FREE 4 All Friday!

GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!It's the fourth Friday of the month.That means it's my turn to host FREE 4 All Fridays! Because everybody likes free stuff, right!?! *******************This week I am giving away a SUPER cute picture frame with a few Cricut cut 'pictures' to change out from season to season. Kind of like my HOP Easter sign and my Valentine's Day frames, but just one frame with a cut out in it!


I used my Cricut, some scrapbook paper, and some spray adhesive and came up with these SUPER cute pictures!
*************a flower picture for Spring

a leaf picture for Fall


a snowflake picture for Winter


ANDI will do a letter for the winner's last name sort of like this one! That is five different ways for you to decorate with one cute little frame! ************* To enter:


Leave a comment telling me what your favorite holiday is.


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I will use random.org to pick a winner on Sunday! Good Luck and thanks for entering!

a sun picture for Summer

Fork and Spoon Redo

Back in January I found some great deals at a resale shop that was going out of business. You may remember the lovely wooden fork and spoon from this post. Well, I finally got around to revamping them. The total cost for this project was $8.50!

I paid $2.50 for the set and then spent $3.00 on a can of primer and $3.00 on a can of Black Satin spraypaint. I sanded down the fork and spoon, wiped them down, and sprayed them with a good coat of primer.Then I gave them each two coats of black spray paint to match my kitchen countertops.
I used left over gingham scraps to cover up the strange totem pole faces, and to hang the fork and spoon.
I think they make a nice addition to my kitchen decor...quirky and fun!
{Please ignore the messy kitchen...I took these pics while I was making my rainbow cupcakes! }
To finish up the area I am going to buy the letters E, A, and T to hang above the fork and spoon! Now I just have to decide if I want to paint the letters black, green {the same as the kitchen}, or maybe Mod Podge some paper or fabric on them.

St. Patty's Day!

We don't normally make a big deal about St. Patrick's Day. I mean, we wear green so we don't get pinched, but other than that it just isn't a big holiday for us. BUT, when I saw these cupcakes in Family Fun magazine, I knew that I had to make them! They were pretty easy to make {though very time consuming} and the end product is well worth the effort!

I started with a cake mix and store bought frosting.
I used my Wilton food color gels to color about 2/3 cup of batter with each color of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. I mixed the cake batter and color together in plastic cups. I used white icing {as clouds} and topped each cupcake off with a gold coin. And the colors turned out amazing! I think one of my favorite parts was the rainbow left on the cupcake wrapper! After making a few rainbow mini cupcakes and a few rainbow regular cupcakes, I got lazy and just did mini cupcakes in solid colors.

I figured I could line them up to look like a rainbow:)

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The boys and I also made some SUPER cute shamrocks! I cut three hearts per person with my Cricut and hot glued them together in the shape of a shamrock and the glued on a stem. Then the boys used crepe paper and decorated their shamrocks! SUPER easy and we made it with stuff that we had around the house.

How do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

My Version of a Spring Wreath: A Tutorial

I have seen a ton of SUPER cute spring wreaths around blogland lately. A few of my favorite are Jenn's Whimsical Spring Wreath and Linda's Spring Felt Flower Wreath! It has actually been a few months since I have even had wreaths on my front door! So I figured with all that great wreath inspiration, I should get busy on making some new wreaths for my front door.

Ribbon and Pearls

I have seen a few SUPER cute necklaces lately that incorporate grograin ribbon and pearls. I really liked the look of them, but just couldn't let myself spend $20 or more for a necklace that I knew I could make for a lot less money. So that is exactly what I did:)
I purchased jewlery cording, a string of {faux} pearls, and some grograin ribbon at Hobby Lobby. I spent a total of $5 on all three items that I used in this project:)
I started out by cutting a generous length of ribbon and then attaching a starter pearl to the ribbon with a needle and the jewelery cording. Make sure to leave a pretty good length of extra ribbon on the end to use as the tie.
Then I alternated adding a pearl....
and making a loop of ribbon.
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There are a lot of different ways to do the ribbon, you can do a small loop, wrap the ribbon around a pearl, or even do two pearls in a row and then wrap the ribbon around both of them. It was basically trial and error to see what would work and what looked the best.
I kept alternating pearls and ribbon until the necklace was the lenght I wanted, then I tied off the last pearl and made sure it was attached securely {I had to sneak in a little hot glue to make sure that the cording didn't slip and let the two end pearls fall off}.
Then I made a matching bracelet using the leftover ribbon and pearls!
They are not perfect by any means, but I think they both turned out really cute and I got a necklace and bracelet set for only $5!

Hop

I took these SUPER cute Valentine's decorations:

Which you may remember from this post.

And changed them up for Easter!

I used some SUPER cute napkins that I bought at Target.

I cut the napkin into squares.

Then used spray adhesive to attach the napkin squares to card stock.

I used my Cricut to cut out the word HOP.

Then I used a glue stick to attach the letters to the squares.

I painted a scrap piece of wood that Jason had in the yard.

Then I got a little assistance measure and attaching nails to the board.

I hung each of the frames on the board.

And ended up with this cute HOP sign!

I know it is a little early, but I am trying to get into the Spring/Easter spirit!

Do you have any spring decorations out yet?

I am linking up with Tip Junkie's Tip Me Tuesday! Go check out all the SUPER cute tips on Tip Junkie:)