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:

Life in the Fun Lane

Dear Lillie

I hope everyone has a fabulous week ahead! Be sure and check back- I'll be doing our master bedroom tour. Also don't forget you still have until Sunday night to enjoy the blog follower 10% off discount in the shop! Click Here to go straight there Be sure and and enter the code "BLOG10" at check out. 

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thank you ohdeedoh!

A huge thanks to Ohdeedoh/Apartment Therapy for Lucy's birthday shout out today! What a great end to the week.

easy wall stencil

When I say this was easy that's an understatement. We have a hall wall near our stair case that needed some love and a while back I was in Hobby Lobby and ran across these stencils. They have the registration marks on the stencil so it makes lining up things so easy. Eventually when I got to the strange angles I just began to cut the stencil down to make the painting easier. The whole process went fairly quickly too- done during that lovely nap hour. I will admit I was a little unsure at first but Nick said he really liked it and had me keep going and I'm so grateful for his encouragement because I love the end result. I used paint we had on hand from another project so the whole thing only cost me the $16.99 for the stencil. I should mention that the wall I stenciled on is stucco textured and the lines aren't all perfect and crisp but I actually really like that about it, to me it helps to soften things a bit not having all of those hard edges. SO if you have a big empty wall you might consider giving this a try!

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dreamy beds from sweetpea and willow

Have you seen the SweetPea & Willow site? I'm probably just slow but boy am I glad to have finally found it. It's definitely good for a little pick me up eye candy! This are images from their bedroom collection found here. Go on, it's ok to window shop...

night-night

spring fresh

Bam! It's here, it almost snuck by me thats how much I've been paying attention lately. If it weren't for some random ad on the radio yesterday I wouldn't have even realized Spring was officially here. Nick and I were in the jungle aka our yard working all weekend. We took advantage of every nap the baby took and that extra DLS hour of light at the end of every day. We must have hauled away 30+ bags of leaves brush and debris from raking out our beds alone it was insane people. I'm pumped though, so ready for fresh cut grass and farmers markets. 

Hope you all have a wonderful week ahead.