How to make water bottle labels
I am so darn excited that I figured out a easy and inexpensive method of making water bottle labels! We did water bottle labels when my daughter got married almost 3 years ago and it was a pain. I wish I would of thought of this back then, it would of saved so much time and money. {The actual bottles have now changed to a smaller label, since I did these}.
Grey velvet foot boards
I had some left over fabric from the settee in the “fun” room so I decided to re-do the foot board inserts on the bunk beds. I originally had lavender fabric inserts, but I decided to take them off since the color no longer went with the new room design. They were attached with velcro, and when I pulled them off, some of the wood came off with it. {in this progress picture you can see the missing wood in the bottom foot board } So either I needed to sand and paint or just make new ones.
$15 Brass chandelier makeover
I have been looking for an inexpensive {well cheap actually} brass chandelier that I could makeover for a charity event I am helping out with this week. So I did what I always do when I need something cheap, I went on Craig’s list. That turned out to be a bust. I saw lots of things that would work, but no one seemed to really want to sell them, because they never got back to me. I just don’t get why people don’t respond if they are selling something. It is really frustrating. So I went with plan “b”, and decided to go check out Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.
I had never been to the one we have here in San Diego, but I figured it was worth a try. I was pleasantly surprised on how organized and clean it was. Not as big as I thought it would be, but that is ok, I found what I was looking for, and at a perfect price, $15.
A 14 armed brass chandelier. SCORE! Take that Craig’s list.
Tailored flat panel valance
I have decided to change the design of our family room at our river house. I loved the look back in 2004, but I am ready for a change, and 8 years is pretty long for me not change something. My plan is to take out the county fabrics and update them to a more modern casual design.
Master bedroom post updated thanks to Pinterest
With all the Pinterest explosion, I have noticed that some of the items that are pined are from 3 years ago or more. That is the cool thing about Pinterest, you see things you would of never seen before. Now we have a platform that lets us view beautiful rooms, recipes, DIY projects and more. As we all know, an hour goes by like a minute when you are on Pinterest, or is that just me? We see stuff we probably would of never seen with our old school ways of reading selective blogs or browsing our favorite shops.
I noticed recently that pinterest users come over to my blog for the first time and then start browsing, love that! But then they start pinning some of my older content, nothing wrong with that right? But it made me realize that I needed to take the time and go back and make my pictures bigger {with my new layout my pictures are smaller on all my older posts} and add my watermark {something I didn’t do in the beginning and learned the hard way that it is a must so people don’t steal your pictures and use them as their own}. This is a tedious process, so slowly I am going getting some done.
Since it takes me just as long to go back and fix up an older post, as it would for me to do a new post, I thought I would re-post them as I do them.
This is our Master Suite that I posted about back in August of 2010
$6,895 sideboard I want to knockoff
Oh how I wish I would of played the Mega millions lottery! How can I win if I don’t play right? I would of splurged and bought this gorgeous sideboard I found on Ebay
Now I am on the hunt for something similar that I can do a DIY knockoff. I found this one on Craig’s list. Got all excited, emailed the person
Easter table decorating with moss
When I saw this picture on Pam’s blog, Simple Details
I was in love. It’s wheat grass, which I had never heard of before and I thought it would be super cute to use for my Easter table. Pam gave awesome instructions on where to buy it and how to plant it, which is really simple and inexpensive. I already had the square bowls, all I needed was the grass seeds and dirt. I got the seeds all planted per Pam’s instructions, and was all excited to start seeing my seeds grow
Then it dawned on me, this was NOT going to work. You have to spray the seeds three times a day to make them grow. I am not good at remembering to water any of my plants let alone 3 times a day. I knew it was going to be a fail project already, so I went with plan “b”. try to find already grown wheat grass. I went to our local nursery, and asked if they had some wheat grass. They did. But it didn’t look anything like the picture. It was long and scraggly and looked like a weed. Darn. I browsed around some more and spotted these pretty plants
I think they are called Irish Moss {I threw the tag out so I am just guessing based on what I could find via google images}. I loved the texture of them and the tiny white flowers, a perfect alternative to the wheat grass
