I love fabric. Ok, it’s more like I’m addicted to fabric. I suffer from fabric addiction. I know many of you right now that are reading this post and nodding your heads. You know exactly what I’m talking about. (and for those that don’t well skip this paragraph–in my book its a true addiction. Some are addicted to drugs, eating, shopping, and well this is a spin off of shopping addition but for one specific thing… fabric!) I hoard and hoard fabric until my heart is content. Their is always a beautiful pattern and a project that I have in mind… however, that said project might just take a few years to get too… so until then. I hoard fabric.

I love to raid the remnant bin at my local fabric stores. You never know what you are going to get in those bins. A good year (or two) ago I found a gorgeous remnant. A remnant that I knew would one day be turned into a scarf. I kid you not, I’ve held on to this fabric like many others for a long, long, (embarrassingly) long time! So I finally made my dreams a reality and sewed myself a scarf. And because we are enjoying doing video these days I created a video tutorial on How to Sew an Infinity Scarf!

Watch my video to see just how I did it

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It’s that time of the month again… time to share my May box from the 12 Month’s of Martha Campaign! This month’s box is amazing (just as all the past boxes have been). This month’s box of craft supplies consist of a brand new category of craft supplies for Martha Stewart Crafts. The brand new Martha Stewart Crafts Jewelry has over 240 items tailored to every level of jewelry crafter. Some of the items you can find in this new line of craft supplies is: beautifully designed charms, pendants, and findings; rhinestones, Czech glass beads; and enameling paints, jewelry glazes, and epoxy clays. All of these items and more are available at Michaels Arts and Crafts stores. So watch my video to see just what I got this month for the 12 Months of Martha campaign.�

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A few years back when I first started blogging I shared how I did a mouse pad makeover. Well, fast forward 2.5 years later and 539 blog post later and I am in need of making over my mousepad once again! Since everyone knows by now I have a love for all things Washi Tape I had to make over a mouse pad using my beloved and favorite crafting supply! This project took me a little under an hour to create and has left a lasting impression on my desk in my craft room!

Supplies:

• Mouse Pad
• Washi Tape
• Scissors
• Mod Podge
• Foam Brush

Choose a base (solid) roll of washi tape to use for the mouse pad.

At a diagonal begin adhering the tape to the mouse pad.

This is what the entire mouse pad should like after its first layer of tape!

Using scissors begin to carefully cut around the edge of the mouse pad removing all excess washi tape.

Next, choose the washi tape patterns you like and chose your pattern.

Carefully, begin to adhere the washi tape on to the mousepad. *You’ll notice I did the pattern opposite of what the first row of tape was placed.

This is what it looked like after I was done.

Once again I cut around the edge of the mouse pad to remove the excess tape.

At that point I thought I was finished. That was until I realized that the tae was starting to pull up.

Fast forward one-week later and I realized my genius idea was not going to work out. So, that’s when I decided it was time to call in reinforcement!

I gathered up Paper Mod Podge and a foam brush applicator.

I placed some Mod Podge under the tape that was starting to come un-done. I gently pressed it down.

Apply 2-3 layers of Paper Mod Podge to the top of the mouse pad. Make sure to get the edges. Dry 15-20 minutes in between each layer.

And their you have it… a beautiful washi tape mouse pad–great for revamping an old mouse pad and making it new again!

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Today, we are sharing a video that we did for our friends over at Homes.com. We took an afternoon and restored our outdoor lighting for spring! With a little time, elbow grease, and spray paint our outdoor lights look brand new again! Watch our video to see just how easy it is to restore your own outdoor lighting!

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While attending SNAP! we were given a complimentary ticket to visit the annual Tulip Festival that is held every year at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. A lot of people passed up the opportunity to go; however, I couldn’t resist! I absolutely LOVE tulips and its a rarity that I ever get to see them in Florida. Tulips are not a normal flower you see planted in everyones garden. Its just too stinking hot to plant tulips in Florida. I will add that I do get to see them when we go to the Flower & Garden festival at Epcot; however, not fields and fields like I got to see at the Tulip Festival in Lehi Utah. I will preface that it was very cold for this Florida girl. But the cold was not holding me back to go see Tulips!

I ate my lunch while waiting for the trolley with a few other ladies. I ended up walking around the garden with Heather from Kustom Kissers. We chatted and she patiently waited while I took tons of photos!

So without further ado… here is a little video I put together that documented my hour walk around the Tulip Festival.

Wasn’t the video great? I seriously loved the “secret garden”.

I found this “stream/waterfall” while walking along one of the paths. It reminded me that I’m not in Florida anymore… seriously, how beautiful is this?

Tulips of all colors!

There was one area that was really full of tulips and I decided to take a photo with them in my background. I was dreaming I was in the Netherlands!

This was probably my favorite part of the festival. The beautiful stream with all the tulips. I felt like I was stepping into a Monet painting!

The field of red tulips was just breath taking and then to put it into perspective with the mountains in the background.

I loved how the daffodils were found “sprinkled” into the red tulips!

I hope you enjoyed watching my video and looking at my photos. Do you love tulips? Have you ever been to the Tulip Festival in Lehi, Utah? 

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of CB2 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Who loves CB2? We do! We have been shopping at CB2 for quite some time now. Fun fact, our dining room pendant drum is from CB2! As soon as we receive the catalog in the mail we both take a moment to spend together and flip through the catalog. Swooning over various items and day dreaming about how we would redecorate our home. Recently, on May 2nd, husband-and-wife design duo Robert and Cortney Novogratz debuted their new  CB2 and Novogratz Collection. I love the bold colorful style that the Novogratz have! Their most recent collection was inspired by their vacation home in Brazil! I think the Novogratz style really encompasses similar look and feel of what CB2 has to offer. And of course we love the Novogratz because, well, they are a husband and wife team!

Let’s take a look at a few of our favorites from the new line.

Botao Secitonal ($499-$799)

Continue reading: New Novogratz Collection at CB2!

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZzzQuil for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I interupt todays normal DIY project with a product review of ZzzQuil Nighttime Sleep-Aid. Mr. Woodsy and I both suffer from having one to many sleepless nights. We both work full time jobs, and we both own businesses outside of our 9-5 day job. We have a lot on our mind all the time. When I say we are busy it’s an understatment! We eat, breathe, and live for our businesses. Trying to nurture and care for them and of course grow them to be the next big thing. So of course, it would be natural that we suffer from sleepless nights.�

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I love to refresh our front porch every season; however, to buy new pillows every season is way too expensive. An easy and inexpensive way to refresh a space is to make your own pillow covers.  I haven’t made pillow covers for our front porch pillows since last year. When we started brainstorming for video ideas with our friends over at Homes.com I knew that I wanted to make a video to share with the world just how to stencil a pillow and how easy they are to sew! This is a great beginners sewing project as well as paint/stenciling project.

Continue reading: Painted Spring Pillow Cover

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A few months ago, I helped my dad build a raised square foot garden. This project took a half day and the total cost of supplies was around $200. This is definitely an intermediate wood working project. It requires quite a few tools and knowledge on how to build. A raised square foot garden bed is ideal to keep animals out and it makes gardening easy on the back.

We were inspired by these plans. Please know, that you do not need to use the wood we listed. If you don’t prefer pressure treated wood, you can use cedar. For those who have never bought cedar its a bit more expensive. Cedar is excellent for exterior wood working projects. Remember we built this size raised planter because it worked in the area they we were putting it. You can always use this design an alter the size to accommodate you area.

Supplies:

• One box of coarse-threaded 2” treated deck screws
• One box of coarse-threaded 1-5/8” treated deck screws
• One bag zinc plated bolts and nuts (#10 24×1”) (for  square foot divider)
• One bag washers (#10) (for divider)
• 2 – 2”x10” pressure treated pine lumber 8-feet long (frame of the square foot garden)
• 3 – ¼”x1½” pressure treated pine lattice 8-feet long. Cut these boards into 4-foot lengths.
• 1 – roll or piece of fiberglass screening sufficiently large enough to cover the bottom of the Square Foot Garden.This prevents mix from plugging holes in the bottom of square foot garden “box”.
• 4 – 2”x2”x36”  decorative balusters which are used to support the boards that hold up all the dirt.
• 1 – 2”x6” pressure treated pine lumber 12-feet long. Cut these boards into 4 equal lengths boards (approximately 36inches long).
• 1 – 2”x4” pressure treated pine lumber 12-feet long. Cut into 4 equal lengths boards (approximately 36inches long).
• 2 – 1”x4” pressure treated pine lumber 8-feet long. Cut these boards into 4 foot lengths. These will become the top plates to finish off the square foot garden.
• 4 – 2”x6″ pressure treated pine lumber 8-feet long.Cut these board to 46-1/4″.(Flooring)
• 4 – 4”x4” post caps which are used to decorate the top sections of the garden and can be opted out and not used.

Drill pilot holes for the screws along four of the edges of the 2″x10″. (This will make the box portion of your raised garden)

This is a close up of the holes I drilled along the edge of the four boards.

Next get the 2″x4″s and 2″x6″s and these will make up the leg portions. 

Screw the 2″x6″ to the 2″x4″ (like the picture above). Continue to do this four times this will make up the legs.

I always pre-drill the holes before I screw the boards together, so I don’t split the lumber. 

Now that I finished all four legs I set them aside.

Now using the 1/4″ x 1 1/2″ Pine boards I created a square foot divider.

With all of the boards stacked I drilled it every 12″. 

Then I laid the boards out making a cross pattern to be bolted together. 

I used 1″ bolts, nuts and washers in each hole. Then I hand tightened down with some pliers. 

Once you complete the divider this is what it should look like completed. 

Here is a close of the bolt going thru the wood divider. 

This is what it looks like when you close the lattice for storage. 

This is showing the lattice in mid-stage of being opened or closed.

Attach the 2″x2″ balusters to the inside of the 2″x10″. Attaching these will hold up the floor to the square foot garden. 

Flip over the frame of the square foot garden and stand the legs up to be attached to the corners.

This is an overview shot to see how the legs will be sitting against the frame. At this point go ahead and screw the legs to the frame. 

Once all of the legs are screwed in go-ahead and flip you square foot garden over. 

Now take the the four decorative post caps and mount them to the top with a screw or construction adhesive. 

Measure the distance between the decorative caps and cut (using a circular saw) the 1″x4″ boards to give the garden box a finished look.  

Take the 1″x4″ board and place between the decorative caps and screw in to place. 

Double check the placement of the foldable lattice and how it fits.

I placed the cut 2″x 6″ boards into the frame giving the box a flooring. On a side note: I used a pencil for my spacing between boards for drainage.

Take the screening and cut it to fit inside the bottom of the garden box.

Staple the screening into the bottom of the garden box to stop the dirt from pouring out the drainage slots. 

Their you have it a raised square foot garden, all you need to do is add dirt and herbs. My parents loved how the Raised Square Foot Garden bed turned out. They have tons of herbs planted in it!

Do you like to garden? Have you ever built raised garden beds? If so, I’d love to hear your thoughts. 

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I think by now its safe to say that everyone knows I have a food blog. When we were purchasing our house three and a half years ago, of course the kitchen was top priority followed by what room would soon become my craft room. We moved into a relatively new home, although foreclosed and had minor issues, everything was pretty new. Thankfully (maybe not so thankful) we didn’t need to do much to our kitchen. We added new appliances and added bead board to the exterior kitchen island, exposed cabinet sides, and the base boards under the cabinets. That was about all we did to our kitchen. Since doing those tiny little improvements a few years ago I have wanted to finish our kitchen.

Traditional, white kitchen suite with matching stainless steel appliances.

Continue reading: My Dream Kitchen…

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