DIY Board & Batten

Now that the holidays are over and I have my brain back, I want to share a couple of the DIY projects from our bathroom makeover.

First up, our DIY board & batten. 

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Easy Outdoor Planter Boxes and Lighting Fix

So, a couple of weeks ago while the kids were on Fall Break, hubby and I decided to knock out a project to remedy an issue with the patio redo. (never mind that I had just nose-dived into ORC!)

Maybe you remember from the original patio reveal that the light poles were leaning. 

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Patio DIY Project Sources

Hey there! I'm back with one last post from our patio! Today I would like to go through a couple of DIY project tutorials that I found from other talented people out there! I love that I can go to the internet and find great ideas from other creative people, and I love it even more when those creative people share their process!!

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How To Make Custom Piping Trim For Pillows

Hi there! I'm so happy to be back to blogging!! My posts might seem a little all over the place for the next few weeks. I have a lot of things to share from the summer! Today I would like to start with how to make custom piping trim. The title says "for pillows" but you can use this for anything you would like to add piping to. As far as the level of difficulty, I would say it's pretty easy. If you can sew a straight line, you can do this! 

I think sewing tutorials are really hard to write, but I'm going to do the best I can and hope that the pictures will fill in the gaps.

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DIY Floating Mantel

Another addition in the Family Room Refresh!! A while back when I decided to paint the brick around our fireplace I also removed the mantel. It was never really my style. The fireplace sat naked for weeks, as I pondered what to put in it's place. I toyed with the idea of building a surround, something tailored and traditional, or just a simple floating mantel.  My mind just kept going back to the latter, so that's what we went with. And I'm soooo glad we did!!  I love it!!

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How to 'Slipcover' An Ottoman

Several weeks ago a super sweet friend of mine who knew I was looking for a larger ottoman for our family room alerted me of a steal of a deal on Craigslist - $20! Gotta love friends like that right?!? (Thanks Jennifer :))

I spent weeks deliberating over a fabric choice. And finally we have this!!

Yay!  Let's back up and see where we started, and how we got to the finished product.

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DIY Trundle Bed

Thinking of all my friends in the Northeast today!!  I will do my best to send some of our warmth your way - in the 70's here the past couple of days!!  My college boy made it back just in time for all of the excitement.  :)  I'm glad he wasn't trying to travel in it, and that he doesn't really have to get out in it.  Stay warm and safe everyone!!

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that there are some fun things going on around here, not quite ready to share the after yet, but it's coming I promise!!

Today I decided to bring to you a project that we actually completed this fall.  With my college boy being home for a month for winter break, it got lots of use!!  Our DIY trundle bed!

When all the siblings were splitting and switching rooms, we decided to adios the bunk beds.  At 11 and 13 they are getting a bit big for them honestly.  But, I knew that I wanted an actual bed for everyone to sleep on when college boy was home - rather than the couch or floor.  

There are lots of tutorials for trundle beds out there.  And we consulted several.  Our biggest issue was the height of the mattress and the space under the bed.  There was not enough room for a platform for the mattress to lay on, and it was barely big enough for the mattress alone.  

We decided to add height to the bed with casters. Which was fairly simple to do.  Our bed frame had these metal 'buttons' on each leg that I just popped off (with a little force).  Then, I was left with a hole to screw in the caster.  We needed to drill the hole out a bit to make it big enough for the caster, but pretty simple process really.

The issue we had was in order to have room for casters under the trundle board we needed like 3" casters which are huge, and expensive.  

So, as we are standing in the aisle at Home Depot, hubby spotted these furniture movers. Light bulb!!

Surely I could attach these to the bottom of our platform and they would slide well.  We trimmed our board to fit the mattress and the space under the bed, and we rounded the corners to protect toes.

Then, we attached the furniture movers with liquid nails, and added a couple of straps for pulling - made of a thrift store belt cut into two pieces and attached with screws.

Does it slide you ask??  YES!!  I think it might work better than casters, and doesn't leave marks on the carpet.  The kiddos can easily slide it in and out!

We already had the mattress, so our expense was only the wood ($20), casters for the bed ($12), furniture movers ($8), and belt ($2) for the trundle.  Under $50 for it all!  Far less than purchasing a bed with a trundle!

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Christmas Crafting

As I was setting up my simple Christmas decor this year.  I found myself in need of a couple of display items.  

I have two tiny nativities which I love.  I knew where I wanted to display them, but didn't like them sitting low on the counter.  A tray was a start, but I wanted to raise them up a bit.  So, I headed to Dollar Tree to see what I could find.

And I found these.

This cute silver bowl and these timeless and very useful silver serving trays.  I got two bowls and one rectangle tray and one circle tray.

I turned the bowl upside down and hot glued the tray to the bottom of the bowl.

Cute and now and little more special.  :)

The other thing that I was scratching my head about was Christmas cards.  I had seen a couple of ideas in the blogosphere (here, here, and here).  And the end I landed on a twist of my own that took no time at all.

I found a fairly large frame at goodwill, removed the ugly print and glass and spray painted it gold.

Then using jute and my staple gun I created hanging lines for our cards!

At the end the frame got a little bit more dressing in the form of a red ribbon and bow to hang it by.

Perfect!  Now, the cards from our friends have a special place!  :) 

I don't know what it is, but something about Christmas makes me feel extra crafty!!  Be sure to stop by on Friday for a fab party.  :)

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Did you miss us last week??  Hope you enjoyed time off with your family like we did!!  But today we are back and ready to see what's been going on with you!

This week was all about Thanksgiving clean-up and Christmas decorating, as I'm sure it has at so many homes!!

I took a moment on Monday to share my love and thankfulness for the friends God has brought into my life.

And then, I shared some wreath ideas with you :).

You guys were as creative as usual this last week!!  Thanks so much for linking up your goodness!  Here are my features for this week.

If you are pinning one of these great ideas for yourself, please click over to the original link and pin from there - thanks!

Kristi from Making it in The Mountains created these beautiful and simple Rustic Clay Ornaments

Rustic Handmade Clay Christmas Ornaments from Making it in The Mountains

And how cute is this yarn ball wreath from Jessica at Designers Sweet Spot!

Yarn Ball Wreath from Designers Sweet Spot

I love the way Elaine of Heart Rocks in My Pocket transformed a thrift store cast-off into an adorable Christmas decoration.

Holiday Thrift Store Challenge - Christmas Chalkboard Globe from Heart Rocks in My Pocket

Jennifer from Dimples and Tangles made-over a craigslist find for her daughter and can I just say wow - so glamorous now!

Red Hot Nightstand Makeover from Dimples and Tangles

I am a lover of chocolate and this snack from Summer at Summer Scraps looks super yummy and super easy to whip together, maybe as a gift??

Double Chocolate Sweet and Salty Party Mix from Summer Scraps

And speaking of gift ideas, check out this cute baking gift that Kelly from The Moon and Me put together.  I know several people who would love to receive this one!!

Bake Yourself Silly Gift Basket DIY from The Moon and Me

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