Project of the day

While walking around Lowes today I stumbled upon some ceramic tiles marked down to 35 cents each! Yay! Perfect for a project I have been wanting to try out. Pair that with the Hobby Lobby 50% off of stamps and ink sale and I have the makings for a pretty sweet craft that I really needed to have anyhow but didn't want to pay $20 for. I got enough to make 2 more sets for gifts too :)


Here are the supplies.....








Finish Product....





Still don't know what it is? Now look... It is a set of 4 coasters :)

Giving into the decorating bug

I have tackled some projects this week since the decorating bug bit me. I gotta say my living room finally feels pulled together. (Of course, since Travis wants to paint it, I won't allow it now though) I still have 1 more table to purchase but I am looking for the right one (for cheap) to put by my front door. Can't wait for garage sale season!!! I already posted all the deals I bought on Tuesday so those are in my living room, well some are. I also bought a gigantic red plate for my mantle that I jazzed up a bit (I talk about that in a minute). I painted the half circle table between my kitchen and dining rooms black and it looks much better!

I purchased the Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) program for my cricut on Wednesday night and it freaking rocks! I made a big "B" for on my gigantic mantle plate and added some other things in my house. I must say that I am dangerously close to having words on EVERY wall in every room of my house! It is addictive!!

I also bought a few new storage totes to help me get some things lacking organization organized. I will say that I have gotten some of that stuff done but still have to complete that project.

Next on my agenda.... ha! what's not.

*I have plans for my loft but I need a LOT of cash for that room because it involves buying a new 50inch plasma so that has been bumped to the bottom of the totem pole since we just re-carpeted out entire upstairs.

*Mykenzie's room needs repainted and her things need put back on her wall. I just don't like the set up in there right now, and she wants stripes on her wall. I have never done that so I don't know if I am capable to do it as I can't make straight lines to save my life.

*Kaylee's room needs upgraded from babyish to little kid. I don't have any kind of a plan for what I am going to do yet but I am thinking that wainscoting will be involved :)

*I am DYING to redo my laundry room! That is going to require garage sales though cause I can't spend alot on things for a laundry room, I just can't bring myself to do it. But I have a specific idea in mind so I may have to! lol

*My downstairs bathroom needs a serious face lift as well.

I guess I should have just said I have plans for every single room in my house, except the living room and the girls bathroom cause that would have summed it up much better! lol Sorry to all of you actually reading this! So many plans so little budget.

Here are a few photos :)

My newly painted table with new vase and flowers

The wall between my window and front door... so much better!

My gigantic red plate, with my SCAL "B"

My mantle now

Mykenzie's headboard :)

Deals Deals Deals!

Lately I have been out shopping for some great deals. That is the best part about this time of year after all. Now that Christmas is done and it is a long way to spring. How else are we supposed to pass the long cold winter days? Here are some that I have picked up recently, mostly today though. (You can click all the photos to see better)

Hobby Lobby is having a big sale. I love when I can utter those words. I got the above for $6.80! It is darker than the pic shows, love that flash. Looks cute sitting on an end table in my living room

I got this one for $6.12! Soon I will have too much to put on all of my new(ish) tables in my house!

I didn't know if I would like this or not. Still haven't decided. I got it at Marshalls ($12). I will be going back to Hobby Lobby to get the flowers I saw and wanted to put in it on Thursday. Hopefully it all works when done.

These baby's were only $7 each. They replaced some very disliked pics in my living room. Though I like it better, the wall is still missing something so the search continues ;)

Christmas Tree Deals!!

These were some serious deals! I can't wait to put them out next Christmas!

This is much cuter in person. It is metal, painted white with lotsa' glitter :) Original price $39.99 my price $3.99

Just thought this would be cute upstairs or on my kitchen table next Christmas :) This one cost me $4 not sure of the regular price

This picture doesn't do these justice either. The little pots say on one Merry Christmas and the other Happy Holidays. They have tiny red bells with white polka dots and swirls :) So cute! I got these for $1.50 each

So cute! Originally $29.99 my price $2.99!

Crafty deals

I got 2 HoHoHo's, 3 Noel's, 2 Joys a Peace and a paper mache Noel all for.....$1.50!

These big paper Noel's (I got 3) were only 59 cents each!

Hello all of you and welcome to my home, you will be Christmas gifts next year!

Deals cont.

I guess most people wouldn't consider $2.50 a good deal for potted sticks but I love it!

My $1.50 letter B!! I am so in love and becoming slightly obsessed

I know it doesn't look like much now but soon it will bloom and be lovely. And for $2.24 who could pass that up!

Super Saturday!

I have had a wonderful day! If you know about my mental state for the past week you will know that it is past due. My eyes popped open at 7:30 and I suddenly remembered there was a church yard sale I wanted to go to this morning that started at 7. I threw on some clothes and a hat and ran out the door. The sale wasn't at all what I was expecting, I was thinking of the old church rummage sales I used to go with my mom to as a kid. This was pretty small but I found a treasure :) I went so I could look for things I could re-purpose for myself as well as Christmas gifts. And I found this beautiful thing....

Yep that would be a square cork board.... just what I have been wanting. Guess how much.... 25 cents!!!
I went to another one but had no luck and finished up my yard sale spree in my neighborhood where I picked up these for $2...


and while I was waiting for the lady to get me a bag, the man said do you need a lamp and I turned around and saw this lamp that I had completely overlooked!



So I spent a total of $11.50 (I got a little glass vase too) and am very happy with my purchases as is Travis.

Then we made breakfast and ate our French Toast and I showed Travis the purchases I made at Hobby Lobby on Thursday and he got busy hanging them up for me.
Since the girls have been in school we have always hung backpacks on the door knob to the kitchen door that goes to the garage. Travis has decided he no longer wanted them their so I found a cute solution, it was not at all what he wanted but I am happy with it :)



I had an idea in my head for what I wanted in the girls bathroom to hang towels ever since we redid it all those months ago. Well I never found it. So walking through Hobby Lobby I passed this cute solution and voila, now they have hooks for their towels instead of door knobs!!!



After that was all done my awesome husband took it upon himself to sand and prime my 8ft 2x6 that I bought to make some Christmas gifts and I threw in a couple of 2x4s and this little diddy too :)
That would be a ceramic trivet surrounded by cork :) The cork is covered with paper as to no get primer on it and the trivet has been primed for the next step! I know you are just dying with anticipation to know what it is that I will possibly be making with all these treasures. I can't wait to see how everything turns out. I never thought I got the crafty gene and I may not have but I am perfectly capable of stealing other people's ideas and making them into something of my own ;)

In about an hour I will be going out to dinner with my girls to celebrate (late) one of their bdays. Then tonight I am going to Bunco with my moms group! Seriously, it was the perfect day!