contrast:)

 I am linking this older post to Kellys Korner  Show Us Where You Live -garage addition!

My dear friend Heidi keeps telling me I need to post a picture showing the contrast of our work bench/creating center in the garage. ( Don't feel sorry for my hubby, he has another huge workbench holding all his manly tools on the other side of the garage.) Notice how my girlie things are slowly creeping onto his half. Tee, he, he!
Yesterday he said ~ "How would you feel if I started hanging guns and animal heads in the living room?" Should I feel bad? Because I don't!:) He told me I could use it for all my craftiness. I don't think this is what he had in mind though!

How we live in the southwest

I am late to the link party, but better late than never, right? Check out all the amazing rooms here I love peaking into other peoples rooms for inspiration. Here is how we live here in the southwest!:)

Living room view from kitchen. My hubby throwing us a peace sign:)

View from entryway

My kiva fireplace.

Entryway

View of my desert

My favorite chair

Looking into kitchen

Vinyl Silhouettes

I got this silhouette of my baby a while ago from the most amazing company- Vinylsilhouettes and have been waiting for the perfect thing to do with it. I finally found this frame at Good Will yesterday for 2 bucks! I forgot to take a before picture, but it was oak.

I gave it a little black spray paint, then put the silhouette on some scrapbook paper and framed it. I love how it turned out. This will also go in my newly decorated laundry room!

Here is the picture they used to make the silhouette. If you haven't seen what they created in my girls room check it out here

~SS

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!

I should have been cleaning my house yesterday afternoon, but instead I was at my creating center making these! I found the idea here

I made the cute little birdie in the center of this one with a glass bead from the dollar store(they come in 1lb bags), and a little birdie I cut out of a pottery barn kids magazine.(I just triple thicked it to the back of the bead.) The others I used brads for the center.

Cost for all of these beauties -3 bucks. Not including the brads, and hair clips I have an abundance of already!

Featured on Tip Junkie!

Enchantresses Three has been featured on Tip Junkie! How cool is that! I literally live on that blog! Check it out Here.

chalk board

I bought this plate at goodwill yesterday for a buck. I have seen some beautiful platters turned into chalk boards and wanted to give it a try! I spray painted the plate white, then painted with chalkboard paint in the middle.

I know the circle is crooked, I was too excited to tape out a circle, next time I will. I like how it turned out. I want to put it in my laundry room as soon as I am done decorating it. I have found such wonderful inspiration on so many blogs! I cant wait to post about my new laundry room!

scrabble anyone?

I have seen these cute little scrabble pendents everywhere and have almost bought them on a few occasions, but I came across this amazing tutorial at This fun blog -

Instead of using scrapbook paper, I have just been shrinking down some family pictures and printing them out to use. I am officially addicted and had to order some silver bails on-line and am anxiously awaiting their arrival! So if you are a friend of mine, try to act surprised when this is what you get for your birthday! Are they not the cutest things ever?

I wore the one with the chain to church yesterday, and got so many complements I lost track!:)

~SS

My Nest Was Blessed

I was so excited when I woke up this morning, because I have been featured on one of my favorite blogs! Why? Because I downright copied her! Look at the amazing window treatments she created in her beautiful home!

I knew I had to do exactly what she had done as soon as I laid my eyes on them!

Here is my finished product! I love it sooo much! Thanks so much Shannon for all your amazing ideas! I still have a huge list of ideas I am going to borrow from her, and not give back!:) I have added her button on our side bar, let her Bless Your Nest, like she has blessed ours!

~SS

Not your Mommas pin cushion

When the Queen Enchantress came this past weekend she noticed I was missing two very important things if I was really going to try my hand at this sewing thing. I didn't have a pin cushion, or a seem ripper! If you know me an ordinary pin cushion and seam ripper are just way to boring, so after searching for some ideas I found this one I took it a little further making it more my own!:) Enchantress #3 sent me these cute little tins the other day and I thought they would be perfect!

I added some batting,

Some animal print( I love me some animal print!)

And glue gunned the fabric to the side of the tin.

Here is my boring seem ripper before.

Here it is after I got my little hands on it!

The finished product! I think they are so cute! Everything in life is better when you add a little sparkle!

~SS

Pin board! (Super easy & quick)

I am always on the search for ways to cut down clutter/chaos in my home, especially for those small reminder notes, & grocery lists that somehow end up on my fridge. (I am an anti-fridge clutter-ite.)

So what's a girl to do? I went to the office section of Target & picked up this 4-pack of cork tiles for under $6.00,

Then I took the 3M sticky tabs and applied them to the cork tiles, & then the inside of my cabinets.


Wha-LA! A hidden place to keep all my reminders, phone numbers, notes and inspiration. I wanted to stack two on each door, but the insides weren't flush, so I just have another one on the opposite cabinet. It works for me. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do with my other 2 left over tiles?

Check out this cute grocery list my kindergartner made for us during a family council on food storage. I love his handwriting!
~JJ



Inspiration for this project came from here.

Modified Hair Bow Holder

Inspired by my lovely sis Enchantress #2 who made hair bow holders with canvases. I made a rendition of it to fit my tiny bathroom. Here is what I used:

Spray adhesive, material ($1 a yard), ribbon, and a piece of basswood found at our local craft store (I think it was $3.29).

A super easy, space saving hair bow holder.

~BC

The Queen Enchantress comes to town

Enchantress 1 and Enchantress 3 were both so jealous that the Queen Enchantress (Momma JoRaye) got to come visit Enchantress 2 this past weekend! Oh how I wish I had paid more attention when she tried to teach us to sew. Momma JoRaye is an amazing seamstress and can sew anything!
This is a picture of our Great Grandmothers sewing machine, that our Mother uses to sew. This lovely has sewn more prom dresses, costumes, baby blankets, etc, that can be listed. I think she needs to be named, any ideas?

Here is a sample of what Mom helped me make this past weekend! I am slowly learning. Thanks so much for coming Mom, we had so much fun !

simple felt flower picture tutorial

I have had tons of people ask me how I make my felt flowers, so I am going to share the love with you all. So simple! Cut felt to desired size.

fold in half and make cuts along the end.

roll and glue as you go

Add some bling to the middle and there you have it!

The colors, sizes, and possibilities are endless! So there you have it, my easy (don't tell anyone they will think you spent hours) fun, sassy felt flowers!

~SS

Cheap, Chic, Wall Art

I got these frames last fall 90% off at my favorite store Hobby Lobby. I loved the detail, but not the hideous color, so what did I do? Spray paint the little lovelies of course! I have been waiting to do something fun with them.

I found these cute metal letters at Hobby Lobby today 50% off. Yes, I am a Hobby Lobby addict and am there at least 3 times a week. I am not ashamed to admit it!

This is the final product! I added some cute scrapbook paper, glue gunned the letters on, and I love how they turned out! One as a thank you gift for a friend, and one for me of course!

cost rundown-

frames- $1 a piece

metal letters- $1.50 a piece

scrapbook paper -.50 cents a piece

total for both -6 bucks!

~SS

Pink and Purple Polka Dot Party

My 4 year old often thanks Heavenly Father for polka dots in her prayers. I don't know what the obsession is but she wanted to carry over her love of polka dots to her birthday. If you are looking for an easy birthday party, the polka dot options are endless!

I used poster board and traced around different sized bowls with a box cutter/exacto knife. I found this dotted garland at Wal Mart.

We then taped pink and purple paper plates EVERYWHERE! The ceiling, cabinets, walls, etc. I cut out the middle of some of the plates to make more dots of different sizes. We blew up lots of pink and purple water balloons (minus the water) and sprinkled them all over the floor. The table covers were actually a huge plastic gift bag (Target clearance) that I cut up and taped down.

Necco candies and yogos make yummy polka-dots!

The snacks. Purple grapes, round peanut butter pretzels, mini pringles, pink m&m's and more yogos. We didn't serve lunch but if you wanted to, mini pizza's would be cute.

The craft table. Bingo markers make perfect polka dots. Pom poms, round jewels, and circle stickers keep kids busy for 15-20 minutes plus give them something to take home with their goodie bag.

Goodie bags (found at Target) included; bubbles, play-doh, sidewalk chalk(with dots on it), yogos, purple polka dot hair bows(for girls) and little tonka trucks (for boys). If I hadn't of found these bags I would have used plain white gift bags and had the kids decorate their own!

I wanted to use Twister but we didn't have time. I also wanted to have fun kids "polka" music playing that I didn't get around to finding. I know The Backyardigans has a fun "Dance to the Wormin' Polka" song.

Happy Polka-dotting!!

~BC