Ombre Painted Canvas with Starfish

February 6, 2016February 5, 20165 Comments

Happy Saturday!! We had an interesting week at school. Lice! Every year this comes up. Hopefully we kept it at just 2 kids and that will be the end of it. Next week will be Valentine’s parties and fun. The preschool buys heart shaped pizzas and the kids think it’s cool. We usually just order heart shaped pizzas at home too. I just buy a couple of little things for the girls and my husband and call it good.

I have a simple little craft for you this week. I found a pack of small canvases at Goodwill awhile back and finally decided to use one. I also picked up a couple of starfish at a yard sale and combined them with the canvas.

I guess I didn’t take any before pictures, but here are the paint colors I used. I had a white and a light blue. I also mixed some blue and white together to make a lighter blue that I could blend together on the canvas.

So I started with the white at the top of my canvas. Then I added the mixed blue and then the light blue. After each color was applied, I went over each color again and blended it more with the next one, creating an ombre’ effect. Here is the white and mixed blue.

Once the paint was dry, I added the starfish. I used tacky glue to attach them to the canvas. Here you can see the darker blue too.

Just the perfect little touch to remind me that summer IS coming again! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

New Life for Old Chairs

February 5, 2016February 4, 20166 Comments

Good morning everyone! Welcome to another post about furniture that we have no idea what to do with. We always seem to acquire this furniture and have no idea how to use it or how to change it.

So, here we go!

Mom found someone who was selling chairs online for $10 a chair. They are from a hotel, so pretty normal looking chairs, and in great condition.

Well, when mom got there, someone had brought the seller more furniture, so now the chairs were $5 a piece. What a deal!

So here’s what the look like.

They aren’t the most beautiful chairs, but they are functional and somewhat comfortable. They work well for kitchen chairs and a computer chair, and for a great price.

So now comes the hard part…what do we do to fix them up? If you have any suggestions for what to do with our chairs, please leave us a comment!

Fabulous Finds and Fashions

February 3, 2016February 2, 2016Leave a comment

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the first edition of Fabulous Finds and Fashions. We are very excited to be starting this and can’t wait to see what the future holds!

So we are going to be starting off with some fabulous fashions. I went ahead and took some pictures of some of the outfits I have worn to school so you can get a sense of my fashion style.

1. Comfy Plaid

Now I know I wore a very similar outfit in the fabulous fall fashion post, but it is too good to not show again. This outfit is a Faded Glory men’s shirt that I purchased from Walmart for $10. The jeans are Forever 21 that I purchased for $20 (wouldn’t it have been funny if I bought them for $21?!). The white tank top is Route 66 that I purchased from Sears for $5. And I purchased the Qupid boots from a local discount store for $15. This outfit is very comfortable and is something that I would wear everyday if I could. But, that’s not exactly sanitary.

2. Sailing Out to Sea

I love how this outfit looks! It looks cute and it may be perfect for going out on a yachting trip. The American Eagle jacket was purchased from a yard sale a few years ago for something around the price of $5. The pink Danskin shirt came from Walmart for $10. These are the same Forever 21 jeans (I like to reuse the same jeans for most of my outfits). I finished the outfit with a pair of Maurices boots that I got for Christmas for $40. Of course the sparkly boots, which I would consider the centerpiece of the outfit, are the most expensive. Perfection? Probably.

So these are two of my fabulous fashions that I have worn to school. They are cute, fabulous, and perfect for everyday wear. I hope that you enjoyed this edition of the Fabulous Finds and Fashions and hope to see you here next time.

ONE WAY TO ORGANIZE YOUR SPICES

February 1, 2016February 2, 20169 Comments

Okay, I know it’s the first day of February and we are not in January anymore, but I am still doing some organizing around the house.

My spices have been driving me crazy! I had them all on a lazy susan, but I still could only find the spices that were on the outside. Then I tried lining them up, but since I couldn’t see them all, it ended up being a jumbled mess.

I had seen different ideas all over the internet, but they didn’t work out with my kitchen. I only have about 5 feet of counter on one side and 4 feet on the other, plus a microwave and a dish drainer take up some of that space. I only have 5 drawers in my kitchen, so I couldn’t use up one of them for the spices. I finally found these on Amazon. I am not affiliated with Amazon, but I love these. Here is the link if you want to order some. I ordered 2 sets to make sure I would have enough for all the jars.

Each rack holds 4 jars. There is sticky tape on the back plus a tiny screw to hold it on the door. I started out by figuring out where to line them up so the jars wouldn’t hit the shelf inside the cupboard when the door closed. I placed small jars in one row and then larger ones in the other row. This way there could be 2 rows and they would fit between the shelves.

Once I figured out how far apart they needed to be I stuck them on using the tape. I did end up putting the tiny screws on the end, especially for the racks holding the larger bottles.

My summer goal is to paint these cupboards, so I will have to take these down and hopefully they will stick again. The directions say to use heat to loosen the glue. I will probably try a blow dryer and see if that works.

So far, I love these! It’s so much easier to find the spice I need plus it cleared up space in my cupboard. A win/win! Have you been doing your January/February organizing and clean-up? I love to hear what you have been doing!