Pinterest saved my marriage

I never know what to get Dan for gifts. He doesn't help, because he never knows what he wants either! I know he likes scratch offs so when I seen this

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On pinterest I pinned it and remembered it at the last minute! He liked it.. he really liked it!! I'm sharing it because it's a great gift to use for many occasions for the person that has everything! I mean who doesn't love scratch offs! Nothing says I love you like if you win big I'm entitled to half ha ha!! I don't know who originally made this on pinterest but thanks!

Valentine's Day Plate

Been awhile since I've played with decoupage. A little stamps,paint,ribbon and modge podge and it made for a fun evening while watching chopped on the food network.

Little Lady Love Bug Has Landed!

What a fun Valentine surprise I receive in the mail!!
I tell you what I have met some of my favorite people online!
There are so many good people still out there!
I really am blessed (and a bit spoiled) by the people I have been connected with just thru the internet alone!

It was a nice, fun, unexpected surprise when I receive this card and plaque from Barbee Masterson in the mail!
It's it just the cutest?? AND it goes perfect with the decor on my hutch!!
Thank you Barbee for thinking of me! Such a sweet gesture from you!!
I love it!!!

A LOVEly little tree

Here is how the little Valentine tree turned out.

I am very happy with it! It was fun using pink and red!!

And look what surfaced..more of those heart cut outs..

I told you I wasn't joking about cutting alot of them lol!

Even the cat enjoyed the tree..

A little too much!!! Darn cat!

And even my plastic kids got dressed for the occasion!

Hope your Valentine's Day is full of lots of love!!

Picky Little Plant

           Remember I told you I cut out alot of hearts..

                                       well here are some of the things I ended up doing with them all.                              

I hung some from the greenery on the hutch. (Love how

this turned out!)

                                         Then I had alot left over so I got this grand idea to make plant picks.
                                          I just glued them onto a skewer and sprinkled glitter on them.

I do believe that I went a little over board on the Valentine decorating :)

I'm already brain storming St. Patty's Day :)

Love is in the air....

litterally...in the air...hanging above my sink...

We all loved having the Christmas lights hanging in the kitchen, it gave off a nice gentle glow early in the mornings or late at night when someone got up to drink or drain..

It made me sad to take them down...then I got an ah ha moment..

Why not put up red lights in replace of the Christmas colors...but then...it would still look "Christmasy"..

In enters..red paper..a stencil..and glitter...

And here we go folks..I went on a heart creating frenzy!!

I made a ton of hearts..and I mean a ton..I started putting hearts all over the place if we're gonna be honest here.. :)

The pictures here aren't the greatest but I was trying to capture the pinkish red glow..I think you get what Im trying to capture here..or at least I hope.

Stay tuned to see what else these hearts made an appearance on :)

A Valentine Mantle

Ok so this mantle didn't go quite as well as I had planned.

I knew I wanted to blend the colors red,pink and turquoise but I couldn't get them to look just right on my mantle. Sometimes my dark wood work really works against me!

I seen how Lucy over at Craftberry Bush did her mantle and my wheels started turning!!

Her mantle is BEAUTIFUL be sure to take a peek-you won't be sorry. It's so soft and romantic.

However..I wasn't going for a romantic look just more of a fun whimsical feel.

She showed how she made a faux cross stitch picture and I knew right away I too wanted one of those!!

HOWEVER-I did not even come close to doing as good as she did. I just free handed mine and didn't use precise lining-which I regret now..because mine isn't so "cross stitchie" looking..but it'll do for this year I may redo it and do it correctly this time, for next year...

I was also inspired by her to wrap the blue jars in burlap and use the stripped down books.

I'm still not happy with how my mantle turned out. I think Im going to add some big glittery hearts.

But I don't want to dwell on it..so for now Im going to call it done..besides I still have to decorate the hutch :)

It looks more cluttered then decorated to me...I'll bet I end up redoing it eventually lol..

How are you decorating this year?

I've Been Featured!!!

Yay! So exciting!
The heart wreath that I made got featured as a top 10 on the Happy-Go-Lucky blog!

Thats super cool...I know right?!!
Thank you so much to Kara and Amy for hosting a fun blog party!
Be sure and pop on over to Happy-Go-Lucky and check out her blog.
Lots of link ups and cool stuff to see!!

Love is in the air...well sorta...

I started pulling out the RED and PINK stuff today!!

I wanted to share with you what I made a back in December.

 Little Heart Scatters..Made from SALT DOUGH!

I cut them out with a little heart cookie cutter..

 Spray painted them red-quick and easy here folks..

 Shot them with a coat of sealer..And BAM! Done!

Cute little bowl scatters...I made star scatters, gingerbread men scatters and Santa's boots and hat scatters (I will share at another time)

Here is the salt dough recipe that I used..

Take about 1 cup salt and dissolve it in about 1 1/4 cup water (or a little more if needed). Then stir in about 3 cups flour ( one cup at a time), until it's a nice soft dough.

You can shape it or cut it out with cookie cutters. Let it harden or bake it at 200 degree F until hard. Then paint with regular acrylics or spray paint :) Be sure your scatters are completely dry and cooled off before you paint them. Store in a container where no moisture or water can get to them.

I sold these this year for $2 a dozen and they were a big hit!



A Valentine Start

After taking the all the Christmas decor down, I decided to keep the small tree

that I bought up. I stuffed it in a corner in the dining room and thought it would be fun to decorate it for the different holidays.

Doing things DIY is always my first go to before I spend money on something.

Carter was using his parla beads (The beads you put on a pegged tray and fuse together with wax paper and an iron) the other day, and I seen the heart tray setting there and the phone rang...and so....began the start of making Valentine ornaments for the little tree.....

So whatcha think? I think cute so far..but guess what, I ran out of pink beads....ole well..Stay tuned for more ideas to come :)



Happy Valentine's Day!!

We seen this idea on "Family Fun". (Love that site!) And Carter (my 8 year old) wanted to make these for his Valentine's instead of giving out paper ones.

The initial idea sounded cool..and truely it was easy..but when you wait till the VERY last minute to do this it becomes work..lol..

If you have never made home made play dough you really should give it a try. It's VERY easy and was made in like a total of 15 minutes-seriously! And it was fun to watch it transform...however I think I need to start using the shake weight, this stuff gave my arm a work out lol..

Ok so here is the recipe from Family Fun...

Materials

3 Cups of white flour


1 1/2 Cups of salt


1 1/2 Tablespoons of cream of tartar


3 1/4 Cups of water


6 Tablespoons of vegetable oil


Red food coloring


Rolling pin

Cookie Cutter of your choice..obviously we used a heart....

In a medium sauce pan mix all the dry ingredients with a wisk or fork. mix them together well.

In a separate bow mix all the wet ingredients. Add your food coloring until you get your desired color. I used gel food coloring..and the color did not come off on our hands when the dough was played with.

Pour the wet ingredients in with the dry, turn your burner on medium and continuously stir...don't stop stirring you don't want it to scorch.

Once you get it all stirred it will be super smooth liquid for a little bit then all of a sudden you will notice that it's getting lumps all over it..don't freak out this is normal..it's beginning to thicken..yay that's what you want.

As you are stirring it you will feel it getting thicker and thicker and your arm will seem to get wimpier and wimpier (I promise ) This will take around 10 minutes,..once it has gotton thick enough that you can't stir it anymore, let it sit and cool.

Once it's cool, knead the dough and roll it around into balls to be prepared to be rolled out. I thought it would be cool at this point to add red glitter but the boy didn't think so...what does he know about cool???

Roll out flat and cut with your cookie cutters. I got lucky and went to Dollar Tree and found these ziplock bags with hearts all over the outside. Perfect for the dough. I was going to add a real fancy to/from tag but decided against it..I didn't really feel like taking the time to do it in all honesty!

We bagged em up and Carter wrote his name on them..as you can see we didn't even pay attention that the hearts even went in right side up..lazy I tell ya lazy lol..so there ya have it. Simple as that..not real "boyish" like I think Carter was hoping for...but I think the kids will like it..I mean really who doesn't love play dough..?? Oh that's right...other mom's lol..I see a future beating at the next PTO meeting ha ha..!!

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!!

Vintage Heart Garland

All things vintage captures my heart! I am in LOVE with vintage..old..raggedy..primitive everything!!

I needed something to add to my hutch that is full of lots of vintage items, so I knew whatever it was that I was going to make I wanted it to look old...and here is what I came up with..

Of course it's not REALLY vintage (completely) but it's the look I was going for. And I did use some vintage items.

I started out using an empty cereal box and cut out the 3 hearts, then I decoupaged the hearts with pages from an old 1940's beat up dictionary..

The lace around the edges and the lace I used for the rosettes were made using vintage lace as well..

 Notice the pearls I used...yep vintage as well!

 This last heart wasn't exactly what I was going for..but well..once you glue something down with good glue..well..it's stuck for life lol...

 And here is the final product. I am very happy with how it came out!

I may still add a little red "something" to the heart with the rosettes on it, it looks kinda bare...yes??

Heart Rag Wreath

Not the greatest photo..sorry for the blurriness..

Basically I took red and check material and cut it into strips and tied it onto a metal hanger and shaped it into a heart. A bit time consumming and my finger eventually felt raw from tying all the knots..but pretty simple.

I made this for the front door and the good thing about it is you can do it while watching tv..

What I learned: I must invest in a material pizza cutter looking thingamabob!!