I am doing Good Things Utah this morning at 10 am MST.
I would love for you to join me!
This is the project that I will be showing, it would make a great gift for Mothers Day, Father’s Day, a Wedding or just for your own home decor!
We just had family pictures taken and I wanted to try the new photo blocks that look like a canvas print, and I absolutely loved the results! They are easy, inexpensive and fun to make! These would make great gifts for weddings, birthdays, new babies, Mothers’ Day, Fathers’ Day, Halloween, Easter, etc, etc., etc. :)
So who wants to make a photo block?
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I found these fun letters at the Wood Connection before my trip to Arizona. I like that they say “Spring” , so that I can keep them out until May! My daughter and I got together and painted these letters yesterday. (do you like the mess, big chill cup and all) We used the easy paint technique here, that I used for the “Family” letters so I am not going to give a tutorial in this post.
I love these fun papers and the cute design in the letters! Especially the letter “i”. And of course I love the ribbons on some of the letters.
This picture has been enhanced, but I love the fun vibrant colors. I put these fun letters on my kitchen table and every time I walk by I feel like I have a early glimpse of spring right there in my kitchen! It makes me happy. We only use our kitchen table on Sunday when everyone comes over for dinner, so I do not have to move them every time we eat! :)
My daffodils are blooming, my tulips are all up and starting to bloom, my garden is starting to sprout…I think that spring is really going to come!
So what makes you happy for spring?
Pin ItI put out some of my Spring/Easter decorations the other day. I had a really good helper in my granddaughter that I was tending. We decided one afternoon when she was here that it would be a good idea to start decorating. Her little brother, however, was not the biggest helper! He was not feeling good and I thought that he would maybe take a little nap. NOT! I guess that is what I get for trying to out guess him. But we did get the front entrance done and the stairway. This is what it looks like:
I am way excited about my new Easter printable! I was originally going to just tie it together with some cute ribbon and make it into a bunting for my fireplace, which would be really cute, but I decided to use each individual letter and put them in painted pots and look at what I came up with!
Pin ItYesterday I told you that I would show you the project that I came home with from The Wood Connection Store. So drum roll please: Ta…Dah!
I got these cute wood letters and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. I have a shelf in my living room and I wanted to put something cute on it. We had new family pictures taken a couple of days ago, so I want to put some new pictures in this room and they will go perfect now!
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The Wood Connection has now come to Utah County and I am so excited! I have been going to the South Salt Lake Store for years and have loved it. I started going way back when I did a lot of tole painting, so that was a LOT of years ago! This store has tons of wood cutouts that you can take home and paint or decorate any way that you want to fit your own decor.
I used to decorate for all the holidays when my children were little, but since they have all grown and moved out of the house, I do not do as much but I still have to decorate a little bit for the grand kids. St. Patrick’s day is not one that I usually do too much for. But I decided that I could decorate my repurposed tray that sits on my kitchen counter. This is what I came up with:
I made these printables to share with you. There is one cutsie one, and two modern ones. You can just print them and frame it like I did here.
Pin ItToday’s post goes along with the knitted dishcloths and everyone is going to have the cleanest kitchens in town!
One of my DIL’s showed me this great new product. It is foaming dish soap! I love it for when you want to just wash a dish or two or wipe up the counters. It works like a charm and since it is foaming you do not get a gooey slimy mess all over!
Then she told me that it is refillable too! Bonus! But what is even better is that she told me about this nifty little soap trick! You do not have to use the refillable soap for this you can make your own!
Pin ItWhen I was a little girl, only 4-5 years old my mother took me to a yarn shop called Hiendselman’s, in Provo, Utah. They taught me how to knit! It seems hard to believe now, but I can still remember the lady telling me “In – around – and through” and I remember even at that early age how I loved all the colors and textures of the yarns that were in slots on the wall! So I guess that I have my mother to blame for all my craft making. Even though she is no longer here, she started it! Thanks mom!:)
It seems like every winter that I get the urge to start knitting these dishcloths. They are the most wonderful things because they are made with all cotton yarn and they absorb the water when you are wiping your kitchen counters. They are also a nice big size for washing dishes! I have made so many different colors and styles, but this is the pattern that I always come back to. I use the Sugar and Cream yarn and I can get two dishcloths out of one skein. Although the with new “twist” Peaches and Cream yarn, I could only get 3 dishcloths out of 2 skeins of yarn, even though they are the same yardage and weight, it is a finer yarn. (They are the red and green ones.)
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