burlap "bubble" wreath tutorial

After we took "fall" down this past weekend we needed a wreath to hang in our entry so I found a picture on pinterest that I loved but adapted it a little bit and this is what I came up with today.

Since we are watching every dollar this holiday season I wanted to use materials that I already had. The only thing I bought was a bag of spanish moss. I actually picked up the straw wreath at Goodwill for .99 cents last summer. They are messy but for this project it really fit my needs since it blends nicely with the burlap.You'll also need to straight pins and hot glue. 

Cut your burlap into approximately 4x4 squares. I'm an "eyeballer" and mine were not perfect but it didn't seem to matter.

Next fold a square into a triangle

Then fold the other two corners towards the center of your triangle. You should wind up with a little "bubble"

Take a straight pin and push it through to bottom tip and make sure it goes through all four corners or it will unfold. 

Then simply pin it into your wreath. Don't worry about pins showing they'll mostly all get covered by other burlap bubbles and the ones that don't we'll take care of later. 

There's no need to worry about placement either just keep going randomly, you can always go back and fill in any bare spot.

You'll be surprised at how fast this actually goes. 

All done! Now comes the moss. 

Next I used the glue gun to add moss. The moss can also fill any little gaps or cover any pins that might be showing. 

It will look something like this when you're finished.

Add a ribbon and it's ready to hang.

I also pinned on this little white fabric bird I made to give it a holiday touch. 

I wanted to make something that could be used in virtually any season by simply changing out an embellishment. I hope this gives you a little inspiration to start your week. It was a fun little project to work on. 

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It's spitting glorious snow here for the first time this season. I'm sooo not being sarcastic. Let it snow baby says this Scandinavian girl. We had grand plans to go to Target tonight but quickly ditched them in favor of sweet hibernation. I worked on these burp cloths for the baby boy.

{really great tutorial can be found here}

while Nick and Lucy had a picnic in bed...

with snow white

and questionable ride on a pair of ponies

Do you know what tomorrow is? On top of it being FRIDAY it's Veteran's Day. Hug and thank one for their selfless sacrifice!!!

a birthday flower pot tutorial

Lucy's grandma is having a birthday this weekend so we thought we'd make her something special. We grabbed a flower pot from the store and a pretty new succulent from the Indianapolis Museum of Art's green house. 

 next grab a few supplies

 i used liquid stitch to tack the bakers string around {it doesn't need to be completely super secured, you'll take care of that later with the mod podge step}

 i cut my bunting flags using 1'' strips of fabric

and then tacked them on with the liquid stitch

 then tape off your pot under the lip and brush on the mod podge

i went around 3 times with the brush

 next i stamped "happy birthday" on a little pennant flag 

and folded it over and attached it to a skewer using more liquid stitch

ta-da! 

I think grandma will love it! You could really use it for any reason to celebrate and change out the flags to say "Spring!" or "Happy Easter" or "Happy Mothers Day" you get the idea. 

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moss monogram tutorial

I've seen several of these moss monograms al la Pottery Barn out in blogland since spring has sprung and this past weekend I thought it would be fun to hop on the bandwagon. I got my rolled moss and letter "A'' from JoAnn's for around $8 with my coupon. This project was really simple, a little messy and very quick- it took me maybe 15 minutes or so from start to finish. A perfect Saturday afternoon project to add a little spring to our house. 

 Supplies: glue gun, scissors, ribbon, wood letter, bag of rolled moss, work surface

 Unroll your moss- This will be a little messy and it probably won't unroll in 1 perfect sheet but thats OK. 

 Begin to cover your letter with sections of moss. I used my scissors to cut off the rough size i needed. I found it easiest to run a bead of glue along the letter and then wrapped the moss around. Don't worry if you have a little over hang we'll fix that later.

 If you have a bare spot just drop a bead of glue on it and dab a piece of loose moss on top, it will blend right in.

 Cover the rest of your letter, you're almost done!

 Flip the letter over and trim off the excess moss around the edges with scissors and glue on your ribbon.

All finished! I hung mine on the mirror in our entry. I also picked up a little box of pastel spotted eggs with ribbon loops while I was at JoAnn's. I gathered a few branches from our yard and put them in a pitchers and hung the eggs from them to make my egg tree. 

here are a couple of pretty versions I've seen:

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painted wallpaper

I came across this awesome tutorial not too long ago on Emily's fabulous blog. As soon as I saw her painted wallpaper I knew I had to have it somewhere in my house. Our playroom also doubles as a space for our computer and craft storage and I thought that a wall in there could use some "jazzing up" (do people still say that?).

I followed her toot to a T with the exception of eyeballing them to line them up, instead I used a yard stick to make sure they didn't go all willy-nilly. The tracing and measuring took the longest. Once I began to paint things moved pretty quick. I did start with seed pearl by pratt & lambert but it proved to be too light against the light walls and not give me enough contrast so I switched to some leftover paint from the 4 seasons room. After all was said and done I was pleased as punch and it didn't cost me a dime. Thanks for the inspiration Emily!