Creatively Living Blog

 That’s right, SIX instead of 5 blogs! Here’s the deal, we decided it would be FUN to add a 6th rotating hostess to the Monday Funday crew! That’s 6x the exposure! So, ONE crafty link party extravaganza will happen on SIX blogs. Plus, each week one of us will choose projects to feature on all six blogs. We will also be sharing links throughout the week on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can follow the Monday Funday party tweets at #MondayFundayParty!

 In other news:

House Decor DIY’s

 3. Fairy Garden by Silo Hill Farms

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Hey everyone,

It’s funny…now that I’ve been blogging a bit less, I miss you all. When I write, it’s like writing to friends that I haven’t shared with in while.

Strange and a little sappy, I know, but I enjoy sharing my “lots of kids/DIY crazy life” with all of you!

So leave a comment, or follow me along on FB.  I’ve taken a bit of a blogging “slow-down period” for the past couple months (if you haven’t noticed), but it’s time to get back to projects, projects, projects.

We are in escrow on a 107 yr old fixer, and I haven’t shared much about, but once things are a little more finalized, I’ll post about it!

As you know, my mind reals about colors, patterns, furniture placement…and a zillion other details that I’m excited to brainstorm with you!

But for now….

Here’s a Happy Little Spring Vignette that I threw together the other day.

My projects currently need to be from things I already have, so they are low-cost and usually simple.

I started with cutting a piece of material to bring in some color and draped it over the burlap I currently had there.

Then I used put some colorful tulips in a blue mason jar. There’s just something about bright tulips that I LOVE.

I used a couple books I had around and my butterfly cage for the other side.

…and that was it. Simple and easy, but makes the house feel like spring. You can see my other spring vignette in the background.

I hope the weather is getting warmer where you are!

Hi everyone!

It’s time to link-up all your awesome projects and to be inspired by all the creativity that’s other’s have been doing!

We’ve had a busy week. I’ve was in single mom mode while the hubs was away on army duty all week. I realize just how many activities and classes the kids are signed up for when I have to run them to everything myself!

I can also FINALLY share that we will be moving to Spokane WA!

John will be taking a job at a church in the south hill area and we are excited to see what God has in store for us up there!

We are in escrow on a house up there, but I’ll share more about that later.

So link-up! Give me some great ideas to work on this next week!

• Please link to a specific post on your blog.
• We’d love for you to pin the features, but please click through to the tutorial and pin from the original source!
• By linking up to to Monday Funday you are giving the 6 blogs, listed above, the right to feature one of your photos on all of our SM outlets and blogs.
• Click on lots of links and leave some comment love on posts you adore! That puts the FUN in Monday Funday!

Hey everyone!

Do you remember last spring when I added some jute to some old wine bottles and ended up with my Wine Jugs and Jute vases?

I have used the vases through the seasons switching out flowers for twigs and leaves in the fall and pine branches in the winter.

Well, it’s spring again and I’ve teamed up with other Hometalk bloggers to bring you some fantastic re-purposed wine bottle projects!

You can see all the different projects on my Hometalk clipboard for Re-purposed Wine Bottle Ideas!

So what is Hometalk?

Hometalk is a community of home owners, renters and pros, sharing and helping  with home and gardening. Most of the DIY home and garden bloggers I know are part of Hometalk. Probably most of the ones you know are too!

So check out Hometalk for some great tutorials and DIY ideas. You can even ask questions!

You can follow my personal projects on Hometalk and check out so many other’s DIY home and garden ideas!

I hope you’re all having a great week!

Hey everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and a great week that followed!

We have been busy traveling this week!

I’m ready to stay put for awhile and get caught up.

It’s also time for me to finish setting up for Spring around here, so inspire me with some of your great projects!

Every Monday you can link up your crafts / DIY Ideas / recipes to not just one, but FIVE SIX awesome blogs:

C.R.A.F.T. // Lines Across // Uncommon Designs // That’s What Che Said // Creatively Living//

& our newest co-host:

Finding Home

That’s right, SIX instead of 5 blogs! Here’s the deal, we decided it would be FUN to add a 6th rotating hostess to the Monday Funday crew! That’s 6x the exposure! So, ONE crafty link party extravaganza will happen on SIX blogs. Plus, each week one of us will choose projects to feature on all six blogs. We will also be sharing links throughout the week on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can follow the Monday Funday party tweets at #MondayFundayParty!

This week, Jamie from C.R.A.F.T. had the super tough job of picking out the features! Meet Jamie:

Follow C.R.A.F.T. on Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Google +| Instagram

Check out all of the creativity from the Monday Funday party 2 weeks ago!

Garden Hose Wreath/ Dots Wreath/ Egg Carton Wreath

Monster drinks/ Chick cupcakes/ Hostess cupcakes/ Lamb cupcakes

Veggie centerpiece/ Carrot filled vases/ Basketball with cuties/ Chalkboard vase/ Fruit loop vase

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@thecraftblog // @linesacross // @uncommondesigns // @chesayscheryl // @katiegoldsworth // @LPatFindingHome

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A Few Things to Remember:

• Please link to a specific post on your blog.
• We’d love for you to pin the features, but please click through to the tutorial and pin from the original source!
• By linking up to to Monday Funday you are giving the 6 blogs, listed above, the right to feature one of your photos on all of our SM outlets and blogs.
• Click on lots of links and leave some comment love on posts you adore! That puts the FUN in Monday Funday!

Ready, set, link up!

I had wanted a bird cage for the spring, and just my luck, I found this old rusty one at a friend’s yardsale a couple weeks ago.

She is super generous, so it only set me back 3 buckeroos!

Here it is after a little white spray paint. I didn’t want to do much to it, but it was a little dirty and rusty.

I had to put something inside that would fit through the little door.

So I placed some moss, rocks and a moss covered branch in the cage.

…and this dollar butterfly from Micheals.

I love how it turned out.

I think butterflies are so whimsical.

I also picked up the COOLEST vintage fan….but we’ll save that for a summer post!

Hope your week is going great!

 36th Avenue Printable

Happy Easter everyone!

I pray your day has been a good one. Filled with friends, family and LOTS of good food!

I am blessed to have a lot of fun family that I live by.

Today I ate too much good food, visited with a lot of family, and my favorite thing was our annual adult Easter Egg hunt!

Um, ya…I’m the weird one using my bag as a hat.

Sad to say, my team came in last,…but all because my husband only found two eggs!

(If you don’t do Easter egg hunts for your children when they are young, know you are doing them a dis-service for adult Easter egg hunts in the future!)

Here are four of my six cousins, and their spouses/boyfriend.

My dad and uncle still farm together and each had three children, so we grew up down the road from our cousins, who became some of our best friends. I love and greatly respect all of them and their spouses. Makes for some good holidays!

Hope you all had a blessed Easter!

I am so unbelievably thankful for a Savior who would have died just for me,

…who cares about my every move.

Who loves me more than I can imagine.

I’m so thankful someone who is big enough to create the universe thinks of me and loves me so much.

It’s truly not understandable or deserved.

Well, I have a week of yard work coming up! I know, we really go all out for spring break!

I’ll try to fit in a couple of spring type posts.

Hope it’s warming up where you are!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running around like crazy! Travel, job probabilities for the hubs,  in and out of escrows, and the list goes on…

hence the lack of posting lately.

I’m so excited to tell you some of my plans, but they have literally been changing every week…sometimes 2-3 times/week.

So I’ll wait. Wait until I have some sure answers. But for now….here is an awesome vintage necklace remake that my sister did.

I photographed it when she came to visit. She is super creative and makes GREAT stuff…..if I could only talk her into blogging.

My grandma gave this broken vintage necklace to my sister, since she figured she could do something with it.

…and boy could she!

We’ve all seen ribbon tied necklaces lately and adding a ribbon to an existing necklace can add the perfect punch of spring color!

My sister didn’t have any ribbon that she liked at the time, but she spotted some on a gift bag and swiped it for her necklace remake…oh so clever!

The ends of this necklace mid-piece had loops, so all she had to do was pull the ribbon through the loop, then she used a needle and thread to stitch the ribbon together into place.

Here you can see the loop on the end that she pulled the ribbon through.

…and that was all it took to make a vintage necklace into something modern and beautiful!

I love that she was able to reuse it!

Do you have any old jewelry around that needs to be updated?