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professor-corn: Thinking of doing this in my new bedroom! The...

idealisticsun — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 05:41:35 -0400

Thinking of doing this in my new bedroom! The walls are huge and blank…

DIY Vinyl Wall Art

hometalkblog: Vintage Wine Crate Coffee Table My kitchen table...

mynameis-auntsarah — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:13:20 -0400

Vintage Wine Crate Coffee Table

My kitchen table officially needs orange cones and yellow safety tape around it… too many projects going on! So my meals are served on my coffee table. With my old table on it’s last leg (quite literally) I needed something new. My ‘must-haves’: Storage and wheels.

From Becky D

truebluemeandyou: DIY Anthropologie Color Coil Pot Tutorial...

mynameis-auntsarah — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:57:17 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Anthropologie Color Coil Pot Tutorial from Craftberry Bush here. This is such a good knockoff and an easy DIY. First seen at Copycat Crafts here. Top Photo: DIY from Craftberry, Bottom Left Photo: Antropologie Color Coil Pot here (NA anymore), Bottom Right Photo: DIY by Craftberry.

fuckyeahweddingideas: DIY Ombre Cork Heart (via...

mynameis-auntsarah — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:54:44 -0400

fuckyeahweddingideas:

DIY Ombre Cork Heart

(via greenweddingshoes)

Materials:
• wood board (ours is 24″x 24″ purchased from Home Depot – and it was already precut!)
• acrylic paint – you’ll need your accent color (red for us), white, and the background color (gray for us)
• vinyl decals (ours are 4″ tall letters)
• corks – we used around 100 corks for ours (tip – ask friends and family to save corks for you!)
• paint tray with space for at least 6 colors
• foam brushes
• spray paint (not shown above, but needed for the colors of the letters)
• glue gun

Step One: Evenly divide your corks into as many groups as colors of paint you’ll be using. This will help to ensure that you have a nice, even gradient on your final product. For us, we used 6 shades of pink, so we grouped all our corks into 6 equal groups.

Step Two: Mix your accent color (red for us) with white to create 6 shades ranging from deep and dark to quite light. We kept mixing until we got 6 shades of pink that we loved.

Step Three: With the foam brush, paint the top of the corks, but be sure to not get any paint on the sides of the corks. Since you already created groups in Step 1, you should have about the same number corks for each color.

Leave your corks alone as they dry and move on to Step 4.

Step Four: While the corks are drying, it’s time to spray paint your board with the color that you’ve selected for your letters. You’ll want to give the board two coats of paint to make sure your letters really pop against the background color. We chose to use a metallic copper color for our letters!

Important: Please remember that the first coat of paint on the board is for your letters, so that’s the color they will appear. We don’t want anyone to get confused and apply the background color first.

Step Five: Once your letter color is completely dry, place the letters on the board. We picked the phrase “Forever is Today” but you could use any phrase you’d like or even your names and wedding date – ”Jen + Jason 12.12.12.” We used a t-square to make sure our words were straight and centered. Once they are, stick the vinyl stickers to the board.

Step Six: Now you are going to paint over the entire board – yep, right over the letters. This will be your background color. We used gray, since we wanted a good color for our heart to pop against.

Step Seven: Once the background paint is dry comes the fun part. Peel off each letter to reveal the color you spray painted – so for us, the pretty gold metallic color!

Step Eight: Rather than using a new piece of paper, we used an old paper bag from the grocery store, drew a heart and cut it out.

Tip: Before tracing you’re heart to the board, you want to perform a dry run and place all of your corks in advance to make sure you have enough to cover the entire heart. If you don’t have enough, either drink more wine :) or trim the size of your heart to reduce the number of corks you’ll need to fill it.

Once your heart is the right size for the number of corks you have, trace it with a pencil. Be sure to center the hear, as you’ll use the outline to place your corks.

Just to make sure we liked the look, we did a second dry run and placed our corks on the board inside our traced heart. Once we decided we liked the look, we glued them all down using a glue gun.

Once you’ve glued them all….enjoy a coffee or remaining glass of wine while they dry. And that’s it! Once corks have dried in place, you’re set. :)

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mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:49:07 -0400

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mynameis-auntsarah — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:51:56 -0400

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mynameis-auntsarah — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:46:53 -0400

goodbye-never-more: Star Jars

mynameis-auntsarah — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:04:43 -0400

goodbye-never-more:

Star Jars

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mynameis-auntsarah — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:34:40 -0400

jkl006: Finally added some personal touches to my room. I like...

idealisticsun — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:09:40 -0400

jkl006:

Finally added some personal touches to my room. I like the festivity that bunting represents. Need to add another set to fill up the rest of my ceiling.

truebluemeandyou: truebluemeandyou: Plasti Dip Tutorial....

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:46:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

truebluemeandyou: Plasti Dip Tutorial. Reblogging because of upcoming post.

Plasti Dip Tutorial. Now I’ve seen things like the handles of silverware and tools dipped in this plastic-like rubber coating, but paper oragami birds, twigs, keys or shells? You can dip almost anything, even a chandelier. Available anyhere. Fellow Creatives’ tutorial here.

Plasti Dip Qualities:

Air-dry liquid plastic coating that produces a tough, thick pliable finish

Bonds to wood, metal, plastic, and other surfaces to protect from rust and corrosion

Virtually unaffected by the elements, remains flexible even under extreme weather conditions

truebluemeandyou: DIY Modern Tea Light Display Using Plastic...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:45:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Modern Tea Light Display Using Plastic Easter Eggs. No drilling, no pouring wax. Easy tutorial form Taylor Made here.

truebluemeandyou: DIY Modern Teacup Planter. More teacup...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:42:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Modern Teacup Planter. More teacup planters! This one you can personalize by using permanent markers. Tutorial from Sew Trashy here.

truebluemeandyou: DIY Antique Wrought Iron Wall Art. No… a...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:41:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Antique Wrought Iron Wall Art. No… a Dollar Store Door Rubber Door Mat! Tutorial from Salvage Dior here.

truebluemeandyou: DIY Heart of String. Cheap and easy to do,...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:40:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Heart of String. Cheap and easy to do, tutorial from Green Wedding Shoes here. *Other Nail and String Art I’ve posted:

Colorful and huge one spelling out “Rave On” here.

String Map Art with a Heart in the Middle (like the expensive ones on Etsy) here.

LOVE String Art in Cursive here.

truebluemeandyou: DIY Broken Mirror Wall Art. Fun project and...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:35:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Broken Mirror Wall Art. Fun project and easy to do. Tutorial from Potholes & Pantyhose here. *Love how this is listed on her blog under “arts and crap”.

truebluemeandyou: Two DIY Knockoff Lord Bodner Octopus Triptych...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:35:00 -0400

truebluemeandyou:

Two DIY Knockoff Lord Bodner Octopus Triptych Tutorials:

$3,550 Lord Bodner Octopus Triptych here.

DIY Knockoff tutorial from Revamp Homegoods here. *I like the clipart of the octopus on the black canvas before the hand painting of the image better. I’d try and either print it on tissue paper or vellum, or get a super cheap “engineer’s copy” from Staples and then adhere it to the canvases.

The Graphics Fairyclipart here. *Tons of Steampunk and clipart images on this site for commercial use!

DIY tutorial from 1922 House here (read comments) here.

not-epic: Woooo Crayon art! Now my sister and I both smell of...

mynameis-auntsarah — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:20:00 -0400

not-epic:

Woooo Crayon art! Now my sister and I both smell of crayola and burnt flesh.
(hers is left, and mine is right— so proud!)

cajunmama: This is so cute! I know the men and boys in my...

mynameis-auntsarah — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:02:00 -0400

cajunmama:

This is so cute! I know the men and boys in my family could definitely use one of these for all their pocket change.

(via Burton Avenue: Check Your Pockets Mini Laundry Room Sign)

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mynameis-auntsarah — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:01:00 -0400