Dollar Store Pumpkin-Doily Banner

Welcome to the easiest cheapest decoration ever! The Dollar Store had these cute pumpkin doilies (a 36-pack!) beckoning to me, and really, who was I to resist? The second I saw them I knew they would make their home as a banner on my fireplace. 

They were delicate, so though I could have attached them to a ribbon, I didn't want them to be hanging from anything that would take away from them. Instead, I attached about a dozen of them together with jump-rings,

and strung them right up!

(Kindly refrain from judgement on my unfinished and daily-changing mantle. Someday soon I will like what I put up there. I'm sure of it.)

What's perfect is the banner can stay through Thanksgiving!

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Halloween Subway Art Printable

Happy Sunday, friends! Make sure to check out my Shadow Box Art over at Childmade  today, as well as my Shabby Chic chalkboard over at It's So Very Cheri where there is so much to see! Too much cuteness! Too much eye-candy!

So I know you're not supposed to covet. But what other way is there to describe my exquisite yearning for the wonder that is Subway Art??? I love it. I'm attracted to it like I'm attracted to Dave: A LOT. And I would have made a giant canvas covered with lovely vinyl words AGES ago except for the fact that the cord to my Cricut machine is missing. And now it's Halloween-time and how can a person's life be complete if their Halloween decor is missing Subway Art? Stencils seemed like too much work. Then came the flash of laziness Genius. DIGITIZE!!!

Yippee! Here's what I came up with!

If you would like one for yourself, it is available in my etsy shop!

I love and was particularly inspired by Shelley from House of Smiths and the lovely vinyl subway art she created!

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Shadow Box Art

Click on over and show some love to Be Different Act Normal where Lorie is featuring my Lace Halloween Wreath, Eat Drink and Be Scary printable, and Keep Calm and Scary On printable today! Then click-ety clack your cute little fingers right onto This Crazy Life and  Yesterday on Tuesday for both printables and I Heart Naptime for the wreath! So much cute stuff to be seen at these sites!



So who didn't love their honeymoon? Some of my happiest, giddiest, and most carefree memories are from my honeymoon. I had never been more in love. I had never felt so valued, so cherished, so lucky. I wanted a daily reminder of that. A visual tribute to when 'we' began.

I gathered a shadowbox, some textured white cardstock, 8 round unfinished wooden discs, 8 photographs, and some stickers and rhinestones. I carefully chose the pictures to best express beautiful Puerto Vallarta, the amazing resort we stayed in, and the love, joy, and excitement we were feeling.

I adhered the photos to the wooden discs and sanded down the edges so they were perfectly flush with them.

Add a pinch of glitter and bling and it was just right!

Simple and happy. It hangs right where we eat. :)

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Hobnail HEAVEN!

Make sure to check out my UNO card Birthday Centerpiece  on Paisley Passions today, as well as my Lace Halloween Wreath on C.R.A.F.T., my Eat Drink and Be Scary printable at A Few of My Favorite Things, and my Headband-that-was-a-Handbag on The Train to Crazy. There is so much inspiration to be gleaned from browsing around these awesome blogs!

So I've mentioned I love damask. And I also love toile. And the color pink. And quatrefoil. And tiny dogs (digressing now...) but I REALLY LOVE hobnail milkglass. Love it love it love it. Might possibly want to marry it if Dave hadn't just made me lunch and also helped clean the house on his lunch break. (Seriously. Whatta guy.) So you can imagine my rapture when in the space of one week I found two hobby nobby hobnail lovelies at two different thrift stores!!!

The first was a vase. A gorgeous 12-inch hobnail milkglass vase for just $2.99! *Insert romantic sigh*

The next was a hobnail mirror, so lovely in its oval-iness, so pretty with its nubbly nobs!

I bought it thinking I would put it in the baby's vintage-themed nursery, but once I got it home I wanted it out in the open where I could stare at it all the time! So it found its home above an antique ice-box that has been in Dave's family for generations. Perfect spot!

Key Rack Make-Over

I absolutely love the blog Under the Table and Dreaming, as you probably do too! Click on over there to check out my Dollar-Store-Mirror turned Shabby Chic Chalkboard and the other cool crafts Stephanie rounded up from all over blog-land! Speaking of round-ups, Tater Tots and Jello featured my Eat Drink and Be Scary printable again, in a Halloween printable roundup, so check that out too for some really fun digital images!

So I can't get enough of damask. It's like I'm addicted. After I made the mod podge frame with some damask wrapping paper for Annalise's little friend, I knew I wanted some of it hanging in my house too!

I began with a key rack that I bought several years ago from Ross for $9.99. (I know that because I always leave the price tags on the backs of my bargains so I'll never forget what a good deal I got!)

I always liked the shape and size of it and how it was a distressed black. I will loudly announce that I never liked the rooster though. (That's a lie. I totally did. I'm embarrassed.)

(Kindly ignore the hideous switchplate. We have the replacement. Sitting uselessly in the garage in a Home Depot bag.)

To my surprise, the rooster was actually just printed on some kind of paper that could be peeled off. I did just that and went to work and came up with this!

To make it, I cut a sheet of the wrapping paper to fit on the backdrop and mod podged it right on. It took me a while to decide what else I wanted to do with it after that. I thought about putting on it a big monogrammed 'F' for our last name, but it just didn't look right. I would have liked to put a quote on there but the whole thing was too busy. I considered putting the word 'Keys' on there somehow, but it seemed stupid to write Keys. Then while I was browing the dollar bin at Michael's I found the perfect thing! Antique key rub-ons! And I knew just what to do! I picked up a small plate from Big Lots for $1.25, applied the rub-ons onto it, and glued it right in the middle.

MUCH better!!

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Free Keep Calm and SCARY On Printable!

Today I had the great honor of having my Eat, Drink and Be Scary printable featured on one of my favorite blogs, One Pretty Thing! Please click on over there to check out her roundup of inspirational Halloween ideas! All Thingz Related is featuring my UNO card First Birthday Party  and  The Brambleberry Cottage is featuring my Mod Podge Frame and Handbag-turned-Headband, so stop on over to these awesome blogs and say hello!

Additionally, I received so many requests to create my husband's idea for a printable, 'Keep Calm and Scary On', that I had to make one to share with you! (He is extremely pleased with himself about this. :) )

Click on the image to get it at full resolution and then right click and save and it's yours for free! If you do, please become a follower by clicking the 'Follow' button in the upper right column of the blog! :)

Bakerella Comes to Portland!!

The wonderful ladies of Under the Table and Dreaming,   Lil' Luna,   and The Crafter's File Box are each featuring my Eat, Drink And Be Scary Printable today, so go check out these three awesome blogs and leave some love notes!! And tomorrow it's being featured on One Pretty Thing's Halloween Roundup, so click on over there too for some Halloween inspiration!

I absolutely love the yummy Bakerella blog, full of recipes and tricks, creative baking inspiration, and delicious eye candy. I am fascinated by how Bakerella (Angie) can turn a cake pop into any character or shape she desires, with the cutest results you've ever seen. So I was thrilled to hear that on the book tour for her new book Cake Pops, there was a stop in Portland, ten minutes away from me, scheduled for today!

It was perhaps not my smartest moment when I decided to take a thirteen-month-old walking climbing running falling screeching squirming tornado-of-a-toddler along with me, but I couldn't go if she couldn't, so I decided to brave it! Luckily, we got there pretty late and only had to wait about an hour, during which time Annalise cried and screeched and writhed and ran away and fell down and cried and attempted to escape approximately three million and eight times. STRESS. But in the end we got to meet the famous Bakerella, have her sign our copy of the book, and get a nice picture of the three of us together.

In this picture, I am thinking: I forgot to brush my hair! Where did the baby's headband go? Should I take the lens cap out of her mouth?

Annalise is thinking: Touch my lens cap and you die.