Kicking off the Holiday Season with Some Anthro Inspired Decor!

 I have a few pictures of some holiday decor I've done in my home for you.  I  tried to do some Anthro inspired displays after looking at some of their awesome window display pictures on Facebook.  If you haven't "Liked" them on facebook yet, you should take a look! 

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you enjoy all the wonderful people and beautiful things in your lives:)

Color or No Color?

 Photo and bedding from New Arrivals, Inc.

I had a customer send me this picture to see if I could make some items to match the bedding.  I love the bright colors and pairing of the stripe with the floral.  That hot pink shag rug is making me feel nostalgic..LOVE it!!

 Photo and styling by Dear Lillie

This is another awesome girls room I found when browsing the blog Dear Lillie.  If you haven't seen this blog yet, you really need to check it out.  Everything is LOVELY.

Photo from HomeGoods

And here is a picture I saw on the HomeGoods site.  I love the couch and funky pillow combo.  My husband probably wouldn't go for this color but I can always dream:)

Happy Saturday morning!

Wood Shaving Wreaths

I've seen these beautiful wood shaving wreaths at several shops in the last month.  I love the look..anyone happen to see a tutorial for making one? 
I like the way they look natural, or painted in bright red or pewter with glittter.   They typically retail for around $68 for the large one and $39 for the small. 

This one is available to purchase at Garnet Hill.

Happy Weekend!

Fall Decorating at Erin's house

Hello Fall.  You've come to visit my house today and I like it.  It feels cool, breezy, and crisp.

I felt like getting my fall decorations out so this is my start to transforming the house.  I also added old books to my cabinet even though I am still collecting the white milk glass.  I just need to find more but it's a slow process collecting. 

If you've been around LSL for awhile, some of these things look familiar from last year.   I have more fall ideas in my head so stay tuned for more! Have you started to get out your fall decor?

I hung this from my tree outside.  I made it using a vintage farm dress, old lace, designer quilt fabric, and grosgrain ribbon.   Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend.

Creating Art with Vintage Paper

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I just love vintage paper products like cards, wrapping paper, labels, postcards, and sheet music. When looking through an antique market a few months ago, I found this old wrapping paper with kids having fun at a carnival. They look so happy! I started creating and came up with this pennant out of two pieces of poster board glued together and added some vintage lace and ric rac. The letters are distressed with brown ink. I also added y0-yo's and vintage buttons.

These are some things I am toying with framing. They're made with old book pages, sheet music, and die cuts made with card stock and velvet paper.

I may have these chairs matted and framed. It helps me to lay them out in a frame when I'm creating an art piece before I glue everything together. What do you think?

Yes, I have gone a little bit overboard with these chair die cuts!

While the Cat is Away the Mouse Will Play

So, while my hubby is out of town I'm going to paint our kitchen cabinets while he's gone...

[pic found here]

Just kidding!  What would you do if your husband was out of town?

PS - Sorry Babe!  Hope I didn't make you too anxious!  Isn't this kitchen pretty though? ;) 

PPS - I wouldn't have thought of gray cabinets, but I LOVE them ;) 

Dollar Store Spring Moss Bunnies with Tissue Flower Egg

I've been thinking about making a moss covered bunny for days. When I saw the contest at Living With Lindsay for making a dollar store spring decoration for $5, I knew this would be my project.





The supplies I bought were:

one package of gold/ivory tissue paper ($1)

two packages of moss (I only ended up using part of one) ($1)

one piece of poster board (if they have brown it will save you time) ($.50)

one package of raffia ($1)

You will also need a hole punch, spray adhesive, hot glue gun and two glue sticks, craft paint, and a small amount of wire or twine.

I cut it out and traced another one going the opposite way.




I mixed up some acrylic craft paint to get a muddy color to paint the bunnies, that way the white won't show through your moss.






I also cut out an egg shape from the poster board at this point but I forgot to take a picture of that. I just drew an egg the size I wanted.



After I cut out the egg, I started cutting out strips from the tissue paper about 3 inches wide and the length of the paper.



To make the roses, just start loosely rolling the paper into a flower shape. I folded the strip in half so the top edge is folded.



I cut off the bottom and used hot glue to adhere it to the egg.

It will take you a while to make all these flowers, but it's so pretty when you're done!

I did about half of the egg and then my bunnies were dry so I took them outside and sprayed them with permanent spray adhesive.

I spread moss over them and patted it down.

I had to press the moss into the adhesive and then trim around the edges. I tied a bow around his neck with the raffia. Then I did the same thing with the other bunny.

Now I am back to my egg. I punched a hole in either side of the egg and in the bunnies' foot. I used a small piece of wire and wired them together on each side.

Next I finished the rest of the flowers and glued them to the egg. I punched a hole in each tail and hung with some twine I had laying around.

Now I have my moss bunnies, and I've tried making something like Shelley's from

House of Smith's with paper roses!

also linked at Someday Crafts Categorically Crafting (Easter crafts)

I drew a bunny on the poster board from looking at an image of a bunny jumping online. I changed it a little to my liking.