Tag: babies
10 Low-Cost Valentine’s Day Gifts
Crafts
1. Beads – bracelets
Very easy craft and helps with fine motor skills! I let him string on as many beads as he could. Then I helped string the names on. Tied and finished!!
2. Canvas
Very easy and fun! First, I taped off the L and E. Second, I squirted dabs of paint all over the canvas and let him use his hands and paint brushes to move it around. After he was done playing, I let it dry. When it was dry, I painted his feet red (while in his high chair, highly recommended) and pushed them onto the canvas like a V. Then we painted his hand white and pressed it onto the canvas like an O. We let everything dry and removed the tape! Ta-Da!
3. Footprint Heart Frames
Also very easy. Probably my favorite! I love the vintage look!
I painted his feet red (while in high chair, highly recommended). Then pressed them onto scrapbooking paper in the shape of a heart. I bought some cheap frames from Goodwill. Cut the paper to size and put them in the frame. So easy!
Check out this post for some extra ideas for the crafty person in your life!
Low-Cost Shopping
4. Farmhouse Pillows
I love getting pillows as gifts. It’s something I wouldn’t buy myself but I love changing them out with the holidays.
5. Garland
Another thing I probably wouldn’t buy myself but I love! You could add little paper hearts for extra festivities. Also might find some great deals this time of year.
6. Little Cake Pans
Great for wives and kids. You might even get a treat in return! Especially if you buy ingredients to go with it.
7. Mini Scarves
These are the most handy things to have! I tie them on my purse/diaper bag and pull them off whenever I need to get my hair off my face. I use them as headbands or cute little accessories. Click here for hair inspiration!
8. Kids Shirts
Kids get clothes for every occasion. Duh!
9. Clothes
All women need more clothes!
10. Jewelry
These are my personal favorites. I love pearl everything. My engagement ring was a pearl. I’m obsessed.
This necklace is also an essential oil diffuser. Another thing I’m obsessed with.
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11 DIY Wood Projects for 2019
My Top 11 DIY Project Goals
2019
1. Barn doors for the hall closet and the laundry room.
2. Table for our coffee station and all my collectibles in the kitchen (cutting boards and rolling pins)
I want it to be a mixture of these two. I want shelves for my metal baskets but a big drawer to hide the coffee overload.
3. Kids coat hanger
My kid has more coats than my husband and me combined!
4. Kitchen storage that rolls out
5.Built-ins for playroom
I need something for the tv, crafts, toys, shoes, and more coat storage!
6. Air return cover
We are currently putting an old mantle around it and I can’t stand how hideous the grate is! It takes away the beauty of the mantle. I think I’m dreading this project the most. It seems very tedious.
7. Laundry sorter
8. Kids farmhouse table and bench
9. Porch swing
10. A kid’s tower for two littles
My son uses the one I made last year every day but he’s getting tall. I want to make one that adjusts for two kids heights.
11. I have my Mamaw’s old tator bin like this one. I want to revamp it a little to match our kitchen. Then my son can use it as his play kitchen.
I didn’t make a project for each month because I figured I would take a month off when I had this sweet baby.
You can do it too! Start making things for yourself and don’t forget to enjoy the process! Soak in all the memories and embrace the imperfect! Thanks for checking out my new projects for this year! I am currently learning a new program to start drawing up my own plans! If you have any questions or ideas send me a message or comment below! I hope we’ve inspired you! Please post or send pics of your finished projects! And don’t forget to pin to your Pinterest boards for later!!
Make Something Special
These are some DIY projects we completed over the holidays.
Refinishing a Rocking Horse and a Dresser
This dresser is special to me because my mom and I picked it out at a flea market years ago in hopes of redoing it to sell. Then I fell in love with it but didn’t know exactly what to do with it. Then life got busy. So this Christmas I decided we need more toy storage especially with another baby coming. So I found a new home for this jewel and decided to finish it.
The dresser had a door over the shelves. So I took it off and put pallet wood where the old shelves were.
We bought this rocking horse for my son last Christmas at the 127 yard sale in Crossville. I didn’t get around to redoing it before Christmas last year so I finished it this year! It was a hit! It’s the first thing my son goes to every morning screaming, “Neigh, Neigh!”
The rocking horse had googly eyes that I pried off but I didn’t change much about it.
I forgot to take a before picture because I’ve had these 2 pieces for years. I thought I had some hidden away somewhere but I can’t find them. Sorry.
Refinishing process on both:
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Sand
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Crackle paint
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Paint white (repeat 1st 3 steps until you like the results)
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Final Sand
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Wax
Canvases
These were very dear, close to my heart Christmas presents we worked on for the grandparents. My mom and mother in law both say every time they see a cardinal “there’s Mamaw”. Plus it was so much fun watching Witt get into painting this year. I was so proud!
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I put dots of grays whites and blues and let Witt smear them around
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Then I went back and just smoothed them out before it started drying
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Dry
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Painted his hand with red and stamped it on the canvas
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Dry
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Then I painted the branch on and the face details
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Dry
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Then use a fanned out brush dipped in white, cream, and very light gray to dab the snow on the branches
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Dry
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I cut out the saying “cardinals appear when angels are near” in vinyl on my silhouette then stuck it on but you could paint or write it on with a sharpie.
Ta-Da
Signs
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I used plywood that I cut to size with a table saw
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Then I found a sheet of “paneling” at Lowe’s I liked even better. So I also cut it to the same size as the plywood and glued them together
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Next I cut 2x4s in half and cut the rounded edges off with the table saw
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Stained
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Then nailed to the plywood and each other with a pin nailer
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Next I used my silhouette to cut out sayings or dates in vinyl
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Stuck them to the paneling
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Then I put a coat of modge podge over the top
Ta-Da
I just painted the plywood white on a few instead of using the paneling and I painted the red baseball laces on there too.
You can do it too! Make something special and don’t forget to enjoy the process! Soak in all the memories and embrace the imperfect! Thanks for checking out my new projects! If you have any questions or ideas send me a message! I hope we’ve inspired you! Please post or send pics of your finished projects! And don’t forget to pin to your Pinterest boards for later!!
Last Minute Homemade Gifts
Every year I think, “ I’m going to make everyone homemade gifts this year!” Then one week before Christmas I’m struggling to finish up or start projects!
Footprint Ornaments
My first project here is very simple, easy, and fast! Also a great tradition to start with your lil babies! We made 5 this year and 8 last year. Great for last minute gifts! You can make them more rustic chic or very kid friendly!
You’ll need:
- Paint – green, red, orange, yellow, brown, white, and cream
- Paint brushes
- Water for rinsing
- Baby wipes for easy, fast clean up
- Puppy dog pads (if you have some) or trash bags, etc to keep your floor/ table dry and clean
- High chair or bumbo seat – keeps lil feet still
- Wood pieces – you can use blocks, rectangles, or more fancy ones
- String for hanging
- Drill for making a small hole to hang
- String, poof balls, yarn, twigs, hot glue or anything to be more creative – we didn’t use any of this this year but we did last year
Instructions:
- Paint, stain or leave your wood pieces natural
- Paint lil feet and press the wood onto them
- Let dry
- Add faces, decorations, hats, antlers, berries, etc. with paint
- Let dry
- Add embellishments like twigs for snowman arms or matted string for deer tail with hot glue
- Drill one or two holes in the top
- Add string to holes and tie
Ta-Da DONE!
Christmas Tree Sconce / Picture Frame
My next project takes a little more time but still very easy and doable. I followed
plans and she does a great job of explaining and doing the math for us!
I decided to add a picture clip on the back with hot glue so you could use it as a picture frame or sconce. I also added rubber circles to the bottom so it wouldn’t slide around. If it’s not perfectly flat it keeps it from wanting to tilt (Which happened to a couple of mine.) I used pocket holes on the bottom of some just to add more strength incase they wanted to hang them.
The funnest part to me is the staining and painting. I stained them all with different stains. Then went back and dry brushed some with white and some with green. Let them dry and sanded the crap out of them. On the lighter ones I used a dark wax to make the crevasses stand out more. They all turned out great. Not one is the same. I think the dark stain with the white paint is my favorite. It looks like old barn wood.
Reindeer Feed Onesie
Last I did these onesies for my son and his lil girlfriend. We both have farms and farm names. So I made a silhouette cut diagram. Cut it out on vinyl that I never use and laid it on the onesies (prewashed and dried with no softener.) I used black fabric paint and a makeup sponge to stencil it on. Let it dry 48 hours. Added another coat. Took the vinyl off let it dry for 72 hours. Then washed it!
You can do it! Get those last minute special gifts done and don’t forget to enjoy the process! Soak in all the memories and embrace the imperfect! Thanks for checking out my new projects! If you have any questions or ideas to make it even better send me a message! I hope we’ve inspired you! Please post or send pics of your finished projects! And don’t forget to pin to your Pinterest boards!! ❤️
Farm Friday— Farm Stands Part 2
Farm Stand
Why we need a farm stand! MAIN REASON— We have an abundance of eggs! We can only eat so many. We also have lambs and sometimes pigs to sell. It would also be nice to sell/give away some of our vegetables and jams.
We could also leave some information on the stand like, when the lambs will be processed, pricing, what we feed our animals, and some nutritional information on our products.
Having a stand at our house would be very convenient! We have a lot of traffic on our road.
We don’t always have enough stuff to justify selling at a farmers market though. We would spend more money in fees than we would make. Plus lugging a baby to the market and watching him would be tough. 
Having it at the house, with a sign saying “fresh eggs” will also keep me accountable. I can’t let my neighbors down! Not going to the farmers market— who cares!
PVC Pipe Playpen
This has been a life saver! A back saver for sure!!
Things I would change or do different.
- I ended up putting all the side small pieces back on after I looped the net around the teeth.
- My husband put a small screw on the back side where the fittings are. Nice and flush so he can’t grasp it. You could also glue them, but I wanted to be able to take them apart.
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Materials
These are newer than mine (mine sucked)