were two of these odd pots but I only brought one home, I’m now thinking I need the other one!
I love that this is a special day set aside to tell those in your life just how much you love them.
I love that it is a day for couples to show their love in sweet, loving, and romantic ways, but most of all I love this special day to let my family and friends know how special they are to me.
I love to make cards and send simple gifts, or call, or text, just to say “I love you”.
I love to decorate just a bit for this day, and today I want to share how I turned a dollar store wood frame into something special.
I love how easy and fun it was to update a simple wood frame with just paint, glue, and some flat wood buttons glued around the heart opening.
The flat wood buttons were $1 a pack at Hobby Lobby, I used two packs.
Using a sponge brush I painted the entire frame, front and back, with white paint.
When dry, I started gluing the buttons around the heart opening using E6000 glue.
When the buttons were completely dry and secure, I painted them and gave the entire frame one more coat of paint.
I love the finished frame, especially when I added a photo of me and my sweet husband taken on our wedding day 54 years ago.
It is certainly a special frame for Valentine’s Day.
I love you all for stopping by today, please remember to say “I love you” to all those close to you tomorrow.
I have been busy putting away, and trying to organize my Christmas decorations, but I took a well needed break to finish upcycling some thrift store items.
When I was a child, my Momma gave me a shoe box.
I loved my simple box, filling it with my favorite things, pencils, crayons, scissors, and papers.
So funny, these are still some of my favorite things.
With that simple gift, my Momma started a crazy thing I have for boxes, all kinds, with or without lids, no matter.
Wood boxes are one of the first things I look for at the thrift store.
I found these 3 wood nesting boxes and an old recipe box on one of my visits.
The nesting boxes were already white, but after cleaning I still gave them a couple coats of white paint to freshen them up.
The recipe box needed a bit more work.
I cleaned and sanded it to remove the lettering, and then painted it as well.
To make them special I added white and gold knobs to each one.
I added the same knob to the nesting boxes, but selected a larger one for the recipe box.
Now that I have them fresh and new, what to do with them.
I used the recipe box to hold and display all the Christmas cards I received this year.
I remember my Momma would always display all her cards around a doorway during Christmas.
There are so many other ideas for my boxes.
On my desk.
I surrounded a candle with some snowy berries, evergreens, and pine cones, in one of the boxes, for a winter piece in my living room.
I am getting ready to update my linen closet and I have an idea they will work well to hold so many things and give the area some much needed order.
They would be perfect on a dresser as a catchall, or to hold towels or pump soaps in the bathroom.
Just so, so many ways to use them.
Hope you all liked my first post of this new year.
Thank you Momma for starting this crazy fun thing I have for boxes.
If you have a few hours during these last days before Christmas, and need a last minute gift, then you may like the idea I am sharing with you today..
I stopped by the $ store last week and found these little boxes, trays, or frames, whatever they are, and picked up several for an easy craft project.
I simply painted them using my chalk paint, but you could use any craft paint.
As they were drying I found some really cute Christmas images on Pinterest, printed them out on my home printer, and cut them to fit the frames.
Using Mod Podge I applied a thin coat with a sponge brush to the inside of the frames, and added the images.
To finish up I bushed on another thin coat to seal the images, and some sparkling snow.
Having some extra little gifts on hand at this time of the year is so helpful for last minute guests stopping by, or to give friends when meeting for lunch, or last minute gatherings.
It is fun to pick out just the right image that you know someone would love, like the cat image for a friend of mine who loves cats.
How cute they are to place on a shelf, or tuck in a small space for just a bit of Christmas decor.
One of my favorite things to do with small gifts is to place them in a cellophane bag and tie with a big red bow.
It would be hard to find a sweeter gift, and to say to someone “I made this for you”.
It is so hard for me to believe that it is just a few days before Halloween.
Where did my October go!
This pack of really cute Halloween napkins gave me the idea for today’s post.
I usually decoupage on pumpkins in the fall, and love to decoupage on peat pots at Easter, but this year I decided to paint and decorate peat pots for Halloween.
For this project you will need peat pots, black craft paint, a sponge brush, Mod Podge, scissors, and some Halloween napkins.
My first step was to paint the pots black, I did paint the inside as well. They are easy to paint using a sponge brush.
While the pots were drying, I cut out the skeleton pieces from the napkins.
Because of the size of my pots I was not able to use the entire skeleton, only the upper portion of them.
When cutting the images I left a bit of the black around the edges.
I brushed Mod Podge on the pots and added the skeleton pieces, taking care to gently pat them down.
When the pieces were completely dry I did add a thin coat of Mod Podge to each pot to seal.
They turned out soooo cute!
I filled the cups with colorful shredded paper.
The paper adds more color and can be found at Hobby Lobby.
To finish up, I filled cellophane bags with treats, tied with an orange ribbon, and placed one in each cup.
How cute these would be as favors for the kids, or on a table, at parties, or as a treat for coworkers on their desks, what a surprise when they come in to work.
I love working with peat pots, they have a vintage look to them. The look you all know I love.
You could add wire to the cups for a handle, I did not on mine.
Peat pots come in large and small sizes and can be found at garden centers or ordered online.
We are enjoying what may be the last of our warm fall days. Our trees have changed and are so beautiful.
Pray you all are also enjoying these days.
Thanks for stopping by and hope you liked this, not so scary, Halloween treat project.
With the season changing I have been pulling out and dusting off all my decorations for fall and Halloween.
I wanted to add something new to my collection of white jack-o-lanterns this year, so I tried a project I have seen on many Pinterest posts, brown paper leaf garlands.
You just need brown paper from bags, wrapping paper, or cardstock, a hot glue gun, scissors, and wire, I used grapevine covered wire I found at Michaels.
I started by making two size oak leaf templates, which I traced on the brown paper.
The next step was fun for me because of my love as a child of cutting paper and paperdolls.
My box of paperdolls brought me so much joy.
Did you have paperdolls?
A wonderful childhood memory for me.
I cut several leaves out at a time, while watching TV, until I had a pile of about 30 or so.
My next step was to glue each leaf stem to the wire with my hot glue gun until I had the length I wanted.
I placed the garland on my family room mantel, and added my white jack-o-lanterns.
How cute!
Not my usual fall colors, but I love the neutral look
I glued a few leaves to some branches from my yard to fill in around the jack-o-lanterns.
If you didn’t want to make a garland, branches with paper leaves glued to them, could be used in many places around your home.
Of course, the little girl in me loved this project, hope you all did too!
