Home Goods Hack

Oye!  I am so excited about these new frame/shadowbox finds from Home Goods.  Who doesn't love that place?
Okay, so I was rummaging through the store like I always do, hitting all of the clearance areas and I came across these beauties : )

They are super cute, right?  I just love the white distressed look and they are not too deep with hooks on the back to hang on the wall.  Oh, you see the red sticker, huh?  Take a closer look:

Yes, that is right people!!!! Three bucks a piece, they had to come home with me.  I knew what I would do with them.  I have been going through an aqua and beach-y decor love affair and these would fit right in.

I put these on my craft table in the garage and ran upstairs to get my burlap scrap bag.  I ripped out the weird bird nest/egg oddity and scraped out the remaining hot glue from both frames.  Like I mentioned above, I have a new accent color in the house which is aqua.  I could not decide whether to go with aqua sea star or white finger sea star.  So I put both in front of me to ponder while I hot glued the burlap to the inside of the frame.  

I just added glue to the corners of the inside of the frame and stretched while it dried for a few seconds.  Super easy, people!!! (See below)

 Here they are while I was deciding what color to use for the sea star

Once I was finished I added them to wall in my entry.  I think they mix well with the photo from our wedding day on the beach and a picture from our Caribbean honeymoon.

 I think they add just the right touch and it was all for under 10 bucks and 10 minutes!!

Thank you for stopping by!

Meghan and Jessica

Anchor Project

So, this was a totally unexpected project!!!  I was testing out a new paint color that I recently purchased.  It is Island Oasis by Behr (Home Depot.)  I purchased it for a few projects that I am doing : )  

Okay, so I put a stick in the container to stir it and did not wipe the stick down because I wanted to stroke out the color on a extra piece of wood I had laying around.  (It happened to be from a ruler growth chart that I can't wait to share.)  So, there happened to be so much paint on the stick that I was able to cover the entire scrap piece of wood.  Onto the project...

I saw this cute anchor sign floating around on Pinterest just a bit ago... Here it is : )  The Etsy shop that sold it doesn't have anymore.  I suppose that I could have messaged her to make another but I had this awesomely painted piece of wood to work with. I got started and wrote out a quote (in the shape of an anchor) that I love that applies to my family.

It says, " Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."

Then, I started painting the words with a simple white craft paint from from Michael's.

Now, this is a complete departure from my normal craftiness. The reason being that I usually like clean lines and symmetry - this is far from clean lettering.  I have done the same style for so long that I wanted to try something like this, uneven, white, unfinished looking letters. I think it turned out pretty cute : )

My new love is aqua.  A friend of mine has been decorating her beautiful new home in the color and I have simply fallen in love with all things aqua.  She is awesome awesome awesome, check out her blog here.  This is the final project, I love how it turned out. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Meghan and Jessica