Front Entryway

Completing the front entryway has been going kind of slow, since so many other projects keep popping up of things that have been needing to get done first.  Finally I did the last few things to complete it and I love how it turned out!!

To see how I made the coat hanger check out here and the bench check out here.

Boy's Room

Two of my boys share a room and they love the super heroes so of course I had to do something to go with that. Using my cricut I cut out vinyl to use as a stencil.  I cut out their favorite hero's logo, these were about a 2'x3'

Here is the vinyl on the wall, this was a great opportunity to use up scraps of vinyl I had laying around. Next up was painting.

I did have to do a couple of coats to make sure it was covered well.

I added a couple of stripes on each side.  Then hung the artwork that I already had for them.  For Christmas I made them each comforters for their beds to go with their super hero.  I'll show what I did for them on another post. 

Book Bag

I saw something similar to this saying on a shirt online somewhere and knew that I needed to make something for me with it on it.  A new book bag is exactly what I needed!  This also would be a great teacher gift or for your friends that love to read.  I bought the bag at Hobby Lobby and then used heat transfer vinyl to put the design on it. 

Clock in the Front Entryway

So we bought our house in March and have been having tons of fun doing little projects and decorating it. I can't wait to show you things that we have done!! Here is one little project that we did.  We had this little inset that you see right when you come in the front door.  It took us a little bit but we finally decided what we wanted to do in that spot.  This is what we came up with and I couldn't be more excited about it.  I cut out the lettering on my Cricut and then hung the clock.

Yearly Family Ornaments

We have a tradition that every year we take a family picture in front of our Christmas tree.  I decided that I needed to do something special with those pictures and have something that I can add to eat year.  After brainstorming with my mom this is what I came up with.  I bought the plastic clear ornaments and printed off our picture for each year, added a red bow and cut out green vinyl with the year.

Here is where I hung them up.  I wanted some place a bit different then the tree to display them.  Now whoever comes and visits they can see them right when they walk in the house.

Birthday Blocks

At church I work with the kids up to age 12 we don't have a lot of kids in our group just because of the size of the congregation, so we wanted to do something a little different for them then the usual pencil and bracelet.  This is what we came up with.  

We had a 2x4 cut into 6 inch pieces for us.  We made a total of 20 complete blocks and we still have probably another 15 unpainted blocks leftover from the project.  As you can see we painted them all black.

  After the paint dried we used mod podge and attached a picture of the temple that we have been assigned to attend.  In this case it is the Washington D.C. temple.  We were originally going to find out what each kid's favorite temple was but then decided that it would cost too much and might be difficult to get a picture of that temple the size we wanted.  After the mod podge dried we added the vinyl saying (which I cut out on my cricut and I got about 26 of the saying's to the sheet) then put another layer of mod podge to secure the vinyl on the blocks (mostly because we were giving them to the kids).

For the girls we attached a purple ribbon around the block.  After giving the first block to one of the older girls yesterday I suggest hot gluing the completely around the blocks.  I only glued under the block and she had untied it and removed the ribbon from the block then had trouble getting it back on.  The boys are receiving green ribbon and I hot glued the ribbon all around it.

The overall cost for everything less then $10

The 2x4 was around $8, I already had the mod podge as well as the paint and we really didn't use that much of either.  We made copies of the pictures of the temple and then I only used one sheet of vinyl that cost me $.99  We are excited how it turned out and the kids were excited to see them for our first birthdays.

Baby boy onesies

 My sister-in-law is having her first baby in March, they found out it is boy.  I made some onesie's for her.  This one I made from an inside joke they have with my oldest daughter.

Here is a close up.

I made this one because hockey is a big sport in my husband's family.  I have another onesie to show you guys but I'm saving it for another day I am really excited about it.

Boy Valentine Day Shirt

I wanted to share the Valentines Day shirt I made for my son.  I put it on him to take pictures and he refused to take it off again. 

 

 

Christmas Ornaments

My mom and I made these last year.  They were really simple, we bought the ornaments from Hobby Lobby.  Mom then cut out different names that Christ is known by onto vinyl and then we put them on the ornaments.  You can get your supplies all gathered up and turn on your favorite holiday movie then you are set to go!!

Kitchen Jars

I have been wanting to replace my yucky plastic containers for some nicer ones for a long time now.  I haven't done it because it has been hard to find jars the same size as my containers (they are bigger then normal).  I finally replaced the smaller containers with these jars from Walmart.  I used my Cricut to cut vinyl for labels.  Now my cupboard looks a little bit more organized and a little nicer.

New Dish Soap Canister

I first saw this idea at my mother-in-laws, then my mom decided she really liked it as well and made one for her.   I decided that we needed one. I was getting tired of seeing the big ugly bottle on my sink.  I found the bottle at Walmart in the kitchen it is actually an oil canister.  It was less than $4 then I cut out some vinyl, put it on and was able to sit back and enjoy.

FHE tray

I have had this tray laying around for a year, I painted the edges black and the base white.  I couldn't quite figure out what I wanted to do with it.  Then suddenly it hit me what I could do.

I had chalkboard paint laying around that I bought on clearance at Wal-Mart.  Then using my cricut I cut some vinyl and put it on the tray.  It has worked great so far.

Kids Laundry Basket

I was given this basket when I had my son a couple of months ago.  We have been using it as the kids laundry basket, its been really nice and its a good size but not too big that my daughter can bring it down by herself. 

We have been using it like this.  Then my mom shared a piece chalkboard vinyl, I thought how fun would it be to put it on the basket.

I love it!!

Kids Bedroom Redo 2

If you missed the first part of the redo click here.  Also if you missed the post about the giveaway it's right here it closes tonight, so hurry over and check it out!

This is the other side of the room and the baby's side of the room.  This is again a picture of before we did that major cleaning in the room.  My husband was on spring break and had some time so he was able to put the crib up.

Then I was finally able to put my totally (I think) awesome bumper that I made in this post.  I had to wait for the sheets that I ordered to come in to complete the bed but that is okay, the bumper still looked good in that crib.  :)

I added a vinyl on the blank wall and changed the animals that were on the other wall to some more boyish ones.  The ones that were up there originally got moved to the other side of the room.

 

Here is before again

And after

I still have a couple more things to do in the room before the baby comes!