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How simple would this be to add a little Halloween fun to the fruit bowl.  It’s just edible marker on an orange.  I bet you could even use honey or something else a bit tacky to put on candy corns or felt for the facial features.  Image and idea are from Zakka Life.
zakka life.

So, all of my DIY has been curtains, curtains, curtains lately.  PLEASE excuse the pictures!  They’re from my phone pretty late at night!  I KNOW!  I’m suppose to do the whole natural daylight thing, but I know if I don’t get these up now, it’ll be a while before I can and I just HAD [...]

A little side project I took on after the shower curtain…

I made a slipcover for our little sofa!  Are you proud or what?!  The sofa had originally been my younger brother’s when he had a little ‘ol bachelor pad.  Well, he moved home and his sofa moved to my mom’s garage where it sat and [...]

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simply a silly girl: gettin crafty: a little mod podge is an amazing thing.
I found this screen printing tutorial on Simply a Silly Girl via Ucreate.  I always thought there had to be an easy way to screen print.  Can’t wait to try this out!

Since we moved into our house last June, all of our windows have been covered in some sorry manner or other (see above!);  Usually a $4 flat sheet from Wal-Mart with clear tacks holding it up. I decided to try and upcycle some of these sheets into decent looking curtains.
I made a shower curtain and [...]

Here’s what the magazine “bricks” ended up looking like:

And here’s the inside:

We had this old stiff quilt laying around so I used it as the rug.  The inside walls are still pretty bare.  I’ve been thinking about maybe decorating them in sections.  Like a little kitchen area… stuff like that.  I could use smaller boxes [...]

Getting the bricks and mortar on the cardboard castle.

What to do with several large cardboard boxes once the move is over?

Obviously, if we’re trying to tighten our belts and not spend a ton decorating the house, I couldn’t exactly go out and just buy the fanciest machine around.