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Monday, January 13, 2014

Family Silver Trays With Book-Page Flowers and a Giveaway!

Good Morning! I am so excited for this project!

I am here to share my version of the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club Platter Wall Hangings. Silver trays are such the rage right now, as are chalkboards and crafts made with book pages! So exciting that you can get these beauties for $1.00! Click on over to see the Dollar Tree version, and get your supply list.

I used 3 trays …2 oval and one round. I painted the back of the round tray with chalkboard paint, it takes at least 2 coats to cover… When it dried I added the Family saying with chalk. I used the vinyl shelf paper with white glue to attach it to the oval trays.

To make the flowers you need pages from a book and coffee filters, both are available at Dollar Tree. I used 3 coffee filters for each flower and 2 book page flower cutouts.

Fold each filter in half then in half again... and bundle all three folded filters.

Cut an x in the center of the book page flowers and insert the end of the coffee filter bundles. Hot glue together, then hot glue to the platter. I used 3 flowers for the round chalkboard tray and one flower on each of the oval trays.

I used the silver trays on the wall shelf in my kitchen. It needed some new life after the Christmas decorations came down!

Now for the giveaway! I am giving away a $100.00 Dollar Tree Gift Card to one lucky reader! Go sign up for the Value Seekers Club (it’s free and has lots of great ideas), then come back and leave me a comment of what project you would like to try and of course your email so I can contact you! The entries will stay open until January 19,2014. I will draw a winner on January 20, 2014 and notify the winner via email.

Thanks so much for stopping by and good luck on the giveaway!

I have been compensated for this post, but all opinions expressed are my own.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Easy Granny Square Blanket

Good Sunday morning ! I hope you are having a great weekend ! I decided to start a new blanket using all my scrap balls of yarn.. All the squares are being bordered in white. Love all the colors !

I am using the join as you go method to join them ..

This is a traditional granny square ..here is a great video if you need instructions. I am using an H hook and worsted weight yarn.

Be sure to come back and visit tomorrow , There will be a giveaway ! I am very excited for tomorrows post!

I also started this Lizzie Kate Dog lessons ..Thanks so much to my friend Catherine at Bramblewood Stitches for loaning it to me :)

Today is a sad day around here , my college boy is heading back to Kentucky ! Football starts back up Tuesday and school on Wednesday ..

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Winter In The Family Room

Good Morning ! Hope you are all staying warm ! I am sharing our winter decorations in the family room today! I keep up one of the snowman trees at least til the end of January..

I left the vintage sled on top of the aqua cabinet, and added a winter chalkboard on a silver tray, sitting on a snowman chair , ice skate ornaments , ice skates and a lantern ..

On the sofa table, I used a snowman platter, another winter chalkboard, lanterns and more skates..

I used this wooden box to hold a glitter house( my daughter got me this one and also the one in the foyer this year ! Love them ) , 2 jack russells ,some snowflakes and silver branches..

I decided to take the glittery floral picks off the top of the tree and crochet the snowman a scarf ! Doesn't it just look wintery ?

All the ornaments on this tree are snowmen , there are alot of cross stitched ornaments..

I left the glitter houses and white garland on the mantel, took down the White Christmas sign and put the clock back up..

I love having the tree and garland lit , its so cozy for the winter..

I left the glitter houses on the coffee table ..all these decorations will stay put until the end of January , maybe into February..

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I started a new granny square blanket yesterday , I will show you my progress soon :)

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Winter In The Foyer

Good Morning ! It's another frigid day here in the Chicago suburbs.. No school again for the youngest ! I am sharing our foyer decorated for Winter ..On New Years Eve day my husband came home from Sam's Club with this green distressed cabinet ..I think it looks fabulous in the foyer !

I left up my coffee filter wreath and the little glitter house vignette ..

I used a vintage scale topped with a vintage silver pedestal bowl and another glitter house ..I hung a cross stitch ornament from the bowl..

I filled the vintage tool box with greenery from the tree :) snowflakes , a pair of childrens ice skates and a burlap bow and cardinal.

I put the little glitter house vignette on this small sled..

I wasn't sure about the green color , at first but now I really like it !

By the front door , I have a chalkboard , and some little skate ornaments and another cross stitch snowman piece..

lanterns, and glittery birdhouses..

I am keeping the burlap and flocked greenery garland up until at least the end of January and also the owl tree..

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Monday, January 6, 2014

Winter In The Kitchen

Good morning ! Its definitely a cold one here -17 ! All my Christmas is down and put away..sad face.. Miss it all already !

I am sharing our kitchen decorated for winter .. I kept the flocked garland up over my hutch and filled the inside with snowmen..

These two winter vignettes are on the counters .. I used pinecones , snowflakes , silver glitter branches, burlap and ice skates in this thrift store basket.
I used a snowman cookie jar on top of the vintage scale , with more silver branches, snowflakes a chalkboard and a cross stitch ornament..

The view from the family room into the kitchen, with the newly winterized chalkboard, and the Anthropologie knockoff wreath now is hanging with a burlap ribbon..

The dining room has winter decorations too, and hopefully I will show you that tomorrow !

I painted these chargers with chalkboard paint and wrote" let it snow "and drew snowflakes around the edges.. I used my Debbie Mumm snowman plates on top of my Dollar Tree white plates. My winter subway art table runner is also on the table..

There is a new winter chalkboard design on the silver tray on top of the hutch..

For the centerpiece on the table I used a silver lantern filled with pinecones, snowflakes and more silver branches. A burlap bow and tweed ice skates hang from the lantern ..There's a snow scene in a mason jar all on top of a pedestal..

If you missed the kitchen decorated for Christmas its here..

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

De-Christmasing And Winterizing !

Good Morning ! I have been kind of slow this year putting away all the Christmas decorations .. I just wasn't ready for my favorite time of year to be over ! My big chalkboard in the kitchen has been winterized ! Don't you love it ! I will be back tomorrow to show you my Winter Kitchen !

I have been crocheting more of those square scarves ! So fun and easy ! The navy and black have sparkly yarn and the top one is a grey blue variegated. There was a cream and gold sparkly one too , but my daughter has already taken it :)

The big ( real ) tree is coming down today , garbage day is tomorrow and I wanted to enjoy it for all the days I could ! I always keep up 2 trees for the month of January , Can't just go cold -turkey treeless ! This year I kept up the owl tree on the stairs and the snowman tree in the family room .

My first cross stitch ornament for 2014 , of course its Prairie Schooler ( there's a lot of stitches in that little ornament !!

We have had so much snow this past week , 18 inches in a 2 day period , and now it is going to be -17 tonight and -14 for the high tomorrow ! A lot of schools around here are closing ! Hope you stay warm !

Stop back by tomorrow to see my winter kitchen !

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