Around Memorial Day and the Fourth of July I love to make t-shirts for the boys showing our patriotic spirit. Last year the boys and I made these spray dyed star shirts: Read more
Last month Matt showed you all how to build a decorative shelf with crown molding for our half bath. The shelf is perfect for the space and I love it. Unfortunately something felt like it was missing from the shelf. After some thought I decided that our shelf needed picture frames! Beadboard picture frames to be exact.
Today I am going to show you how to DIY your own beadboard picture frames! Read more
Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week, but better yet I hope you have a fabulous weekend!
I have a fun little multi-purpose project for you today. I’m going to show you how to make this adorable little picket fence planter basket. You can use it as a planter. You can use it as a fun home décor item or you can fill it with glass beads or rocks and use it as a pencil caddy! Don’t you love versatility?
Best of all, the materials are inexpensive. The fence border section was under $5! And you can use leftover paint if you want. Or you can try out Valspar’s new emerald color. I’ve been seeing that color pop up all over the design world. (Lowe’s provided me with a gift card to give that new Valspar paint color a whirl.) Read more
Garden gnomes are the cute little guardian angels that watch over our homes. And sometimes they get a bit neglected.
In our case the poor fella was beaten up a bit by string trimming and the sun.
So today I’m going to share how you can fix any small holes or cracks and repaint your gnome so that it looks like new. These tips will also work with other garden decor that you’d like to repair.
Here are the supplies you need
- Hydraulic cement
- Bucket
- Margin trowel
- Gloves
- Great stuff
- Old towel
- Rust-Oleum Primer (spray)
- Hobby paint brushes
- Valspar paint samples
- Rust-Oleum Clear Coat (spray)
This is a pretty fun project and the kids can participate, too.
Let’s get to it 🙂
Do your kids want to build and paint just like you? This project a great beginner build for young ones who want to get in there and make something to call their own. And once they’re done building they can paint it too!
Or give the build as a unique personalized gift for that artsy friend who loves to paint:
Attach a cute gift tag (download my tag free from here) and include some fun acrylic paint colors and brushes:
This project is super kid friendly, I tested it at my 6 year old daughter’s birthday party and all the girls absolutely loved building their own project . We used kid sized drills (like these kid sized drills) and they truly enjoyed painting their bookends: Read more