New beginnings

Buying your first house, or any house for that matter, is exciting. I wanted to have something to look at and remember that time. It was also a fun thing to give to my husband when we first moved in.

Supplies:

* Picture frame

* A camera to take a picture of you or you and your partner. (I wanted to sold sign in the background, but you could take a picture infront of your new home and it'd be just as cute:)

* An old key and some gorilla glue. You could also key stencils or stickers if you wanted, or go with a completely different theme!





Poor man's curtain

Our attic is the most hodge podge hidden room in our home. It's perfect for our non-existent little girls room... or for those who enjoyed too much Mikey's punch on New Years eve and need a bed:)

Since we painted the kitchen fun new colors, my old tableclothes don't match as well. The attic has no curtains, so I thought I throw on the tableclothes as an experiment, I think it turned out alright, but I'll let you be the judge...

Any old tableclothes laying around and windows with no curtains?  Too poor for actual curtains?
Work some magic!

Cork This!

Wine...what a wonderful gift to mankind, who knew grapes could do such great things to my life!?
Since I am avad wino I end up with a surplus of corks...funny little things, what do you do with them? I figured there had to be some use to put them to.

Of course Pinterest assisted me in this idea...

This is very simple, and I am sure many before me have done this, and most likely outdone this, but here it is, a great placement for corks:)

This person included bottle caps!

I also stumbled upon an idea at the Fireworks store at the mall, an odd boutique filled with strangely fun and quirky treasures, a wine cork trivet! Brilliant I thought!

You can find this metal contraption at Fireworks or I saw it on a website called Perpetualkids.com, the cost was around $12-20. Fun and easy.

My last name Wreath

I will admitt, I tend to be more of an idea stealer rather than creater, so I absolutely cannot take credit for this idea. I found it on Pinterest and fell in love. It was so easy and fun to do.

Things you'll need:

You can find all these things at your local craft store (i.e. Joanns Fabric, Ben Franklin, Michaels etc)

The garland examples above are a little Christmasy but you can find more year round styles at the store; they are also real, for this you most likely want a fake garland. I usually just use whatever craft paint is on sale for these kinds of things, but there are different sheens you can choose from.

Step 1. Paint your letter (may need several coats)

Step 2. Let it dry (for impatient peeps like myself)

Step 3. Arrange the garland into a circle, you can find a way to tie ends together or safety pin and most fake garlands are easy to rearrange, you can pull pieces out and put them in in different areas to even spots out.

Step 4. Tie ribbon around letter and wreath with the length you like best.

As you can tell in my example, the sides are slightly uneven so I will need to pull some pieces and play with it some more. I also used some gold glitter spray paint over the green paint to add some sparkle to mine.

Thanks Pinterest!