Corner News September 11, 2015

September 11, 2015September 10, 201511 Comments

Hello everyone! So glad it’s Friday. Even with a short week, I am ready for the weekend. Are you doing any community service projects in honor of September 11? I have my preschoolers collecting items for our friends’ animal shelter, Valley Animal Haven. You are never too young to start community service! We just found out that the shelter is one of the 10 finalists for a HomeAgain Grant. We are so excited for her and plan on voting every day. If you would like to help the animals out, you can vote too! Here is the link- http://www.homeagainhelps.com/. We are Valley Animal Haven, located in CA. By the way, that is my daughter Haley in the picture with all the puppies on her lap! You can vote via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or email. Thanks so much for your help! Now on to our Corner News!

Even though the blogosphere says it’s fall, our weather is still 105 degrees. Whew! But I have been buying a few things here and there and pulling out my fall stuff. I found these things at the Dollar Tree. I plan on adding them to an old rake I have.

I just love the acorn bells!

I also did a little thrift store shopping and picked up a few things. I found this cool metal basket/table and this cream colored pitcher to add to my fall decor. The pitcher has the words, ‘sip, savor, relax, enjoy’ printed on it. The pumpkin is a make-over I just finished. If you want to see the post, take a look here.

Here is just a peek at my front porch. It’s ready for fall, even if the weather isn’t! I will be revealing the whole thing in a week or so.

I hope you all have a great weekend! See you next Monday!

Scrapbook Paper Signs

September 10, 2015September 9, 201513 Comments

Do you ever go shopping in an arts and crafts store and see something that you absolutely didn’t need and you bought it anyway?

Yep…all the time…

Well, on a certain trip to a certain Hobby Lobby with a certain mother of mine (you know who you are), my certain mother HAD to stop in the scrapbooking aisle. Not that I didn’t want to stop in the aisle, but it’s for the purpose of the story. So as we looked down the aisle, we both realized that some of the 12 by 12 paper was really cute.

And that’s when I realized that I was going to purchase some of these cute pieces of paper.

I bought 2 turquoise and 2 white papers to use. I wanted to hang them on a wall in the living room at the apartment, so I had to find something to hang them with. So, continuing thought the certain Hobby Lobby with a certain mother of mine, we found cork board that I could put the paper on.

So the cork board came with stickers to put on the back that would attach to the wall. I liked this because then I didn’t need any other hangers. I then hung the paper on the cork board with gold tacks that I had left over from my push pin art. So, with one pin on each corner, the pictures were hung on the wall.

And here’s the finished product!

I love how the pictures look. I know that deer and arrows are all in right now, so it worked perfectly, along with the words Love and Hello. It looked great on the wall and I love the pop of color. Now…if only I can get them to stay on the wall…

Fabric Pumpkin Makeover

September 7, 2015September 7, 201523 Comments

Happy 3 Day Weekend (for those who get one!)! This post is late today because I am busy trying to get my house cleaned up and ready for fall! I don’t have much time during the week, so I figured this was my time to get moving on it. I feel like I accomplished quite a bit, but I didn’t get the blog done for this morning. But it’s here now!

I found these 2 (very) bright orange fabric pumpkins at a thrift store. There really wasn’t much out yet at the stores I usually go to. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with these, but I figured something would come to mind. I talked with the girls and we came up with a few ideas.

I started with the small one. Haley suggested turquoise with orange polka-dots, where the dots start out full at the top and then becomes less and less. So I went through my paint stash and started with some colors that I mixed. It did not turn out as bright as Haley was thinking. So, I looked again and found some old poster paint in bright turquoise. It ended up being the perfect color! Here are my different attempts:

Much better color! I added a little more turquoise with some purple mixed in for the stem. After seeing the turquoise, my mind totally went in a different direction than polka-dots! Do you do that? Change your mind part way through a project? All. The. Time!

I decided to add some string around the pumpkin where the previous string was. I picked a navy blue, although it looks kind of purple.

I just put some hot glue on the old string and laid the new string over the top.

Here is a little clue to how I ended up decorating the pumpkin. These are a few of the embellishments that I used.

The big pumpkin I just spray-painted with Rust-oleum spray paint in Metallic Aluminum.

Then I added some glittery silver filigree washi tape that I found at Walmart. Sorry I don’t have the package to show you. I had already opened it for another project. Isn’t is pretty!

And here is the turquoise one! Ta da!

Haley loves peacocks and we had decorated her graduation party in a peacock theme. You can see it here. I had a few feathers left over, so it worked out great.

I just loved how they both turned out! Have been decorating for fall yet?

ps. We (mostly Lauren) have been on Periscope! Be sure to follow us there to find out when we go live!

Corner News-9/4/15

September 4, 2015September 3, 20154 Comments

Hey everyone! It is Friday! Hip hip hooray! It the end of the week and onto the weekend, where everyone can relax. So, here is what has been going on in my world this week.

I started school last week…bleh…can it be over yet? If you didn’t know, I am a Kinesiology major and I would love to graduate with a degree in Exercise Science. I am hoping that will happen in the next school year, or maybe the fall semester.

My roommates and I have a study session

Also, I started my own Periscope! Not only am I do the #SeptemberScopers challenge with my mom for the blog, but I am going to try to vlog…livestream…scope…whatever it’s called everyday as well. So please follow both our Periscope accounts to get double the fun!

And finally, I have been making more signs like I made for my coworker Kelli. I made this one for my coworker Lola.

Owl Always Love You

And this one for my coworker Braydan.

The Smooth Sea Never Made A Skilled Sailor

And I have more orders in the works! If enough people are interested in these signs, I might start an Etsy account to sell them for others. Let me know if you would be interested so we can get that ball rolling if needed!

Well, that’s all that happened these past two weeks. Hope you have a great weekend and see you all next week!

#SeptemberScopers

September 3, 2015September 2, 2015Leave a comment

It is officially September, which means that leaves are falling, weather is changing, Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back at Starbucks (for any of you into that), and new challenges for blogging.

Working Mom Magic has started the #SeptemberScopers Challenge. This is using the app Periscope where someone can livestream from their phone. This livestream can be 5 minutes or it can be an hour, whichever you prefer. This app is connected with Twitter, so you can tell your Twitter followers when you went live on Periscope. It is awesome!

So Working Mom Magic has set up certain things that you can talk about on your scope, but it isn’t limited to just that! You can talk about whatever you want! Hooray!

And, mom and I have taken the challenge. Well…more me than mom, but it is still both of us. I have posted a livestream the past two days and will try (biggest and most important word) to post a livestream everyday on from that. The times will be a little skewed because of work and school schedules, but I will post on Twitter when I go live!

Finally, please check us out on Periscope. Our username is @homeonthecorner, so please follow us and give our livestreams hearts. I also have a personal Periscope, @yoyorocks99. Follow both of these account to see more of what mom and I go through for the blog!