Are you ready for spring? I don't mind the winter, as long as there is snow and it's pretty! Sometimes the pretty is just the trees' silhouette outline on a colorful sky, since we haven't had as much snow this winter. There have been a lot of gray, wet days. It has me itching to bring back color, so the other day, I took down all the winter decorations at our art studio and started creating some spring ones. Let me show you how I came up with my foliage! As the founder of a non profit art Continue Reading
Spring Mantel Decor with Crafts
Who is ready for winter to be over!? (All the hands went up and the hearts said yes). Especially the ones in the northern mid-west of the United States. We got more ice and snow last night in Indiana, so it felt like the perfect time to show you what I did at our art studio yesterday. I set up spring. It was time to take down the winter-Valentines decor... I went straight to warm colors, softer textures, and crafty bits for spring. It was inspired by these two baskets I found Continue Reading
DIY Paper Butterflies- Spring decor for cheap
Do you have spring fever? The sun has shown its face in Warsaw, Indiana this week. It's making us want to pull out the flip flops and replace all the winter decor with spring and colorful creations. As a kid, I think I might have wanted to be a teacher just so I could make the fun bulletin boards. Now, I have my chance at our art studio. I love changing out the mantel. After the sun this week, I took the winter trees down and needed a fun, inexpensive, spring idea to replace them. I came Continue Reading
Quick And Easy DIY Felt Bunny
Spring is finally showing its beautiful self in Indiana. We've had trouble getting all our school work done because WE. JUST. WANT. TO. BE. OUTSIDE. Can you relate? I literally have dropped my chores and let the laundry pile up-to go walk in the creek in the backyard with the kids. It's been amazing! Now that we are feeling some spring, I realize Easter is just days away. There is nothing like the pressure of having to pull a good, meaningful, fun gift together quickly. You're in luck! Continue Reading
DIY Painted Wood Vase {tutorial}
The other night Matt brought home some flowers for me. I love flowers. They are so fun and bring such a fresh pop of color into your home. Well, I went to put my new flowers in a vase and decided I wasn't happy with my options. Really, truth be told, I had some wooden dowel rods that I had already envisioned somehow wrapping around a jar. So, these new flowers gave me an excuse, and I got to work. It started off like a mash-up of Lincoln Logs meets a weird game of Jenga. After several attempts, Continue Reading