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Mod Podge Peat Pot Easter Baskets

Posted by LIz

I made these fun and colorful Mod Podge Peat Pot Easter Baskets a couple years ago, when we still lived in our former house. As I’m preparing to decorate for Easter in our new 100 year old house, I thought it would be fun to show you again how I made these mini Easter baskets.

This was one of my favorite crafts I’ve ever done for Easter. To make these peat pot baskets was quite easy, (this could be a fun craft for kids too) I just found it to be so relaxing, puttering away on them, and it was very low cost as well.

So here’s what I did:(I will have shopping links for you towards the end of this post) Read the rest of this entry →

Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Easter, Re-purposing, Seasons & Holiday Decorating, Uncategorized

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Tags: baskets, Easter, graphics fairy, hometocottage, Joann.com, Mod Podge, Peat Pot

DIY: E-A-S-T-E-R Baskets

Mar 20

Posted by LIz

Last week I share a really fun little craft project I made for part of the dining room Easter centerpiece at ‘Our House’. (if you missed that post, click here to see it)

I had so much fun making those transformed peat pots, and wanted to be able to use a few more of the wonderful Easter graphics from Graphics Fairy that I came up with a similar craft, but with a little bit of a creative twist.

So I embellished them a little bit more and spelled out E-A-S-T-E-R on each little peat pot.

Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Dining Room, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Paint Treatments, Re-purposing, Seasons & Holiday Decorating, Uncategorized, Vignettes

Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 1

Mar 10

Posted by LIz

This is the first in a 5 day series of creating this years Easter’s centerpiece at ‘Our House’.

Each year I try to mix it up a bit, and this year I was so inspired from seeing such fun creative ideas at the different link parties I participate in. The ones that really struck me, I put on Pinterest, like House of Hawthornes peat pots.

Here’s my interpretation on these cute old-fashioned, paper mache looking pots:

My other major inspiration came from GraphicsFairy.com. I am so inspired every time I go to her site. My head starts spinning with ideas.

Here’s how I transformed peat pots: click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, Dining Room, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Re-purposing, Seasons & Holiday Decorating, Setting the Table, Uncategorized

Ugly Frame and Canvas Painting Transformed into Vintage Bike Advertising

Mar 5

Posted by LIz

I had this ugly painting hanging in my storage room not because I thought it looked good there, but because I’ve been holding onto it to make something of it… sometime… well I’m glad to say that after, oh about 5 or 6 years, that time has come!

I have been working on transforming the family room in the lower level of ‘Our House’ lately, and needed some art, so I took that framed canvas and re-made it into something.

Isn’t the painting in the ‘before’ so ugly? It looks like a big tree in the background crossed with a mushroom cloud and exploded on the canvas… I have no idea where the artist was going with that, but as you can see on the right, I drastically changed the way it looked.

Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…

Posted in Decorating, DIY and Other Neighborhoods, DIY - Crafts - Floral, Furniture, Living Room, Paint Treatments, Re-purposing, Uncategorized