Lovely Letters

I love pulling out my scrapbook supplies for fun off the page projects. When I was pregnant with each of my kids, as soon as I found out their gender I got busy decorating the letters of their name to display above the crib. I love the mod podge letters because they are so cute and easy to redo when you move from nursery to toddler room and they can be fun for older kids too. This set I was asked to make as a birthday gift and I love the purple and green together.

Picture This!

 I once recieved a dress-up dry erase plate as gift and I love it! You can change the ribbon for holidays or seasons or just whatever, but my favorite thing about it is that it doesn't look like a conventional message board. I was helping my mom pick out a present for my sister and we decided on a message board. I searched for ideas and settled on a picture frame because it functions as a dry-erase board and it's cute enough to be artwork.

Rustic Centerpiece

My husband is about to turn thirty and I'm throwing a him a party. We however have very different ideas about what makes a party. I want a theme and a ton of decorations and he wants good food and his closest friends. Like anything else when it comes to marriage, compromise is the key.  I had to change my theme to something more manly and tone down the decorations. I was also asked to change to invitaions because I made it rhyme and he found that to be too childish. It's his birthday and I want him to enjoy himself so I'm working hard to come up with something simple enough for him and festive enough for me. I'm going with an outdoor theme and this is the first of my creations.

A Kiddo Creation

Tip Junkie recently featured melted crayon artwork and a friend of mine was inspired by this to melt her masterpieces. After seeing the photos of her crayon creation, I couldn't resist making one of my own. Rather than attempting it myself, I enlisted the help of my three year old son.

Be a Design Star.

I love to watch design star and my very favorite challenge is always the white room challenge. Last night's graffiti inspired episode did not disappoint. I am in love with this skillet clock from pier one and have been dying to make my own copycat version. You can imagine my excitement went the design star cast was forced to use only kitchen items to fill their white room.

A Crate Idea!

I needed some shelves to move a few breakables out of the kiddos reach. I was searching online for inspiration when I stumbled across an idea.

Antique Photos

I love pictures and I love to hang them everywhere. I had these awesome pictures taken when each of my kids were 6 months old in a little tub and I wanted to put them in the bathroom. The problem is the moisture in there can cause the pictures to wrinkle. I finally came up with a brilliant idea.

The Name Game

Before each of my beautiful children were born I mod podged scrapbook paper onto letters that spelled out their names. I thought they were adorable, fun and absolutely perfect. And then I stumbled upon a blog called Sistersstuff and I became green with envy. They had mod podged onto plaques and added vinyl letters. It was so cute and different and I had to have one. I already had a beautiful set of letters to match my daughter's room and I wasn't about to throw them out but I had a whole knew Idea.

Tea For Tutu

I kept seeing these adorable tutu tables online. I really wanted one for my daughter's room but they were well over a hundred dollars. I thought that was a little much for something I could make myself for like $20. Then I had and idea, "duh, make it yourself dummy".

A Bright Idea

 Light switch covers are pretty boring but they are coming out with more and more cute ones. I found an aborable one to match my son's room and he was so excited when I put it up. I have made most of the stuff in my daughter's room so finding one to match was a lost cause. That gave me an idea! If I made everything else, I'll just make the switch cover.

Easy A-rt

Vinyl wall art can be pretty expensive and not eveyone owns an electronic cutter. I didn't have a cartridge for the image I wanted so after some trial and error, I came with and idea that worked. You can easily create customized,  cost effective vinyl letters and shapes with or without a cutter.

Patriotic Pinecones

I love to have pinecones sitting out all year and I love holiday decorations. That gave me an idea!

Weaving in and Out

I have made pillows with woven ribbon and scrapbook pages using the same technique. While making working on a set of frames for a birthday present I had an idea. Why not weave a frame?

Cow Frame

I thought it would be fun to make an animal frame and since my daughter's room is a farm theme, I decided to make it a cow. And for a little extra whimsy, a pink cow.

Something Fishy

I have tons of pictures of the kiddos fishing and I've been wanting to display one in my sons room. There's some really cute fishing frames out there but they are so heavy and breakable that they're not really kid friendly. That gave me an idea to make my own glass free light weight version. This way if he pulls it down or it falls, it's no biggie.

Flip Flop Fetish

One of the best things about summer is slipping on a pair of cute, comfy flip flops. I bought this paper to scrapbook beach pictures and it looked so cute in my vacation album. But looking at it I kept thinking that paper this cute shouldn't be shut up in a albumn on the shelf, It should be out where it can be seen. That gave me the idea for this fun scrapbook style frame.

Monogrammed Masterpiece

We have several summer birthdays in our family and as much as I love giving homemade gifts it can be difficult to come up with ideas for the kids. I find it especially difficult once they hit middle school. This year I've got it covered because the girls are now into taking pictures and will of course need FRAMES!  This is one on three frames my kids are giving their cousin for her birthday.

Frilly Frame

I love to make tutus for my daughter. I think they are just the cutest thing. I have seen a tutu canvas and a tutu chalkboard and the were so adorable. That gave me the idea to make a frame with a tutu so I could display my tiny dancer's photo.

Bottoms up

Back in the day Mike's hard lemonade came with words under the cap.  I have no idea what purpose it  served but my friend and I collected them. We had a jar full because we thought we could come up with something to make using the words. Seven years later I still have no clue what to do with those words but the jar of bottle caps gave me an idea for a cute picture frame. 

E~I~E~I~ART

I needed to find some fabulous art to go with the bedding I made for my daughter's room.  After searching high and low I still had nothing. The only thing left to do was make my own. Her quilt is kind of a modern take on a farm and that gave me an Idea.