It was my one year anniversary on December 1st with my boyfriend. Wow, time flies! I wanted to make him a few gifts instead of buying things because homemade gifts just mean so much more! I saw this DIY wine label using your own pictures and thought it was genius! Since we have been together for a year and have taken quite a few photos, I wanted to make a wrap-around label with multiple pictures. Take a look at how…
Recently Carli and I have seen a lot of posts on Pinterest about jazzing up thrift store finds. People find beautiful mirrors and dressers and completely transform them. It’s remarkable. We decided to start on a smaller scale and look for compact pieces we could spray paint, and make brand new again. I made this open-back picture frame to display my instagram photos: Supplies: Frame of your choosing Spray Paint: Primer & color. I used Rust-Oleum because I was told it…
Carli and I have always had a thing for dream catchers, and all things Native American related. Ever since we saw ‘How the West Was Fun’, a Mary-Kate and Ashley classic, we decided that Native Americans were the coolest humans around. Later on in life we actually found out that we were part Cree, a Canadian tribe. We were pretty ecstatic to hear this news. Anyways, I had seen some dreamcatchers on Etsy for sale that were absolutely gorgeous, but…
We all get so many cards throughout the year. Most of the time they are cheap, cheesy, and generic. But once in awhile we’ll receive those expensive five dollar cards that are either blinged out, or have a really sentimental poem. Those are the cards I like to keep. Through the years I complied an impressive stack of cards and realized I needed a way to organize them. I made these card books out of chipboard albums. These are the same…
I am the holiday queen. Any holiday. Every holiday. I can’t get enough. Britta is also like me in this way. We just love an excuse to celebrate. We try to get each other and our close friends something for every holiday just because it’s fun! Last Easter I received so much candy from my Mother and my roommates that I went into a sugar coma for about 2 days. Really though, it was too much (and for me to…