I made this coffee filter wreath a couple of years back and although I have loved it, it was time for a change. My mom requested a coffee filter wreath for her bedroom and I thought there was no time like the present to give mine up and make something new and fabulous for my gallery stairwell. I found this brass ring at our local dollar store for $3.50 and I have a massive stockpile of fake flowers that I have picked up over the last few years (all of the ones I used in this wreath came from Value Village, score!!) So this ended up being an extremely inexpensive and quick wreath to make but I love the look it provides to our stairwell. Spring appears to be firmly here, so I’m all about the florals at the moment!
They have these brass rings in lots of different sizes at the dollar store, and I still have to come up with uses for some of the smaller ones but the large one worked really well for this wreath. I just made sure to put the leaves and flowers over the seam where the ring was joined.
I started by hot-gluing some leaves onto the wreath. I knew I wanted lots of the brass ring to show, so I chose to only cover about 1/3 of it with the leaves/flowers. A new glue gun is one of the things on my shopping list, I have 2 of these, and they are terrible. They get so hot that I have to unplug them every 10 minutes for a while otherwise they actual burn the glue. I am constantly burning myself with this glue gun, but I never remember to buy a new one when i’m out and about so I guess it’s better than nothing.
After I had enough leaves I glued a couple of larger flowers. I love these flowers, they have burlap in them and are just perfectly rustic enough for me.
And, of course, I had to add some pink flowers. It just wouldn’t be something I made if it didn’t have pink in it. But I kept it rustic looking with some dusty pink flowers instead of something bright.
Using a glue gun is so fast but it always leaves the little glue strings behind. Over the years, I have tried several methods to get rid of them, someone once told me that if I kept the glue sticks in the freezer it wouldn’t do that, but I don’t find that very convenient so I just run my blow dryer on a hot setting over the whole things and they shrink right up! So quick and easy!
I had intended to make an easter wreath today for our front door but I had already used all of my wreath forms and I didn’t think to pick one up when I was at the store, so instead, I made this floral wallhanging. Easter wreath will have to be Friday’s project…stay tuned!
Our living room in this home is quite small, there are only 3 of us, and although the living room is the most used room in our house, it suits us just fine. We have a couch, a coffee table, and a media stand. What more do we need? Despite it’s small space it was lacking in any sort of style. I couldn’t figure out what I could do to make it beautiful. I tried hanging pictures on the walls, I tried adding some décor to the media stands, I outfitted the couch with nice pillows and blankets, but still it was missing something. One afternoon we were catching up on some Fixer Upper and the sun was shining through the window and making it difficult to see the “dream team” of Chip and Joanna so we starting talking about putting up a set of curtains. Then suddenly it dawned on me. Barn doors! We’d seen Joanna do it on one of their flips. Barn doors over the window in place of curtains! We talked about whether we would order doors, or make them. It’s easier to just order doors but there are 2 electrical outlets on that wall and they wouldn’t be usable if we had full length doors so we decided we would make some short ones. After a few weekends at the shop we had some beautiful shortie barn doors. I heavily distressed them then stained them in a beautiful English Chestnut finish. After the very painful 48 hours of waiting for the stain to dry, we hung them with some barn door track that Rex had purchased through the store. And I’m telling you, I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. They add so much personality, so much style, and so much function to our living room! We won’t take them with us when we move as they were custom built for this house, but there will definitely be more barn door building in my future!
I have so many notebooks, seriously, at any given point, you can look around the living space in my house and see at least 3. If they would stop making such cute ones, I would stop buying them, but until then, our house will be overrun with notebooks. Most of them only have writing on one or two pages, a few have been around for years and have a little more use but more often than not, they are simply here for decoration (and to jot the occasional grocery list on). The only problem with having so many is that I know I’ve written something important down somewhere, on a random page, in a random book….
Now, in case nobody was paying attention, I LOVE PINK. I repeat, I LOVE PINK. Back in my previous life as a vet tech my stethoscope was pink, my gumboots were pink, if I could have found pink overalls, I would have worn them. Sometime in the last few months, I decided I was brave enough to try to pull off pink hair. And that is one of my favorite decisions in the last 6 months. I adore my pink hair, and I will really struggle to go back to normal hair someday. My mother-in-law doesn’t understand why I would ever dye my hair, she loves my natural color, but I am one of those people who just craves change. This bubblegum-cotton candy-strawberry ice cream pink thing that’s going on at the moment is the most amazing color. I am madly in love with my hair. I have the worlds most patient and accommodating hairdresser and she never disappoints. Even now, it’s 8 days since my last color and it’s starting to fade (as pastel colors always do) and she is helping me come up with a maintenance plan. I’m hoping we can get enough experimenting under our belts that I can do a post on how I keep my pink pink.
I grew up being a rough and tumble farm girl and in the last 10 years or so blossomed into an uber-girl. I love anything pink, anything girly, anything to do with health and beauty. I’m going to be posting some product reviews along the way of health and beauty products that I use or come across (thank you Fabfitfun!). I have started a youtube channel, and although I will be posting some crafting tutorials on there, it will likely be primarily videos of me being a girly girl!