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My First Printable!

September 7, 2011 4 Comments
I’ve mentioned it before… A time or two… 
But in case you missed it, Miss Kayli, my baby sister, started to college last month! Whoot!! 

Mr. M and I bought her a new bed set for her graduation gift. 


So I wanted to make her a little something to match her bed set that she could display in her new room. 
I used Microsoft word to create a FUN printable to match her bedding, then saved it as a image file in Paint. 
It features one of her favorite quotes. One that I think is quite befitting a young lady about to start to college, but any young lady in general. 

“Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your once upon a time is now.”
~Deiter F. Uchtdorf


So, if you’d like, please feel free to click on the picture to enlarge, then save to your computer.
*It’s not blurry when you enlarge it FYI! ;)

You can make a lovely for the young lady in YOUR life! 
Courtesy of Truly Lovely! :)

I framed it in one of the frames I made for our wedding. I’ll share those sometime… 
But until now, here’s how it turned out! 


Have a lovely day sweet friends! 


P.S. Today I’m sharing a GUEST POST over at THE IVY COTTAGE BLOG! 
I would LOVE it if you would pop over and say hello!! :)


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Office Art and Wordle

August 24, 2011 4 Comments
Back to prettying up my office space!!
If you missed the first two posts in this series, go here and here.

Before I share the third frame in my office prettying project… 

I’d like to share my recent discovery with you.
Maybe I’m the last one to know, but if not, you’ve gotta check out this cool website called Wordle.

It lets you enter either a paragraph of text, a website/blog/any other url and then makes a word cloud from the most used words within what you provided.

 For example, I made a wordle using the Truly Lovely blog URL.

 COOL, right?
The site chooses the most used words and creates your word cloud.
From there you can customize the colors, shape, and even remove words to make it your own.
Then you can print or share it as you please. :)

A Wordle made from my wedding blog, My Road to Mrs. 

You could frame a custom word cloud to be used as wall art, as a gift, or even to label random items!
I made a Wordle from my work website and framed it in the pink frame I talked about here, to display in my office!

I think I might frame my blog wordles as wall decoration for my craft room! :)
The ideas are endless!!!

*Wordle does not know who I am or care I’m sure… 
This is just a fun idea I found and wanted to share with others. :)

So… Wordle away friends!!!
I would love to hear about what you create!!!
There’s one more post to come in my office pretty-fying series…
Then the reveal of all the projects combined! So stay tuned!

Have a lovely day!

P.S. I’m sharing a Cupcake recipe I just kinda made up ;) over here today!!
Hope you’ll come say hello and check out all the other 
CUPCAKE AWESOME SAUCE!!!

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Pretty Picture Frames

August 10, 2011 14 Comments
In continuing my efforts to pretty up my office space, I decided a few framed photos were in order. 
Not just any old frames would do though… So I whipped up a few pretty picture frames! :)


I purchased two smaller frames and one large 8 X 10 frame from Wal-Mart. Just the cheap $3 ones you see on a rack in the middle of the aisle. 
I also bought some Krylon spray paint in Ballet Slipper and Blue Ocean Breeze. 


I removed the glass from the two smaller frames and sprayed them with the blue paint. First spraying the back and letting it dry overnight, then the fronts. I sprayed the larger frame with the pink color. 

Once the frames were completely dry… Meaning I was actually patient for once and let them completely dry for 24 hours…. I ruffed up the edges with a piece of fine grained sandpaper for a distressed look. 


Because the frames were a dark brown to begin with, it showed through after the sanding and ended up looking really neat! 

Each frame then got either one or two rolled fabric rosettes hot glued on. I used the same fabric I used for the rosette on my chalkboard flower pot, trying to maintain a little cohesiveness. 

Here are the two small blue frames finished and displayed on my office desk!!


Really that poor picture does not do them justice! Let’s try this one… 


Well, you get the idea… ;) AND that’s my Sweetheart Scentsy warmer! 
Did you know in addition to my day job and blogging I also sell Scentsy?!?

The frames are a welcome pop of color in my dull little office cubicle for sure!!!

Check back on Tuesday to see what I did with the larger pink frame!! :)

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Wrapping a gift without tape…

July 5, 2011 7 Comments
My sweet mom and sister, hosted a hometown bridal shower for me a few weekends ago. 
For their hostess gifts I purchased each of them a picture frame. 


A Family frame for my mom. A Sisters frame for Kayli. 

Then, the morning of the shower while getting everything ready to leave I realized… 
I didn’t have any TAPE to wrap their frames!!

Not to worry! There is ANOTHER way. Especially for a crafter in a hurry! :)
Apologies for the poor photo quality. A crafter in a hurry also has no time to get out the camera… 
So phone pics it is! :)

My materials
My method for wrapping a gift without tape calls for…
Pretty tissue paper
Glue stick
Ribbon

All materials a handy crafter will most likely have lying around! 
(Let’s face it though… if you’re that handy, you’ll have remembered to buy tape. ;)

Wrap the gift in the pretty tissue paper like usual. 
Except… Use the glue stick along the inside edge of the paper to adhere it to itself. 
Instead of TAPE obviously. ;)


Make sure you press firmly down over the glued paper to make sure it sticks. 
(Please don’t glue it to your gift…. What? It had to be said… :)


Fold the ends of your tissue paper into two corners and firmly glue those to the main part of the gift as well. 
Again, just like wrapping a gift normally… Except with glue!


Once you’ve finished gluing the wrapping paper, tie up your gift in a pretty, matching ribbon! 
The ribbon helps hold it all together in case any glue happens to come undone. And it looks nice!


I curled the ends of the ribbon with my scissors and viola! 
A lovely wrapped gift… Minus the tape! :)


You can stick a sweet thank you card underneath the bow if you want extra brownie points… 
FYI! :)


P.S. I’m linking this monumental idea  :)  to these fun linky parties!!! 
And many of the others listed on our linky party page! 

Weekend Bloggy Reading
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My First Vinyl on Glass Experience

June 15, 2011
Have you heard of Groupdealz yet? 
If not, you should just go ahead and go sign up. :)
I’ve gotten some great deals on some really fun items through their daily deal email alerts! 

One of my recent purchases was a Wedding Day Subway Art Vinyl Decal, 
a $20 value for ONLY $10!

*My Treehouse Treasures
I ordered my vinyl in black and patiently waited for it in the mail! 
Meanwhile, I bought a floating glass picture frame from Wal-Mart, also in black. 


When the vinyl arrived, I sat down to apply it to the glass… And realized it was a little harder and took a little more patience than I’d thought.
First, peeling of the backing without tearing the intricate lettering took awhile… 
And it was a large sheet, so it was kind of hard to place it on the glass, centered, all at once. 
But I finally managed. :)

Then came the problem of getting it all smoothed out. 
But once it was done… 


I LOVE IT! 
I am planning to use it on  the guest book table or somewhere as a decoration for the wedding… 
But for now it’s sitting on our less than exciting… but hoping to get better mantel. ;)


So… What do you think? Should I include an engagement picture of the mister and I behind the letters?
 I could do one in black and white?
Or leave it as is? 

Thanks to the postponement of the wedding it’s now 25 days away, 
instead of four… 
That means more time for lovely little wedding projects! 
See there is an upside!

Hope you’re having a FABULOUS week! :)  

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