Ribboned Headboard!

My church small group was tasked with redecorating a girls room and this is one of my favorite projects to date! Unfortunately it is becoming habit for me to forget progress pictures so I will try and explain as best I can anyways. :)

First we had my dad cut a piece of MDF board to the correct dimensions for a twin bead and to drill holes for the angle iron legs to be attached.

Next we took a large piece of quilt batting, doubled it over itself, and used a staple gun to staple it around each side on the back leaving a space on each side so we could get back underneath to tighten the bolts.

Then we used what happened to be a curtain! as our covering fabric. Apparently there was no purple fabric to be found, but the curtain worked perfectly fine. We just repeated the process of wrapping it and using the staple gun to attach it to the back leaving a space on each side undone.

This next part is where progress pictures would have come in handy but the reason we had to leave a space undone was because we had to keep the legs off to wrap the fabric completely around the bottom but this posed a problem for tightening the bolts on the front side of the board, hence the open space on each side.

Because the angle iron was required to attach the headboard to the bed frame. Once we had the angle iron tightened on and we finished stapling the fabric and you're halfway done!

Next we used two accent colored ribbons in a criss-crossed pattern spaced so that you could put a picture in between them like a memo board if you wanted (so cute!). Everytime the ribbons cross you put a staple through them and the fabric for the textured look.

Finally we used a hot glue gun to attach an eclectic assortment of buttons at each cross point to hide the staple and a touch of extra color and texture.

This is the finished product all decorated and it turned out PERFECT! The girl loved her whole room and my mom did an amazing job of picking all the decorative accents.

A Little Bit of Everything Pt 2 Door Hanger

Ok so I majorly failed on posting a new project every day so lets just say ill try my best from here on. :)

Todays little project is a door hanger I made out of a 2x4 some ribbon and paint.  This is one of my all time favorite sayings because it represents such a fun way of life, plus it gave me an excuse to use my fleur de lis stencil.

Let me know what you think.

Little Bit of Everything Pt 1

I have about ten little somethings I've been working on for a little while now so I thought I would just post a new one everyday until I run out.  Some of them I forgot to do before pictures but hopefully you will get the idea.

Todays little project is a few canvases I have made sporadically, the first two are just little flowers I made to go in my dorm room back in the day and its an easy way to add a little color for just a few bucks.

The last project I just made a few days ago after seeing a quote on a piece of scrapbooking paper that I thought was humorous by John Lennon.  My "aunt Jill" helped me out big time by die cutting the little letters out for me and the rest I just kind of pieced together.

I  think it turned out pretty cute except its hard to read the letters.

So I added background pieces to give the letter more contrast. I couldnt get the lighting right to make all the sparkles show but I hope you enjoy. Leave me a comment and tell me what you think! :)

Re-purposed Bar Stools

So I had a pair of used barstools donated to my new house by the Parents Fund ;)  and they had a really great look that fit perfectly except the colors were all wrong. (red and white in a very green blues yellows kind of house)

So in an effort to be thrifty and as the excuse to use this fabric I've been dying to find an excuse for I decided to recover and repaint.

 

I found this fabric a few months ago in the clearance section at Joann's and the last time I went home I finally bought some for $3/Yard!! It is extra durable great for a seat thats going to get alot of use.  For the first step, I pulled off the old fabric using the backside of my hammer on the staples (not fun at all) and then I used the old fabric as a template for my new.

 

I then used the staple gun to put on my new fabric.  Only major advice for this step is dont tackle one side all at once if you are using a fabric with a design. I messed up the first cushion and had to redo it because the triangle was off center.  So put a staple in each side, continue to alternate, and keep checking the other side. 

I thought the fabric turned out great, but I just wasn't loving how the white fought with the tan of the fabric so I decided to repaint as well with some blue paint I already had that was almost a perfect match.

Halfway through I decided I probably should have been less impatient and sanded because the paint wasn't sticking very well (Skyy  ^ agreed), but patience isn't in my nature so I forged ahead and decided I would just do two coats and hope for the best.

In the end I think they turned out really well, in a perfect world I would have had flat paint in a more exact blue but for two new barstools at about four dollars total they look awesome!

Candle and Little Shelf

I was raiding my mom's craft closet and stumbled upon a little block I basically talked her into buying at a crafts fair a few months back which I loved, and she offered it to me so I graciously took it off her hands :)

 It needed something to go with it so I found a little shelf and a plain candle which I decided to dress up. 

I would for sure recommend hot gluing the dragonflies instead of just sticking them in, but only a dab.

after i spaced out the dragonflies I added a green ribbon

And Viola! a cute decorative candle and shelf

First try at blogging :)

Welcome to my first blog!  I am so excited to get started blogging and hopefully I can put some interesting projects up and maybe gather some readers.  I am not a writer by nature so bear with me if it goes long or short or left or right I'll catch on soon. hopefully anyways :)