If you know me, you know that I love tassels and I also love making them. I even did a tutorial HERE so you could learn just how easy it is to make anything into a tassel.I have tassels hanging all over my home, from keys and lamps to doorknobs and drawer knobs! I just love them. Do you?Hubby and I love cats, and I saw an ad in a Tuesday Morning flyer for these cute salt and pepper shakers....
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
2012 Means No More Proscratinating!
See this? This is a picture of what this light switch in our master bedroom has looked like for the last YEAR folks ... with this little paintstrip from Benjamin Moore (Ballet White and White Sand) tucked up under it and a sample of the paint thrown on to the right of the switch. I've...
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Be My Valentine!
It's about a month away so not too early to display some sweet Valentine decor. Last year I had this as one of my displays...This year I wanted to find a new way to display my Valentine Hankies! So I used my green wire tree. I took advantage of our unseasonably warm weather last week and spray painted it white. I then purchased red heart ornaments on after Christmas clearance. And with my...
Friday, 13 January 2012
Oh, Why Not?
Howdy doo, everyone and Happy Friday!Weeeeell, after transitioning our Christmas tree on the kitchen island into a Valentine tree, I decided I just couldn't let it stop there ... so, the "love" started to spread ... it's contagious, I tell ya'! I thought I'd share a few elements I used to create...
Snowflake Wreath
I knew it in my gut. I knew it was wrong. Not finished. Not attractive enough.Us decorators know. We just do, and this was wrong and I am here to admit it and fix it.What am I talking about?This...This so called bookpage-decoupaged-songbook rose-snowflake-wreath that I created last winter. I just called it good and moved onto another project until it surfaced again in this post HE...
Book Wreath & Snowflakes Review
I found this past post of mine that I did last winter on the Book Wreath and Snowflakes that I made. I thought that you may like to see this again. However, now that I look at this minimalistic wreath that I completed last year and compare it to the music page wreath that I just made this year, it's a stark contrast. Shows how I have grown because of inspiration from other wonderful blogs out...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
23 days to a New Garage!
The new brick was wet, so it appears darker than the house, but it is the same brick.We decided that we needed a hobby garage (One bay for me to do my furniture projects in and one bay for hubby to have some kind of hobby car in.) and asked our builder friend (who is totally awesome) to build it for us. We also thought we would get a big fat 'NO' from him because he usually only builds large...