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May 2012

Eraser Stamp

Here is a fun simple way to spice up cards, wrapping paper, and pretty much anything else you can get your hands on. A simple triangle stamp made from a pencil eraser.

All you will need is a few pencils, and exacto knife or box cutter and an ink pad.

I was going to mark the triangle on the eraser before I cut it, but the pen didn’t work very well. But since it is only three straight cuts I don’t think it is necesarry. Just make three cuts to create the triangle shape, it cuts real easy. It should look something like this:

Then all you have to do is stamp away.

You can make a cute little bunting design, or just triangles, whatever your fancy you can make it happen.

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A Sheet Music Banner

Today I have a little banner for you that I made for a friends baby shower.  For the shower I of course found a little inspiration from Pinterest of course.  I took my inpiriation picture and got busy creating my own version and of course with a little help from lovely sister, who is the ultimate party decorator, we came up with the perfect banner.  First I gathered together my supplies . . .

yarn

sheet music

paper bags

scissors/paper cuter

sewing machine

I started by cutting the paper bag into the shape of pendant I wanted to use (whatever shape you decide is great, just make sure all the pieces are the same).  I cut one and used it as a pattern to cut the rest.  I made 12 pendants altogether (you definitely don’t need to do that many, but if you are going to write something on it, you would need to make sure you have enough, one for each letter).   I then made a stencil of the sheet music by using the paper bag and then making the sheet music about a 1/4 of an inch smaller.  Then traced and cut out all the pendants  from the sheet music.

I did wad the paper bag pendants up and then straighten them out twice to give them a wrinkled look.  Here’s where the sewing comes in. . .  Once all the pieces were ready to go a layed the sheet music pendant on top of the paper bag pendant where I wanted it and then sewed on three sides of the pendant, leaving the top straight edge unsewn.   I sewed a 1/4 of inch in on the banner, with green thread.  For the theme of the shower we were going for browns and greens since that is to be the colors of the nursery.

 

 

 

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Inspiration Tuesday

We hope everyone had a nice relaxing day off yesterday!  Here is some eyecandy for your week…

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Via Pinterest from  thedesignerpad.com

 

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Via Pinterest from bywaterboo.blogspot.com

 

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Via Pinterest from flickr.com

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Via Pinterest from lamaisondannag.blogspot.com

 

Have a great rest of your week!

 

 

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Happy Memorial Day

Thank you to all of our service men and women for fighting for our freedoms.

Enjoy the holiday with family and friends.

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kick off your Sunday shoes

I don’t know about you guys but I am always finding inspiration in the most random places. Because I mean we can all spend five minutes on pinterst and find a million things we want to do, but it’s more fun to find them in unexpected places.  For me it’s usually movies and tv shows, because, well if I’m honest I watch a lot of movies and tv.

Sometimes I find things to be a bit ridiculous, like there is no way that girl can afford that New York apartment on an assistants salary, right? But anyways, there are usually fun DIY’s to be found and general home and fashion inspiration. The one I am going to share with you today comes from the recent remake of Footloose. You heard me right Junk in the Trunk inspiration from Footloose. Have you seen it? The final dance scene takes place in a cleaned up and decorated barn, for which they made and INCREDIBLE light fixture.

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There are unfortunately not many good photos of it to be found. Hopefully you can get the general idea from these. It looks to be multiple strands of white lights all coming out from  a circular ring containing many lights enclosed in jars.

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I can’t help but think something like this on a smaller scale would look so great on a back patio. There are lots of tutorials out there for mason jar chandeliers, I think it could be pretty easily replicated. Now if only I didn’t live in an apartment.

Are there any projects you guys have done or had your eye on that you first saw in a movie?

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Makin’ it Rain on Those STAINS!

Today I have something very exciting to share with all of you. You may not find it quite as exciting as I thought it was, but it definitely made my day. With 3 small children I definitely spend a LOT of time each day doing laundry and even more time trying to get all the crazy stains out of their clothes, but I found something that is definitely going to cut that time down for sure. I don’t about you, but I have pinned many different remedies on pinterest lately, one in particular that I have been meaning to try for some time but just hadn’t gotten around to actually buying the products. Well I should have done it a lot sooner, let me just tell you. I followed these instructions from Modern Day Mom, but its really so simple.  Just mix one part dawn (some comments recommended to use the orignial blue kind), to two parts hydrogen peroxide.  Some recipes I read also added a tablespoon of baking soda for the added scrubbing, so I did also add the baking sodae.  I had an old Shout spray bottle that I used to put my mixture in, it was much easier to spray the solution on for me, but you don’t have to do it this way.

The subject I used to test out this solution was my son’s baseball uniform.  He’s just 3 and plays t-ball, but he sure does manage to get that uniform quite dirty.  I had not been able to get his pants clean for weeks, the stains just would not come out, no matter how many times I soaked them in oxi clean or bleach, they still remained.  So that is what lead me to this solution.  I thoroughly soaked the stained areas in the solutions, then let it sit for 20 minutes or so.  I then came back and scrubbed the areas a little and resprayed them and let them soak for another 10 minutes.  I then threw them in the wash and look how amazing they came out.  Check out these before and afters.    

I was amazed!  I really am.  They weren’t perfect, but boy did it make a huge difference, and seriously took out stains that I hadn’t been able to get out for weeks.  And I also have to add, that there was a stain on the blue part of his jersey as well that I had sprayed and it came out of the blue without any issues, so it also works great on colors!  I was so excited that I then went and sprayed a whole pile of laundry that had stains I was trying to remove and I have to say, it all came out!  Can you believe it.  I couln’t.  You have to go try this right now.

Oh and another great thing, the dish soap costed me under $2 and the hydrogen peroxide I had gotten at Costco in a 2 pack for under $2.  You can’t beat that!  Are you all ready to go do some laundry?  I have to admit laundry is definitely not one of my favorite things to do, I think my mom and mother in all would agree on this subject, since they both nicely do all my laundry and help me get caught up when they are in town.  Isn’t that wonderful!  It truly is WONDERFUL!  I hope you all have fun removing ALL THOSE STAINS!

 

 

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Inspiration Tuesday

outdoor party

What are your plans for Memorial Day?  Here are some beautiful party ideas…

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Via Pinterest from sfgirlbybay.com

 

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Enjoy your long weekend!

 

 

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Bookshelf Makeover and Boys Room Sneak Peak

I hope you guys had a great weekend.  This weekend I actually worked on a lot of projects, I just didn’t finish most of them, so I will share those next week.  I did get to update an old bookshelf for the boys room and start decorating their room finally.  Poor kids have been living in a room with blue carpet and bare drywall walls.  It was nice to get some progress in there.

We hired someone to mud and paint the room.  I have had no energy lately and hubby has been working a ton, so we bit the dust and hired someone.  I have never done that, and I have to say it was really nice to leave the house in the morning and come back with it all done!  I could get used to this!

I don’t have a before picture of the dresser, but it was just a stained bookshelf.  I decided I didn’t want to paint the whole thing because I am planning on painting their dresser and their beds, so I wanted some natural wood in there too.  Here is the bookshelf after I painted it.

The paint is still a little wet, that’s what the spots are.  Once dry, they disappeared.

I brought  it into the boys room and started decorating it.  I am not done, but here is a sneak peak…

The hats and balls were hubby’s from high school.   I love that we can put them in the room.

Still lots to do, but at least we got started!  Hoping to show you the completed room next week.

 

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a new addition

Remember way back when I created the lovely clipboard display above my sewing machine? It’s great, completely functional, I use it all the time. BUT I also felt like it might be missing something.

 

Enter the cool Letters the Lindsey had for sale at the Market, I knew I had to have one. Well I of course thought it was be even cooler if it lit up…..you know kind of like a Marque light or something. So of course since I have a super handy dad, I may have slipped it into conversation “oh hey would that be possible?” And like Magic a few weeks later I had a light!

 

It is pretty heavy so I used some heavy duty 3M strip hooks to hold it up, which is of course super easy to do. It really finishes off the wall nicely.

 

Thanks dad!!

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