Craft Projects

Happy Monday!

We had a great weekend, I hope you did as well.

My daughter competed in a skating competition on Sunday and did great!

Plus they had school today, so reality was a little hard after getting home so late last night!

I have been focusing on getting some none paper crafty project done.

Since both of my kiddos are active in sports,

 I was looking for a way to display their medals.

Before we moved I had a board with hooks on it in my daughters room,

so I looked for a way to improve upon it.

This is what I came up with....

I painted it her room color, Peacock Blue, and distressed it using Martha Stewart's

metallic paint in black coffee, so much fun to use! 

I then added some knobs from Hobby Lobby that I got for half price!

Viola....one completed project!

Here is it with her medals.....I took the picture before she added her ones from yesterday!

Now onto my son....

He has just as many medals but I wanted to do something different for him.

We have lots of spare wood laying around since the renovations continue on our house.

I had my handy husband cut a board to the size I needed and then I spray painted it red.

I add some vinyl from Poppies at Play

I have had it for over a year!

Once I added the vinyl to the board, I again used Martha Stewart's Metallic paint in black coffee.

I used the paint because I actually wanted to dull the bright white of the vinyl.

I absolutely love how it turned out.

Here is the finished project....

and a close up of the vinyl I purchased....

It feels great to have these two projects completed!

Enjoy!

Christmas Gifts

 With Christmas right around the corner,

it is a mad dash to finish Christmas presents.

My kiddos love sports, so I put together a couple of collages for them.

I used my cricut to cut out the letters to customize them!

Here is the soccer version.....

 and the skating version.....

I can't wait to see there faces!

Crafty kind of day

The weather here in South Bend has been a little unpredictable the last couple of days, so after working this morning, I decided to stay home this afternoon and craft until it was time to get the kids from school.  Instead of making cards, I decided to make a few home decorating ideas that I have had floating around for a while.  I had most of the stuff on hand, so it was easy to put together.

The first is a coffee filter wreath.  I saw this posted on another blog a while back and have had the stuff to make it, just never got to it.  It was so simple and turned out great!  I think next time I make it, I will use the brown coffee filters for a different look.  I decided to hang it from my distressed window that I redid a couple of weeks ago.  Now I just need to get it hung on the wall.

 Here is the side view that my daughter took, she did a great job!

 I also made this little tree.  I purchased everything half price at Hobby Lobby, gotta love that.  It was so simple to put together.  I actually made two but have not decided where I am going to put them yet. 

 Lastly, I made these simple yarn trees.  I purchased the styrofoam cones at the dollar store and the yarn was 50% off at Michael's.  Can't beat that.  A little hot glue and I was good to go.  I will have to find a spot for these as well.  I have a couple of more projects that I need to complete, then I am actually going to start decorating downstairs.  Since I finished up the majority of the unpacking earlier this week, it will be easy and fun now that everything is out.  More on that later!  I like how you can see how snowy the backyard is in the reflection of the mirror!  Enjoy!