THE Desk

Ok so I know that I have MIA AGAIN!!! ... but I have a good reason. I have been refinishing a desk for an old client of mine. It is for her little girls room and it matches her bedspread perfectly! This things just about killed me but I am finally done and it is FINALLY out of my house!! You don't know what a relief it is to be done! Here are the before and afters:

Zebra Garland

So I have a long built-in right next to my table in the dining room. I refinished the ugly blue laminate to black stained concrete recently and I was wanting some type of garland to go across it. I already have a berry garland on the table so I decided to do light up garland from a strand of christmas lights that I had left!

I got a couple of different spools of red, black and white ribbon. I also found some zebra print at the Lobby so I used two spools of it as well! This takes A LOT of ribbon so you want to get it on sale. The more wired ribbon you have the better because you can play with it to make the garland look fuller. I cut all of the ribbon to 8" and then just figured out a pattern to tie it on. It takes a while to get it tied on but that is pretty much the hardest part! I love the way it turned out!!!

Texas Decor

So I had a neighbor that wanted me to make some things for her little boys room. They are big Texas fans and that is how his room is decorated so this is what I came up with:

Its not much but I wanted to share so here ya go!

Live Laugh Love Stackables

These are my live laugh love stackables:

I just used the basic 2x2s and painted on my words with a khaki color. I got the thin ribbon from wally world and I had the little black wire. I just tied it all at the same place and added some little colorful beads that I also got at wally world!

Very easy!

Its been a while!

I am so excited to be back and to be blogging! This was the hardest holiday season that I have ever had! My brother was diagnosed with Leukemia on June 1, 2010 and it didn't take it long to get him down. I tried to visit as much as I could (he lived 120 miles away). We lost him on December 9th, four days before his little boys 3rd birthday. I have not felt like crafting, or posting, or really doing anything. I finally feel like its time to get back up and going and am excited to be back in the blog world! Sorry for my "bad blogger behavior"!!

Oh Christmas Tree!

I know that you all probably think that I am jumping the gun on Christmas but I promise that I am not crazy... PROMISE! No, I have a craft show coming up this weekend and I wanted to make these little Christmas Trees for it. I used a 2x2 and some Emerald green Krylon spray paint. After I painted them, I sanded the edges and corners and then I used some watered down brown to glaze. I hot glued them together and tied on some ribbon! I am really happy with how they turned out!

Easy Fall Decor

So I just wanted to share a couple of really easy and inexpensive ways to decorate for fall.

The first way is to decorate any candlesticks that you might already have. I did have these decorated for Halloween but now that it is over I had to change it up. I tied two silk leaves that I already had to the big candlestick with some raffia. Next I just placed some pumpkins on top in lieu of candles.

Next, I just took a glass vase from the Dollar Tree and put some pot pourri in it. I got the little candle from the Dollar tree as well and tied some raffia around the glass.

Lastly, I had this glass bowl and the little scoop and I usually change this out seasonably as well but usually with candy. I decided to fill it with cotton bowls this time which was great for me since it was free!

Just thought I would share since I know that everyone is always looking for new and inexpensive ways to decorate!!!