Vintage lunch tray upcycle

I recently saw this project using vintage dinner trays as a frame over at blue eyed freckle

Totally cute right?


I fell in love with the idea and I just happened to have a vintage lunch tray laying around the house. I used mini clothespins and pictures from my son's 1 month photo session.

So here is mine:

Now I need to find a place to hang it!

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I won....

two giveaways!

The first is a $35 gift card to CSN Stores from Lauren over at 31 DIY !

So much good stuff on the site...now to just figure out what I want.



These are super cute...I think I might need them for my son's room:)

The second giveaway is an amazing fabric bracelet from Anything*Virtuous!

Can't wait to wear it!

Check out their blogs...lots of good inspiration!

Thanks again ladies!

A temporary fix...

I have been dying to re-do the hutch in my "dining room", but the lack of sunshine has made that impossible. My "dining room" consists of one corner of my kitchen...not a room at all, but it is what we have for now.

So while I wait for the sunshine, I covered the windows in a cute vintage fabric.



And of course it is messy inside, and organizing it is my next project!

I also painted my spoon and fork red!

Here they are before:




And here they are after:





My husband thinks they are silly, but my great grandmother had a set when I was younger and I have always wanted my own. They are one of my favorite things in my house!

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A tree in my living room

I have always wanted to paint a tree somewhere in my house. I am not brave enough to add color to all of my walls, so most of them stay bare. So when my husband came home with a broken projector from work, I knew my tree was not far off!

The projector got fixed, I found the tree I wanted to paint, and went for it!

I started by patching some holes in the wall and then cleaning it. I don't have any pictures of tracing it out, but this tutorial from Just a Girl explains the whole projector process.

So here is the finished product:

What do you think?

I think I am going to add some black detail and maybe a little bird on one of the branches. Not sure just yet! Oh and the hole under the tree is my dog's cubby in the wall...he needed a spot to hide away from my son!

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Upcycled soap bottle tutorial

Here it is...my very first tuuorial! I wasn't planning on making one so soon, but inspiration hit me and I ran with it!

This is a super simple project that anyone can do and results in a great way to fill the water on you iron. I saw a tip in a Handyman magazine that said to re-use old dish soap bottles to fill your iron. I loved the idea but hated the idea of looking at the original label. So I decorated the bottle a little with some paper scraps and Mod Podge!



Here is the super-easy tutorial!

Supplies needed:

Empty dish soap bottle
Water
Mod Podge
Paintbruch to apply glue
Scrapbooking paper scraps
Towel



Step 1:

Aquire your empty soap bottle and thouroughly clean all soap out



Step 2:

Peel off all labels. Don't worry about getting all of the icky sticky stuff off; your decoration will cover it.



Step 3:

Choose your paper scraps, label or whatever you want to decorate your bottle. I chose a vintage bias tape wrapper.



Step 4:

Layer your label on top of coordinating scrapbooking paper to give it more dimension...and it looks cute too!



Step 5:

Apply Mod Podge to your bottle where you would like you decoration to go. Lay the paper down and coat the whole thing in Mod Podge, smoothing it as you go.
Let this dry and apply an additional layer of Mod Podge.



Step 6:

With a clean towel and some water, rub away any excess glue dried on your bottle



Step 6: Fill with clean water and you are done!



And a blurry action shot! Makes filling your iron easy!



So there it it! Sorry about the blurry phots; my camera and I