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My 3 favorite words: “You Were Right” (the great media cabinet victory.)

August 12, 2011 86 Comments

OK.  I forgot to show you something that I did last summer. And I’m really surprised I didn’t show you this earlier, because it was one of those decorating things that my husband told me I couldn’t do…. but I bugged him and bugged him until finally decided that this was not the hill he […]

Filed Under: Before and After, cheap and easy, Crafts, decor, Furniture, furniture re-do, project du jour, spray paint, UseWhatchaGot

Personalize wine glasses with glass etching cream

June 27, 2011 40 Comments

It was my turn to host the bunco group a few weeks ago.  I had been randomly picking up  nice wine glasses at thrift stores or yard sales because I knew I wanted to have a personalized glass for each lady…. Why have wine charms when you can easily etch their names into the glass? This […]

Filed Under: cheap and easy, Crafts, etched glass, Glass, project du jour, tutorial

Boring seaweed turned into coral? It could happen…

June 25, 2011 5 Comments

If you’ve been following along with me over the past week, you know I’ve been on a coral kick.   And dough.  A dough/coral kick.  I made white coral, red coral, I even made starfish. Out of dough. But long before I busted out the dough, I busted out the acrylic paint. This seaweed is […]

Filed Under: Accessories, cheap and easy, Crafts, project du jour, spray paint, summer

Red Faux (“Daux”) Coral – Easy coastal decor made from salt dough.

June 20, 2011 59 Comments

Easy fake coral made from salt dough. DIY

Red coral is all over the place these days.   Last week I made some faux coral using a basic dough of salt and flour.  While I was doing that, I also made up a few pieces to make it look like red coral.  So here is a fun DIY for fake red coral you can […]

Filed Under: cheap and easy, Crafts, decor, project du jour, spray paint, summer, tutorial, UseWhatchaGot

Mother’s Day Wrap-up. No pictures of people, but pictures of Pom-Poms. Duh.

May 10, 2011 20 Comments

I just washed and put away the last champagne flute from our annual Mother’s Day Brunch. This is the 5th one we’ve hosted, and each time it gets a little easier to put together. I change the theme and/or color scheme each year.  I was going to do this turquoise and apple green, with pops […]

Filed Under: bacon, Crafts, decor, Entertaining, kitchen stuff, Mother's Day, party, project du jour, Spring, UseWhatchaGot

Pink cabbage is just plain wrong.

April 26, 2011 90 Comments

So the other day I was in my local Goodwill  (Yes….  The one that sells rocks…)  and I came across this. It clearly had a lid at some point in its life, but the lid was missing and there was a chip on the top of it.Oh.  And it was pink. Who has ever heard […]

Filed Under: Accessories, Before and After, Crafts, Goodwill, project du jour, spray paint, Spring

The Blue Twig Chandelier. (who knew?)

April 25, 2011 82 Comments

This is the project I did for last week’s One Month To Win It challenge. It gave me so many problems that I almost included a “rest in peace” wreath when I sent it off to the judges. Shockingly, this project won for the week. (In spite of my son telling me it looked like […]

Filed Under: Crafts, decor, garden & outdoors, project du jour, spray paint, Sticks

Turning the dog’s chew toy into a chair. A Mod Podge make-over.

April 17, 2011 89 Comments

This was my project for Round 2 of One Month To Win It’s craft competition. Now that the voting is over I can share it with you. The challenge was to do something that involved Mod Podge. Mod Podge and I go way back, but we have a sort of volatile relationship. (There have been […]

Filed Under: Before and After, Crafts, Furniture, Mod Podge, project du jour, spray paint, tutorial, UseWhatchaGot

No-sew curtain panels.

March 31, 2011 64 Comments

Let me say this out of the gate: I can sew, I just usually choose not to. (OK, I almost ALWAYS choose not to.) I sew with a glue gun. (Don’t you judge me.) I don’t usually buy pre-made curtain panels. I found a great discount fabric store where I can get gorgeous fabrics anywhere […]

Filed Under: cheap and easy, Crafts, decor, fabric, no-sew, project du jour, tutorial

Personalized Dishes – How to bring a casserole to a potluck… and not lose your pyrex.

March 21, 2011 88 Comments

I love to cook. I’m happy to bring something (or a couple of somethings) to a potluck. I am not happy when I don’t get my Pyrex back again… There is no such thing as Dish Karma. If you lose one, another doesn’t show up as a random act of dish replacement. The Land of […]

Filed Under: Crafts, etched glass, Glass, Let me help you, organization, project du jour, tutorial

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