Prep: Everything You Need To Know!
When it comes to painting furniture, prep can tend to be a “four letter word” within the world of furniture painters. Many brands tout the promise of using their products while tossing the need of prepping furniture for paint away. Who REALLY wants to spend the day sanding away the old finish, cleaning all the gunk and grime away, and priming with some gross oil based gooky (yes that’s a word) primer that is stinky and difficult to use? When it comes to prep I hate to tell you but most of us have so much of it all wrong! So,. how about we break down the steps and really take a look…
DIY Furniture Projects: Wash Stand Makeover
This antique wash stand was destined for the dump, but I walk you through how I brought it back to life by removing the busted veneer and giving it a whole new look!
DIY Gift Ideas- Heart Shaped Puzzle
Learn how you can create your own custom puzzle using the Cricut Maker and knife blade, their chipboard and an image that you love! Its so simple!
DIY Gift Ideas- Adorable Mason Jars
DIY Gift Ideas can be hard to “nail down”. Ha get it? I kid but seriously there are so many homemade crafts we can create as gifts for those we care about. Creative homemade gifts will always be treasured but I also love to tow that balance of cute and decorative as well as classic or timeless. So often when I DIY teacher gifts or even maybe Christmas crafts to sell I find myself figuring out how they can pull double duty between form and function or be used throughout the year. One thing you may have noticed I have an affection for is vintage mason jars! I love to collect the blue ones of my…
How to DIY Flooring that is Fabulous!
DIY flooring can intimidate us all. For years I knew I wanted to replace our yucky, stained beyond understanding carpet with hardwood flooring. With the family’s allergies and asthma-not to mention my aesthetic-I just knew DIY Flooring would be a benefit to us all! I began exploring flooring ideas however, I never thought it would one an option. Living in an older home, I had secret hopes of finding hard wood under our carpet. This wasn’t the case and the expense of laying hardwood flooring seemed inconceivable! Oh how little did I know. I decided I wanted to take on the challenge-yes me all by myself-of laying flooring. I knew I wanted to…
DIY Wood Signs-Do you Wanna Paint a Snowman?
Learn how to Paint Wooden Christmas signs for Outdoors DIY Wood Signs are PERFECT for Christmas Decorations! Now, this DIY Snowman sign painting is a bit more involved than the DIY Nativity Sign or the Wooden Door Tags,but if you liked the Wooden Christmas Sign created with Blended Paint and my Cricut, then you really. may love this! Each being DIY Wood Signs that you can totally create! Most of them if protected properly could be homemade outdoor Christmas decorations. DIY pallet signs have taken over Pinterest! But we dont have to be restricted to just pallets for sign painting. Instead we can just head to the home improvement store to grab wooden sign material. This adds a little more variety in your home decor when we add in various rustic wood signs. Where…
Some of the Best Homemade Christmas Decoration Ideas
Homemade Christmas decoration ideas can be found all over the web! There is just something so satisfying about finding Christmas decorations to make at home with loved ones or just finding Christmas decorations to make yourself! But while we can find homemade Christmas decoration ideas on Pinterest sometimes it’s nice to have the shortlist! This way we don’t get lost going down the rabbit hole… Lost in the homemade outdoor Christmas decorations, the homemade Christmas tree decorations, the Christmas ornament ideas or of course there are the Christmas pallet ideas! The list is endless honestly.. So how about I give you some of the BEST Christmas home decor ideas I could find you! Of course…
My New Toy-The Cricut Explore Air2
Today I get to introduce to you my new Cricut Explore Air 2 machine. I had taken such a long hiatus from using any vinyl cutting machines and had basically sworn them off when I was presented an opportunity to try out this pretty lady. I felt like it was only fair that I give her a shot.I’m sure you have seen the Cricut around and I had too! However, this isn’t the machine I had locked in my brain. If you are like me, instead you may just remember the Cricut as this little guy. Some people had these massive yet limiting collections of Cricut cartridges! I wasn’t sure how I…
DIY Wooden Nativity Sign
Wooden Decorative signs are so easy to create! I love that I can make and customize my own home decor (and porch decor of course) with a board, little bit of paint, and my Cricut. I had already made a vertical Wooden Christmas sign that I loved but I really wanted to create a horizontal one for the home too! I made this one super simple, but feel free to create your own painted effect on the board when you are painting! PLUS once again I have teamed up with those amazing bloggers from the Deck the Home Blog Hop! Be sure to check out all their amazing projects at the end! Wooden paint your own nativity set simple nativity painting modern…
Easy to Make Christmas Door Decorations
If you are like me you love looking at Christmas door decoration ideas for your home (especially EASY to make Christmas decorations). But, if you are even more like me you will often find yourself in analysis paralysis unable to find just the right one for your front door! While we want our own virtual winter wonderland, we find ourselves not so interested in traditional red and green. For the Christmas season we like to have fun and use things like pine cones in our Christmas wreath or even on the Christmas tree. Our holiday decor may or may not include Christmas lights across the front porch-again these are decisions that have to…
