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I hope everyone had a great Easter! We certainly did. It was in the 60's. Quite nice for Minnesota weather. Here are the boys decorating thier eggs in the warm sun.




I also got crazy and made egg shaped rice krispy treats. I saw the commercial and thought it might be fun for the boys. They dunked them in chocolate and added sprinkles too.


Remember when I got these little jar lamps at the thrift store a while back.


Well a few weeks ago I stripped them down of their dated country funk and revamped them a bit. I just used whatever I had around the house. Spray painted the tops with some oil rubbed bronze. I think later I will try and do a little more with them. We needed a little task lighting in the kitchen without having to turn on the big overhead light. So I thought, "Hey, I will pop one of those cute jars right into the corner." I found some popcorn and wild rice sitting in the pantry and just filled it up. There are so many things I can put in there. Pretty fun.



Have a great Monday everyone. My boys don't have school today so I think we might go minature golfing. Yippee!

Thrift store decor

Last weekend I came across these pretty little babies at the thrift store just sitting there waiting for me to take them home.

The walls in my house have been pretty bare since we moved in three years ago. So it's about time I just start putting things up and make our house feel like a home. I thought they would add some interest. I saw those Disc things on the Shanty2Chic blog and ordered them up from Disc Changers (they are company that sells them)as soon as I got home. They arrived yesterday. Super fast shipping especially since they came from England.


Here they are on my wall.



My house is so bare and boring. WOW. I never noticed until I started taking photos. So more projects to come to jazz it up. I think I need some curtains around the door to soften it up a bit. ALso the table needs to be refinished. I was thinking white? How about you? What do you think? Love those Discs. They worked like a dream. They do recommend you let them sit overnight before you hang your plates to allow time for the glue to dry. Have great weekend.

Easter Topiary

Around the blog community I kept seeing wreaths made from cupcake holders. They really caught my eye. They are just adorable. Well one day I was at my local thrift store and happened to come across these little topiary foam thingies for $.50. I couldn't pass them up. They made me think of the wreaths everyone had been making for Valentine's day. I thought I could make a topiary instead. Then a few days later I had to run to the drug store and they just happened to have the small Easter cupcake holders marked down to 3 for $1.00. SCORE! I couldn't pass those up either. The lady asked me what I was going to do with all of them. She was very interested when I told her I was going to make a topiary out of them.



One night my friend Andrea from Do's to Choose and I had a craft night together. I knew this would be an opportunity for me to actually finish a project.


So I just twisted the bottom of each cupcake paper and applied them to the foam with hot glue. I ended up using 3 packages of 75 holders. So 225 cupcake holders. Yes my fingers hurt after a while. I think it turned out pretty darn cute. Grand total spent$2.00. I already had the green grass (from a gift,) buttons and ribbon (also from a gift). I spray painted the $.50 pink pot that was in my thrift store loot. I used Heirloom White by Rustoleum.


Here it is sitting in our house. Another idea I had for it was to use moss instead of the shredded easter paper. I didn't have any moss so I used the paper instead.



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Repainted Secretary

Hi all. Just got back from spring break with our family. We drove to Oklahoma and back. Quite the adventure. Here are the boys playing Wii in our hotel room.


I wanted to share with you my little project I completed before we left. My husband always used his lap top on our dining room table and it was beginning to drive me nuts. I remembered I bought this little secretary desk a few years ago at a thrift store for $12 and it was sitting waiting to be painted in our spare bedroom. So I brought it down and cleaned it all up and painted away.


I love that it has those little storage spots inside. We are going to use them to hold our cell phones while they charge. Greg drilled a hole in the back so the cords can be plugged in. The chair was another thrift store find for $3. I did a little updating on that as well. Just to tie the two together. Still looking for a cute fabric for the cover. I haven't had a chance to go look for some.



So here is what they look like now. The only bad thing is I can't find two of the knobs I took off the piece. I guess I put them in a safe spot. DRRRR...

Junk Drawer

It's Thursday and we are all on the mend here finally. Boy this virus we caught has been awful. Now that I'm feeling a bit better it makes me want to clean, clean, clean!!! Get all the ick out of the house. One of those ick spots has been our junk drawer for a while. A few weeks back I picked up this little shelf at the thrift store for $2.


It had some little dated country craft wood piece in the front. Sorry I didn't take a picture of it before I removed it. I originally bought it to possibly paint it and put it on the wall. Then one night I saw the JUNK DRAWER..... I thought it would work perfectly in there. Those junk drawer spacers in stores can add up quickly. So here it is getting ready to be filled and organized. Look at all the junk on the table. That drawer was filled with all kinds of crud.


Here it is put back in it's spot. The sun was shining in so I had a hard time getting a good shot. You get the idea though. I love that I found this little shelf. It works perfectly. Now I just need to make a small spot for some pencils for our boys. They like to do homework on the kitchen table and they like to keep their pencils in the drawer. They are one of the reasons the drawer got so messy in the first place. Sounds about right for two 7yr olds and 5yr old, doesn't it?

Thrifty Finds

Reide, my youngest and I went out today to do a little grocery shopping and we just can't help but stop by the thrift store while we are out. So I wanted to share with you my little thrift finds. I can't wait to revamp all these goodies. I got all this stuff for $24. I had to buy my son a couple of stuffed animals for being so good on our shopping spree. But my total for everything today was $24.
2 Mason Jar lamps $2 each
Wood Handle tray $4
3 Wall ledges $5 for the set
Mason jar w/lemons inside $1.50
Bigger Jar with wooden lid $1.50
Set of 3 glass jars $3
Shells were $6 (but I had a $10 off coupon for all my items so I sort of got them for free, thats how I justified buying them.)
2 Brown Plush Pillows were $.50 each
Wooden Toilet paper holder (thats what i'm using it for) $1.50
Birds $1 for the set






Oh how I love the thrift store!!!! Any recent goodies you have found? I would love to see.

Cork Board Art Wall

I got this idea from Ready Made magazine a few years ago. I saved the image forever until I finally gathered everything I needed and placed everything together. My boys love to draw and do anything crafty so I wanted to make a spot for them so they can display their art. I saw this and thought it was perfect.



My sons Art Wall.
They are so proud of this spot. They love to hang new pictures up all the time. Obviously they don't always fit perfectly, but it's their little gallery wall on the way down to the basement.




Items needed:
Random frames painted any way you like
Roll of Cork (found at Office Max)
Foam Board to back the cork and so thumb tacks can stick in the cork

Simple as that! No i'm starting to think I need to repaint that yellow wall. I'm not liking it too much lately. Hmmm...color suggestions?

Have a great day!

$2 thrifty find turned into family keepsake

I had been looking for a tray to put on one of our coffee table's and wasn't able to find one at a reasonable price. That was until I ran to one of my favorite thrift stores. I found this. For $2. Then I had a $5 off coupon for anything over $15. So needless to say I got a box full of goodies for $12. Anyway, back to the tray. I will show you all my revamped goodies later. The tray was ugly but I knew it was perfect. Plus it had glass on top of that 70's needlepoint.



I was so excited I had to paint it the very next day. I had to unscrew the whole thing and clean it up before paint.



Let the painting begin. I used Behr's Forever Black Satin Ultra paint and a foam roller.



Then I was thinking of putting a cute piece of scrapbook paper inside. I didn't have one in the colors I was thinking of so I thought about the drawer full of California maps. I found one with our old city on it and it has our old street on there too. Reide kept asking me to show him our old street over and over again.



Instantly this little tray became a wonderful keepsake for our family.



Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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