Dreamy Anthro treasures

Don't the knobs make you want to open a cupboard or a cute yellow drawer? I have been searching on Craigslist the past two days looking for a antique style desk to us as a tv stand, an old desk to use as a sewing table, cute little end tables and such. I have found some fantastic deals and I am anxious to start the refinishing process. I have never done it before. I a in desperate need for color in my house. Now that I have found some great ideas on Pinterest, I am beyond happy for my new venture. There are one great deals to be had. I just wish that Craigslist would add a "add to wish list" button so you can keep your favorites organized when trying to decide. Right now I have about 10 windows open on my iPad mini waiting for responses back from their owners. I'm excited to keep you updated. What is your favorite furniture refashion?

Valentine Garland- Vintage style

After decorating for Christmas I am just in love with decorating my mantle now.  It creates a nice atmosphere in one place without  decorations spread all through out the house in random places.  Mine isn't a real mantle, only just one of those picture frame shelves placed on the wall above my TV, but it does the job.  Now that I am decorating it more, I may use one of my bigger shelves I have stowed away.

Aren't you excited for Valentines?  I have already been browsing Etsy for some great unique gifts for my honey.  Usually I totally wait last minute but I love chillen on the couch browsing on my new mini and so I have been quite productive.

So this fun project, my goal was to use what I got.  Vintage pages I purchased last year was the first thing I had in mind when I saw my friends vintage pages pendant in her etsy shop.  Then also browsing over pinterest, a lot of the stuff was too busy or cutsie for me, but they still inspired some ideas.  

If you need some pages you can get them on Etsy for pretty cheap.  I purchase from HERE, HERE and HERE.  They can be used for so many things.  I still have a ton left over.

Supplies:

vintage pages

scissors

felt

hot glue

bows

hemp twine/ribbon or bias tape

find the center of your page and use it as the point in your triangle

cut from each corner to the center

cut some hearts which ever size you wish

glue the hearts on the paper

I alternated hot pink and maroon felt hearts

hole punch to hole at the top of each pendant

run your twine/ribbon through the back of the holes then out the front on each side

I hot glued the twin to the paper on the back so they wont slide around

I did an extra touch by gluing little bows to each pendant

Simple and sweet, I will add to my mantle and keep you updated as I do so.  Remember my Christmas chalkboard?  I love changing it with every holiday or whenever I want it to look different!  See the other pictures?  I did those a couple years ago.  Got the idea from Better Homes and Garden magazine.  Its just fabric!

Lovely Little things...

There are just some things that are so genius that you can't help but share...well I stumbled upon these cute treasures.  Meet Cassie.  My childhood friend, shop owner of  Between The Lines,  & writer/author/narrator of A Serenade for Solitude.  We go way back to the wee child hood years when Barbies and playing in the pond down the street were regular activites.

She is a lover of books.  She write such beautiful words in her posts, and she makes fabulous things that reflect her love of the written word. 

Check out her cute Chalk Board Erasers.  Totally original idea from her own cute brain.  I saw it pop up in the "recently added in my Favorite Shops" and died.  I immediately bought one and have another on order.  How cute!  She also makes wonderful book marks that make you want to read even if you don't, just so you can mark your place.  Home decor?  Yep, she has that too.  With her beautiful bunting also make from book pages.  So lovely!  Check her out...and buy an eraser.  She will do custom definitions!

My Life just got BETTER

I am totally hearing angels singing right now and a heavenly beam of glorious light has decended upon my computer.  

I found...Ipiccy.

If you used to be a devout user of Picnik, then here is the answer to our problems!!!  ipiccy is basically the new and improved version of picnik, and then some!  If you have no idea what I am talking about then listen up.  Ipiccy is free online photo editing website that allows you to upload your images and use their amazing editing software to make fantastic photos.  There are absolutely tons of neat effects, filters and more.  

Since I am doing a Taylor Swift birthday for my girls this year I wanted to do coloring pages in the take home baggies.

I found some actual coloring pages when I googled "taylor swift coloring pages" and they were kind of lame. They didn't look much like her.  So after trying different photo apps on my ipad, even resorting to some crayola apps that have a sketch feature, nothing was coming to me.

That is when I googled, "how to make a sketch out of a photo".  And there you have it.  Ipiccy came up as a good replacement to picnik.  It is practically the same thing, right on down the image saving pop up window. same fonts, effects, plus.  Oh I am happy so I just had to immediately blog about it.  It is currently 12:26 am Sunday morning.  AAAAHhhh (insert deep breath and sigh of relief)

So here is what you do to get an awesome sketch that you can color.  How cool will you be if you make a whole coloring book of images of your family or of your child's hollywood idol/popstar?  I am pretty stocked myself.  Or if you aren't an artist and love the look of hand drawn portraits hangin on the wall...here you go.

Upload your image

click the magic wand tab in the upper left hand corner

scroll down to sketch

adjust as desired

save to your computer

print

JOY!!

(they are even better printed than the image you see on your screen)

or if you don't want to do all that, just click on my images in this post and save them to your computer and print.

enjoy!  I hope you are now as happy as I am.

Goodnight :)

Try something new

If you crochet, here is a new idea. Crochet three long pieces then braid them together and stitch closed to make an eternity scarf. The pattern is now available for purchase in my shop. https://www.etsy.com/listing/122163122/crochet-braided-scarf-pattern


Pattern!  Coming soon...