DIY Chalkboards........

Aren't chalkboards the best??  And even better when you make them yourself!  Well that is what I did...  When we built our house we had left over wood from our kitchen and I held on to a piece, a really LARGE piece forever and didn't know what to do with it!  Well I figured it out...  A CHALKBOARD!  So I whipped out my chalkboard paint and painted it!  It has had many different homes in the house... the toy room, the boys room and finally the kitchen!  I love it because this is where I can put quotes, grocery lists, to do lists, etc...

Another project came up yesterday....I am having a baby shower for a friend of mine and I wanted to have a chalkboard on the food table on an easel but I didn't have the right size so I headed to Walmart to see what I could find.  Well I found a mirror for $5.98 and transformed it into a chalkboard.  I just sprayed the entire thing including the mirror ballet slipper pink then hand painted chalkboard paint onto the mirror!  It works perfectly!!  So here are the pics of the boards :)

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United States Map Pillow

I'm not sure how many of you have seen these adorable pillows but I stumbled upon a very cute one the other day and had to make one!  The ones I've seen are made with felt but I thought it would be cute to make the cut out of the US out of cotton fabric (which I traced from a US silhouette cut on my cricut)  and sew it onto fleece!  You can then cut out a felt heart and put it wherever you want to, maybe somewhere you want to go or somewhere you have lived, etc... I just threw this one on for fun to show you...  I used my pinking sheers to cut around the pillow as well to add a little cuteness to it :).  I love it!  What great presents these would make!!!

Boy pillows...

I love pillows!  I found this adorable pillow tutorial on Pinterest of course and thought you would like it too!

They would be adorable in a little boys room!

I have to say that Laura Gunn is very creative and has some really fun things on her blog!  Click here for the applique templates for these super cute pillows!

Need a little cuteness for your laundry room?

Having 5 children means I pretty much live in this room!  So why not make it pretty??  I would have taken a pic of the whole room but there are piles of laundry I am in the process of doing so you only get to see a small section of the room for now, he he :) 

This is the shelf that sits right above the washer...the good ol' fashion top loader....  I found these baskets at a yard sale for a buck a piece (woohoo)!  I keep the downey, shout, wrinkle release and dryer sheets in these.  Works great and they look cute too!  Then I found the large metal green container at Tai Pan (love that place) and the flowers are my FAVORITE EVER...peonies!!! They are left overs from my niece's wedding a few years ago!  Aren't they gorgeous?  They look real huh!

Ok and the chalkboard above is one I made out of an old cupboard door!  I had it hanging somewhere else in my house FOREVER and was getting tired of it there so I plopped it above the washer and LOVE it!  I also love having my laundry soap in my huge clear jar.  It just looks better than a big huge ugly box sitting up there!

Below are more pics of everything...............

What are your laundry rooms like?

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Pillow Bed for Kids! (DIY)

Found this on Pinterest and LOVE it!!  Take 5 pillow cases and sew them together and then just add pillows!! 

What a perfect gift!! Just roll it up and tie it with a really big color coordinating ribbon and VOILA!!!!

I love easy ideas, don't you?

Sooo i changed my blog AGAIN!!

Why am I never satisfied?  I always need change!  So what do you think??

Just had to share....

It's never to early to teach your kids how to clean right??

:)