A nice angel diorama with street light. Keeping a natural theme and using only browns, golds and greens this little gal turned out great! The light uses two AA batteries and the housing is hot glued to the back of the diorama.

 

Merry Christmas 2015!

 

Another snowman with a shabbier style!

 

 

This wine cork tray used to be an old print, the print wasn't really anything so the frame was painted and had drawer pulls screwed onto the ends to make a tray. The wine corks were cut in half and contact cement was used to affix them to the glass of the print.

 

 

They didn't line up perfectly but some of the glass was left without cork and painted with chalk paint. You can write anything on it, wine time, wine please, cheese and crackers or any funky saying.

 

Mostly just for display and a good way to reuse some old wine corks. The two pieces together make a nice gift idea!

The wine cork snowman looks really cute with a mini santa hat and instead of mixing green and red, went with blues and red.

The first snowman ornament I made, pretty simple, he's to hang on a wine bottle. A wooden spool used for the hat. Any ribbon colors would work and a fuzzy orange pompom for the nose.

Not an original idea but a nice cheap way to hang some coffee cups at the cottage!
No stencil required, just paint the letters however you like. It's not meant to be perfect.

A Rudolph and Clarice! Some felt on the chest, beads for eyes. Used false eyelashes for Clarice.

These reindeer are getting fancier.....some beads on the antlers look really nice.

Wine cork reindeer. These are so easy to make and any design is possible. You could leave them unpainted. I chose to paint mine with different colors.

Use wooden dowels for the legs and to piece the head to the body. Take a screwdriver and carve a small hole, then use hot glue and shove the dowel in place. You can cut to the length you want beforehand or after. Paint it any color. Do the same with the screwdriver for the antlers.

For antlers I used different plastic branches from flower arrangements but you could just as easily go outside and pick tiny twigs.

Pins for eyes, just cut them down to about a quarter inch or less and push them in. Ribbons and tags can be tied or glued on. Embellish however you like.

Wine cork projects. Tried making a little train. Hot glued the pieces that were cut together and painted them. Added some embellishments and a tag. Turned out ok. Hot glue is tricky to use with cork, it doesn't always stick well. The cork usually has to be cleaned or shaved off a bit to get rid of the outside layer in order to stick better.

Pallet sign for entranceway or laundry room.

Funny pallet art for the wine drinker

A simple plastic dollhouse can be painted and turned into a creepy Halloween house for your mantle!
Sometimes you can find these at Value Village for about  bucks.

There is a set of orange string lights glued onto the inside as well as lots of embellishments. Spider web, insects, skeletons, pumpkins etc etc....once the inside was done, the house was permanently glued shut and affixed to a wooden base.
Misc outdoor branches glued to the base to resemble trees. You could do anything to make it look like it's spooky. I like the spider web through the branches.

An extension cord to turn on the lights and voila!

Found these used grape crates on the side of the road, they had old labels on them however they were moldy. So ripped them off, cleaned them, printed out these labels from the internet and mod podged them on. They turned out terrific and the 3 stacked together make a great display item! Gotta love free stuff!!   

This is the last pallet art for now. Going to start to work on Christmas projects. There's one more Halloween project coming up too. 
This image was mod podged onto the boards and stenciled lettering in turquoise.

Back in May 2015 my cat died from cancer. Her name was Io. She was beautiful and my daughter painted her picture. I think she did a wonderful job. I had to put it on the blog.

A dollar store birdhouse turned into a Halloween tree house! Most items are free from the forest! With some skeletons from Michaels and misc craft from the dollar store I think this turned out awesome. A tealight will be added to the back to give a nice glow inside the house.

Absolutely love Beauty and the Beast and really enjoyed making this night light!

Lego night light.

Nautical designs are my favorite. Should just stick to them.

Discovering mod podge even though it's existed forever is a new fun challenge. I love the old movie poster and going to be working on many more. Making it not perfect gives it an old vintage feeling.

Bradley had this idea for an SS. Minnow sign. Hanging it with nautical rope finished the look.

Next moved on to fishing signs

The colors on this one turned out well together. And using rusty old nails for hooks created a vintage look.

So Bradley and I started making some signs using pallet boards. A great cheap way to create unique art in your own style. All we did was glue the boards together with wood glue, paint them in either acrylic or latex paint. Using stencils you can create anything.
The first one we did was the mermaid. It's not perfect but it's just the beginning.

Paper cut mermaid, vintage style, sits on a clam shell nicely. If you layer the ocean cut outs in the background, you get a nice underwater glow. This mermaid was found doing a google image search and same for the bath sign.

How inspirational to have advice from a mermaid to read everyday!
Beautiful red head mermaid is paper cut against a deep blue sea. Painted background.
Simple design yet beautiful.

It's fun to make a themed night light in any style you choose.
You will need:

A cardboard craft box approx 5x5 or smaller
Plastic window (can be table cover cut to shape)
Hot glue
Paper cutouts (mermaid, treasure chest, or any other design)
Craft sea grass, shells
Paper flowers
Pompom ribbon
Acrylic paint
Sparkle paper
LED night light
jute ribbon

For each night light it is the cutting and gluing of all the parts that can be tricky. The easy part is embellishing in your own style.
I will post a tutorial on how to attach the plastic window and the LED light and how to create depth for the paper cutouts inside and how to affix everything so that it does not fall apart.
These night lights handled carefully will last forever.
You can make them as simple or as elaborate as you choose and have fun with any theme!

A bit of glare with my camera but this lights up really nicely.

Hello Kitty is light plastic and hollow, her companion is a paper cut out along with a row of colorful paper trees and houses in the background to make it funky and fun.

This is a simpler and easier to make design. Just a lot of pink kitty fun!