This & That

Thursday, October 14, 2010

scraps of paper

Ever wonder what to do with all the scraps of paper that you just cant seem to throw away......well then here is a simple and cute idea.............

grab a picture frame, paint the edges and start mod podging your paper on....simple as pie!

Hang in your daughters room

and wa-la, all the scraps that you couldn't bare to throw away!

thanks for looking!

Linking to:

the shabby chiccottage

blue cricket design

some what simple

fireflies and jellybeans
tatertots and jello
young an crafty

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

little hint

....so that big thing that arrived in my garage the other day, well I'm almost finished with it. Hopefully tomorrow, but here is a little hint!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Black & White Halloween

Just in case you where wondering what I was doing with all my Halloween craftyness......

It all started with my Halloween House. I wanted new Halloween decorations and I wanted BLACK & WHITE. So that's when I made the house.....and then I made the paper wreath. And now this is what my mantle looks like............

~~try not to look at the actual mantle, someday soon its going to be white.~~

I had a pumpkin from the dollar store that I painted white, the candle stick, I have had forever. I glued some moss on top added the pumpkin and some ribbon.

these are bowls that I have had forever that I turned upside down and stacked them on top of each.

the crow & the skull are from the dollar store, the "boo block", I have also had forever, I just took off the orange ribbon.

please feel free to stop by my house and come inside and see my mantle, because I promise you it looks way better than these pictures. hehehehe!!

P.S. I have something big that has just arrived in my garage tonight from my mother-in-laws basement. I can't wait to get started on it, but I'm very nervous to even tackle the project. But I have been dying to do it!! Hopefully my mom will come over and help and tell me "just do it, Amber"

Friday, October 8, 2010

Halloween Paper Wreath

Ok Ladies.........by far this is my most favorite thing that I have created this week....yes, its the only thing that I created this week, but good golly..... I love it!! I finally made one. And let me just tell you, last night when I finished it and I was talking picture so that I could post it and all my pictures where HORRIBLE! I went to bed and I was so bummed that I had to wait until I got home from work to post it. So I turned on tinker bell threw the girls in front of the TV gave them some cookies and milk and here I am. So lets get to it already...... I'm dying to show you.

Here are my supplies, foam wreath, (left over from Eastons Birthday wreath) a book from the dollar store, a scallop punch and of course DIET COKE.

Basically all that you do is punch out a ton of scallop circles from the book and then hot glue them to your base. I used a maker to fold the paper over and then glued it to the base

once my wreath was all done, i thought it was kinda small. I took the frame that I have had forever from Ikea, that everyone has and just glued some paper on the insert of the frame. ~~well actually my wonderful hubby did this part, I could not get the paper straight and it was really bugging him.~~

it still needed something..... so I made a "spooky" little banner. I made paper lollies stamp the letters on different paper and then attached those with some toole to the lollies. I attached the lollies together with a needle and thread.

added some more "spookyness"

and WA-LA!! here it is.........................

I hope you love it as much as I do.

THANKS FOR LOOKING!!!

Linking to:

tatertots and jello

the shabby chic cottage

blue cricket design

some what simple
just a girl blog
decor mamma
chic on a shoe string decorating
eighteen25
young an crafty
fireflies and jellybeans
under the table and dreaming
i heart naptime

Saturday, October 2, 2010

.......I'm Bored

I have a million things that need to be done and I just cant get around to doing any of them...... My house is a mess and I'm having family over tomorrow for Easton's birthday dinner....I haven't even showered yet.....................I haven't started my Halloween tree, that I'm dying to make.............. so I got on the computer and saw this..........

I saw it over at star shine chic. I see them all over on blog land and I have wanted to make one for ever, but for some reason hers as really inspired me to get off my hinnie and make one. so I'm going to the dollar store RIGHT NOW to get me a book and I'm going make one.......even though I have a million other things that I need to do and I'm just to bored ~~lazy~~ to do them.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Birthday Wreath

....look at me, I finished it... just in time for her birthday tomorrow. It's already hanging on my front door so that everybody that drives by can see it, because I'm sure that everyone looks at my front door when they drive by my house, but they will when they see this beauty.

Lets start from the beginning..... while at Home Depot buying spray paint for my Halloween tree we walked down the pluming aisle ~~don't ask my why, but we did~~, I noticed this foam stuff that they had, so I picked the little feller' up and thought to myself this will work, all I need to do is tape the ends together and its only .97 cents.....so wa-la, beets making another stop to the dollar store for a wreath, and you could get two wreaths out of it.

Just cut the length that you need and tape the edges together.

Cover the wreath with fabric
I was lazy and taped the fabric on.

And I was even more lazy when it came to cutting strips of fabric....I already had these cut out, so i just used what I had.
.....here comes my favorite part, adding all the fab-u-lous