Think Happy Thoughts Sign~

I made this sign for my daughters room a couple of months ago.

She's kind of a worrier at night, 

so I wanted to give her something fun and happy to look at as she goes to sleep.

I took 3 pieces of scrap, ripped 2X4's. 

Measured and drilled holes. 

I used a pencil as a spacer to make sure it would look even after I twisted the craft wire through the holes.

Made myself a little heart stencil and painted it pink.

And topped it off with vinyl. 

Think happy thoughts!

Easy DIY Cupcake Stands~

We had a birthday party for my in-laws recently and I made a couple of cupcake stands for the event.

I started with 4 boards. 

The biggest was a 12'' square and I chopped off an inch and a half off of each of the other boards 

tiering up to the smallest.  

I also cut (3) 5'' pieces of PVC pipe for each stand.  

The size of the boards and the length of the PVC can be adjusted to fit your project, 

just make sure that you have enough room to comfortably display your cakes.

I found the center of the boards by tracing diagonal lines across each square.

I eyeballed the position of the PVC pipe and traced it. 

Tracing the pipe gives you a guide line for your glue.

I used E-6000. I was a somewhat skeptical that it would adhere to wood and PVC, 

but I let it dry for 24hrs and it was completely solid. 

My SIL had some old wooden napkin rings that she was getting rid of, so she let me use them for my feet.  You could use wooden dowels or whatever you can find to raise the stand up off the ground an inch or two.  

After painting, I hot glued ribbon around each board.

Of course it's not possible for me to tie a decent looking bow, so these are made with 4 different pieces of ribbon.  One big loop with a smaller loop glued around the center and two separate pieces trailing from the back. 

Each of them can easily hold 30 cupcakes.

Mother's Day Shelves~

The Joe built me some beautiful shelves for Mother's Day.

Here's a before shot of the wall.

We'd been trying to figure out where to put shelves for quite a while. We didn't want to take away useable square footage from the main level, so we opted to build them high up on the wall.  

My 8yr. old is not a fan of reading, but she's a huge fan of climbing, so they've really peaked her interest in books. All of the kids are LOVING the new shelves...and so am I!

I hope you all had a wonderful Mom's Day! 

Val Day Vinyl~

Inspired by one of my favies by Van Morrison.

Family display~

I finished up a the display I've been working on over the weekend.

The True Love board has the date of our anniversary

and the smaller boards represent each of our children with their initials and dates of birth.