Water Bottle Flowers and Window Makeover

I bought this little window frame for $6 on my big garage sale trip 2 months ago. I forgot to take a pic of it before I started priming it, but it was this dingly old red color.

I have been wanting to hang a window frame above Iris’ play kitchen in the playroom forEVER and I was so thrilled when I found this! Another project I have wanted to try was this recycling water bottles into flowers!!! There is a tutorial there, but for some reason Mod Podge just didnt do the job well this time. I ended up using it just since I already got it everywhere, but I hot glued all the fabric down. Im sure it was due to the texture of the fabric I was using.

Anyway, here it is!

I put some tissue paper in the bottom tray, and threw in a few pieces of Easter grass with flowers on it. The can on the left was just a soup can I wrapped with scrapbook paper.

I hot glued those colorful craft sticks I told you about, and used them as the stems. The white beads around the center was leftover from a project a couple of years ago. The pink middle is just fabric wrapped around the water bottle lid. And in case you havent looked at that tutorial yet, I cut the top portion of a water bottle off, made 5 slits in it all the way up to the lid, and curled the petals out. After gluing on the facric, I cut the petals to be more rounded. But definitely go look at the tutorial.

Pretty cool huh?? Here it hangs above Iris’ little kitchen area. I think Im going to create something that will allow her to hang her artwork from the top.

Mod Podged Theater Revamp!

A few weeks ago, I told you all that I went garage saling and came home with a TRUNK full of goodies that I planned on fixing up. This little theater needed some help, but they gave it to me for FREE. I knew I could fix it up!

Iris and I havent really played “puppet show” or “theater” yet; though I do plan on learning to make some fun puppets in the near future. But she loves to pretend she is at a bookstore or a restaurant or a bakery or a hair salon… So I wanted to make something that would be appropriate for any place she wanted to pretend to be.

The challenge was that this project needed to be done for free with things only found around the house. And I was out of a lot of supplies I planned on using so I improvised. Here is the final product!

Let’s just start at the top. I used my all time favorite product- Mod Podge to glue different shapes of scrapbook paper on the top. I didnt want it to say “theater” anymore, since we would be using it for different things. Then I hot glued clothes pins along the yellow wood strip so that the kids could put different props there. On the left, I hung a star from a string. And I put a gemstone in the middle of the star, just for a little extra bling-bling. The “Welcome” sign was a piece of wood from Hobby Lobby that I had laying around. I spray painted it blue and wrote “Welcome” across it. Its just clipped on there, so it can be removed. I had scrap fabric, and I think it worked well as the new curtain pieces!

On either side, I hot glued more clothes pins, and hung little plastic buckets I got ages ago at the Dollar store. there are little plastic hooks along the back, so I put elastic hair bands in there and glued them in place. Then just hung them up! I put chalk and magnets in each bucket.

Its a little hard to tell in this pic, but I glued little magnetic strips along the yellow strip and put fun magents on there. The background that used to show that creepy clown was painted green, and I hung a chalkboard over it. I REEEEALLY wanted the entire bottom portion to be painted with chalkboard paint but I was out of it. I had already made this chalkboard awhile ago, and it wasnt being used, so I decided to use it here! Then I cut a square out of a rag, glued a piece of velcro on the back and put another piece of velcro on the green backing. Voila! A rag to wipe the chalkboard! Brilliant, I know. Now we can write whatever we want!

Iris wanted to sell a book to her brother. Oh! When I asked her how much her book was, she said, “20 months.” I just happened to have 20 months in my pocket. Silly girl….

Legend loves it too! He gets to eat chalk! YUMM!! (Disclaimer: I took the chalk away. Calm down.)

I think it turned out fabulous! They just love it!!!!

Mod Podge bench from a garage sale!

Saturday, I went garage saling with my friend Kimberly. I kind of had a few ideas of what I was looking for, plus 3 things I absolutely HAD to find! I found all the things I HAD to have, plus way more! The trunk was FULL of fun stuff, so stay tuned to see how I fix up all our fun treasures.

One thing I found was a white bench for $3. The stickers didnt want to come off, and I didnt care for the white, but I knew I could fix it up.

I spray painted it green and then Mod Podged the seat and the arm rests. It was super easy! Its going in the play room that Im redoing, and these are the colors I think I like best- red, orange, green and turquoise. (But I didnt use turquoise here.)

We stinking love it!!!