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Coastal Cottage Style Table
Posted by LIz
Here’s a super simple DIY project… haha… I notice that as I’m getting older and older, my DIY projects are getting easier and easier. But this one was a really fun re-do of a sturdy but ugly little kitchen table to create a coastal cottage style table. Here’s what I did:
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 →
DIY: E-A-S-T-E-R Baskets
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
Tags: decorate with a little bit, DecorateWithaLittleBit, Easter, Easter basket, graphics fairy, holiday, Mod Podge, paint, peat pots, PowerPoint
Our House: Family Room Game Table Re-Do
Posted by LIz
So last time I showed you how I did the game chairs that go with this game table… I bought the set from Craigslist, purposely looking for a ‘project’ set, so that I could inject my own personality into it…
(and, like I told you with the chairs, darnit, I totally forgot to take a before picture of the set, but it was a 1980’s golden oak with brown vinyl seats)
Let’s pick it up from where I left off with the chair project…
The chairs I painted black, applied oval numbers in white and black and the seats are recovered in a dark brown and cream colored houndstooth fabric. (so, I just wrote that really fast, but the actual decision making wasn’t nearly so quick… once I had the chairs done though, I needed to figure out how I was going to paint the table to ‘pull’ it all together, and look like a set… it took me a little bit of creative thinking…)
I knew I wanted the top to be something special, click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Game Chairs Re-Do
Posted by LIz
This winter I decided it was time to do a major overhaul to the lower level family room at ‘Our House’.
Part of that change was completely flipping around, from one side of the room to the other, the TV viewing area, which now left ½ of the room basically empty. In that empty part, I had plans for a game table and chairs, (and will be installing a wet-bar soon too… future posting alert!)
When I started shopping for game tables, I decided I liked the vintage ones better, so I focused my shopping on Craigslist…
The chairs needed to have casters for easy moving on the carpet. I wanted something that was a project, so I could inject my own personality into the finished look. And I didn’t want anything that was too big… or too small… but just the right size… I guess it was kind of like Goldilocks looking for a game table set… But I found it on Craigslist and it was perfect. After a treacherous drive to the other side of the cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) on what started out to be good roads, but quickly turned bad, we scored this set: click here to read the rest of the story…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 3
Posted by LIz
Whoo-Hoo!
We’re getting there, today is the pinnacle, the climax, it’s the apex in this gripping 5 day adventure to creating an Easter Centerpiece…
Ok, so maybe not all that, but it IS day 3, which does actually make it the middle of the 5 days, so factually, it is the apex… I’m just saying…
And for those of you just joining,
Day 1 was how I made the peat pots planters.
Day 2 featured the jute wrapped eggs tutorial.
Which brings us to that apex we spoke of earlier…
Today’s feature is how I did the Mod Podge eggs. click here to read the rest of the story…
Five Days to an Easter Centerpiece, Day 1
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…
Ugly Frame and Canvas Painting Transformed into Vintage Bike Advertising
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
Tags: advertising, art, bicycle, bike, blockposters.com, canvas, frame, graphics fairy, HomeToCottage.com, Mod Podge, oil-rubbed bronze, paint, Ralph Lauren, vintage
Monday’s Simple Cleverness…Mod Podge Saves the Day… Well at least Saves an Antique Print
Posted by LIz
When I was a little girl, Mod Podge, became super popular then it sort of fell by the wayside for a ‘few years’, but now it’s back with a vengeance, and for good reason! It’s clever stuff.
There are tons of beautiful creations on the blogosphere using Mod Podge and today I’m adding one more. Read on…
