Elephant mobile… FINALLY!

I’m a little late getting this posted but it’s here at last!

I kid you not, I started working to make the perfect elephant mobile for Keelin’s nursery since early into my 2^nd trimester. I had the perfect plan laid out, all of my materials chosen {thanks to a fantastmastic sale at JoAnn fabric}, and a vision that was too cute for words. BUT, no matter how many different ways I tried, I couldn’t get it to turn out the way I wanted.  Today I’m going to walk you through ALL of my fails {there were plenty} and finish with a BANG and my FINAL success!

Here goes nothing…

My initial inspiration came from the same bedding photo I mentioned in my elephant painting post back in October.

I loved the geometric elephant shape so much I wanted to turn it into a mobile.  I opted not to get the mobile that came with the snickerdoodle bedding we chose because, while the giraffes were adorable, I wanted to stick with the elephant theme AND I knew I could create something super cute without spending $50.

I grabbed myself a handfull of colorful patterns, cut out my shapes and started sewing.

The beige burlap pattern was a perfect match for the nursery and the multicolored ears seemed like a great way to incorporate a tone of color and stimulation without clashing with the rest of the room.

Unfortunately for me, the type of fabric that I chose just wasn’t doing what I wanted it to.

The edges were fraying, the stitching didn’t look right, and my dream mobile started slipping away each time I would try something different. Finally I realized it wasn’t how I was making the elephants, it was what they were being made out of.  I did some searching online and found almost exactly what I was looking for on the fabulous blog, My Sunrise, Sunshine & Sunset. I shot Mrs Julius an email to get some details and the answer was magically revealed… FELT!

Love the mirror detailing!

As you can see in the photo above I ended up with two mobiles! Keelin loves the one above the changing table and I’m still finding the perfect spot for the second… probably above the crib in some way.

I’m so happy with the way they turned out and so thankful that I found a way to make it happen for WELL UNDER the price of most bedding set mobiles! So much so that I’ve mocked up some other patterns perfect for any nursery! Chicks, paisleys, hearts, stars, clouds, you name it! I’m hoping to start an Etsy shop in the near future and make these for other mommies and soon-to-be mommies.

Until next time…

So what do you think? Would you buy one for your little one’s nursery?

Whimsical nursery mobile

Time for another easy DIY project. Perfect for any nursery but has many possibilities in just about any room! I’m totally in love with mine and actually got the idea from a Land of Nod catalogue that a coworker gave me. It wasn’t something that was for sale but it was in the background of a photo and I knew I wanted to recreate it. Something whimsical and classy for the nursery that wouldn’t be in the way but could be a great visual stimulant for Keelin.

Here’s what you need:

• decorative {and preferably shiny} beads/gems/stones
• stretchy jewelry cord {or fishing line… both work but the stretchy cord has a better overall shape}
• wooden embroidery hoops or any kind of circular frame
• sheer ribbon/tule/fabric for hanging and frame wrapping
• hot glue gun

This project totally made me feel like a kid again as I was stringing the beads… definite flashback and tons of fun!
String the beads in whatever order you like, leaving space between them by tying a knot in the cord.  I incorporated pearls with rich colors like blue and red to tie in the beige and white theme of the nursery and to add a little extra shimmer.

You can see here how the stiffness of the fishing line creates a slight bend in the beading line. This straightens out as gravity pulls the beads on the mobile down.

String enough lines to fill up the mobile without crowding it and be sure {if you have multiples of certain beads} that you keep the patterns varied so no two alike beads are next to one another when they hang.  Here are some close ups of the beads I chose… love love love them!

What’s a little girl’s room without a bit of sparkle???
And here’s the final batch of hanging lines! {see what I mean about the kinks in the fishing line straightening out as they hang?}

Be sure your lines are separated how you’d like them across the embroidery frame before tightening and moving on.

The next step is to glue down the loose ends of each line so they lay flat against the frame. This will also glue the two pieces of the frame together, making sure they don’t accidentally come apart and cause you to lose your strands of beads.

Next, cut your ribbon/tule into small strips, long enough to tie in knots.

Pinch the center of each strand and tie around the wooden frame, making sure not to leave any exposed wood.

Tie four longer pieces equal distances apart to create a kind of teepee for hanging.

I decided to hang mine by the window in the nursery so the sun would catch the sparkle on the beads!

Here’s another one I did with some really colorful beads that I had leftover some project I did years ago. I put it in front of the mirror and Keelin is already getting fixated with them. It’s adorable.

And just so you know, I used an eye screw and some of the same fishing line to hang them from the ceiling. It’s an easy and sturdy choice but if you use heavier beads make sure whatever you use is strong enough to hold the mobile.

Until next time… 

Could you see yourself adding this to a room in your house? Which one?

Trimming the tree!

It’s beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!!!

I mentioned a number of times that this year Z and I FINALLY got a Christmas tree. It was so much fun going to pick one out and I had a blast unwrapping all the ornaments I had stashed away.  Here are some pictures from our tree trimming fun!

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I went ahead and hung all of my “baby’s first Christmas” ornaments in the hope that Keelin will know we’d really like her to be here before Christmas day! I’ve had a number of one-on-one chats with her already letting her know just how long she still has to cook and how excited we all are to have her here… so hopefully the additional ornament  inspiration will help as well!

Until next time…

Do you have any special ornaments that ALWAYS find a spot on your Christmas tree? TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT!

What’s in a home? Another NaBloPoMo post!

I’m still a day behind but EVENTUALLY I’ll catch myself up. At least I’m still following the idea of posting every day!

Here’s yesterday’s prompt:
When was the first time that you realized that your home wasn’t like other people’s home?

I don’t really get the point {or meaning} of this prompt, but I’ll give it a shot anyway by going at it from a few different directions.

First… a nostalgic answer:
I can remember back in elementary school, I loved going over to friends’ houses because they all smelled differently. It was such a unique thing to me that one person’s house smelled different from another. And even more odd was that MY house didn’t smell like anything. Nothing. Not at all. I think I even asked my mom why our house didn’t smell. Obviously I came to realize that by living in a certain smell for long enough, you don’t notice it’s there at all, but I think that was the first step to me actually noticing differences in my home and someone else’s. Kind of silly, I know.

Second… a practical answer:
I don’t think there was ever a “time” when I realized my home wasn’t like others’ homes. It’s kind of a no-brainer that no two homes are going to be exactly alike. People have different tastes in decoration, different ideas of what is comfortable, and different inspirations based on what fits their lifestyle. Whether or not it’s something you experience a moment of “realization” regarding… I can’t say one way or another.

my home!

Based on my nostalgic response, it’s evident that I’ve always loved recognizing the differences in living spaces. I get excited when going to someone’s home for the first time because it’s always fun to see the type of environment people create for themselves and it can be a bit of a game to try to guess what someone’s house is going to look like based on their personality.

SO… I don’t know if I actually answered this prompt at all… but oh well.

Until next time…

The REAL nursery sneak peak… aka “first look”

Since the photo from the last nursery post was totally bogus, I wanted to give you a REAL look at the progress!

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It’s obviously got a long way to go but first thing’s first…

What do you think???

 

Until next time…

Nautical Nonsense

Happy Monday everyone! It’s been a while since I did a DIY post and I had a few things in my back pocket I’ve been meaning to share so today seems as good a day as any!

Some of you may remember WAY BACK WHEN {aka October 23, 2010} me doing a nautical mosaic table. The entire table wasn’t nautical themed but the blues tiles and incorporation of white braided rope gave it a nautical spin that I loved.
I had plenty of rope left over and even more inspiration to do something with it so I’ve been having fun with a few other nautical DIY projects and I thought I would finally share them with you!

The basic supplies for the first project include:

• White nylon rope. You can pick the thickness of the rope depending on the project.
• Cabinet liners. I originally wanted to use cork but thought I would give the liner a try first to see how it worked {it was much cheaper and easier to cut} and was quite pleased.
• Hot {warm} glue gun. I say ‘warm’ glue gun because after a first attempt at using the HOT glue gun on the liners, I quickly learned that the glue has a tendency to melt right through.

The first thing I wanted to do was make some rope coasters and hot plates. 

I snagged some of my current coasters and used them as tracing patterns on the cabinet liner. 

Cut the pieces out and you’re ready to roll… quite literally! *don’t worry about getting the liner perfectly cut because you’ll cover the edges with smooth rope!

*I quickly learned that the square shape is NOT the best with this technique. Although doable, I thought the circular shape was overall much more visually appealing {and not such a pain in the butt!}

I was silly enough not to get a picture of the first step, but by a little trial and error I found that it was easier to get things started by creating forming a small loop spiral with the rope before securing it to the liner with glue. BUT… since I didn’t get a picture, hopefully the second step will make enough sense to get you on the right track.
Starting in the center of the cut out, glue the rope spiral and hold until secure.

Continue spiraling and glueing until you’ve covered the edge of the liner.
ONCE AGAIN, I failed to get a final picture… although I think I just deleted the photo by accident… but you can imagine the final product is pretty darn cute!

I did a few coasters and a few hot plates for my mom’s birthday. She’s a beach lover so I thought the nautical-beachy theme would be something fun for her! I’ll have to ask her how they work!

The second rope project is one I did the other day, after getting REALLY frustrated with my failed first attempts at a  crib mobile I WILL EVENTUALLY make, because I wanted to not feel like a total loser.  :)
SUCCESS!

Some of you might remember the cigar ornaments I blogged about back in January. I had a few ornaments left over from that project {even after doing some fun hand-painting on a few} so I thought I would take the same concept that went with the coasters and hot plate and apply it to a 3D object! This one I DID get pictures of!

Start with a simple strand of glue along the top edge of the ornament and start slowly turning, glueing and roping!
Here’s an inside look through the ornament. It might be cool to try another with only 1/2 or the ornament and sand/ tiny seashells inside to play off the theme.

 Keep rolling until you get to the bottom.
As you can see here I left a slight open circle so you it can actually sit on a flat surface. Might be a fun centerpiece idea when Christmas rolls around!

If you don’t have plain ornaments lying around {or are more interested in doing a summer centerpiece or mantle display} a simple and slightly cheaper option is to snag some plain styrofoam balls and do use the same technique. BUT, if you decide to use them as ornaments, be sure you create a tunnel through the center of the ball so you can thread something through to hang it with.

Here is my styrofoam version with the glass ornament in the background. Surprisingly enough they ended up weighing about the same once I was finished.

Just a simple, fun project for a rainy day!

Until next time…

Master Bedroom Overhaul

I love our bedroom.
This wasn’t always the case.
Well, let me rephrase… I’ve always loved our bedroom for it’s vaulted ceiling, quirky layout and, well, for personal reasons. But there’s always been one huge EYESORE of a problem with our bedroom.
THE COLOR
Overall we really lucked out with this house when we first purchased it because it was completely painted and, for the most part, matched our style perfectly! From the vertical stripes in the living room and the bright yellow and green in the kitchen to the dictionary page wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom {yes!} it was basically all done for us! There were, of course, a few bumps and scratches along the walls here and there but generally it was perfect. SANS our bedroom.
Here’s what it looked like when we first moved in:

While the layout is great, and I absolutely love how right side wall cuts inward for the bathroom and that top decorative shelf, the color is truly heinous. The coral orange isn’t too terrible but the puke yellow/green sponge paint is close to unbearable. It’s kind of hard to see {a little more noticeable in the 2nd photo} but the sponging would go from straight and patterned yellow to huffed-a-little-too-much-paint sporadic green. It made no sense and truly hurt my interior-designer-wannabe brain.
Pain us as it did, it’s taken is a YEAR to finally tackle it. Perhaps it was the nesting instinct kicking in that prompted me to spend the 4th of July weekend elbow deep in paint!… just perhaps!
But what to paint it?
I wanted something calm and serene… what a bedroom should be… and found some beautiful color ideas on my GO TO DIY blog, Young House Love.  They are frugal, fun, and fantastic at all they do!
About 6 months ago {when the overhaul “began} I bought some really simple forest green curtains for that large bay window in the first image… where our bed sits. You might remember them from this post. Those curtains became the inspiration for the rest of the room so I went searching for the perfect colors. Eventually we snagged these Glidden paint tester colors from Home Depot.

We decided the light green was a little too dark and a little too blue so we ended up going with something much more pale. Obviously with the bun in the oven I didn’t want to expose myself to too many fumes so we took another tip from the Petersik’s and color matched to Olympic No VOC paint. Fewer chemicals, hardly any fumes and recommended for pregnant women and nurseries. PERFECT!
So, I went to town at Lowe’s {terrible that I cheated on Home Depot but Lowe’s was having a 4th of July paint sale!} and went to TOWN. Unfortunately we didn’t have ANY paint supplies so I was basically starting from scratch. A larger bill {and the sale definitely helped knock some major bucks off} but I’m stocked up for the nursery and other future projects!
I was really worried that I would have to do a million coats of primer to cover up the hideoderousness of the vomit grellow sponge paint, not to mention the walls are textured, but I was happy to find that one coat covered quite nicely.
Rather than talking you through the process… allow me to SHOW you how it all went down!

what a mess! EVERYTHING in the center of the room and the walls primed! 1 coat did the job just fine considering we were planning on doing 2 coats of color!

Opposite side of the room

First coat of the pale green. We had to mark the dark green walls with X’s because we kept painting the trim the wrong color!

Different view with final coat of light green applied!

the beginnings of dark green!

Absolutely love this color!

CLEARLY one coat wouldn’t be enough.

The hubs helping me paint! That top ledge was the most difficult.

One coat down…

TWO AND DONE!

finished product with most of the furniture back in its place

right wall, with the yellow bathroom shining through!

my favorite part of the room, the bed nook

 So… what do you think?
BIG improvement, right?


Until next time…
Have you done any large paint jobs recently? TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT!

Spring blooms!

I looked out the window this past Friday to our JUNGLE of a back yard and was surprised {and thrilled} to see some happy new blooms! I had no idea they were even out there!

I know roses like these are considered to be ‘weeds’ but they just look so darn BEAUTY wrapped up in the hydrangea!

Love the little dew drops! It’s like Mother Nature’s glitter!

Pretty pretty pretty!

Until next time…

Do you have any new blooms around your yard?

All things PAINT

It’s time for another link party!

Today’s prompt is “All Things Paint” which is extremely exciting for me since I LOVE TO PAINT. 

Instead of focusing on just one project I thought I would highlight some of the fun I’ve had with paint over the past few years! Maybe there will be some inspiration buried in here somewhere. {Most of these projects were done using acrylic paint. The baby bump photo was my first experience with oil paint}

I’m all about taking something plain and making it pop. These two lamps were cheap-o Dollar Tree finds {$5 each} originally with a black base and plain white shade. 

The first got a total make-over to match my {then} brown and teal college comforter while the second was just for fun. The acrylic took really well to both surfaces, although the shade did suck the paint up pretty quickly. Thankfully I wasn’t doing a full cover so the multiple coats weren’t bad.

I liked the way the polka dots were imperfect. I think it gave the lamp more character and created some fun shadows when the light was on. On a side note… can you EVER go wrong with black and pink?

This next one was one of my favorite projects. I got the idea from a friend during my summer at The Lost Colony… the summer I met Z!
It was really perfect for college since I couldn’t paint the walls of the house I was living in. All you need are two bold colors along with black paint, a plain white bed sheet, masking tape and a yard stick for blocking out your squares and some inspirational images. I cut the sheet in half and based the number of squares on the final length and width. From there, pick one item to fill each square. If you’re doing this as a gift for someone, think of the things that they love. Sports, music, movies, fashion, food, anything! Do a little online browsing to find a photo that represents your favorite things and, once the squares are completed, add them to the center of the square. Some of my images were freehand and some were traced. To ensure that your image is large enough you can zoom in on the computer and trace directly to a sheet of paper from your monitor, OR find a big-ol’ printer! 
It was a lot of fun a great way to show my personality, remind me of the things that make me happiest {when times got stressful} and bring color what could have been a really boring room!

I took the other 1/2 of the bed sheet from the above project and made this hanging for the living room of my house senior year of college. At Lynchburg, we had specialty housing where clubs and sports teams could apply for and label their house after their chosen ‘craft’. We were successful in having a DANCE HOUSE two years in a row and I thought a giant dancer painting was absolutely necessary for the living room![duh} After finding the center image in the above project I knew I wanted to do it on a large scale. This one took significantly longer considering there wasn’t a piece of paper LARGE enough to help me trace so dancer lady was done 100% freehand. I’m sure I could have saved myself some time by doing a grid pattern and printing off individual pieces, but what’s life without a little challenge, eh?
She’s not completely atomically correct {notice her massive left calf and super short left arm} but at a glance I think it’s pretty good. My house mates helped with the painting process and one {cough… LESLIE} was actually the ‘inspiration’ for the added spheres. And by ‘inspiration’ I mean we decided to add them in after a huge glob of black paint found it’s way to the center of the sheet.

I mentioned this next painting in my tattoo post back in March but I thought it was worth mentioning again. When my sweet little  asked me to do a few paintings for the scenery in a play she was directing I was really excited to help. She provided the canvas and asked that I do something with movement, people, emotion or all of the above. OBVIOUSLY I picked option ‘D’ and did a dancer! I wanted to do a lined image of a dancer’s body and quickly found Laura Higgins Palmer’s gallery online. This final image ended up being a mix between this and this but I liked the way it turned out. So much so, that I did similar paintings as gifts for my bridesmaids and went on to get this beauty tattooed on my back! It was a lot of fun to work with the colors and movement of the lines.

I won’t go into too much detail about this one {you can find the full post on it here} but I will say that I never realized HOW different working with oil vs acrylic would be until I jumped right in. I loved doing this project and was really happy with the final result. I think I’ll do a little more research ahead of time for the next oil painting project!

I actually haven’t talked about this project yet but thought there was no better time than now! You may remember back around Christmas I did a few DIY gift ideas including some fun cigar band ornaments. Well I had a few ornaments left over and this is what one of them ended up becoming. I found this great metallic blue acrylic paint during one of my frequent browsing trips to JoAnn Fabrics and it reminded me of a lit night sky so I decided to do a cityscape on one of my remaining ornaments. It’s no city in particular, I just had fun with building silhouettes and shadows. Since I’m HOPING the Pierce household will actually have a substantial Christmas tree in 2011, I thought personalized ornaments would be the perfect addition!

This latest project is also brand new and one that I mentioned in Friday’s post {here} about all the crafts I’m looking forward to diving into. I figured I had to do at least ONE detailed paint project for today’s link up! 
After stumbling across some simple tiles at Home Depot I snagged a few and brought them home hoping for some inspiration to pop up. I was going to do some kind of decorative coaster but after seeing Angela’s split cherry blossom painting I decided to do a mosaic instead. 

Z and I have been taking about our family tree a lot lately so I thought an image with a tree would be unique and fun. Especially if I could successfully break up the photo so there were branches reaching across all 4 tiles. This is the image I decided to use. 

I loved the color, the white accents and the tiny birds. Very whimsical and soft. After printing it off on a full page I placed the tiles on top to see what type of dimensions I was looking at. 

Even with the excess space it seemed perfect so I cut the picture to fit each tile and started painting! 

I started with a white base just to get a nice coat of acrylic on the tile before adding color. Here’s the finished product! It’s slightly different from the original but I really like it. I’m thinking of displaying the tiles in a shadow box with a tiny bit of space in between each. Thoughts?

 If you have any fun paint projects you want to share, be sure you link up with Kate at Centsational Girl and join in on the Fair Weather Forum!

I’d love to hear feedback on my projects, especially if you have any tips on how to be less amateur in my painting.  

I’m definitely no expert and could spend all day picking through my work pointing out all the things I could have done better, but what’s the point in doing something if you can’t learn from each and every mistake?

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend filled with Easter eggs, family, food comas and sugar highs!

Until next time…

What type of paint do you prefer to use for household projects? Do you have any secrets or tips on getting the best results? 

10 things I can’t wait to make

TGIF! It’s been quite a week! I feel like I say that EVERY week, but it’s always true!
Over the past month or so I’ve really been craving a little creative exploration. While my free time has been somewhat nonexistent as of late, I’m determined to set aside some “me time” to let my creative juices flow. All I need is the right inspiration! 
Thank the sweet Lord for fellow bloggers! I love them all!
I’ve officially come up with a Top 10 list of DIY ideas I can’t WAIT to dive into and I thought I would share them with you today! Without further adieu {and in no particular order} I give you my current creative obsessions:

There is something about plates as table displays that makes me happy. This is such an adorable and simple idea from Lina at Fancy Frugal Life. I think this would be a great wedding gift idea {hello wedding season!} or something fun to do for a simple display. It’s super easy, super cheap and super cute! Now my mind wanders to the number of other fun things you can add chalkboard to for fun displays around the house and office.

I love the idea of splitting photo like this. Angela at 365 days to Simplicity created this beautiful cherry blossom art piece that I’m dying to recreate. I did a similar project {which you’ll see on Monday for the next Fair Weather Forum link up!} but it’s on a much smaller scale. I’ve grown to really be fascinated with Japanese cherry blossoms lately so I’m hoping to add something like this to the casa de Pierce.

Oh Young House Love, how I LOVE thee! One of my all-time favorite blogs and a great source for simple DIY projects of all kinds, Sherry and John Petersik know how to turn something simple and inexpensive into something useful and fun! This is actually a fabric covered cork vase! I am notorious for my use of post-its as tiny reminders {Seriously, you should see my desk at work. My monitor is framed in little yellow notes!} so I absolutely fell in love with this idea right from the start. Not only will it allow me to add some color and life to a room but will be a great way to embrace my post-it obsession! I’m thinking I might want to put something like this in the kitchen with herbs in the middle. Thoughts?

How cute is this?! LPC Interiors actually did a few fun door hangers for fall, winter and spring. {keep an eye out for summer, I’m betting there will be one on the way} I love the idea of celebrating the seasons with decorations and these are MUCH MORE personal and MUCH LESS expensive than any store-bought piece. I’m thinking of doing one for every season and major holidays. Not all at once of course!

I am so in love with this idea! A wall garden of love buckets from Michele at Ten June! I have no idea where I would put this in the house since we don’t really have many big open wall spaces {maybe switch it up a bit and align them vertically along narrow pieces of empty wall space} but I MUST have them. What an adorable way to bring your garden inside and add decoration at the same time!

Kate at Centsational Girl has become a fast favorite of mine {the host of the Fair Weather Forum link party… join in!} and this is just ONE of the reasons why! Not sure if you can tell but this sunburst mirror is made of paint stirrers! I love that it takes up a large bit of wall space and doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg. This might be the front runner on my crafty TO DO list!

Z and I are pretty practical when it comes to our dishes in that they aren’t too fancy and if they drop and break in to a bazillion pieces, it’s not the end of the world. BUT I have been wanting to snag some “fancier” or more personalized plates for dinner parties and family gatherings. I’ve been looking through pages and pages of expensive place settings but why spend BIG BUCKS on dished I’d be afraid to touch when I can follow in Kate’s footsteps and make something for a lot less? Another Centsational Girl find that I’m really looking forward to doing. I may even make a few just for display as wall hangings!

HOLY CUTENESS BATMAN! This is absolutely adorable and something I never would have thought to do. It seems like every time I take a trip to the beach I end up finding a handful of really beautiful shells that I contemplate taking home with me. But then I start to ask myself WHAT I could possibly do with them and I end up leaving them there in the sand. Now I don’t have to do that! Erin at Stillwater Story got the brilliant idea to make her own {inexpensive} version of some Williams Sanoma artwork using simple frames and shells. This is absolutely perfect for the beach vision I have for our guest bathroom and I’m really excited about finding some perrrrty shells to do the job!

So I feel that this next one requires a bit of back story explanation. The steps in our house are slatted. If something happens to find itself sitting on the stairs and you accidentally kick it… it soars straight through the slats into the mess of a storage space down below. It’s  accessible but a pain in the butt to constantly be wondering where something went that USED to be there on the steps. So as you can imagine, when I saw this adorable stair basket from Stephanie at Full of Great Ideas I fell in love. What a fun and simple way to keep track of the things you place on the steps. I know in a perfect world the stairs would be clear of all clutter but let’s face it, no matter how hard we try there will always be SOMETHING left there to walk over and neglect. I really love how she utilized two steps for more space instead of intruding into the walking zone. This one will DEFINITELY be happening in the weeks to come! Plus {Eart Day shout out} what a perfect way to recycle some of those used card board boxes we all have tucked away!

Yet another fun idea from Centsational Girl! There’s nothing like seeing something in a store with a HUGE price tag and instantly thinking, “I could make that”. I find myself saying that all the time but rarely follow through but these beauties are too cute NOT to recreate. Kate, on the other hand, took this one by the stem {ha} and really made it special. There’s so much freedom in what you can decorate the base with it’s really exciting to think about and I can picture myself getting WAY TOO EXCITED in the gems, jewels, stones and beads isles of JoAnn Fabric! I might even consider making some seasonal versions and specialty glasses for holidays!

SO MANY FANTASTIC THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO!! Let the crafty fun begin!


Hopefully I can dive into a few of these project this weekend when I’m not celebrating Easter with family and friends! Happy Friday {Good Friday, Earth Day} to you all and have a fantastic Easter weekend!


Until next time…
Do you have any projects you are dying to start? Where do you find your creative inspiration?