Christmas Crafting with my Mom

Because of my love obsession with Pinterest, I am constantly finding crafts that I want to try. And because Christmas isn't too far off, I've been pinning a lot of Christmas projects. I came across this pretty wreath made of coffee filters and wanted to give this one a try!

I found the tutorial here. It looked so easy and pretty for something made out of coffee filters that I was a little worried mine wouldn't turn out half as good. My mom came over Monday and we got to work on our wreaths. It took us about 2 hours and we had beautiful wreaths!!

I am SO pleased with how it turned out. I'm still not quite done with it. I want to add more Christmas-ey decorations, but that's for another day. Thursday will be our next Christmas craft & I'm so excited to share that with you too!

House Projects

I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted! I have so many things I want to post about, but most of them are about the house projects we're working on. We have SO many projects going at once. We're hoping to finish them all within the next month (crossing our fingers)! I also want to blog about projects I have done and a few that I want to do, but for now I'm going show you what our house looks like. Please don't judge, I KNOW it looks crazy!! 

This is our mantle-we originally painted it white and then didn't like it, so we're in the process of stripping the paint to stain it.

Actually, our whole fireplace is something we've decided to makeover-again!

This is our kitchen ceiling-waiting to be beautified with beadboard

Our kitchen still needs lots of work: Cabinet doors painted and put up, backsplash, new countertops, hardware, and some paint!

We the husband ripped down the paneling and we're trading it all in for some textured walls-all the lines are glue remains

Our flooring is down, but we need to lay down the transition pieces

We need to replace all of the trim! And the piece of wall that is missing :(

Guest room flooring is thisclose to being finished!

THEN we need to clear it all out so we can slowly move things in/change things up for the new baby :)

Doors need to be put back on their hinges

Our back door will soon be replaced-SO excited!!!

And we are desperately hoping that this will be knocked down and that horrible bush will be banished from our yard!

See?! LOTS of work, right?? You'd think we'd have Caution tape everywhere. hahaha. I will be posting pictures of everything completed hopefully within the next month. I am so excited!

In Love With Wreaths

I don't know if I have told you or not, but I am OBSESSED with Pinterest! I am always searching for recipes or crafts to try out and I recently came across this picture of a wreath:

Isn't it pretty?! I love it and I decided to make one for myself. Mine is a little different, but here it is:

Instead of the house number, I decided to go with the letter "S" for our last name. I love it! I had so much fun, I'm already planning on making a fall & Christmas one! And I will definitely post pictures of those ;)


Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!


Tara

Kitchen Towels Make Great Throw Pillows!

I was at Tar-jay {Target} the other day when I came across a set of 2 kitchen towels that were on clearance for $1.38. They had some in a fun yellow pattern and a pretty blue-ish pattern. I wasn't going to use them as towels, but I wanted to take them home and come up with something to do with them. And I figured it out fast! I was going to make them into throw pillows!!


Here are the "before-I-sewed-them-but-after-I-cut-them-in-half" shots:

I'm loving the blue ones more but I thought the yellow would add some cheerfulness :)


So anyways, I sewed them right sides together, stuffed them with Fiber-fill & sewed them shut! I have two more to do {one of each} but I ran out of Fiber-fill. So here they are:

We're going to paint our room a light gray color & there will be lots of white. I think these pillows would add fun pops of color.


Tara

From Palate to Coffee Table

I have been super addicted to Pinterest lately. I can't pull myself away from it! I love all the recipes, the fashion boards, the DIY projects, and all of the home inspiration. The other day I was scrolling through the website and I came across alot of things to do with palates.

{rustic baskets-I'd totally use these to store blankets!}

{awesome sofa bed}

{LOVE this sofa bed}

{rustic headboard}

{super cute for the fireplace}

{another sweet headboard}

{coffee tables}

I thought these were such awesome ways to get use out of palates! And you can totally find them free or at a Habitat for Humanity re-store.

I love the rustic vintage feel it gives off and after my shutter headboard project, I'm definitely going to tackle making a coffee table out of palates. Can't wait!!  

Tara

Shutter Headboards

I have been looking for the "perfect" bed frame or headboard to make our room look a little prettier..maybe a little vintage, too. Lately, I've been seeing so many bedrooms that have shutters as headboards. They are so pretty AND look a little vintage!!

I was looking on Craigslist for some free shutters but I didn't find any. I wanted to do this without spending money since we're on a tight budget. And I finally figured out how I can do it for free!!

When we moved into our house, every single closet had bi-fold doors. We hate bi-fold doors. We removed all of them except for the ones in our garage-turned-family-room. I'm not sure why we didn't remove them, but nonetheless, when I was in the family room the other day, I got an idea. 

In the words of Gru, "Liiiight bulb."

I could use my our bi-fold doors for our headboard!! They have the same look as shutters and..they're FREE!

They are old & dingy, but don't worry. I'm going to cut them down to size and give them a nice paint job..I can't wait to get started! Stay posted for the reveal!

Tara

I Got Off my Lazy Behind...

...and pulled the weeds out of the flower bed!!! I think we planted our flowers & shrubs about 4 months ago.

 And since then, there has been NO weeding. I mean, seriously who wants to go out in the almost-100-degree-Oklahoma-weather & pick weeds?! Not me, that's who. Well, I was seriously bored yesterday & I decided to get off my behind & sweat a little. And I did! I was out there for all but 10 minutes and I wanted to quit. But I kept on {after going inside for a ten minute break} and I pulled the majority of the weeds out.

Look at that pile! Four months' worth of weeds. Stupid weeds. Most of them came from this corner spot.

I still have little bitty weeds everywhere to pull, but that can wait another time. Hopefully it won't be another four months before I get to it! :)

Blessing #16: Got to have lunch with the Sutton girls at Panera today!


Tara