Valentines Day Love Banner

This week is Buntings and Banners week over at One Month To Win It.  The contestant projects will be up for vote in the morning.  I thought I would take tonight and show off my latest banner.

I used some vintage paper ephemera plus some scrapbook paper to make my LOVE banner...

The largest hearts are from a vintage Harper magazine.  The middle pink hearts are from some scrapbooking paper.  The smallest hears are vintage sheet music.  The letters are actually from the Target dollar spot.

I assembled the hearts using some scrapbooking glue then attached them to some pink ric rac using hot glue.

All that was left was to tie it one my DIY tobacco basket....

I have some more posts all about this vignette...so stay tuned!

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Vintage Ladder Quilt Hanger

I couldn't let that great vintage ladder I got for my Christmas card display go back to the barn.  So I came up with a plan.  I have some great quilts but no way to display them.  Let's face it...having them stacked in the closet is not doing them justice.  So I took my vintage ladder and used it to display my quilts...sort of like a quilt hanger...

 Like a quilt hanger but oh so much better!  Chippy paint, worn wood, I heart this ladder!  And it is perfect up next to the vintage quilt perfection....

I leaned it up against the wall in my bedroom... 

It made this corner look amazing!  Do you have your quilts in a closet?  Get them out and display them proudly! 

  

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Vintage Inspired Christmas Decor

I find tons of inspiration via pinterest and other blogs.  Sometimes I have to take time and make some of that inspiration come to life in my home.  This past week I made three things that are inspired from pinterest or other blogs....

 All three were very vintage inspired and that is the direction I am headed this year for my Christmas decor.  All of them were super simple and quick.  You could make them today and add them to your home.  The first is from Madigan Made.  Her milk glass Christmas trees have been dancing in my head since last year. 

Yep they are gorgeous!  I actually picked up a few glass trees at the thrift store after they marked them down last year.  They have been hidden away in the attic.  They finally got a coat of white paint on the inside....

I love how painting them on the inside makes them look like milk glass!  Shannon with Madigan Made is a genius!! 

The next one came from The Tortoise and the Hare.  Her Christmas jars blew me away when I saw them on pinterest.  Simple and gorgeous...

 I added my love of mason jars to the mix.  The bottle brush trees I got on clearance at the end of last year.  I just used a little epsom salts and dropped in some trees....

The next pinterest inspired project actually came from the Vintage Junky Etsy Shop.  A gorgeous shop if you have not been there.  She sells vintage cars and trucks with bottle brush trees tied to them.

While not vintage, I dug through the toy box and came up with a few trucks to put some trees on myself... 

 I just set mine in this little wooden dump truck...

My son loves when his toys are used in my displays.  And the trucks can go back to him when I am finished with them. 

Stay tuned this week for my mantle reveal and a Christmas home tour.  Then you get to see how I worked these items into my home.  Have you made anything lately that you have seen on pinterest or other blogs?

  

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Doily Christmas Tree

   Time to make that doily tree I showed y'all last week...

It is so super simple!  Gather up your doilies.  I found some cardboard cones at a thrift store.  They look like maybe empty thread spools...

If you can't find anything like that, rolled up kraft paper into cones works just fine...or even roll kraft paper around a styrofoam cone.

 Depending on the size of your cone and doilies, it might take a whole doily or a half doily...

Just wrap the doily around and secure with hot glue or tape....so easy!  Then cut off the excess at the bottom. 

 A thirty second project that you will love.

These have found their way to my mantle.  Which I will be sharing with y'all in a bit.  So stay tuned!

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Poinsettias and Coffee Bags

I always make sure to stop by The Home Depot or Lowes on Black Friday for some 99 cent poinsettias.  I love the look of poinsettias around my home for Christmas.  They are my favorite thing for Christmas!  I picked up four on Friday.  But they needed a new pot...or....I could cover the pot they were in with something.  But what??  Coffee sacks of course...

Ready to cover your plastic pots?  Here is all the details.  Start with a coffee sack (or a piece of burlap). 

Strip off that outer wrap on the pot.  Put the pot down in an old bowl.  Why you ask??  That way when you water the plant the excess water has somewhere to go. 

Then put a rubber band up near the top of the pot.

Cut your burlap or coffee sack to size.  Use your pot to measure.  It should come up to a little over the top of the pot on all four sides.

Then pick up two of your sides and slip them under the rubber band.

Work your way around and stick the burlap under the rubber band all the way around.  Work with the burlap until the gathers are approximately even.

Flip over the corners pressing with your hands.  Just so they don't stick up but rather hang down some.

Wrap twine around several times to hide your rubber band.  Then tie it off.

Display around your home!

I also made another one with white burlap and chair webbing.  Just in case you want a different look.

I love it too!

The coffee sack ones are slightly more rustic.  I really want a touch of rustic this Christmas in my decor.

What about you?  Did you find anything on Black Friday that was just for you?

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Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Centerpiece

Eeek!  This one is on PSA Stamp Camp today!!  Head on over and check it out there too!!
Need a super quick and easy way to decorate your thanksgiving table on Thursday?  Add a paper bunting banner in a bowl of pumpkins and gourds...

I used my PSA Essentials stamps, some recycled paper from my stash, some twine and some skewers from the kitchen drawer.

I cut my paper into rectangles first, then made them triangles.  I loved the rustic nature of this recycled scrapbook paper.

I then stamped my letters on in orange...

For the skewers, on one end I hot glued then together in an "X"....

On the other end, I tied on two pieces of twine.  I hot glued the knots to the skewers after I tied them to prevent them from slipping down.

Then just hot glue your little triangles onto the twine.  Oh so easy.

I love how the second row of letters is wavy!

Now just stick the entire thing down in a bowl of pumpkins and gourds and you have a festive table centerpiece.

Quick, easy, cheap, and cute....my kinda craft!

So do you have your centerpiece done?  Any stamping involved?  Bunting banners?  I would love to see them so drop me a link in a comment!

I don't know about y'all but I am ready to eat some turkey!

 

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