Redecorating Part V - Lampshades

Bexley's room needed a little simple re-doing of it's own, so when I saw this lampshade on pinterest (oh how I am addicted to pinterest), I made one for her. I used paper instead, because I'm lazy and would have rather used a paper punch instead of cutting fabric for days (someday I will own a silhouette).

And I am obsessed with these coffee filter lampshades! I did mine in a more straight-lines-all-the-way-around pattern, but either way, they are so fluffy and fun! Now I just have to get to our new home so I can spray paint the bases, I'm thinking yellow or grey...

The before picture, can you see it all the way in the back corner?

His and mine...they did take FOREVER and he is not so fond of how careful he thinks he has to be it with it now, but he deals with it because I love them!

Redecorating Part IV

I got this cute cake stand for $7, but thought it was too cute to put away until I had a cake to display on it. So I'd seen someone use wiffle balls for decor, covered in mod podged scrapbook paper. I found 6 balls for $1 and covered half with twine and the other half with the leftover leaves from the vase of yellow flowers.

Redecorating Part III

Since I got rid of the vase of flowers on our dresser, I needed something to replace them. Have you seen all the great dollar store supply ideas on craft blogs lately?! They are fantastic! I already had the large cylinder vase, then bought two smaller ones and candle sticks at the dollar store, added some rocks and flowers I had on hand and here it is.

I think I'll change out the rocks and flowers once we move, but for now I was just using what I had.

Redecorating Part II

Turning these...
Into this...
I am loving all the white in decor these days and happened to have a glass vase, did you know you can spray paint practically anything?!

The Re-Decorating Itch: Part I

I don't know if it's more of an itch to move or just to re-decorate, but Landon said no more new decorations until we move, so now I'm itching for both! This was the best before picture, since I forgot to take one before I started the project. I had to bring the wreath hanger into the house because I put potted flowers on the front porch for the summer. So then I needed a new wreath to hang from it. So I took the yellow flowers in the vase on the dresser in this picture:
And turned them into this:

And here is where they now sit:

I just plucked them off and hot glued them to a straw wreath. Total project cost: $1.50 (the cost of the wreath). Next up, what to do with the other potted flower arrangement from the entertainment center.

Sewing Machine Cover

Somehow in our last move I lost my huge plastic sewing machine cover, grrr. I'm sure it will turn up in the next few months now! My machine sits on my craft desk in our bedroom because I use it too much to have to get it out and put it away each time. So to make it a little prettier in our bedroom I made a quick cover. The closest tutorial I could find was here.

Obviously I didn't use a heavy-weight fabric because you can see right through it, but I'm trying to use up my fabric stash so I can replenish with cute new fabric! So fast, so easy, so cute!

Stake Project

This is a project I've been working on for the last 2-3 months. The theme of our stake relief society women's conference was "Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful". I had a committee of 5 in the end and we decided on a mirror decor theme, but wanted a few "different" types of centerpieces.

Now, remember, we were using church money and trying to spend as little as possible by borrowing or re-using goods from friends or previous activities. For starters, the table cloth linings were found in the stake relief society closet, not the prettiest, but good enough for this event.

We managed to scrounge up 6 candlesticks for these mirror topiaries I has envisioned. After putting one together with rhinestones one night, Landon laughed and said it wasn't going to work, not that I asked for his opinion. So I resorted to these paper flower topiaries since I was already making some for Kiki's All About Easter Event, then threw it on a mirror base to make it work for our theme.

We also rounded up 24+ frames that I cut mirrors for then hung wreaths from(made by one of the committee members).

Not sure why I took a picture of the crooked candle vase, but here it is, I used a shiny silver material to rest the candle in and rhinestones around the candle (hot glued to ribbon, then to the candle) for a reflective accent.

And last we found 6 square glass vases, wrapped some reflective cellophane around (for the mirror look) and threw in some flowers.
In addition to the centerpieces we had a couple of LARGE mirrors in the chapel and foyer also with large hanging wreaths and made 225 mirrors with a scripture theme written on top as a handout for each of the sisters that attended. I was beyond nervous for how it was all going to come together (real flowers, fake flowers, paper flowers, cellophane, ya know?!). But it was okay in the end, I was more concerned with trying not to spend too much!