DIY Cake Plates

{Made By Me Monday}While the boys are away... MOM will play make cake plates!My husband took my two boys camping for the weekend and I am in CAKE PLATE heaven! I've been collecting a few plates here and there, so this weekend was the perfect opportunity to get them all together.____________________ I found these little glass candlesticks at the Dollar Tree!and this plate at Hobby Lobby for $3.00

GLUE them together and what do you get? A very cute cake plate!

EASY peasy!

and gorgeous!

 I found this white vase at the Goodwill for $1.50

 and this square yellow plate there the same day!
GLUE them together!

That's it!

I found this metal candlestick at Goodwill for $1.00. It's from partylite so it's pretty heavy!

This metal tray was 60 cents! 

They are a perfect match!

I found this damask plate at Hobby Lobby for $3.00. I haven't glued it to a candlestick yet, I'm still waiting for the right fit. Although, I don't think the glass one from the Dollar Tree is bad! :)

Only a few more to put together and I will have a collection!

It's SO addicting! :)

Love Is Spoken Here

{Made By Me Monday}pinterest inspired
__________________ I'm beginning to LOVE Mondays! I use my pinterest inspirations as a push to get some of the projects done that I've been wanting to do! This sign was one of the signs that I loved and knew that we needed it for our house. It fits us perfectly! I know that I just did a stencil project last week using vinyl lettering, but I couldn't resist one more for this week.
I just used an average piece of 11" pine wood board that I had laying in my garage and cut it to 41" long. First thing I did was paint it black, because I wanted my letters to be black when the vinyl came off of it. While that was drying, I cut out my vinyl lettering that I would use as a stencil. 

I added my vinyl to my black board.

I used this slate blue spray paint. I LOVE the 2x coverage Rust-oleum, it covers GREAT!

I painted the entire board, right over the vinyl.

After it's dry, start peeling off your vinyl.

This is always the exciting part for me seeing the color come through! It's like Christmas! :)

It's done. Now, of course I wanted to distress it! My 10 year old says "leave it alone!" LOL!

And the finished piece! I LOVE it!

It was a super easy project and the best part is... 

it cost me nothing! 

FREE!

That is my favorite kind of project!

And I figured this project was very fitting considering that tomorrow is LOVE DAY!

XOXO!

Pallet Wall Art

Made By Me MONDAY!

pinterest inspired

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I have been SOOOO excited to make this one! I found this on pinterest a couple of weeks ago and just KNEW that I had to make one for myself! I absolutely love it! Although we didn't actually make this sign out of pallets, that would work perfect too. We bought cheap wood fence slats at Home Depot. We bought six of them for $10... can't beat that! (this is my husband's hairy arm, not mine! LOL)

 We cut them each at 35" long. I wanted this thing B.I.G. The final sign ended up being 35" long by 33" tall.

then we cut two extra pieces to brace the pieces and hold the whole thing together. We laid the whole thing out before we started nailing.

We used these AWESOME nails that have little ridges on them, so they are sure to hold.

Then we started nailing this puppy together! :)

It went super fast and was way easy to put it together!

I cut my vinyl lettering and weeded it the opposite way than normal, taking out the letters and leaving the sheet.

It doesn't look pretty at this point, but it WILL!! The vinyl acts as a stencil, so it doesn't matter what color vinyl you use because it's going to come off anyway.

 Just make sure that there are NO open edges on the board, and then spray paint away!

 After your paint has dried, carefully take off the vinyl sheet exposing your wording. It's like Christmas!

This collage will show that's as 

easy as 1,2,3

Next, I wanted to give it a sanded look so I lightly sanded over the entire project. You can see that the word "love" hasn't been sanded yet. BIG difference...

I LOVE the distressed look... so then I added some stain too!

I really do LOVE the way it turned out!

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pretty close to my pinspiration, right?

What do you think?

Find Joy in the Journey

{Made By Me Monday}pinterest inspired

Here is my weekly PINspiration

I LOVE this quote! I was able to teach my Laurel class the lesson called "Finding Joy Now".   I wanted to create a centerpiece for my table and knew this quote would be perfect! Well let me tell you, this little board has had quite the JOURNEY! To create the final look, I ended up changing the whole thing about 4 times to get it just perfect! Here's the story...
It all started with this cute little cabinet front that I found at Goodwill on half off day!

 The total price was $2.00 so I couldn't pass it up! The glass front is perfect and it was just calling for some vinyl lettering to be added to it.

 First, I stained the front. I thought it would be cute to keep it white and just add a little stain. I found two pieces of scrapbook paper that I thought would work good for the back.

 I created my vinyl lettering for it. I thought the yellow was cute, it was wasn't "perfect".

 The black and white polka dot paper is adorable, just not the right fit with the black lettering.

  Then I found this SASSY fabric in my collection. I thought it would be cute to add the flowers around the edges of the frame. But of course I would need to paint the frame black.

 After the black paint dried, I cut out the flowers individually from the fabric so I could place them all around the frame. I love the 3D look it gives it!

 Then, with the frame being black and the lettering black, I knew it needed some softer scrapbook paper for the back. I found this blue and gold piece that is perfect!

I totally LOVE the way it turned out! And all for just about $3.00.

It looked great on an easel for my lesson. I wish I would have taken a picture at church with my table decorated... UGH! At the end of my lesson, we talked about how JOY is a CHOICE. It is up to US to decide if we will be happy today. One of my most favorite quotes from the lesson was this quote by Harold B. Lee -“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you”. I made each girl a vinyl lettering to stick to their mirror to remind them that they are BEAUTIFUL! But the message isn't just that they are beautiful. It's to remind them to be HAPPY with and have JOY in who they are and THAT makes them beautiful!

"Happy girls are the prettiest!" 

Audrey Hepburn

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