DIY Wall Art

DIY Wall Art : Hanging Plants

So I had a ton of extra eucalyptus from a past project for a friend and wanted to find a nice way to use it. Thus I came across this idea. I love my white walls but felt they looked a little too bare. This really was one of the easiest projects to do. Just turn on some jams and have fun with it!

What You Need:

1. String
2. Any plant you would like (or even flowers!)
3. Scissors
4. Push Pins (not pictured)

STEP ONE

Take your plant and snip it into various lengths, I have high ceilings so I needed some pretty large pieces, but they looked nice mixed with some tiny ones. Do the same with your string. Some of my pieces were about a foot long, while others were about 6".

STEP TWO

Take your string and knot it around the plants end, double knotted! 

And thats it! Once you have the appropriate length for your wall you can use a pin to hang it up and continue on the next one. Just continue these steps until you've got your whole wall covered! 

Ta-da! All it takes is patience and you're good.

Enjoy guys!

DIY Floral Crown

I had a little bit of a panic attack when trying to find a halloween costume for myself and a few friends

 without having to spend much money. So I put on my best DIY attitude and decided to combine the

 bleach technique from the last DIY post and create some skull shirts. Then added some floral crowns

 for a full Sugar Skull look! I'm mostly just exited that in total this all cost $40 for 3 costumes, and I

 now have a floral crown that I will most likely be wearing at some point again, knowing myself. 

Down to the good stuff, I will be adding some stuff to an Etsy store soon enough, let me know

if there is anything you'd like to see.

DIY Floral Crown

DIY BLEACH TANK

First off my apologies for the delay of posts, I've been super duper busy and trying to find time for posts but its much harder than it looks! Anywho, I found time the other day to create a sweet and quick DIY halloween costume of a skeleton. Figure why not continue and use it for a post!

All of the shirts pictured are available for sale at $15 each!

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DIY : BLEACH TANKS

Chalkboard Inspiration

I have a huge huge HUGE love of chalkboard anything really, so as I decide what I would like to chalk up in my home I figured why not seize the opportunity to collect my thoughts and show it to all of you! Here are a few chalkboard inspiration photos that I hope will inspire you on your next DIY endeavor. Or they will inspire your computer to somehow steal your credit card and somehow buy one of these great items, (I know it wasn't you, the computer stole it. It's happened to me too.)

Paint your fridge (I love that its green not black!)

DIY: Mason Jar Lights

Around this time last year I was helping a friend with some holiday goodies. They had to create a DIY gift for a bunch of friends and make several of them. Naturally I jumped at the chance to help out with a craft, especially one of multiple magnitude that would include mason jars. Not too sure what make these little guys so cute, maybe its the fact that they are glass and pint sized (lets not get into my glass bottle obsession just yet) but they are amazing for crafting.

Nevertheless, this was the end result. So I hope you'll enjoy this quick DIY for the holiday. Make them for Halloween! Use orange sparkles to be a little more fall-ish.  Whatever your little heart desires!

Halloweenie Part 2!

WHAT ARE YOU BEING FOR HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR?

Apparently my post from last week was super popular with all you ladies and fellas so here is round two! Some are requests and some are just ideas that I have come up with. My main concern with costumes via halloween is that the main parts of it are re-usable for future fabulous attire and that the accessories are your splurge-eqsue halloween items. I mean come on, it is halloween after all and I know I do love a good zombie makeup fiasco or an excuse to buy a lightsaber because "It's for my halloween outfit I swear." or no excuses are really necessary. So grab your best garb and get your makeup brushes ready because Halloween is just around the corner!

Halloween Costume Ideas

So as I was getting coffee with a friend today I came to the realization that I have no idea what to be for Halloween! I really love to do DIY costumes and have the ability to save the pieces from the outfit and wear them in everyday life afterwards. So I came up with a few ideas, hopefully some you love, let me know! I still have yet to chose an outfit myself, let the halloween gods help me!

so here it goes...

DIY: Hair Bow

Happy Sunday everyone! My last hair DIY seemed to be pretty popular so I may as well add another one! Other than the infamous Lady Gaga sporting a hair bow, I've seen them popping up a bit. They can actually be pretty cute for an every day style and not too hard to do. I'll admit it does take a few tries to get it right but when its done it does dress up your normal routine.
So lets get right to it:

DIY: Painted Buffalo Skull

Happy Thursday everybody! So let me start off by saying that I am incredibly stoked to show you all this little DIY! I was out for a day of thrifting with a friend when we stumbled upon this little gem. He was a little banged up but nothing a little TLC couldn't fix! So we picked him up, brought him home and thus this is where his new life begins, and I mean how could I NOT buy this gem for only $18! So here we go, if you find yourself lucky enough as I to stumble upon a cute little skull gem (yes skulls are cute I swear) than please feel free to follow in my steps and send me your very own photos of painted skeletons! Right in time for Halloween! (hah!)

DIY PAINTED BUFFALO SKULL 

DIY: Braided Crown

So about two years ago I cut my amazing long luscious locks of hair into a short little pixie cut. Super dramatic and awesome (not to mention time saving in the morning!) and it made me feel great! However after about a year went by I started missing having hair to play with and do great things with! Thus decided to buy every bobby pin on the shelves of my local Walmart and play around with a few short hair ideas. This is my most common hairstyle for my now - bob length hair. I get a lot of positive responses about it so I figure why not post a DIY! Enjoy!