Over the past year I have started to to find a love for DIY projects. Call me crazy but I feel like when you make yourself there brings so much more value to final product. Maybe its because you can look at it and admire it knowing that you did this and be giving your self the little 'pat on the back. Or because you get that feeling of accomplishment.Whatever the reason I am loving DIY projects and had to start making a list of what I wanted to do this summer so that way I can make some of these projects become a reality. I always think that if you make a list things get done. I didn't want to take on too much of this DIY fun so I thought about my need at in my home and what I would also have some fun doing.
#1 Re-thrifiting Furniture
I have always been a big fan of painting, some hate it well...I enjoy it and find is very therapeutic. I stumbled across this beautiful dresser that a fellow blogger Living with Lindsay's post Thrift Store Cast Off, and instantly thought I should be doing this! I have painted with spray paint before and love the convenience and look that it gives off . Large dressers can run upward of $1000+ in stores and often aren't even real wood theses days. This is a project on the top of my list of DIY! I love the idea of taking something that has an outdated look and would otherwise be a cast off as no good and turning it into a fabulous piece for your home.
#2 Chalkboard Obsessed
I'm an 80's kid, so I grew up with the teachers writing on a chalkboard. When I was little we use to have a chalkboard in our garage that we would play school with and write on. Printrest rekindled my love for chalkboards in a big way. You could even say that I have become a bit obsessed with them trying to figure out how to incorporate them into our home with out my Hubby Eddie going insane. My latest find is chalkboard contact paper. I am really excited over this because although I love the idea of painting and spray painting but its not something that I want to do ALL the time. After finding this it really got my creative juices flowing in wondering what I could stick this too. SO....I thought this would be perfect for a chalkboard wall in Isaac's playroom. Not only will it be easy to get up but it will save on the mess and also be way less permanent in comparison to the paint.
I'm an 80's kid, so I grew up with the teachers writing on a chalkboard. When I was little we use to have a chalkboard in our garage that we would play school with and write on. Printrest rekindled my love for chalkboards in a big way. You could even say that I have become a bit obsessed with them trying to figure out how to incorporate them into our home with out my Hubby Eddie going insane. My latest find is chalkboard contact paper. I am really excited over this because although I love the idea of painting and spray painting but its not something that I want to do ALL the time. After finding this it really got my creative juices flowing in wondering what I could stick this too. SO....I thought this would be perfect for a chalkboard wall in Isaac's playroom. Not only will it be easy to get up but it will save on the mess and also be way less permanent in comparison to the paint.
#3 Re-purposing or Upcycling
Again I love the idea of taking something that would have been thrown out or not used and turning it in to something great. A new word that I have learned (thanks to Pintrest) is upcycling. Basically it is taking something and instead of recycling it you upgrade it into something that is even better and more useful to you.
I want to try my hand at some wall home decor. Because we just moved into a new home I would like to decorate with some other things besides photos. Don't get me wrong, I love a nice photo wall and seeing the smiling happy faces everywhere. But when looking for something a little different I stumbled across this wonderful upcycle made from pieces wood from an old pallet. From the looks of it this could be a pretty simple piece to make and that is what I like SIMPLE. I have old pallets at my work old laying around for FREE (pallets are usually free because everyone wants to get rid of them). Once I give this one a go I will be posting material and a how to on this.
I want to try my hand at some wall home decor. Because we just moved into a new home I would like to decorate with some other things besides photos. Don't get me wrong, I love a nice photo wall and seeing the smiling happy faces everywhere. But when looking for something a little different I stumbled across this wonderful upcycle made from pieces wood from an old pallet. From the looks of it this could be a pretty simple piece to make and that is what I like SIMPLE. I have old pallets at my work old laying around for FREE (pallets are usually free because everyone wants to get rid of them). Once I give this one a go I will be posting material and a how to on this.
#4 Sentimental l Organization
Time is something that always seems to be slipping away. And before we know it our memories have plied up. Looking back over the last 4 years I have acquired so many cards, keepsakes, and memories that I don't want to loose. I came across this perfect idea to organize and keep the memories without just storing them in some box. Making a card book and adding it to the photo scrapbook shelf and then it would be something that we can look through later. This project is combining two of my loves: Organization & Memories!!
Isaac will be 1 this summer so while all this organizing is going on I want to get this photo frame or shadow box together. When I saw this my exact thoughts were "DO this while you know where all this stuff is!" Because lets be honest.. half the battle of getting this type of project done is having the stuff to do it with. My goal would be to have this done and put it on display at his first birthday. I doing this to give myself a dead line because often I do work better under pressure of a dead line! This idea it is a great way to display the precious life changing moment of life without being an overwhelming focal point. This is something that I plan to put up in my kids room and then later display in my room.
#5 MY very own craft corner!
This picture was seriously love at first sight. Currently all of my crafting items, ribbons, crochet, and sewing stuff is all over the place. I do have some organization to it but what I don't like is that some of it is in one place and some in the other. Not only will this solve the issue of things being in different locations it is a little place for me that I can open up at spend time getting crafty! I am very excited to start working on this. I think my favorite part of this craft corner is that I will be able to close up shop and not have it bothered. With a little one crawling around these days it will be great to have a place that I can close off without having to take up a tremendous amount of space. From the looks of this picture I am pretty sure I will be able to recreate this based on my own needs. Again, I will be posting the how to on this later once I get it going and have it finished!
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