Framing Life:)

Roomie and I are currently addicted to Pinterest and as a result.. I use it as inspiration:) Roomie thought this little tutorial was cute, and I have a lot of frames at my store so I am giving it a try! Here is a link to the original tutorial that I found for reference>> Talia Christine

First, I found a frame that I could at least do two layers of string to hang photos..

I made sure that I could fit at least 4x6's and drilled holes all the way through.. so that I could pull the string through to hide the knot. On the other tutorial, they just used a nail to tie the string around in the front.. but Desty thought to pull it through a hole.

I drilled holes to put the string through, but ended up
not liking it so much, so a nailed some tacks
on the front to tie the string to

I then drilled leetle holes to screw in the eye hooks that I had on hand, next time I think I would either use smaller ones or the kind of hanging thing for the middle.

I used some ole string to hang from..

Measure to make sure you have a straight line!

The eye hook I used to attach string to hang on wall

Almost finished. This was a VERY quick craft project

Ta-Da! Stay tuned for what it looks like in my home!

Its funny how you have a general idea as to how you want things to turn out, or how you go about creating it in the first place. Each step I took, I changed- instead of hiding the string in the back, I used the tacks that I pulled out of this frame to tie the string to in the front.. and instead of crochet yarn, I used this straw looking craft stuff (mostly because it doesn't stretch) and this other brown stuff I found in my crafting goodies. I am going to use the clothes pins we have at our house because they are discolored due to weather, and it will look really cute with black and white photos:)

T shirt turned Rug:)

So many people these days are finding that old t-shirts could make good crafting material. In the past, I have used them to make:

Scarfs

Hats 

Can Cozies

 I have also created T-Rope to crochet with, but man did it give my hand a work out messing with a VERY large crochet hook... and made a rug.. but I wasn't too impressed as to how it turned out. I have no idea what made think of messing with T-Rope again, but this time I used strips of T-shirt to weave (or braid, I'm not sure what you would call it) to make a rug.. again.

Well... I was totally obsessed with trying to get this project finished, so I started to work on it in my bed while watching The Vampire Diaries (totally obsessed with this show now, sad face) and aaaahhh it got all messed up. You see, it is very important to work on a flat surface to insure that you have created enough tension in the t-rope. Blah Blah Blah, I worked on it for quite some time, and when laid on a flat surface, it curved up! Soo I turned it into a purse!! I will prolly never be able to re-create this gem, but it turned out pretty coooool.

One inch strips of t shirt

Weaving.. Braiding.. whatever

and now I have a purse!

So then I started again, always working on a flat surface! Good thing about creating something, it doesn't necessarily have to turn out 'right' just how you want it to be:)

Wish Lists for your home

I recently was turned on to Pinterest. I swore to avoid new trends, like Farmville and Angry Birds, but this picture book is so cool! It inspires the re-arranging of my store, and new ways to decorate my home!

Yesterday, I had the WHOLE day off. Not the norm for me, and what did I feel like doing? Clean my house!! I find it therapeutic, weird.. maybe. But while I was cleaning, I was redecorating for the amazing winter we have been having here in Traverse City. The sun is shining like a spring day even though it is super cold:) It works, things could be WAYY worse.

You see rust dirty thing, I see a future piece of furniture
to store linen in and use the top as a work table perhaps..

Any-who, while I was cleaning I began making a list of things that would make the room just work better, little things like pictures above the washer and dryer, and something to put on the wall above the fish tank. I am a list maker by habit, but usually if I write it down, I accomplish it.

Everyone needs something to store coats in. This wardrobe
is PERFECT for this use. Or dresses.. list goes on!

My ask this week is that next time you are just hanging out at home, take a look around and think of things you wish you had, a shelf over the couch, spice rack for the kitchen... a sweet clock for the living room.. and send me that list! My goal is to bring in the cutest eclectic home decor to make your life that much easier! It is that time a year again when we are weighed down by the stay in your house-super cold outside always-winter blues, and I find that buying something as simple as a doily for under a plant or hooks to hang said plant, makes me feel goooood.

I see.. growing plants in there!

You can send them to my facebook, or my stores, either way we both win! I would love to help you decorate your home!!

This is a vintage wicker bed frame. Or use it outside
and grom vine-y plants on it!

In need of some inspiration, not perspiration

Things that make me think, I clipped them from the Northern Express Magazine, obviously from the horoscopes. But not all of you people are Taurus's so you probably don't read them. But this one is good.

Mythologist Michael Meade says that the essential nature of every human soul is gifted, noble, and wounded. I agree. Cynics who exaggerate how messed-up we all are, ignoring our beauty, are just as unrealistic as naive optimists. But because the cynics have a disproportionately potent influence on the zeitgeist, they make it harder for us to evaluate our problems with a wise and balanced perspective. many of us feel cursed by the apparent incurability of our wounds, while others, rebelling against the curse, underestimate how wounded they are. Mead says: "Those who think they are not wounded in ways that need conscious attention and careful healing are usually the most wounded of all." Your task in the next few weeks, Taurus, is to make a realistic appraisal of your wounds.

For when I need "what the eff am I doing" inspiration:

Your meditation for this week comes from writer H. P. Lovecraft. "What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!" While that's always good counsel, I think it's especially apt for you right now. You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you'd be smart to evaluate your own worth based less on what job you do and more on who you are. Practice thinking this healing idea: The soulfulness you embody and express from moment to moment is the single greatest measure of you success as a human being.

Melting ice from my walk<3