DIY Cake Stand

While browsing through the craft store last week, I came across these darling flower shaped charger plates. They come in a variety of bright fun colors. I decided to turn them into some cake stands that I could use for parties or family get togethers. They're so simple to put together. Here's what you'll need:

Glass candlestick-can be found at dollar store or craft stores

Spray paint of choice

Charger plate- I found mine at Micheals

E6000 glue

Step 1: Spray paint your candlestick holders. I chose a metallic silver to go with the bright colored charger plates.

Step 2: Once the candlesticks are dry, place some glue around the  top ring of the candlestick. Wait a couple minutes.

Step 3: Turn the charger plate upside down and place the candlestick with glue in the middle of the backside of the plate. Let it dry.

Now you have a fun stand to display all your goodies! I'm using mine for my daughters birthday party this weekend.

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Spring Burlap Banner

For the first time in a while the sun has been shining and it's gotten me super excited for Spring and to get the kids back outside playing! 

I don't normally put out decorations for every holiday or season but I'm so happy about the sun being out that I thought it would be fun to make a banner to let Spring know that it can come and stay!

Thanks to the Silhouette, it made this project a breeze. After cutting the burlap into the shape I wanted, I chose various fabrics and ironed Heat N Bond to the back of the fabric. I used the Silhouette to cut out the letters and bunnies then ironed them to the burlap. To hang the banner, I hot glued a pom pom ribbon to the burlap then added a couple white pom poms to the bunnies for their tails.

Here's hoping Spring will come soon!

DIY Fabric Flowers for Pillow

Here's another project from my daughter's bedroom that we're decorating. This is a quick and fun way to add an accent to any pillow. As you can see, the colors she chose for her room are green and turquoise. She's loves it because it's looking more "grown up". 

To add a little something to this plain green pillow, I took some strips of turquoise fabric and rolled them into flowers. I followed this great tutorial from Trey and Lucy to make the flowers. Then  hot glued the flowers onto the pillow. Easy Peasy!!

Fabric Scraps Wreath

A few months ago I bought a wire wreath frame to make a Spring wreath for the front door. But with five kids' schedules I never got around to it. So instead of a wreath for the door I finally took the frame and made this simple wreath made from fabric scraps for our youngest daughter's bedroom. We're in the process of decorating it (it's about time) after being in our new home for 1 1/2 years. At this pace, give us another 25 years and we'll have the entire house where we want it. Enjoy the journey, right?

It's a simple project but takes a little time. Put in your favorite movie or, now that the weather is good, sit outside, soak up some sun and tie a hundred or so fabric strips.


Supplies needed for this project:
Wire wreath frame-found at most craft stores. I got this one at Micheals.
Fabric scraps-cut into 1" by 6" strips- didn't count how many, but it's quite a bit. I used 6 different fat quarters and used 3/4 of each one.
Ribbon to hang

Take the fabric strips and begin tying them to the frame until it's filled in to where you like it.

Can you guess what colors she chose for her bedroom?

Stenciled Lamp Shade

This lamp has been sitting in a closet for years now just waiting for someone to take pity on it and make it useful again. Today is that day! It used to be in our oldest daughters room but now I'm revamping it to match our youngest sons bedroom.

The first thing that needed to be changed was that lovely pink stripe. 

So I taped around the pink stripe and painted it orange. While that was drying I got started on stenciling the lamp shade.

I found these cardboard animal stencils at Micheals a while back and chose four animals that would match the decor in the baby's bedroom.

Taped them onto the shade so they were evenly spaced.

Then used a foam pouncer to apply the paint inside the stencil.

Then when they all dried, (I was a little inpatient so I used a hair dryer to speed up the drying process) I pulled off the tape and stencils.

All finished! It matches great with his bedding and canvas wall art I painted a couple weeks ago!

Stenciled Fabric Cork Board

After stenciling some art for the baby's room I was itching to stencil something else. I had one of those plain cork boards that you have lying around and some white fabric and decided to try stenciling the fabric. It was a bit challenging to get the spacing right but I love how it turned out. 

Supplies needed for this project:

cork board (any size)

plain fabric

stencil of choice

paint- I used Martha Stewart Acrylic Satin- Green Olive

small paint roller- I used the foam roller from Martha Stewart

foam pouncer

thumb tacks- I used about 200

adhesive spray

glue gun

After stenciling the fabric, I used some adhesive spray on the cork board to keep the fabric in place while I placed the thumb tacks in.

Start placing the thumb tacks in. WARNING: This does take a while and your thumbs might get sore. (I had to take little breaks while doing this)

After all the tacks are in place, flip the board over and hot glue the edges down.

 I love the pop of color it gives to this plain wall in my office.

Basket Update

For years I've had these wicker baskets that have held various things in our laundry room. We're in the process of sprucing up the room and thought about getting new baskets. After pricing new ones, I decided it would be cheaper to give the old ones a little face lift and that meant pulling out the spray paint!

We used Krylon Indoor/Outdoor- Leather Brown. After a few coats of paint, I'm happy with the result. Now only 6 more baskets to go.