It’s starting to get more than a little depressing, that my quest for a lightweight, breezy white shirt keeps ending with the shirt looking better on the hanger than it does on me. I think I’ve been looking at Pinterest boards too long because for the last year I’ve wanted a really lightweight, white crinkled shirt that looks totally relaxed and flowing-in-the-breezish. You know the kind I’m talking about, right? Well, I hate shopping for clothes, so believe it or {Read More}
Repurposed Books Coat Rack Junker’s Unite
October 15, 2013 by 37 Comments
Every home needs a coat rack, but I love old books, and wanted to find a way to to find a way to incorporate them into useful decor and not just a stack of dust collectors, so I turned the into a coat rack, so you can literally hang on every word! 🙂
French Script Desk Makeover with Chalk Paint
October 14, 2013 by 15 Comments
If you’ve ever made a DIY version of chalk-style paint, or have been curious to try it, today’s post is for you. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know I love chalk paint. It is hands-down, my favorite paint to work with. It dries quickly, distresses beautifully, is much easier to clean up than other paints, and it doesn’t stink up your whole house when you paint indoors. Last year, I discovered I {Read More}
French Script Sewing Bench Makeover & Flying Dust
October 10, 2013 by 22 Comments
Yesterday, I shared with you an 1872 French letter written in a lovely script. Today, I’m going to share what I did with the PNG version of this letter. During the summer, I hit a great yard sale that had lots of my favorite kinds of finds, which included an old sewing machine in a stand and included this little bench seat. The seat lifts off the chair and it was filled with sewing notions – a bonus! It has {Read More}
DIY Antique School Wall Chart
September 26, 2013 by 23 Comments
DIY Antique School Wall Chart I have a real fondness for antique school primers and am always on the lookout for them. I love the simple, sweet illustrations in them, and am very drawn to the alphabet pages and pages that show the diacritical marks that helped young pupils to learn to read. Antique primers aren’t too hard to come by, but antique school charts are a little more difficult and are expensive. I’d love to own an original, but {Read More}
Harvest Party…It All Started with Root Beer
September 12, 2013 by 22 Comments
It looks like I’m having a Harvest Party, but I’m not… and it’s all because of some root beer bottles. A few weeks ago, my daughter had a few friends over for a movie night. My husband and I had been out of town for a few days, and when we came home, the table was filled with junk food and there was a counter full of empty glass soda bottles. She knows I love bottles, so they didn’t throw {Read More}
Antique Graphics Wednesday – {Rulers and Tape Measures}
September 11, 2013 by 5 Comments
Do you love old rulers and tape measures? I do! I’ve been stockpiling yardsticks and have a bunch of them, but still haven’t decided what I’m going to do with them. I’ve hung a few in my house that are favorites, but I really need to come up with a project to use them. I’ve been trying to learn more about digital “crafting”, so I thought these old rulers and tape measures would be fun to use in some digital {Read More}
Decor Steals Typography Bamboo Floor Mat Knock-Off
August 19, 2013 by 27 Comments
Decor Steals Knock-Off : Typography Bamboo Floor Mat The Typography Bamboo Floor Mat sold by Decor Steals is wildly popular, and though they recently offered it for a great price of $119.50, that still isn’t affordable for everyone, so I decided to try creating my own version for less money. I ordered a bamboo floor mat runner, sized 24″ x 72″ on Amazon and paid $27.99 (including shipping fees). Here’s my version. I selected fonts and created a vinyl stencil {Read More}
Soft Cottage Colors for DIY Rustic Backdrops
August 10, 2013 by 3 Comments
A few months ago, I showed you some backdrops I painted and sold in my shop. After those sold, I made a few more…and those sold. A photographer bought a few of them for photo backdrops and someone else purchased a few to use at a baby shower. I love knowing how things I made will be used by others. Soft Cottage Colors for DIY Rustic Backdrops Originally, I was just selling mint green ones, so I decided to expand {Read More}
Enjoy the Ride… {Free Bicycle Images to Use with the Silhouette}
August 9, 2013 by 6 Comments
I had planned on painting my rusty, sweet old bicycle this summer, but I still haven’t gotten around to doing it yet, but I did paint another old white bicycle, but this one is on a wooden sign. I’ll show you how easy it is to create one of your own, with bunches of bicycle images to choose from. First, go to Dafont.com and download the Sepeda font HERE. Every letter of the alphabet is represented by a different kind {Read More}
