Scrabble Decor

Confession time, hubby and I are huge nerds! 

Whenever we want a tv free night after the kids are asleep we play scrabble (I know l-a-m-e). 

What's even worse is that he usually beats me despite my greatest efforts.

So when I found an old scrabble game at a garage sale for 50 cents I knew that I wanted to make a family name display. I cut out the game board to fit into a wooden frame that I already had and adhered the tiles with my glue gun.

It has found a home in my living room and I love it. 

It definitely adds to my eclectic style.

I also made another wall hanging recently for the playroom downstairs. 

If you follow me on facebook you may have already seen the footprint art I made myself for Mothers day. Using both girls feet I made sweet butterflies on a canvas and wrote on one of my favorite quotes.

Happy Friday! 

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Jar of Butterflies

I am so glad summer is almost here! My house is finally feeling set-up, with only a few minor things left to do. Which means I can spend more time enjoying the beautiful weather. 

I made this butterfly jar as part of my summer decor.  It's a super simple project.

To make it you will need:

A large jar

rock(s) and stick(s)

fake butterflies

fake grass

hot glue gun

optional: Brown acrylic paint and paint brush (not pictured)

                 pencil and/or long tweezers

First off paint the lid to give it an aged look. While the paint is drying hot glue bits of 'grass' to your rock(s).

I also glued a butterfly onto one rock. Then strategically place/drop the rocks into the jar.

Haha, this is where the tweezers and pencil comes in. My opening wasn't big enough for me to drop them in properly and maneuver them at all so I used the pencil and tweezers to flip things around and place them where I wanted.

Then I glued the other butterfly onto the twig and place it in between the rocks. I just let it stand freely, I didn't hot glue the stick in.

Twist the lid on and you've got a jar of butterflies for display.

 I have had this idea in my head for a long time. I am so glad I finally finished it (not that it took long). I actually painted the lid last spring and was waiting to find the perfect fake grass for cheap (which I found at the dollar store a couple of weeks ago).

On another note, this past weekend my sis and her family were here for a quick visit which was lots of fun. And today I'm doing laundry and packing for my New York trip this weekend (SO excited!). Hope to have some scheduled posts for ya while I'm away.

Happy Tuesday!

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insta-pics #49

I've been busy getting together with friends, having BBQ's, garage saleing, visits to the park, running, playing outside. I think summer might actually be here! It's May long so I'm still crossing my fingers that we don't get another dump of snow (it's happened a couple of times in the last few years!). Anyways on to the picture details:

1. I've been making myself a lot of veggie roll-ups lately. Dipped in hoisin sauce, so yummy!
2. Hubby went away for a week to do a course, so it was just me and my girlies.
3. One night I had a date with my sketch book watching Pitch Perfect. Love that show.
4. Propped S up with some bubbles one afternoon so I could clean my car (T was napping).
5. A vintage phone that I found at a garage sale for $2. It looks cool and it WORKS!! ..although it does take forever to dial. 
6. It's dandelion season and both girls are picking me bouquets all the time, love it!
7. I heart garage sales. Along with the goodies pictured I also bought two pieces of furniture to revamp, yay.
8. An afternoon with great friends down by the river. 
9. A cookie bouquet that I got for mothers day. It looked amazing and it was so tasty! (Those are cake pops and chocolate covered strawberries in the front, yum)

Happy Sunday!

welcome to our home: S's room

Number two in my home tour series, S's room or what I call the BIG big girl room.

I did end up getting her a new bedspread (bought it at my favorite store, Homesense). I just love how it adds so much color to the space. Even so I plan on painting the wall that the bed is on. 

Anyways this is it for now, have a look!

Recognize the curtains? from here.

The closet is one of my favorite parts!

The left hand side is a display for all the dress up clothes. 

As well the two bins are filled with accessories, shoes, hats etc.

The right hand side I made into a cozy reading nook. 

Complete with a large body pillow, cushions and a push light. I decorated with tinker bell decals just to make the space more fun. And S loves it!

More on the large painting here. 

Rainbow heart art here. 

Nightstand and stool redo here.

You can check out her old bedroom from the last house here and here.

(I still miss those bright blue walls and the owl decals)

Happy Thursday!

Rosette Necklaces

Before we moved I had mentioned via instapics that I had started making fabric rosette necklaces. 

Since then I have had a couple of orders from some friends and I'm hoping to sell them at upcoming craft sales. Along with the other jewelery you may have seen on my facebook page and other projects. 

 I am also throwing around the idea of starting an Etsy page. (Should I??)

Anyways since I never actually wrote a post about them, I thought I better!

I plan to do more pattern flowers like the one on the far right which will be more unique but still keep the solid color collection available as well.

I've also started making three rosette cluster necklaces.

Which one would you pick?

Happy Tuesday!

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