Love is in the Air...

Love in creeping in and I love it! January is a bleek month, so to get me happy I already put up my Valentine's Day decor. I've had fun making new things too. As I finish more projects I will update this post, so check back for more lovey-dovey things.
I hope you enjoy this walk through my house...

I'll start with my pride and joy for this year. I love how this glitter/burlap banner came out. As many of you know, burlap is all the rage right now. I like it, espeically for banners, but I don't love it. It's too stinky, but I guess that's what you get for $2-3 a yard! :)

I love the roughness of the burlap and twine with the fanciness of the glitter. I think it's a good balance.

I made it by using my cricut to cut out a stencil out of freezer paper. Then, after ironing it on the burlap I used white glue and spread it on the stencil instead of paint. Then I sprinkled it with glitter. Waited a minute and then ripped my stencil off. Pretty simple, right?!

Here's some made the same way, just using paint.


I got these letters at a garage sale for $.25 forever ago. They were a pinkish-red with a a nasty wook rose on them. I rip the rose off and mod podged them (one of my first attempts). I still hated them. Well, this year I am definately into glitter, so I thought...

Glitter makes everything better! I love the rough edges with it. Much improved don't ya think?!

Looks pretty good altogether I think!

I've seen words framed before....so I got thinking. I have a frame, I have some things....and this is what I came up with. I love it! and best of all it was FREE!


Sometimes I just buy things because they're cheap, or on sale, or just because they're cute. I don't always have a plan for them. This works most of the time, like these for example. I loved them and so I decided to string them on my curtain rod. I LOVE them. You could make your own for cheap, I just really liked the metal look.


I have loved stringing something around my lamp for each holiday. I think it's cute. For Christmas I had Holly there.












I found these gems at WalMart last year for $.50. I love them. I don't know if they are made to be door hangers, but that's what I took them for! :)

Vintage Neclace Remakes

I am loving this style of necklance. The flower and combo beads, etc. is so cute and stylish. Check out how she made the jean flower here.


Below is my first attempt. The silver chain was my grandmothers. I love that I was able to use it. My mom just gave me her grandmother's (my great-grandmother) costume jewelry too. I am excited to use it and wear it. I love things that have been passed down.

Greatest Uncle Shirt

My neighbor's friend taught me how to take a picture and turn into into a cartoon like picture to then use it as a stencil (did you follow all that?!) :) Anyways, I loved it. It was fun, but hard to do.
While on our vacation my husbands brother had his birthday. We decided to make him a very cheesy shirt to wear all day while we were out in public! It was well worth it.

I made the faces with freezer paper that I cut out with an exacto knife, then ironed it on the shirt and then painted over it with fabric paint. The words were done by my cricut.

Babies, Babies, Babies

It seems everyone around here is having a baby. I've been very busy making gifts. It was been fun. Here are some I made.






Here are some cute boy onesies my neighbor made. She is the one who usually insipres me. She is very talented and has taught me most of what I know!


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They inspired these:


You can find really cute monster designs here at uglydolls.com.

Sweater Stockings

I love what people are doing with sweaters. I want to do some of these for personal stockings for my family.
Here's some.

Here's another.


Here are mine. I love the way they turned out. Especially the white one and blue one.

Framed Hanging Ornaments Mod-Podge Style

This is so cute. I fell in love with paper mache ornaments when I did my Halloween tree this last year. They are easy and fun, but a big mess...but it is worth it.

Here are how mine turned out. I don't like my blue frame. It is going to go a distressed white.


I also put some of the ornaments on my garland with some little bells, trumpets, and presents I made to match. I think it looks pretty good!

Tool Belt

Cute!

Here's mine. My son LOVES tools so I just had to make him one for Christmas.

Fabric Notebooks

I love this. I love that there is a place to put the pen/pencil.

I combined this idea and the crayon rolls I've seen around. I really like the result and my boys have loved them too.

Cake Stand

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. I have some round boxes I don't use and I can pick up the other things to do this. I love the look and really want one, so perfect! Check out the link to see how it's done.

Finally did mine. It turned out great and I can't wait to use it for all holidays.