Super Nerdy Crafty Stuff!

I have a new addiction--crafts!!!!  (Also, Sara, I promise I'm not copying you!!!! Clearly we both just have a Pinterest addiction and awesome taste! :) )   I've done more decorating to our house here than I did all 5 years we've been married!  I've become a Hobby Lobby junkie and can almost always tell you their weekly specials--I also have to do a lot of things there for work so it isn't all for home.

Here is some ribbon ornaments I put in our window.  Haven't put up a tree yet and we might wait until after Christmas to get a tree on clearance for next year.  I think Jolie might be a little 'too interested' this year. So here was my simple solution.  Curtain rod, ornaments and ribbon.

 Funny story, while I was trying to hang these up, I was standing in the window and stepping on the couch to get down.  I lost my balance and fell over this recliner, while Josh was sitting in it, with scissors in my hand.  So as I landed upside down, Josh started yelling that I stabbed him, but when we finally looked at it, it was just a scratch--phew!  You'll see that my 'projects' have become a little dangerous for all of us!

 $5 hanger I spray painted bright green.  However, I thought it would be ok to spray paint in the basement so we about passed out from the fumes!  Lesson learned--no spray painting inside!

 Hanger in action!  We put this one lower so Jolie can hang her own coat up, which she is totally digging.

 Our coffee table had a glass middle--not very practical with a toddler and I got a little tired of cleaning it over and over and over every day...so I got some fabric that coordinated with the living room and covered the glass.  (I don't know why I didn't move that piece of paper before taking the picture!)

 Coffee table in action!

 My other $5 hanger I spray painted green.

 This one hangs by our back door.  Petey seems to enjoy going out a few times during the night so it's nice to have a coat handy!

 We had a phone jack in the middle of this wall.  Who uses phone jacks anymore?  So I found a frame, put some scrapbook paper in the back and-viola-you have a dry erase board!

 I also like to leave Josh helpful reminders...shutting cupboard doors, throwing garbage away, am I a nag??? :)

 Now some of you may not believe this, but Jolie can be a bit of a stinker.  So I saw this fun little project for a 'time out jar'  This jar has water and glitter in it.  When time out starts, you shake the glitter.  When the glitter is settled, time out is done. Plus the glitter is supposed to be kind of calming and mesmerizing (it is--I tried it!)

 I made this one about two minutes for the glitter to settle.  Here's the jar shaken up--so pretty!  It's a plastic jar too.  We haven't used it yet, but I'm sure the day is not too far off.

 My Christmas vase.  I also had it decorated for fall, but I don't think I ever got a picture of it. But I'm kind of obsessed with the Christmas decorations in these fun, bright colors!

 A collage frame I made.  There is twine strung up across it and then you hold the pictures on with mini-clothespins.  I'm planning on giving it a gift, but Josh isn't sure it will go with their style.  But if they don't care for it, I think we could find room for it here! :)

I have more stuff as well, but some stuff I need to get a picture of during the day and other items are Christmas gifts that I probably can't show until afterwards.  I also have made AWESOME progress on our scrapbook.  Now it's nothing super fancy, I call it 'Diet Scrapbooking' or 'Scrapbooking Lite' but its coming along!  I have a whole little craft area set up in our basement and Jolie has taken a big interest lately in playing in the basement with her colors and stickers--so we can work on our projects together! Josh also has his PlayStation set up down there and Petey has his Snoopy bed and Nuzzle Nest (doggie bean bag) so it's like a family party down there, which will be great as the cold weather rolls in!  However all my projects have Josh wondering 'what the heck have you done with my wife!'  I can't cook, but I'll do my best to have the house look cute! :)