Entrance Hooks

In one of our trips to Michael's, we saw some monogrammed hooks for just $4.99. Immediately I thought it would be a good idea to have a couple of them in the main entrance of the house. When I used to get home, I always placed my purse directly in my bedroom or if I was in a rush, I just dropped it on the couch. I needed a place to hang it so this project was very helpful to me. Now, not I just have a place to hang my purse, but we also have a place to hang umbrellas or jackets. Also, when we have guests we can place their belongings there. :)

The only problem with these hooks was that they were black and white. They didn't match my home theme colors at all.

 

 

 

They looked so off.....

 

 



So I knew I needed to make some changes to them, and immediately I started working on them. We bought 7 of them to spell Webster.

Materials I used:

1- 7 Hooks - Michael's

2- Blade

3- Matching Scrapbook Paper

4- Mod Podge

5- I tried to use some flower embellishments but I ended up not using them

6- Some acrylic colored drops

7- Cardboard Paper

First, I scraped all the initials and the back paper until I could see the wood.

 

 

Then, I measured, cut, and glued the scrapbook paper with the mod podge.

 

 

 

 

Then, I used my Cricut Expression Cutting Machine and some matching cardboard for scrapbooking and cut the letters.





Then, I again used the mod podge to glue the letters to the wood. And last, I used some acrylic red drops to accent the initials.

I ended up with this:

 

 

 

 

Entrance Wall Before:

 

 

 

 

 

Entrance Wall After:

 

 

 

 

The leaves are a present my grandfather gave me and I have no idea where did he buy them.

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DIY Fabric Box

As probably many of you, we receive tons of unwanted mail everyday left in out mailboxes. Credit card applications, coupons that have no use for us, furniture flyers, etc. We decided to put all the unwanted mail that has our name and address in a box so when the box gets filled, we can take a moment to sit and go though all those papers to shred them.

For that use, we had an old, ugly box which I horribly wrapped with ugly gift wrapping. I guess it never bothered me until I saw it closely. It was very ugly;

I always liked those cute fabric boxes I have seen in a couple of my favorite stores but I wasn't too excited to get them for more than $18.00. I went to a few stores but I couldn't find any under that price. That was reason enough for me to think on my next project; a DIY fabric box.

Materials I used:

1- An Empty Cardboard Box $0.00 My brother got one at his workplace and gave it to me.
2- Fabric $3.00 per one yard. I went to Hobby Lobby and got a cute fabric on sale. :)
3- Scissors
4- Spray Adhesive
5- A ruler

The fabric:

 

The Box:

The beautiful finished box:

 

 

 

 

 

 



A fabric covered box for $3.00 not bad huh?

Laundry Room

A year ago we had a problem with the washer machine hose. I put a load of laundry to wash and while it was doing the cycle, the hose came out of the drain and all the water came out. It splashed the walls, and made a mess in the laundry room. That incident caused the flooring and the walls to damage and smell like mildew. We procastinated in fixing it for the lonest time but last week I told Josh that we really needed to do it. The room was horrible and we needed more storage for sheets and blankets so we finally did it.

We ripped off the old flooring, went to Lowe's and got new one. We got new baseboard and stained it. We changed the back wall but because we just changed half of it by placing drywall, it was uneaven even when we tried to put plaster on top and then painted it. Becasue we hated the uneaven wall, we placed paneling. We painted the walls again, installed shelves and a cabinet we got at Lowe's. Last, we bought some laundry baskets at Michael's and the job was done :)

Before:

After:

And Finally:

 

Now we love out little laundry room.