Simple Valentine's Day Wreath {Crafts}

Can you believe January is already OVER? Tomorrow begins the month of CANDY LOVE! I'm sure everyone is getting their pretty decorations put up, so I'm here today with a super simple tutorial for a Valentine's Day wreath for you to hang! I made this wreath in my last ditch attempt to have something on my door for my Valentine's Day pajama party I held last Friday. My original plan was to create some of those nifty paper flowers using cupcake liners, but every tutorial I found required pipe cleaners, which I don't have. 

While sifting around in the awesome sewing box my granny gave me (which is FULL of stuff my boyfriend calls junk craft supplies), I found this cute little circle form thingy. I honestly have NO idea what it's made from (it looks like rolled paper!) but I'm in love with it! That's when the AWESOME thought hit me to make a WREATH! (queue HUGE smile on my face...ask my sister who was witnessing the drama!)

So, my bloggy friends, I have a super simple tutorial for you! Check it out!

Here's what you'll need:

• some type of circular wreath form (your choice in size; mine was only about 6 inches across)
• LOTS of buttons to choose from
• ribbon (wired is the best to use for this project)
• scissors
• bread ties
• cupcake liners (I used Valentine's Day themed liners for one flower & plain white ones for another)
• needle (any size)

This is how you will create it:

Next:

The final steps:

That's it! Don't you just love it?! I also had an extra flower left over (from creating this tutorial), so I decided to pretty up the living room lamps, too! What do you think?

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Silhouette Craft Cutter {Giveaway}

Hey guys! Quick question...how many of you have heard of the Silhouette craft cutter? Now, how many of you actually OWN one of these babies?? Well, one my FAVORITE bloggers, Shelley at House of Smiths, is GIVING AWAY one of these bad boys TODAY!

Photo courtesy of Google.

You don't know what a Silhouette is? Have you been living under a rock Let me tell you about it!

This awesome little machine has the ability to cut just about EVERYTHING! You can use it for all your fun craft projects around the house! Just check out some of the awesome ideas you can come up with:

Photo courtesy of kevinandamanda.com

Photo courtesy of asoftplace.net

Oh, you want a piece of the action you say? Then scoot on over to her blog and ENTER!! The contest starts today, January 17th, and ends Friday the 21st. Shelley will be announcing the winner on Saturday the 22nd.

It's SUPER easy to enter, so make sure you head over there NOW and follow the directions near the bottom of the post to enter the giveaway! Good luck!!

Check out Shelley's Silhouette Giveaway post right here!

PS: Myra at My Blessed Life is also giving away a Silhouette today!! Check out her awesome blog!






PPS: Gina at The Shabby Chic Cottage is ALSO having a Silhouette giveaway today! Check out her beautiful blog page:

Bird House {Re-Do}

Hey guys! I just wanted to share this cute little birdhouse I found when I was browsing around in my papa's shed the other day! He was going to throw it out because he felt there was no need in keeping it anymore, but of course, I HAD to save it! I thought it would look ADORABLE outside our house on the front steps! Take a look!

 See...it just needed a little sprucing up! The roof was a bit too rusty for my taste. Also, when I first saw it, the roof was coming apart from the wood base and the bottom piece was all rotted out and halfway gone. So my papa and I (mostly my papa, because he obviously knew what needed to be done!) nailed the roof back on with new nails and replaced the bottom with a scrap piece of wood he had laying around in his workshop.

 Then, I brought the little cutie home (after thanking my papa, of course!). I stopped at Wally World to buy some 97¢ spray paint and used some scrap sandpaper I got from my papa. A couple coats of paint...a little distressing with the sand paper.....

 And VOILÀ! It's beautiful again! (or...less rustic I should say!) For now, the bird house sits on the front steps of our house...I'm going to find some little flowers to go in those holes on the doors, to make it prettier! =) But I love it...my first distressed project! Don't worry...there are MANY more to come! =)

By the way....can I just mention that this was a totally inexpensive project? It only cost me 97¢ altogether! NICE!!

So, hopefully this will keep you guys busy for a little bit. ;-) I have a few more posts to add, but I'm a little behind, so bare with me! There are a lot of photos I still have to upload to Facebook of my day at Disney World with this pretty lady:

Awww...I just love my bestie!! 

Anyway...keep checking and I promise to come back with a few more posts within the next day at least!!