All You Need Is Love

Awhile back I made some gray and white signs for my bedroom...but about a month ago, I gave them to my brother/sis-in-law for their house...so we have had an empty space on our shelf for a few weeks. Today, I dug out some cupboard doors and made some new signs for the space and decided to incorporate in some yellow this time! AND...I love them!

The pop of color makes me happy:)

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For both signs, I cut "stencils" from vinyl using my MAKE THE CUT SOFTWARE--can be purchased on my sidebar!

LOVE sign

I whipped up a simple LOVE sign for Valentine's Day last week. I just grabbed a board I had on hand and painted it white. I cut a simple straight-edged heart with my jig saw and then free handed the word LOVE, using the width of my foam brush as my guide. Then I roughed it all up with a sander and was done!

String Art

Have you seen this string art floating around pinterest??

My friend is redoing her master bedroom and we were trying to come up with something cute for above her bed.  She showed me this picture and I got to work! You can go to Que Linda for her tutorial, because I just followed that and she explains everything great!  I ran to Lowe's and found this wood with grooves so they fit together and thought that I would like the look and it might help hold everything together...I poured wood glue in the grooves and stuck them together and gave the a LIGHT COAT of white paint...

the only difference from her tutorial, I "free handed" the word, because I didn't feel like busting out my Cricut. You can tell I obviously just chicken scratched until I liked it:)

Then I cut it out, trying to keep the thickness the same for all of the letters. Then I started nailing and when I was done, I pulled the paper off and was left with a bunch of nails!

(my little helper's hands finishing his cereal in the background;)

I went to the store to buy yarn and then opted for crochet thread, since it was thinner. I'm glad I did, because I like the end result better. 

I secured the back by nailing 2 vertical boards  onto my original 4 planks of wood and hung a wire across the back...

It wasn't too hard and I'm excited to see it hanging above Mandy's bed!

If you try it, let me know! I'd love to post it on my blog!

JINGLE ALL THE WAY

My husband and I went to a Christmas party this past weekend, thrown by my wonderful bro-in-law & sis-in-law(wish I had pictures of it...because it was SOOOOOO CUTE! Every single detail was AMAZING, her house looked like a boutique and the food was delicious!)

We were supposed to bring some gifts for a white elephant gift exchange. 

We brought one cheesy "white elephant" gift & then I decided to make a quick Christmas decor for our other gift. This honestly took me 10 minutes to whip up & I thought it turned out cute!

{I almost kept it for myself}

I scored some FREE cupboard doors awhile back that sit in my shed, until they are needed:)

I pulled one out and gave it a quick coat of RED CRAFT PAINT.

After it dried, I applied the vinyl

(which I actually already had cut out about a year ago & just never did the project)

Then I lightly brushed on a WHITE coat of paint on the edge, letting the red still show through to look make it look a bit aged...

I grabbed a door knob that I had & screwed it into the hole that was already there & pulled an ornament off my tree that I got at the dollar store last year & hung it on the knob...

ALL DONE! 

*I cut my vinyl with using Make the Cut software...which can be purchased on my sidebar

Thankful Board

I have had these boards sitting around for over a year, I bought them at Michael's during 90% off after Halloween Clearance. I needed something to take my girlies for visiting teaching for Thanksgiving & these boards came to mind.

I printed up the scripture D&C 59:7

"Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things"

I sanded the board a bit, trying to make it look more aged & used my cricut software(MAKE THE CUT---can be purchased on my sidebar) to cut it out in cream vinyl...

Easy Peasy! Hopefully my girls enjoyed a little Thanksgiving decor!

DIY Laundry Sign

It is SPRING BREAK! 

Wooohooo!

Since we don't have a fun family vacation we are going on, 

I'm trying to be productive this Spring Break & 

do some SPRING CLEANING...

part of which includes giving my laundry room a makeover.

Nothing fancy, because lets be real, 

nobody sees my laundry room but ME. 

Not that I wouldn't LOVEEEE a Laundry Room like this, 

or this...

but realistically I'd rather put my time & money into other rooms in the house. But that is just me.

Oh & the small fact that my laundry room could fit inside the SINK AREA of those laundry rooms;)

I DREAD doing LAUNDRY...it just isn't my thing, but

I'm hoping a little organization will help me in that area!

Today I decided I needed a cute sign on the door & made this up in Picasa... 

then I imported it into my MAKE THE CUT program for my Cricut
NEW UPDATE: This program is not compatible with Cricut:( I'm so sad!!!But it is available with the Silhouette, Gazelle and more!

(Don't have this program???)

Buy it HERE!

I LOVE IT, use it all of the time & have never had to buy a single cartridge!

Anyhow...

I searched in my garage for some wood & came up with this...

 1st I painted it BLACK & then I painted it GREEN...
the same color as my kitchen walls.

Then I distressed it a bit with a sander...

I cut my WORDING out in VINYL, but since I wanted a RUSTIC LOOK, I didn't actually want the vinyl on my sign...I just used it as a STENCIL, taking out the actual letters & leaving the remaining vinyl...

My original "sign" was more of square & the scrap of wood I found was a rectangle, so I improvised & moved over the Loads & Loads of Fun & cut a quick circle out just for fun. 
(I'm sure you can figure it out, but I painted the CIRCLE 1st, let it dry & then laid everything else down, since I wanted the circle in the background)

and then pulled off the vinyl. Took it outside for one more quick sanding & I was done! I can't wait to hang it up!

 After finishing the sign & cleaning out the laundry room today, 
tomorrow I hope to find some storage bins for a shelf in my laundry room
& then I'm calling it DONE!


(at least my laundry room now looks good...from the OUTSIDE, with the door shut!)