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Monday, November 11, 2013

The Stockings Were Hung

The Christmas decorating has started ! This is our family room mantel .. I love how it turned out !

I made the sign from a piece of plywood. I wrote the words in pencil , and then just painted them and added LOTS of glitter ! Love the bling :). I used a foam stamp for the snowflakes. The two big snowflakes are from the Dollar Tree. The lit houses are from Home Goods.. They are battery operated but I didn't want to worry about batteries so we poked a hole in the back and just stuck a couple lights in each one. There are 2 garlands, one is pure white the other is green with flocking and pinecones. I made all the stockings.. They are counted cross stitch and each one takes me about a year to finish stitching. I added a white garland to the ribbon that holds the stockings.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Faux Chalkboard Table Runner and Burlap Centerpiece

Today I am showcasing my Joann Fabrics #turkeytablescapes project ! Since chalkboards and burlap are so popular I used both !! Come on into the dining room ! This will be our first Thanksgiving with our newly remodeled dining room and new dining room set ! I am so excited about this project !

I made this tablerunner from 2 yards of black broadcloth ,and just sewed a 2 inch seam, down the length of the fabric.turned right side out and ironed it... you could even use fabric glue if you don't sew.. I then tried to use white paint markers but those were not giving the look of chalk.. I ended up using acrylic paint and 2 different sized brushes .

I freehanded the whole thing , and tried to make both sides pretty even :)
Can I tell you how much I LOVE it !!! Doesn't it look like a chalkboard ? So exciting !

I sewed burlap strips to the ends, just pinned and sewed ..you could also just use fabric glue.

For the centerpiece I used a wire wreath form and burlap rolls.. It took about 1-1/2 burlap rolls for the wreath centerpiece.

You just make loops in the wire weaving them into each section and keep scrunching them down to make it really full.. couldn't be any easier ! No glue no nothing ,it just stays ..

Once the wreath was completed I added a glass cloche to the center with a crocheted pumpkin ..I did make it larger than this , and added a real dried pumpkin stem ! I did not glue anything into the wreath so I can reuse it for some other holidays !

I also used the burlap wreath idea to make name tags for the seats .. Are they not just the cutest ! I found the little chalkboards in the wood section at Joanns.. I just looped burlap strips thru the wreath over the chair backs and stapled them together

I added some fall picks to the burlap wreath ..They are almost black berries ...go perfectly! And they were 70 % off !!

I do have a confession to make , I don't do Thanksgiving decorations! By Thanksgiving my Christmas has been up for about 2 weeks ! But with this being black and white I can use it for Thanksgiving ..So for the first time in a long time Thanksgiving will be on the table :)

You can find all the burlap , wire wreath forms, fall picks, fabric and acrylic paint at Joann Fabrics ! This is one of my favorite projects EVER and I appreciate Joann Fabrics inviting me to participate ! I received compensation for this post , but all opinions are my own .. Here is a coupon and a link to Joann Fabrics Craft Catalog ..

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Monday, November 4, 2013

Fall Is Back !

This weekend all the Halloween decorations came down and the Fall went back up ! I turned the pumpkin topiary around so you can't see they are carved. Fall sign and decomesh wreath are back up for maybe 2 weeks until the Christmas decorating starts !

I put a new design on this thrift store silver tray that I painted with chalkboard paint. Its sitting on my Walmart faux olive bucket with branches from the yard.

My second fall mantel is decorated with alot of real pumpkins and gourds, leaf and berry garlands, hydrangeas from the yard, I turned my Halloween Subway Art over and painted the word Harvest on the back :) sprinkled it with glitter ..and the Fall Book Page Banner

Last week my daughter and I went to an estate sale, and I got this 2 tiered wrought iron basket.. Its sitting in the family room with a couple pumpkins and a burlap bow.. The side table in the family room has a Book Page Pumpkin , ceramic turkey, and scarecrow..

The dining room has the Easy Fall Table Runner and some sweater pumpkins ..

I also got the little cream pedestal bowl last week at the Salvation Army.. Its the perfect size for this pumpkin.

All the Halloween decorations are down in the kitchen and there's just a few Fall touches.. The pumpkin plate, the pumpkin canister, sweater pumpkin and a little fall chalkboard on the shelves.

The hutch has the vintage scale and pumpkin gourds, and a fall garland on the top..

The Fall Tablerunner on the kitchen table with the cute owl cookie jar from Walmart !

I am finishing up my #turkeyTablescapes project for Joann Fabrics and will be back with it and a coupon tomorrow !

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

I Painted My Bedroom Furniture !

Last week, my daughter and I with the help of 2 sons ( the sons didn't paint they were only physical labor ) and 1 girlfriend painted our bedroom furniture! The bedroom set was old I think 26 years old. and it was ugly ! We have talked about getting new furniture but there was always something else was needed , so it gets pushed to the end of the list. We used homemade chalk paint..

There was a whole bed wall for the headboard and my son took it and the two cabinets that were on top off , so we are just left with the nightstands and the back of the bed wall. This whole process has made our bedroom look so much bigger. I am on the lookout for a king size headboard to paint..We spray painted all the knobs and handles instead of buying new.. they were a brass color.

There was ugly stained glass in the cabinets on the top of the hutch .. I was going to take the hutch part off the dresser and just buy a mirror to hang on the wall, but I turned the glass over so it was smooth and painted it with chalkboard paint.

It was a great way to lose the stained glass!

We painted all the furniture in the bedroom.. slid boards and dropcloths under each piece. We had all the drawers lined up in the bathrooms.. It only took one day to paint it all but it took a couple days to get everything back in order.. It was so worth it ! I got new burlap lampshades at Hobby Lobby ..they are the round drum shaped ones shown below.

They look so much better! This whole project was right around $100.00 including the lampshades! While this was going on my husband was out of town on a business trip, and he had no idea this was going on .. He did ask why I went with off white and not a color :) I just couldn't decide on a color so off white it was !