~ DIY to do ~

I have a couple of projects on my plate I will hopefully be working on soon. I like to put my prospective to do's on here because its more motivating!

These two ideas are thanks to Design Sponge, of which I know MANY of us are huge fans.

Project #1

Get another dog! No no no... wait. I mean paint a headboard. This would look super cute in our master and it would take up very little space. These colors TOTALLY go with my current aesthetic as well. :)

Project #2

Frosting my windows! I actually HAVE all the materials for this, including the paint pens. I will be putting this on the medium sized window in the living room and the two small windows on the West bedrooms. I didn't buy enough contact paper, so I'm think I'll take some "scraps" and do a geometric style pattern on one of the small windows instead of full coverage. 

Wish me luck!

xo

Blueberry

Feelin' the Stripes and the DIY

So I'll admit it, I'm a flats kind of girl. I'm around 6' even in the shortest of them. So I've come to be quite a collector of cute ones. These are super comfy pink moccasins. I know some people cannot stand these kinds of shoes, but in the right color or style I really dig em'.

Now onto more productive things. I spent about and hour or two working on some "House Warming" invitations today. I'm way too overwhelmed to get anything dimensionally figured out on my Mac, so this was very cut and paste. And of course, my dog was one of the main components behind it.

Check them out!

For some reason I always get a kick out of stuff like this. Things that serve a function and I don't have a lot of time to think about it. I just have to DO and QUICKLY. It really gets my creative juices flowing.

xo

Blueberry

House Update: DIY Birdies and Rainbow Colored Drawers

So there have been some things I've been REALLY MEANING to get to in these last couple of days. I wanted to share them with you!

1. Clean and Organize the bedroom (I have A LOT of clothes, not to mention belts, scarves, etc)
2. Install the vinyl birds I purchased from Etsy into my lovely canary yellow hallway

I'll be going over my process of putting these up (in case any of you are interested) later on in the blog, but here is a beautiful sneak peak.

At our old place we had no closets I mean ZERO, NONE! Therefore I had two sets of IKEA Malm drawers and 4 clothing racks!!! When we moved here it was a different story (as it is EVERY time you move to a new place). So I had to change things up. I managed to snag a large set of drawers from my sister-in-law which became my new home for all my lovely skirts. Originally they were all hung up. But we don't have so much square footage in the bedroom anymore.

I give you my rainbow colored drawer!

(There's plenty more where that came from, but one picture's enough)

Also since we are OWNERS now I don't have to worry all the time about holes in the wall. So I had a BALL! I put in nails to hang up all my scarves. When I have more money I'll invest in some cute little wall hangers.

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So now off to the DIY project. I purchased some vinyl birdies from Janey Mac Press.

She had some EXCELLENT directions to go with them, but I also wanted to show you in step by step form in case any of you out there are visual learners!

Here are the end products. I wanted them to go on a diagonal.

 

Step #1 

Place your decals on the wall where you would like them. Use a small piece of tape to adhere them and see how you like your work.

These are more of my little lovelies!

Step #2

Go over the decal with a credit card on both sides to reactivate the adhesive. 

Step #3

Fold the decal up on its "hinged" piece of tape and peel off the backing. Place the decal back on the wall and rub with a credit card to allow the decal to "adhere" to the wall.

 

Step #4

Peel off the white protective coating carefully making sure the entire decal is stuck to the wall. If it is not, then recover and rub with a credit card.

Hope this helps some of you! I had a lot of fun doing it. It was sort of a Zenlike experience. I did one little birdie at a time until they were all finished! Now onto my next project...

Drawing patterns on window frosted sheets!

xo

Blueberry