Jewelry Holder/ door repurpose.............

It is Frugal Friday over at the Shabby Nest, and this is my thrifty contribution.....................

I have this funny little old cabinet that holds shoes, but it has cute doors. So when one of the doors fell off I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.

What does one do with a door??

First I sanded it down so that I could paint it.

Then I white washed it. It took two coats of regular old bottled acrylic from the craft store. Then I sanded it down again so that it would look distressed.

Then I took a stamp and stamped it with brown oxide paint.

I did not try to make it perfect at all.

Perfect is overrated..........................................................

plus I planned to sand and fade the stamped sections anyway.

I bought a 9 pack of bronze 1-1/4" cup hooks from Target.

I screwed them into some of the stamped spots. I may go back and add more later.

I tied a brown ribbon on the knob................................................

just for fun.

I used a staple gun to fasten two pieces of brown ribbon to the back top to hang it from. Then I hung it in a sooo not glamorous wall in my closet. (A little anti-climactic, right?) But,...I know that it is there and it looks cute.

I love a good re purpose!! Now,...What ever will I do with the other door?

ah,........Autumn...........

It starts like a whisper and then slowly takes over all of your senses. My house smells of pumpkin, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and every corner reflects warm tawny shades of browns, oranges, and greens. I love the beginning of the holiday season.

This past weekend I decorated. and.....Then I decorated some more.

This is my favorite find as of late............two metal wire picture 'pedestals' that I ordered on line from Tender Heart Treasures. I was planning to put black and white photos in them. Still am. But they looked so cute on my mantle that I had to use them for the holidays as well. I found some printable vintage Halloween postcards on line and put them in the 'frames'.

I heart them.

We Have Winners....................

Thank You to all who entered my blogiversary giveaway!! It was fun for me to host my first festive little event. I had my husband (very impartial) use his computer to choose two random winners from a numerical value that we placed on each entry. The winners are....................

drum roll......................................

Keetha Broyles from Keepie DaNiece's Eclectic Stuff,

and Protege from Life Through Reflections!!

Congratulations ladies and I will be contacting you for your information. Thank you for your participation as I am sure that this was probably a lot more fun for me then it was for all of you! :):)

Love, -Holls

Blog-iversary......giveaway

This evening as I was getting ready for bed (and had every intention of ignoring my poor blog) I realized that I started this blog one year ago today.

Although it is still in its infancy (I don't think I can hardly consider 88 posts much more than a newborn), it is one calendar year old. Which is probably more like 7 in blog years.

Since I have been such a bad blog mommy,.......silly me,.......I have been chasing around 4 human children and sometimes it seems that there aren't enough hours in a day for that let alone tending to my blog baby,............I decided that I had better commemorate my blogs one year mark. ( How is that for a run on sentence with endless grammatical and punctuation errors?)

To my blog on your birthday............I Vow To (try to)............

-neglect you less

-post on you more

-change up your look once in a blue moon

-be more grateful that I can vent my creative rantings on you

-and host a giveaway in your honor

You all know the drill. To enter the giveaway you need only leave a comment. My followers can enter twice, and if you blog about the giveaway I will enter you three times. Please leave a separate comment for each time that you qualify for entry. (This will be greatly appreciated by my very lazy alter ego.:))

Two winners will be sent a set of three of my embroidered posy pins along with a set of my felt barrettes. (Terribly sorry about the pictures. There is no natural light in my house at nearly midnight.......go figure.........thus...............bad photos.)

I will take comments until midnight on Friday the 9th.

Thank You to all Bloggy Friends that participate!!!!!

Love, -Holls

A little excessive?.....

It is no secret that I have too many bows.

FAR too many bows,...for my little girls.

I needed bigger, longer, more substantial bow holders for them,...so I made these. Easy, fun, cute.

It seems my problem is that once I have more places to put them I seem to collect/make more of them. :p (pffftt...)

Only seven more of them. ;)

My new favorite little trick is to put a fabric scrap booking brad right in the center. A nifty little detail that I stole from my friend Portia. (Thanks Portia.)

A little excessive??

Yep..............

Is anyone aware of a support group for this sort of thing??

Thrifty Thursday

Bloggeritaville is once again celebrating Thrifty Thursday, and I thought I would add my 2 cents worth......................The last of the beautiful treasures gifted to me by my mom when I was in Utah. I have posted in the past about my love affair with with Blue Willow, Blue Chintz, Blue Delft, Blue Toile,.......you name it. My mother saved these for me and they match several pieces that I already own. Thank You mom!!!!

My FABULOUS find at Clair's Boutique in the mall........................This little gem was originally 8-ish dollars. Then it was marked down to half price. From there it went to $2-. By the time I serendipit-ied across it, it happened to be all by it's exquisite self on a 50% off rack. My favorite one dollar find in a very long time!!!

Button Necklace

My fabulous friend Kodi was wearing a button necklace one day.

No ordinary button necklace. A catch your eye and make you stare.....and smile.....button necklace.

I swallowed my pride and asked if I could copy,...if I could make one. A few days later cute Kodi e-mailed me pictures of her little crafty piece of wonderful-ness (which to me meant that I definitely had permission to copy.)

So I did,...............here is my version of her 'stare-at-able' treasure of copy worthy fashion.

Thank you Kodi!!! I think that I need to make many, many, many more!!!

I am linking this to Frugal Friday at the Shabby Nest.