Upcycling with Glitter!

I must share some of my newest projects! On the way home from a 5K last week, we happened by a garage sale, this happy combination of events doesn't happen much (garage sale in the neighborhood+kids with me+ early Saturday morning=we stopped). I found a couple great frames with awesome potential, one brand new and some baskets all for about $4. I brought everything home and prepared to go to work.

One of the items I bought a brand new gold 14X18 frame with a gold mat to 11X14 that screamed circa 1995. I had just done a $1.99 11X14 print at Walgreens, so I knew I could use it, but how to make it work....

One night as I was browsing the aisles of Hobby Lobby, I came across a lovely assortment of glitter, which set my mind working. I could turn the mat over and glitterize the backside, paint the frame and viola!

I came up with this!

I LOVE it! It looks awesome in my daughters bedroom. I just spray painted the frame white (it was gold), flipped the mat over, and modge podged it. Then I spread the glitter around and pressed down firmly. When it was all covered, I sprayed it with a clear overcoat to keep it in place. SO easy.

Remember my little one's cute paper with her fall words on it. Yup, I upcycled this 25 cent frame, found this pumpkin color of spray paint on clearance at Hobby Lobby (I am loving the color!) and mounted on a fall piece of scrapbook paper. I think it's adorable.

Here's a basket I found at the garage sale, I painted it that lovely pumpkin color, added a ribbon and a tag, and now it holds my Thanksgiving books.

Here's some fun frames I've been collecting over the year ($1.25 @Target). I love printables. Free and they are so fun.

We are officially ready for Thanksgiving! Bring on the Gratitude!

Halloween at My House

I love Halloween. Not morbid spooky Halloween. I'm talking nice witches with warts, black cats, and smiling faces, and fake glittery pumpkins. This year, I painted one of my broken kitchen chairs black and it turned out wonderfully well with my bucket of Halloween kids books. I got some great ideas off Pintrest for the mantle with cheesecloth and lots of free printables!

I also love Harry Potter. If I have to be the last person on the block doing Harry Potter Halloween, so be it. Long live Diagon Alley Apothecary.

 My little one brought this darling fall paper home from school and it's so cute I can't stand it. I think I'm going to use a brown sharpie over her pencil and put it in a floating frame with fall leaves.