I've been featured!!!

I'm not even sure if that's the right word for it BUT Check it out!

I just love Tatertos & Jello! Jen blogs about crafts and decorating and has a huge following! So to be even mentioned on here is pretty much amazing! She linked up with my latest project - The Pallet Shelf! There are lots of other great ideas too, many of which I intend to try!!!

Silk Flowers

This idea was actually spurred from my flower magnets! A friend contacted me and asked me to make fabric flowers for her wedding. After looking at her inspiration board, these were born. All you need is a satinish fabric (I used poly satin) and buttons. I cut the fabric into different sized circles. Then used a flame from a candle to burn and curl the edges. Stack them from large to small and sew them together with a button! Simple as that! Then I hot glued them to some fake flower stems! Viola!




Now onto the wedding bouquet!

Skid Pallet Shelf

I was working in Market Square one morning and stopped in Bliss and saw the cutest display (as if everything in that store isn't adorable). It was a shelf made out of a skid pallet just like you see at Home Depot or tossed behind any retail strip mall. It had hooks to hang paintings. So of course I modified the concept and created a shelf for myself. First, I had to find the right pallet - pulled over while driving a few times in attempt to find one intact or not covered in mud. If I was still in my explorer, the mud probably wouldn't have stopped me!

FINALLY, I found the perfect one - a half size sitting outside at a new business construction site.

I added a thin coat of paint. It was such a little amount, I just got a sample from Home Depot (or Home Death Pit as Seth called it as a child).

Testing it out on our bathroom wall!

All decorated!

Just love it! The picture doesn't do it justice! The hardest (and most expensive) part about this project was trying to figure out how to hang it! It really was so easy and cheap -

The pallet - FREE
Paint - $3.00
Wall mounts - $10.00
$13.00 total, not bad!

These pallets are everywhere and it's so unique! I'll do a breakdown of the little projects on the shelf later this week! Hope you like it!

FAILED: Bird painting

Ever since Santa brought me this adorable little bird bath jewelry dish, I have had a slight obsession with birds.


My eye has literally been drawn to everything bird related! I have seen so many cute paintings with birds on a branch just hanging out. I thought I could use the colors from our bathroom and make one myself. Well, mine didn't quite turn out like I had planned!


My birds are quite odd looking and it's just really nothing exciting! BUT on the bright side, this failure led me to my greatest transformation yet for our bathroom! Still bird related but I've just got some finishing touches to put on it before I share! The anticipation is killing you, right?

Wedding Guestbook

Our guestbook was one of my favorite things from our wedding. I designed a book with our engagement pictures and had it printed at inkubook. I left lots of blank space for people to sign before the ceremony or at the reception.





Now it sits on our coffee table. So fun to look back at and read everyone's advice and sweet messages! And better yet, SOOO inexpensive and easy!