My first wreath

I feel like I have completely given in! I deliberately do without wreaths at our house. I'm not sure what it is, but they look cluttery and cliche to me. I've seen them in just about every shape/style/size and I just can't help it! Fake flowers and junk glued to a base and thrown up on a wall is just not my favorite.

Even though I'm not in love with my wreath, I am excited to have it hanging from our door! Wreaths are fun because they're very easy to make and add so much to a festive house! I'm all about the holiday decorating.

Creepy reflection!

{hi guys! don't you craft in your robe?}

Kitchen stools, doors and a little craft

Kitchen stools:

These were my mother-in-law's kitchen stools that we have used for years. I knew that I wanted a much more simple tall stool for our bar in our kitchen. Stools that will also go well in our kitchen-to-be, not so much our kitchen now.

And then I stumbled upon these while Jeremy and I were thrift store hopping one day for fun. (is that a strange thing to do for fun??) So at 6 dollars a piece I snatched them up! They were rough and beat up but solid wood and the simple, country look I wanted for our kitchen.

And with a lot of sanding and even more paint: viola!

They take up so much less room and I love them!

Doors:
Our guest bedroom now has a door and a door handle!

And for my craft:

I was looking for some theme appropriate decorations online to fill what is now our corner DVD shelf. After Jeremy came home with his giant tv, our corner shelf that is full of DVD's looks so cluttery. So we'll eventually be making an entertainment center for under our tv to hide the DVD's and lightly decorate the corner shelf. I found some cute african safari type animals made out of wire on the Pier 1 site with a steep price tag. I wasn't willing to pay a high price for something that I could make for free... in comes my craft:

Sooo, they are obviously not professionally done, but they're fun and will be a great addition to what I'm envisioning the shelf holding.

Candle Project

I'm not going to take the credit for the idea (I read it on a fellow bloggers post) but I will take the credit for how great they turned out!

I am in the process of putting together wall decorations for our master bedroom. Among a very eclectic collection of things is this candle holder mini-project. I bought some square, cheapo, glass containers and some equally cheap, glass candle holders (4 dollars, at some point, free to me now because I've had them for awhile). Next I spray painted them with the closest color I had to gold (our master is all black and gold). And got some glass glue to stick the top to the bottom and there you have it!

I'm done now.. seriously this time

I'm not sure why I ended up posting about being ok with something being unfinished. I should have known that as soon as I did something like that, it would be impossible to discontinue the list of left "to-do's". Subsequently, I've got another project to share with you! A grand finale of decorations for the wall, above the tv. Priorities, right?

I started by taking the pictures out of this frame, a frame that was definitely one of those iamjustnowlivingonmyownandhavenoideawhatimdoingwithdecorations
butamquicktopurchasethisbecauseitmakesmefeelmorelikeanadult
impulse purchases.

I knew I was going to make my own frames for them so instead of getting glass cut for me for each size frame I decided to laminate the picture to protect them with our laminator that I just had to have as an office "essential". It was so darn essential, that it hasn't been used until this project. See how essential it was for this, though?
Once the pictures were laminated and cut out, Jeremy cut out 8 frames sizes 4x6, 4x4 and 3x3.

I used a thick/spongy mat board as backing for the pictures and literally stapled the laminated pictures to it.

Then hot glued the pictures to the frames after the frames were painted brown

I also ordered some circular mirrors from Target.com (around 20 bucks), arranged them on the wall and hung the pictures I put together by ribbon that I hot glued onto the frame.

Seriously-hot glue guns and paint go a long way!

And here we are!

I clearly need to clean the mirrors and can't end without thanking my friend Josie for helping me today! So, seriously.. Now I think I'm done with this room.... for now.

It's Craft Corner Time!

Want to learn how to make this?

First you'll need these:

And a little bit of this

And you'll get this!

I need to spray all of the little pieces of paper down and clean up the strings from the hot glue gun and will probably be framing it with a homemade frame and paint chocolate brown.
Other than that though,
I'm in love!

Furniture Finale

We've completed our table contribution to our guest bedroom with 2 bed side tables and a foot of the bed TV table. I am so happy with how these tables have turned out and loved every minute of creating them from start to finish with J. I love that this table is the TV table and has yet to have a TV or a DVD player for it's designated shelf. Details, details.. right? We have one final thing to make for this bedroom. We'll see how it turns out before I tell you what it is.These are some of the decorations in this room that I've made and put together. I had the vases for awhile but they were quite formal for the look I was going for in the space. So, to create a far more casual look I decided to use natural elements in them. For example filling the space in them with dark brown coffee beans (which have made the room smell divine) and painted some of our favorite bible verses on some cut out round wood. They'll look complete on the table once we've got a TV on there!