Footboard converted to a Craft Desk

Remember the Headboard I made? Well I didn't want a foot board, but it came as a set. So the foot board has been sitting in my room looking ugly. I usually do my crafting on the dining table (my roommate is very understanding but I'm pretty sure she would like to eat dinner at some point this year :P ).

I came up with the idea to put legs on the foot board and use it as my craft table. I bought the legs at IKEA for $3.50 each and just screwed them on.

 I'm so happy with how it turned out. I finally have a space to leave all my craft stuff out. One day I'll have a whole room for that. For now I'll just sit here and dream.

I got a new duvet cover at IKEA too. I love it. Just in time to put my down comforter on my bed.

4th of July Ruffle T: FREE-vamp

I made this shirt 2 years ago for the 4th. I'm not so in love with it anymore and I don't really want to go spend more money on a shirt that I will probably only wear once (ie: the one from 2 years ago). So I decided to re-vamp this shirt using stuff I had...free-vamp :)

Here is before:

and After!

All I did was add some red ruffles to it (it covered up a stain too, score!). If I were doing this for a kid I would maybe add some sparkle to the stars. But I figured I would keep it a little more simple. I will driving up to Bass Lake on Sunday so I didn't want to go all sparkly up there.

I think it came out pretty cute!

4th of July Candle holder/center piece

My roommate asked me to do "Art with Ali" Day in her classroom. I was so excited and I figured this would be a great project for the kids to do since the 4th of July is coming up.

It was a little wet when I took the picture but it looks even more awesome when its dry.

From the dollar store I used a glass vase and squares cut from paper streamers (there is a ton of streamer left over so you'll have some to decorate too). By watering down some elmers glue it was easy to "paper mache" the squares on. When you do this make sure that the red stripes go OVER the white stripes. It looks cleaner that way. The pattern is pretty simple and its a great project for kids to do or for adults to make as table decor.


You can use these to hold silverware, food or flowers instead of a candle. During the day you can put these balloon weights from the dollar tree to make them look like fireworks. Then at night remove the weight and put a candle in them. Here is a picture of them with a candle in it. It was during the day when I took this but it looks really cool at night.

Have fun! And Happy 4th of JULY!! Be safe everyone!

Garden Labels

For mothers day I decided to make my boyfriend's mom a little gift. I saw these "wands" at the dollar tree and I thought they would make cute little labels for her veggie garden.











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Martini Night

Hello Everyone!! I just wanted to say thank you to all my new followers and readers, And a special thank you to Heather from dollarstorecrafts.com for featuring my blog.

So last night I had a Girls Night at my house and it was Martini Night! I had about 10 friends over so I decided to customize my martini glasses. Here is some of the finished product.

 

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Beer-cap Magnets

 I have so many cool beer caps that I have saved and I was just waiting for a good idea to use them for. And then I saw some magnets at the dollar tree and thought the Caps would make perfect magnets!

Magazine Wreath

I got this idea from dollar store crafts. Its a great way to use all those old magazines you have lying around. It cost me ZERO dollars! Click read more to see how to make it!