• Decor - DIY Projects

    Easy Painted Wood Sunflower

    1:08 PM - By 

    This wood sun­flower DIY was a lit­tle out­side of my com­fort zone. For some rea­son paint­ing makes me a ner­vous wreck buu­u­uttt I decid­ed to take a dose of my own med­i­cine, and like I always say “Just go for it!”  So this is me going for it. I decid­ed to give this sim­ple wood sun­flower dimen­sion with a paint­ing tech­nique that I love to refer to as “wood but­ter­ing.” It’s lit­er­al­ly where you spread your paint on like you would but­ter a piece of toast…no kid­ding! Watch me but­ter this Wood Sunflower. This wood Sun­flower Kit is exclu­sive to our…

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    DIY Projects

    Last Minute DIY Halloween Costume

    3:30 AM - By 

    This DIY wolf cos­tume was a prod­uct of my pro­cras­ti­na­tion. This year’s theme was lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood and I could not find a decent lit­tle boys wolf cos­tume any­where. I had a mask giv­en to me for free but it was too big and a lit­tle too scary for my 6 year old, how­ev­er, with a lit­tle imag­i­na­tion it could make the per­fect last minute Hal­loween costume.  What do I need to make this Halloween Costume? fab­ric hot glue hot glue gun rotary cut­ter cut­ting mat faux fur I think we can all agree this is not the cutest mask we have…

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    Decor - DIY Projects

    How to Make Rustic Wood Peg Ornaments

    6:20 PM - By 

    These DIY wood peg orna­ments are the per­fect lit­tle rus­tic touch for your Christ­mas tree! Not only are they sim­ple and rus­tic, but these wood peg orna­ments are so incred­i­bly easy!  I was for­tu­nate to be gift­ed these lit­tle pegs but but I have linked them in the sup­ply list below for your convivence. What supplies do I need? Wood Pegs Antiquing Glaze Rib­bon and embell­ish­ments of choice Jute Twine How to make Rustic Wood Peg Ornaments  You can con­tin­ue these steps list­ed above, alter­ing fab­rics, bows and tex­tures to make an assort­ment of adorably rus­tic wood peg ornaments. I just love…

  • Decor + Styling - DIY Projects

    How to Flock a Christmas Tree Using Snoflock Powder

    1:27 PM - By 

    I am excit­ed to share with you how to flock your Christ­mas tree using Snoflock. Snoflock is a pow­der that expands when intro­duced to mois­ture and cre­ates a per­fect, nat­u­ral­ly flocked look when used cor­rect­ly. Once your tree is flocked it will be ready to dec­o­rate with­in 24 hours. While you’re wait­ing check out all of my favorite orna­ment and Christ­mas decor DIY’s that are sure to make your home look amaz­ing this Christ­mas season! Supplies for Flocking Your Tree Snoflock Sifter Weed Sprayer Lad­der Drop­cloth Steps for Flocking a Tree Step 1: Shape the Tree Branches Start by shap­ing the branch­es…

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    Decor

    Easy Scrap Wood Halloween Decor

    2:20 PM - By 

    This easy scrap wood Hal­loween decor is so sim­ple and so fun! Every once in a while I like to throw in a cute project that you can get the kids involved in and this is def­i­nite­ly one of them.  Scrap wood is cheap and so ver­sa­tile when it comes to craft­ing. But I also under­stand not every­one is able to get their hands on pieces like the one I use in this project. That is why I cre­at­ed the Scrap Wood Project Box. It’s a sub­scrip­tion box of curat­ed scrap wood projects that you can have deliv­ered straight to your…

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    DIY Projects

    How to Make A Simple Eucalyptus Garland

    7:33 PM - By 

    This sim­ple gar­land is so easy I can hard­ly call it a DIY. The idea came from the want to dec­o­rate my man­tle and the need to lim­it my spending.…trying to bud­get for those pump­kins if you know what I mean.  I grabbed some euca­lyp­tus gar­land I already has on hand and start­ed to brain­storm ways to make it look more fall-like. I decid­ed on lay­er­ing a few sim­ple gar­lands so they could eas­i­ly be inter­changed for dif­fer­ent seasons. Supplies euca­lyp­tus garland pine cones jute buf­fa­lo check wired ribbon The euca­lyp­tus I found on Ama­zon. I love it because it is…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    10 Rustic Fall Scrap Wood Projects

    2:54 AM - By 

    Lit­er­al­ly Pin­ter­est is chocked full of Fall Scrap Wood Projects right now. And not just Fall, but there are so many amaz­ing scrap wood projects for your rus­tic home decor. One of my favorite things to do is to take a piece of scrap, des­tined for the garbage, and turn it into some­thing beau­ti­ful and use­ful for my home. But here is my con­fes­sion. I used to let all of those glo­ri­ous ideas stack high­er and high­er in my Pin­ter­est boards with­out any real inten­tion of drag­ging out my saw and tools. By the time I actu­al­ly find the time to…

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    DIY Projects - Kitchen

    Reviving an Old Cutting Board

    5:23 AM - By 

    Recent­ly, I had the task of reviv­ing an old cut­ting board. It giv­en to me by a sweet friend of mine no longer had use for it and knew I had a grow­ing col­lec­tion. As beau­ti­ful as it was, it need­ed a lit­tle bit of TLC. It was dry and had notice­ably not been con­di­tioned in quite some time. With­in a few min­utes I had this beau­ty shin­ing again!  Reviv­ing an old cut­ting board is real­ly quite sim­ple. The next time you find one at a yard sale or at a thrift store you may think twice about pass­ing it up.…

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    DIY Projects

    Video: How to Make an Easy Halloween Place Setting

    9:28 PM - By 

    I recent­ly decid­ed to cre­ate an easy Hal­loween place set­ting using a few crafty things I had around the house. After you see how ways it is to cre­ate this lit­tle spooky set­ting you will want to go scav­eng­ing your own stash…seriously! The best part, this entire set­ting took less that 5 min­utes to curate! So whether you’re the last minute host or just want to flex those DIY mus­cles this one is for you!  Supplies Twigs from the yard raf­fia Spooky net­ting brown tags stamps I didn’t actu­al­ly pho­to­graph the step-by-step process of this look but I did do a short…

  • DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    Tutorial: Indoor Decorative Shutters the Easy Way

    12:57 PM - By 

    Add the per­fect touch of tex­ture and warmth to your home with this DIY tuto­r­i­al for build­ing indoor dec­o­ra­tive shut­ters. This type of project will come togeth­er quick­ly with min­i­mal wood­work­ing skills required. Required Tools Miter Saw Pneu­mat­ic Nail Gun Air Com­pres­sor Additional Supplies Fin­ish Nails (6) 1/4″ Sand­ed Ply­wood (Cut into 6 ” planks) (2) 1 x 2″ fin­ished trim pieces (Cut to 14″) Stain Stain Rags Your secret weapon (aka a jig) Instructions I began this project with a large sand­ed ply­wood sheet from Lowe’s. Sim­ply ask them to cut your sheet into 6″ planks. Once I had the wood home I…