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    Makeover Monday : French Farmhouse DIY Urn

    12:49 AM - By 

    I feel like I have been on a roll at the thrift store late­ly. This thrift store urn caught my atten­tion right away with its French Farm­house DIY vibes. I paid a whop­ping 25 cents for this lit­tle piece with BIG poten­tial among some oth­er great thrifty decor finds from that day! The next time you’re out thrift­ing or maybe you find your­self pump­ing the breaks for a yard sale, keep this lit­tle urn in mind. This is one of those pieces with “good bones.” The shape, the texture…all the things are right but it just needs a lii­i­i­itle some­thing. That’s…

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    Thrift Store Decor Finds: Taking a “You” Day

    7:39 PM - By 

    Yes­ter­day, I took some­what of a “per­son­al” day and decid­ed to step away from the com­put­er and go on a hunt for thrift store decor. Brows­ing the isles and search­ing for mis­placed trea­sures is seri­ous­ly one of my very favorite ways to pass time. That’s the thing about thrift­ing, or just stop­ping in on a whim. Some­times you win big and oth­er times you walk away emp­ty handed.  But either way, there was the hunt. And the truth is, some­times you just need to take a per­son­al day and lose your­self doing some­thing you love, because you love it. And not…

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    Thrift Store Makeover: Glass Jack O’ Lantern

    1:39 AM - By 

    So every Mon­day for the last sev­er­al months I have been shar­ing a week­ly Live Face­book seg­ment called “Makeover Mon­day” Where I share a week­ly thrift store makeover that peo­ple will love using in their home. From vas­es, to chairs and old dress­ers, there are soooo many ideas for thrift flips that will knock you socks off! A few weeks ago I grabbed this lit­tle glass jack o lantern for a whole quarter…or maybe 50 cents, I can’t exact­ly remem­ber but either way, it was a great deal for some­thing with “good bones” I shared the entire tuto­r­i­al of this project on…

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    Fall Barn Wood Decor

    6:47 PM - By 

    Y’all let me tell you. I absolute­ly LOVE me a good scrap wood project! It’s kin­da fun­ny how you can be drawn to cer­tain kinds of projects. What I love the most about this DIY fall barn wood decor is its sim­plic­i­ty. Mak­ing and craft­ing does­n’t have to be com­pli­cat­ed or over the top. All you need to recre­ate a your own fall barn­wood decor is…  barn wood scrap fab­ric uphol­stery tacks hot glue + glue gun cot­ton pick small wood beads Now you may be think­ing, where in the world am I gonna get a piece of barn wood. Luck­i­ly, I have a Wood­pile Col­lec­tion…

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    Simple DIY Sand Paint Recipe

    2:57 PM - By 

    I have been look­ing for a good way to tex­tur­ize my fall DIY projects (did you see what I did to this thrift­ed planter?) and I final­ly found the solu­tion with this DIY sand paint recipe. I was inspired by a salt­wash paint­ing tech­nique my friend Chasi­da at Cus­tom South­ern Co. shared with her fol­low­ers on Face­book and it got my wheels turning.  I want­ed to find a way to recre­ate what she had done for my own projects since I did­n’t have her medi­um on hand. This is the recipe I used to make my own tex­tured sand paint. Ingredients…

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    Chippy Wood Pumpkin DIY Perfect For Fall

    6:48 PM - By 

    I think if I put all of my favorite things in a bag and shake it up, I would pull out this chip­py wood pump­kin DIY. It is lit­er­al­ly a com­bi­na­tion of all of my VERY FAVORITE things! And the best part? It’s the fea­tured project in the month­ly DIY Decor Box for August! Each and every box is filled with a com­bi­na­tion of beau­ti­ful DIY’s and coor­di­nat­ed decor for your home! Lit­er­al­ly the only thing left to do is enjoy the curat­ed dec­o­rat­ing experience!  Does that sound like a fun time?  Well, let me just sweet­en it up even more…

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    How to Make Vintage Inspired Wooden Spools

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    I love to incor­po­rat­ed vin­tage and DIY pieces in and around my home. This lit­tle project is inspired by both! These vin­tage inspired wood­en spools are so incred­i­bly easy to make and would be so super cute styled on a shelf, tiered tray or vignette!  Let’s jump right in! Supplies for making Vintage Inspired Spools (4) 1 1/2“x2 1/8″ Wood Spool (Found at Hob­by Lobby) (4) 2“x1/4″ Disc Cir­cle (Found at Hob­by Lobby) Hot Glue E6000 Antique Wax Baby Wipe Sand­pa­per Rib­bon and embell­ish­ments of choice Before we begin, I want­ed to share that you can find these spools and discs at Hob­by…

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    DIY Faux Cement Planter: Perfect for Fall!

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    I have been dying to try my hand at cre­at­ing a DIY faux fall cement planter, and this cute lit­tle pot from a local thrift store was the per­fect piece for this cute piece of DIY Fall decor! Tru­ly, this DIY can be incor­po­rat­ed into any sea­son, but I have a per­fect lit­tle stack of adorable neu­tral farm­house pump­kins from Roost+Restore Home that would look amaz­ing nes­tled on top. DIY Faux Fall Cement Planter Supplies old piece of pottery tis­sue paper mod podge paint (I am using Waver­ly Plas­ter, Ink and Antique wax) paint brush baby wipes Begin with a cou­ple sheets…

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    How to Make A Simple Back to School Sign

    1:53 AM - By 

    It’s hard to believe the Sum­mer is already com­ing to an end. Here at the home­stead we have been doing all of the end of Sum­mer things, putting up the gar­den veg­gies, shop­ping school sup­plies and plan­ning for all of the back to school fes­tiv­i­ties. It got me to think­ing about all of the cute and cre­ative ways teach­ers can dec­o­rate their classrooms.That is where the idea of this sim­ple back to school sign came to be. This lit­tle cre­ation would make a cute piece for a bul­letin board, a desk or some­where in a classroom. If you want to…

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    Rusty Wire Mason Jar Wood Block Sign DIY

    12:29 AM - By 

    Wood block DIY’s are my absolute fave. There is some­thing so sat­is­fy­ing about being able to cre­ate some­thing unique and qual­i­ty for your home with­out hav­ing to hunt down crazy com­pli­cat­ed sup­plies. This rusty wire mason jar was the per­fect way to add a touch of rus­tic fall decor to my home with­out hav­ing to do just that. I already had most of these sup­plies lay­ing around my house, and I wil­ing to bet you prob­a­bly do too. Here is whatcha need for this per­fect lit­tle piece of rus­tic fall decor… Supplies for Rusty Wire Mason Jar Wood Block Wood chunk (mine is about…