Making it Ours: Vanity Area Jewelry Holder and Wall Art

 

This series is documenting my husband and I’s projects that make our 1960’s home ours.  Some are simple, and some are not!  I hope you enjoy this post.

Hey there!  Today, I’ll show you something I did to make my vanity area feel more like mine.  Let me explain something about my house.  When you walk towards the bathroom, you turn right and where the bathroom should be, you keep walking to the bathroom door.  Before you hit the door, there’s a full on vanity area with a sink, large counter, and mirror.  Then there’s a full bathroom on the other side of the door as well.  It’s super nice because with only one bathroom in our home, I can get ready while my husband does without being in the same bathroom. 

The bathroom is pinned for a major remodel (like paint is peeling off the wall and our shower has a nasty insert in it) that was supposed to happen this past winter, but with everything that occurred in January, it didn’t happen.  But someday it will.  The vanity will also be painted and have a little done to it, so these projects I’m showing today are to get by until we really fix the area up.

I made this canvas for the wall.  The picture quality is a little poor because of the poor quality of light in the vanity area.  Such is life.  I got the saying from a Kohl’s clothing tag---for reals.  I liked it, and thought that it could encourage me to get ready more often than I was with a demanding newborn.  Well, nearly a year later, and I’m still only wearing makeup to church---oh well!  I do have (more) cute clothes now, yay! (I started out with 2 shirts I would wash every other day…ya, great huh?!?)

I had this bulletin board from my craft room that was on the wall before the remodel.  I got a paint sample from lowe’s along with some white that came with the house and painted this stripe design.

Here’s it all loaded up with my jewelry that I don’t wear because I have a grabby toddler around these days.  At least I get to look at it when I get ready everyday, right? ;)

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day!

~Lynette~

Making it Ours: Canvas for Family Room

I found some inspiration for this artwork here.  I loved the concept of using the shapes as frames for some of the words.  I painted the canvas and cut out the vinyl with my silhouette.  I love how it turned out and reminds me to have a positive attitude.

Picture of canvas with the other art I’ve made.

That’s all for today!  Thanks for reading,

~Lynette~

Making it Ours: Love at Home Tiles

 

Thanks for joining me today for another post of the ongoing “Making it ours,” series.  I’m enjoying sharing the large and small projects we’re doing in our home to make it feel like ours. Enjoy!

I started and finished this well before Dash was born.  I finally got it hung last week.   I had bought three mdf tile pictures for $2 each from family dollar.  They were beach themed with large fake seashells glued to them.  It worked for a cheap apartment bathroom makeover, but I am done with beach bathrooms.  So I asked my husband if he could remove the shells and I would reuse the tiles.  And that’s what I did.

Above is what they looked like after the shells were removed.  (Yes, I got ahead of myself and forgot a real before pic).

I sanded the beach themed stuff (which was actulaly paper glued on), and painted them a brown I ahd left over from a previous project.

I got the idea for the ‘love at home,’ from this guest post by Craft-O-Maniac on Tatertots and Jello.  I cut out the shapes with my silhouette.  I slapped the vinyl on, and I was done!

I hung it in my family room next to probably my most favorite vinyl project I’ve ever done.  I will get that posted later this week, don’t you worry.  I love the personal feel my home is finally taking after a year of being here.  It’s starting to feel like ours.

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

Making it ours: Kitchen Wall Art

Welcome to another post of the ongoing series ‘Making it Ours.’  My husband and I bought our home about a year ago, and this series tracks our progress to make our home feel like ours.  Some projects and simple like artwork, while others are a full remodel of rooms.  Enjoy!

As my baby has been getting older and more content to play, I’ve had a limited amount of time to finish up some quick crafts.  I have several things photographed and ready to show you.  I am finally getting some artwork on the bare walls in my home.

I started these canvases months ago.  I had two of them done, and one still blank right before dash was born.  I decided to go ahead and hang them up, and once I had a chance I could apply the vinyl to the third one.  So for the first two months of Dash’s life, we had the two outer canvases complete with a blank one in the middle. :)

I designed the canvas on the left on my own, designed the salt and pepper shakers (still missing the red ‘s’ and ‘p’ labels) in the silhouette software, and then used inspiration from pinterest to make the canvas on the right.

 

Close up of the ‘Eat’ sign

Close up of the Salt and Pepper Shakers

Close up of the ‘Happiness is Homemade’ sign

I absolutely love the Eat sign.  I think it’s my favorite because it’s my original design and it’s a little unique.  My kitchen is getting closer to feeling like mine, and it’s fantastic!

Thanks for reading,

~Lynette

Making it Ours: Craft Room Accessories

*Remember how every now and then I’m sharing my adventures of home improvement projects?  Here’s another one for you!  I hope you enjoy the ongoing series!*

Hi everybody!  I’ve been working on several little things for my craft room lately.  I’ve been using it for a few months, but I’m tweaking things to how I want them to stay.  In fact, my husband and I are in the process of building me a brand new craft desk with 2 cabinets and plenty of counter space!  I can’t wait til it’s done (although it will probably be right before or right after the baby’s born, and who knows when I will have a chance to use it. :)

The first thing I made, was a brand new pin cushion.  I had been looking for a container to use for a few months, and never found what I was looking for.  My intentions were to follow this tutorial to make a cupcake pin cushion like Care did at Obsessively Stitching.  I never could find the right container for he right price.

My husband and I were at DI one Friday evening, and I saw all the glass tea cups and dishes.  I instantly bolted to that isle and started going through them.  My husband surely thought I was crazy that night!  I found this little tea cup for 50 cents, and snatched it up!  Then the next week,  I got some purple fleece and made my pin cushion.  I wanted to make beaded pins like Katy did at No Big Dill, but that project was going to put too big of a bulge in the budget.  So I found these pretty pins at Joann’s (armed with a coupon of course!) and love them.  It’s nice to have something fancy sometimes.

I also made a Cell Phone Charger holder.  I used the tutorial from Ashley at Make it and Love it found here.  It was a pretty slick project, and I like having a place to stow away my cords when I’m not charging something.  And I love that it matches my craft room! :)

This is the latest project I’ve done, and finally last week I hung it up!  I used a canvas as the base, and then I cut out the letters and bunting using my Cameo.  I took a remnant of a purple undershirt, cut it into a strip, tied knots, and attached it to the back of the canvas for easy (and cute) hanging.  I found this printable here via pinterest, and decided I needed my very own in purple.  I love how the letters ended up not very centered, and the words aren’t super straight.  It reminds me that perfection is not key, but the joy of creating is!

Well, that’s all for today!  Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!

~Lynette~

Making It Ours: Laundry Room Sign

*Making it ours is my simple series where I feature some of my projects to make our new home feel more like ours.  Some projects will be simple décor, while others will be major remodel type projects.*

Hi everybody!  I needed a breath of fresh air from maternity/baby stuff today, so here’s a simple project I did with some firewood (literally-but it’s for decent stuff because we get it from a business who throws their crates out for grabs), some paint, and some vinyl from my silhouette.

I had fun coming up with my other laundry room sign, but for this one, I struggled.  I didn’t have a big enough board for the saying I really wanted to use, so I went with an unoriginal “Laundry Room,” sign.  Boring, yes, but I still love how it turned out.  I got the hanger image from Microsoft Word, and imported it into the silhouette software.

Well, that’s all I’ve got today!  Hope you’re having a great day.  It’s raining today.  I busted out my purple paint and added a 2nd coat to one of the sides of my craft room door.  I was in the first trimester yucky stage when I first painted, so I finished it up now that smells don’t bother me. :)  I also painted something else purple, and will show you in the upcoming days/weeks!

Thanks so much for reading!

~Lynette~

Making it Ours: Clothesline Sign

**My husband and I have been living in our house about 5 months.  I’ve gotten a few pictures and things put up, but now that we’re in a home there are more walls to cover.  I’ve got some major ideas of paint and wainscoting, but that probably won’t be in the budget for a few years (and then we’ll see what’s in style then).  So until then, I’m working on decorating my home with inexpensive or free means.  We’ve also done some bigger things that I am dying to share with you.  So this is the first of an ongoing series I’m calling “Making it Ours.”  (I guess you could count my craft room too!) Some of the projects will be stuff to hang on our bare walls, and others will be major remodels such as paint and tile. I hope you enjoy the series!**
Since getting my Silhouette Cameo, I’ve been wanting to try vinyl.  This is one of my first projects.  My laundry room is more of a hallway from the backdoor to the kitchen, and it very functional.  It is equipped with a washing sink, and I LOVE it.  It needs a good razor blade scraping and then maybe I will show it to you.  My husband is a mechanic so I am always washing dirt and grease out of things.  The room is quite dark, so I needed something cheerful.

I had gotten the plaque from DI a couple years ago, painted over the design with a light cream (which totally didn’t work by the way), and left it.  I had a few ideas, but without a vinyl cutter I really couldn’t do any of them.  So this got a quick  2 coats of ocean breeze acrylic paint, and a cute vinyl cutout slapped onto it.  I imported the image from Microsoft Word’s clipart.  Cheri’s tutorial on how to import images was very helpful (it’s the 3rd video in the post).  The only thing I did different was copy my image into paint and saved it as a jpg to my desktop.  Then I followed the rest of her instructions to make it a cuttable image.
I’ve made one other thing for my laundry room that I have ready to share later in the week.  It makes the laundry room a little more cheery. :)
Thanks for reading!
~Lynette~