A Mirror Makeover & A Little Reader Trivia

I LOVE CHALKBOARDS....they are cheap and look cute in the house. Better yet,you can walk past inspiring quotes 100 times a day. 

Check out this $5.00 transformation. Can you all guess who said this famous line on the chalkboard? 

A can of chalkboard paint, chalk, and some scrapbook paper for the heart garland...and whalaa...a beautiful chalkboard :)

                             

                             

                        

Making Your Child's Silhouette

Step 1: Buy a pair of Italian frames at a thrift store, garage sale, www.etsy.com, or spot a pair in your grandmother's attic.

Step 2: Remove pictures from frames and save to trace for a new background for silhoutte. If there is a backing that is securing the picture in, just pry off the staples or screws. 

Step 3: Remove glass and paint frame with Martha Stewart's Ballet Slipper pink paint. Let dry. 

Step 4: Take a picture of your child's face in their profile view. Upload picture to Microsoft word on your computer. Change the saturation of the picture until your child's face is darker (this will make it easier to cut out and trace). To do this, right click on the picture in Microsoft Word, go to the format picture tab and adjust the brightness until it's really easy to see the outline of your child's face.

Step 5: Print the picture out and cut out the profile.

Step 6: Trace the profile pic to paper of your choosing and cut out. 

Step 7:  Choose background paper for silhouettes. Place old oval pictures on new background paper, trace, and cut out. 

Step 8: Glue silhouettes on new oval background paper. 

Step 9: Place ovals in dried frames, apply backing, hang, and enjoy :)

A Nautical Boy's Room

Designing my son's nautical room on a pea-size budget. 

Step 1: Find a cheap french provincial dresser on Craigslist, a thrift store, or garage sale. This one was $20.00. 

Step 2: Take all hardware off.

Step 3: Pull out drawers, sand down dresser and drawers

Step 4: Paint the dresser and drawers, let dry

Step 5: Install same hardware or new ones to your liking :)

Before

After

Step 6: Hang an antique shipping crate as a creative shelf :)

Turning a Cute Vintage Apron into a Modest Skirt!

             A Cute Vintage Apron Transformed into a Modest Skirt 

A very simple mommy project.....it can be no sew or require a simple straight line stitch with your sewing machine.

Step 1: Go to a thrift store, garage sale, flea market, or grandma's attic to acquire a cute vintage apron.

Step 2: Decide if you want a no-sew apron skirt (one that just ties tightly in the back) or one that requires one straight line stitch in the back. This is what we did.

Step 3: For sewing, measure the waist of your child and then measure the length of the top of the skirt accordingly. Fold over one side of the apron to the other keeping the tie on the outside.

Step 4: Pin and sew a straight line. Take pins out and tie a bow.

Step 5: Now you have a pretty and modest skirt in 5 easy steps. :)