DIY project

This is a very short, simple post but it's a great, easy way to dress up some plants!

Get some plants!

Then get some material, I got mine from hobby lobby…do you remember seeing it from somewhere??

Oh yaaaaaa, my jewlery picture frame holder…SAME STUFF :)
Maybe this will be next weeks DIY!

First your going to want to cut a square or two that goes a little over the top of the container, you can double up on these to give them more volume...

Next, if your plants have leaky bottoms make sure you wrap them in plastic wrap so when you water them it doesn't leak out.   

Then start wrapping whatever material you chose around them.

Make sure you choose a slightly heavier material it will give an overall better look and be easier to work with :)

I would have used my glue gun but hubs misplaced it when cleaning and I STILL can't find it. I have a whole pack of glue sticks though...

make sure when you glue you're covering it up with another piece so you can't see it

so, yes I used crazy glue, like super glue. 

If you want you can do another layer of material too.

and this is how they should look :)

place them on a table or a shelf and little pieces of cuteness :)

I love Bravo TV…my mom and pop think it rots the brain but it doesn't ;)

Go try it and let me know how it goes!

Just another manic Mondayyyy

Not really. But I have a fun week of posts ahead and I won't be skipping a day! Today is something I love: Flea Markets/Farmers Markets

Hubs and I stopped at a HUGE flea market yesterday. And when I say HUGE I mean it…we didn't even see the whole thing!

some had just junk...

but to any kid,

this is like a candy store!!

he touched almost every dirty box of toys…

 And thennnnnn…

there was pretty jewlery. Can I remind you we are very close to Mexico so many things are Mexican inspired. The booth next to this was selling pesos for a dollar…

Looking back I wish we had gotten this, so pretty in pink.

This "artist" reminded me of Italy. He made these from spray paint and the first time I ever saw art like this was in Italia :)

Lake house dayzzz…I learned to slalom on a Kidder just like the purple one

If you like blown glass please skip the next couple pictures :)

Now this booth comes with a story. Hubs and his oldest brother have a weird thing for blown glass. They think its really cool while I think its VERY tacky. He took a trip to FL keys with two of his brothers and came back with 4 little glass figurines. He told me I could pick 1. Um, no thank you but what a thoughtful gift, you good gift giver, you!!

Don't you worry, they did not make it out to SD with us ;)

Barbie <3 Diego

No words.

I mean who makes all these?! 

My grandma used to have these at her house and I loved them! They have smaller and smaller and smaller dolls inside them. I wanted to get one and send it to her.

DIY IDEAS:

I loved these vintage suitcases. I just recently saw in a Mag how they painted them white (or whatever color) redid the inside if they were old and used them as storage from under the bed! If you can get them at a good price it's worth it.

I also thought if they were pretty flat, you could again paint them or not paint them depending on your color scheme and the color of the suitcases and glue them together stacked and staggered maybe use a piece of glass on top and use it as a side table :) 

I saw a couple booths with these stones. They would look very cute on a bookcase or shelf. They need to be polished a little because they were dull but for 5$…a steal.

I loved these old cameras…I wish I knew more about them so I could buy one and use it! If they don't work they could be used as a good book stop too :)

P.S. doesn't that old video camera look like the one they used in Wild America, the movie with JTT. I can remember watching that movie all.the.time.

Now I don't know if I would ever buy a rug from here. I wouldn't want it to have bugs because that would just be bad and I think that cow rug might be 100% real which makes me sad. Nonetheless, it's a super popular trend right now at West Elm and on Jonathan Adler's site. They are a bit expensive at these two sites but here I'm sure you could get it for dirt cheap. I didn't ask because I didn't want him to think I was interested…they like to sell hard when there's a possible purchase you know what I mean? 

He's hubs, oh so happy to be leaving!

My favorite booth was a lady selling cactus and herbs.

I bought a Chive plant because I make a DE-lish reciepe with them…they one you were supposed to see last Friday, you'll see it on here Thursday. 

And I bought 4 little cactus plants. Two of which were potted in these very cute hanging bubbles from W.E. and the other two you'll see tomorrow (DIY project) ;) 

I know these aren't the best pictures and I only took a couple but I kept getting so side tracked by things I liked and booths I wanted to see! Next weekend when I go back I will make sure you get to see all the wonderful things I saw!

Happy start to the week!!

Friday already!?

Here's a first look and a little DIY project from our bedroom!

The start of after picutres, YAY!

This is our room before. View from the keyhole

view of the keyhole…love the light

Now for the after:

I built this bookshelf and painted it to match the colors of our room. 

Keep reading for the DIY

I started to decorate it. We still have books and nick-nacks in boxes which I'm sure we'll add to it.

That new book "how to stay out of the dog house" has it's own back story and may even get it's own post :) It was a West Elm purchase obviously. 

This was a great birthday gift from my MOH…loves you blair

DIY Project:

So it's back to college time at all the stores which means great deals for everyone not going to college because we have jobs and money…not really but I bought this 5 tier bookshelf for $30!!

I must say it's not very sturdy but to have it for a year for $30 and I can paint it?? I am sold.

Materials: 

Paint (I went to Loews and got 2 Valspar paint samples for $3 each and I only used one.)

Paint roller

Paint brush

Sander (fine)

Painters tape

something to put on the ground (I cut open my WE bag from earlier that day and it worked perfect!)

I only painted the outside of the bookcase and one shelf…I had a couple options: paint the whole thing, paint the inside or paint the outside. I choose the outside. I knew I didn't want all of it painted and for a while I thought about painting the diagonal thick stripes on the outside but that was much to time consuming because I don't have those kind of skills ;) So I opted for the easy way out, the outside.

First you want to take all four outside shelves and sand them and I mean really sand them. You'll be using a fine sander so you won't really be able to tell butttttt mistakes happen when you don't sand correctly, I'll show you…

Just this one I didn't sand enough and the paint easily came off! I did double coat this one but I liked the light color of the other ones so I didn't double coat them.

When the pieces are drying I saw little fuzzies and dots on them so I took tweezers and plucked them out. You don't have to be this anal, I learned they come out over time.

I know you saw a speck of the key hole but I just cant seemed to get fully organized and if it's driving you crazy, how do you think I feel?!?

I'm giving myself the weekend to enjoy life and next week I'll hopefully have a new found motivation to get organized!