Paint Chipping

Using paint chips for craft projects is all the rage right now. You can find inspiration all over Pinterest and craft books. My mom recently used paint chips to make a mobile - see it here! Here are some other craft projects using paint chips:

 

 

 

found at The Great Indoors

found at Ellementary Home

My favorite, the Chandelier! found at Hey Gorgeous Blog

found at Zodirowe

So obviously using paint chips is a cheap and easy way to make amazing pieces for your home...but how do you keep track of all of these free crafting goodies?

Remember how we used to use CDs to listen to music? And more importantly, remember how you used to store CDs? Since our CDs are now conveniently compressed into iPods, you can use your old CD holder to store your paint chips. An easy and cheap storage solution for a cheap and easy craft staple!

That mom of mine...such a thinker!

Tutorial: Homemade Earrings Frame

It is Karoline's 16th birthday tomorrow! And to keep with the homemade presents, here is another quick and easy step by step tutorial on how to make your own earrings frame. This would look great next to my jewelry frame!

Step 1: My mom found a simple frame at Vinny's, and painted it white with several coats of acrylic paint.

Step 2: Hot glue buttons onto the frame. This frame got all white/cream buttons, but you can use whatever colors you want!

Step 3: Cut a square piece of plastic mesh that fits exactly into the picture frame. Then cut a piece of burlap that is about 1 inch wider on each side, so that when you lay the plastic mesh on top of the burlap, there is about 1 inch of burlap on each side.

 Step 4: Using a staple gun, staple the plastic mesh/burlap onto the back of the frame, where the glass would normally be placed.

Step 5: Cut off the overlapped burlap.

 Step 6: Finished!

 

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Everyone gets a Hook

A couple years ago, we made our own coat hook rack for the mud room. We had one long piece of wood, which was (evenly and fairly, of course) split into 4 sections. We each had the chance to paint whatever we wanted "our" hook portion to look like...similarly to the Family Pole. The pictures above each of our sections are just printed from the MacBook. These are at least 7 years old...which is why we all look so young (and why Karoline looks like a demon child).

My hooks!

Viktoria's

Maximilian's

Karoline's

Of course Tobi gets hooks too!

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Organization Is My Middle Name

Similar to not having boring furniture, we also seem to not have boring organizational structures:

thrifted trinket holder makes a great stamp organizer

mason jars not only keep crafting supplies handy, they also make
an interesting decoration. By keeping them in order, the ombre
effect is handy AND pretty!

more stamps...seemingly a necessity for a crafter

thrifted cabinet becomes...

....a great place for nailpolish!

spray painted branch makes an interesting jewelry holder: see full idea here

2 thrifted cake stands with another bowl on top make a beautiful and handy way of keeping your jewels together.