‘Hello Spring’ – door decor [PEEPS® inspired]

It’s finally, officially SPRING!! After throwing a few ideas around in my head for a spring inspired front door, I finally decided to go with a fun & colorful ‘Hello Spring’ door!! [inspired by PEEPS®]

I was contacted by PEEPS® and offered a chance to try out and use their products for my crafting ventures this spring. PEEPS® has a bunch of new flavors & designs out this spring. Here are a few that I’m intrigued by, but you can find all of their new spring/Easter products HERE.

 
[*I’ve tried the mystery chicks & the party cake chicks, both of which they sent me. Party cake takes the cake ;)
But the mystery chicks were fun…we still have no idea what that flavor is!]

Like I said, PEEPS® contacted me, asked if I would put my creativity to work and come up with something “crafty” using PEEPS® this spring. They were ever so kind and sent me a huge box fun of the marshmallowy treats.

I’ll admit, we had to do some taste testing first!! My boys couldn’t decide between the Blue Raspberry and the mystery chicks, so we tried both of those first. I think the Blue Raspberry was a winner with them! (watch out…turns the whole mouth blue!!).

  

Then I got to work with my front door decor. I started with the ‘Hello Spring’ sign. It is 10”, and painted purple with metallic gold lettering.

Next came the PEEPS® part of the project, and I used their pink, yellow, green & blue chicks for this creation.

I pulled out the hot glue gun, along with some yarn and cardstock. I cut little pieces of cardstock that the yarn & the marshmallow treat were glued to.

And on to the door it went. A super easy, yet fun & colorful spring PEEPS® banner!! It was the perfect touch to my ‘Hello Spring’ door!

Now I’m on to more projects with my PEEPS®! You can find more creative inspiration for using PEEPS® on their website, HERE.

**Disclosure: The PEEPS ^® product, information and gift have been provided
by Just Born Quality Confections. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

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Every child is an artist - Picasso

I’ve been working on an art wall for a little while now and wanted to add this [prefect] quote by Picasso.

First, pick out a board or canvas you want the quote on. I used a chunk of particle board I had laying around, but you can easily use a canvas or even some cardstock for this project. Let your little artist paint away. I love the sporadic, crazy painting that he did over the letters. It’s perfect for the art wall & for the quote!

We used Crayola washable paints, but obviously any paint will do (as long as you trust your kiddo with it!)

My first thought was Pink lettering. Didn’t like it.

Instead I went with white vinyl. MUCH better!

OR…! You can just order one of these sweet little wood blocks with the same quote -

Available at Remembories (pick your own color)!

Both make for a great addition to our art wall, I’m using the one my little B painted. I still have a few finishing touches to add to the wall, but it’s almost done!

Hello spring!

Spring is definitely not here in Montana yet, it being only February, but it sure is trying to make an appearance. What a nice & mild winter we’ve been having. Hopefully it keeps up! (although I’m anticipating snow in April/May…just because it’s Montana). Anyway, I’ve been inspired by the wonderful faux-spring weather and had to make this wood block –>

 

You can find it for sale in my Remembories shop –> HERE

Family Hand Turkey of 6!

I love the color choices! Dad, mom & 4 kids, makes for a very colorful turkey!

   

Colors: Sunshine yellow, navy blue, deep blue, pumpkin orange, apple red, espresso & nutmeg.

I made this for my sister and her family (suppose to be for last year, but things got a little busy)
 

*You can purchase a personalized hand turkey at Remembories

You are my sunshine – wood sign

You are my sunshine – home décor wood block. Painted in sun yellow, white vinyl, measures 5” x 9” x 3/4”.

love more – wood block

love more – wood block/sign. Natural wood with mahogany stain (paint & vinyl color options available as well). Measures 2.5” x 6” x 3/4”.

The Mayflower

I saw this Thanksgiving Mayflower decoration yesterday (the day before Thanksgiving) and I had to make it. Overall it took zero dollars and just over a half an hour, including drive time to get the barn wood and sticks but minus the time I had to glue the old, broken wood back together :/

First I had to load the boys in the truck and drive to our land (mile and a half away). There is an old barn there, so any time I want barn wood, there it is! I found a couple good pieces and some sticks and we drove home. 20 minutes max.

Then I traced out a boat shape. I tried to do it as similar to her Mayflower, I’m not an artist! Aaand, you can’t really see it. It’s in pencil…but it’s there. 2 minutes.

Cut it on the scroll saw. 3.5 minutes.

Ta da, the Mayflower.

But I had to fix a few mishaps with the old, warped, falling apart wood.

I drilled some holes for the sticks and used construction paper for the flags/sails. 10 minutes.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

The perfect Halloween decoration (*easy & cheap*)

My holiday decorations throughout the year have been pretty lame. Halloween is when I actually put forth some effort..and even then it’s not that much! For our front deck I decided I wanted some hay bales and something spooky with it. We got some alfalfa bales instead, but they will just have to work for the next couple weeks. I picked up a bunch of clearance Halloween decorations last year, so we have a bunch of skull lights. One string was lucky enough to decorate the alfalfa, the other is in our flower bed.

As for the perfect touch to our front deck, all it took was a dead tree!

I went to our land, found a dead tree, cut off a couple branches, then painted them black (with Rustoleum Black Matte spray paint).

Nothin like a spooky dead tree for decoration. And if you get down to the nitty gritty, it cost me about $1.77 in spray paint (didn’t use the whole can) and $.56 in gas driving to our land and back. Not a bad decoration for just a couple bucks!

I had some smaller branches left over, so they went inside on our console table. Again, the perfect touch.