Easter Egg Candle Sticks

I loved loved LOVED these Easter Egg Candlestick holders that JC's Loft made. I couldn't stop thinking about it the next day so off I went to Hobby Lobby...which I'll have to say isn't an unusual day for me....got my dowel, round wooden plaques, and they had an adorable set of foam eggs already decorated. Then of course when I was at the dollar store I forgot to buy some short pillar candles, so I bought a set of 3 at Target...which wasn't outrageous...it was about $4.


So I got home, started my project and 2 weeks later with everything laid out over my kitchen counter for that long I FINALLY completed it....I swear I'm not doing too good in the procrastination department with my New Years Resolution!


Regardless, here's my finished project, again thank you so much JC's Loft for sharing your adorable idea. 


I finished up the project with some Easter paper I found at Scrapbook Barn and some ribbon I had laying around the house.

I just love the colors and it adds just another touch of subtle Easter decor to the house.

Personalized Canvas Letters

My daughter's teacher is about to have her first baby so the moms from the class threw her a baby shower last week.  I had, of course, planned to make her something for the baby's room when I found out she was pregnant, so I had been chatting with her early on about the room colors and decor.  She really liked these personalized canvas letters at the Addilyneli Etsy Shop, so I offered to make something similar for her nursery in her style/colors.  I was happy with how they turned out and she was too :)...whew, relief!  

I had her pick out all of the paint colors and I sent her over to dafont.com to pick the font, which I downloaded for FREE.  The hardest part was deciding what colors to use where...I wanted to make sure there was a good balance of all the colors she picked.  Then I just painted all the backgrounds on 8x10 canvases, printed and cut out the letters at the size I wanted, traced them onto the canvases, and painted and outlined them.  The ribbon is attached to each canvas back using a staple gun.

This was my first go at canvas letters and the project was a lot of fun...once I got over the initial panic attack of committing to something I've never done before :).

Where's my Peeps?

Here's my latest Easter project.....I saw it somewhere last year and to be honest with you I can't remember where...its not my own idea for sure, even though this is the most simple project to do, I don't think I would've thought of it! :)

This project is so easy that I was able to do it this morning with a 3yr old, 6yr old, husband out riding his bike and an 8 week old puppy in my house! Now that is easy!

Here's what I used:

Small glass vase I purchased from Hobby Lobby

15 pack of Peeps (although I only used 10...hubby ate the rest!)

Old school jelly beans....why? Because I love old school ones.

4 silk flowers in spring colors

3 different ribbons, 1 around the base and 2 just tied in the front for decor

1 wooden painted flower from Hobby Lobby

Here's how it looks from the back, I just tied the ribbon around the center where the jelly beans meet the Peeps

Here's looking at you....

So simple and dresses up a room with Spring Fever

Ruffle Fabric Pillow

If you read my Ruffle Fabric T-shirt Dress post, you know that I ordered fabric for my daughter's dress at rufflefabric.com.  My original plan for her dress got squashed when she insisted on the pink sherbert looking ruffle fabric, but I had high hopes of changing her mind so I also ordered the charcoal gray fabric that I wanted.  Well she got her pink dress and I got a pile of gray ruffle fabric, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  I don't have any big plans for the fabric yet, but I will :).  For now, I decided to use some of the fabric to pretty up what was going to be a plain recovered pillow...because everything's better with ruffles, right???

I started out with this fabric from IKEA...

and my ruffles from rufflefabric.com...

I cut my fabric 3 ruffle rows wide.  No need to finish the edges because this fabric doesn't fray!  I wanted the ruffles to be even more ruffly so I ruffled the ruffled fabric...does that even make sense?  To determine the length of the ruffle fabric, I estimated how many inches around the pillow would be (the diameter), and I used about double the length of ruffle fabric. 

I did a quick hand stitch under the middle ruffle and scrunched the fabric.

Then I pinned my ruffle in place on the front and back of the pillow and sewed it down.  I just used a straight stitch right next to my hand stitch.  Once the ruffle is sewn on, remove the hand stitch.

Finish the pillow like normal...just make sure the ruffles are lined up on the front and back before you sew the 2 sides together.

I love how easy it was to add some prettiness to a plain pillow!

Got Luck?

Got Luck?

Well I'm Irish, 50% and I have to celebrate St. Patricks Day in some way with decor rather than just drinking green beer....so I decided to make a St. Patricks Day banner to hang in my front entry hall. I had a lot of fun doing it, it's just cut out using my Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge for the scalloped squares and then my All Mixed Up cartridge for the letters. I'll have to admit I'm addicted to the Mickey Mouse font cartridge, I had to tear myself away from using that one to "change up" the look a bit. Of course some ribbon, buttons, and flower embellishments were added, but this is quite plain in comparison to some of I've done in the past.

Here's some shots of it...which I'd like to add is not the easiest thing to do when it's a long banner and hanging in front of a mirror when I don't want to get myself in the picture as well....AND trying to keep the smudges from being in the shots! :)

Here's my artsy blurred out version below

Of course if we all have love in our life, then we sure our lucky aren't we?

If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you are lucky enough!