Headbands

As a gift for Valentine's day for my niece, I decided to use ribbon and flowers, most I had already had from making the bows for her baby sister, and added them to simple headbands. I think they turned out pretty cute!

 

Frames and Bookmarks

I neglected to post a couple of other gifts I have made a while ago. Below is another picture frame for a baby gift. This one was for a "future Vol" if you couldn't tell from all of the orange and white!

These are some little bookmarks I made with ribbon and paperclips. A little more difficult than they looked in the pictures in Pinterest, but still turned out cute.

 

In a Jar

For Christmas gifts this year I was inspired by a blogger who put together "Everything in a Jar" gifts. I went through my gift list and tailored jars to fit. It was fun to go with the themes and try to find things small enough to fit in jars.


Here are the jars I ended up creating:

Pampering in a Jar

Refreshment in a Jar

Golf in a Jar

Outdoors in a Jar

Winter in a Jar

Summer in a Jar

My Favorite Things in a Jar

Christmas Frames

One of my winter crafts involved putting together some holiday picture frames. The theme was 1950s and pink, so this is what I came up with.

New Picture Frame

I feel like it's been forever since I have actually been crafty. However, I have had some projects here and there and am finally getting around to posting again. 

Recently, a co-worker and friend moved back to Nebraska. In honor of her time at UT and the University of Nebraska, I made this frame for her. 

I think it turned out pretty cute and hope she can look at us and fondly remember her time at UT (or be glad she's gone). Either way!

I have more frames in the works so I will have more to post soon!

Home Decor

It's been a while, but I am FINALLY posting some of the crafts I have been up to since moving in to the new place.

Before & After

Dressers

This used to be an unfinished pressed board dresser. I used White gloss paint and grey on the top to match the taller dresser. I also replace the knobs with glass ones.

I painted this a dark grey to go with the curtains. I think this is at least the 4th color this dresser has been!

Wall Art

I used canvases glued fabric with a hot glue gun around the edges.

New Office! (kinda)

I have been lucky enough lately to not only get a promotion but to have some construction done to my office to make it a little more use friendly. I was motivated to make some new things to spruce it up a little too.

Frames/Prints
I was inspired by a blog I saw that had a cute frame and a PDF you could print of a quote. It seemed like an easy enough DIY project.

I bought some frames at Goodwill (I forgot to take a complete before picture!) The frames were all different, some were wood, metal, gold, etc. I used black spray paint to make sure they all had that in common but really liked the different textures and sizes.

 
I then created the prints in Photoshop with fun background patterns and quotes that were career related (without being too cheesy!)

Desk Organizer:
I also bought a plain wooden desk organizer that I painted white and lime green:

 

The final results of the pictures will be posted soon!