Cirlces.. oh circles...

While I was looking through Pier1.com, I found this beautiful hand painted wall decor. I immediately fell in love with it. I love the shapes, patterns and colors. This would look great in my living room!

I really liked how the shape of the decoration looked. Circles oh circles! They look lovely! Knowing that my craft room still needs wall decor, a light bulb went on!
Ting!!!!
I said to myself, I need to figure out a way to have a similar decoration for my room for less than $15. I thought, and I thought. And thought some more! Then all of a sudden it came to me! Embroidery hoops are round and Hobby Lobby sells fabric! So I drove to Hobby Lobby, saw that the fabric was on sale and purchased a few embroidery hoops. The final project is great! I love it! My room is looking better every day! Here is a quick tutorial of how to do these beautiful decorations.

Materials Needed:

Different sizes of embroidery hoops
Acrylic paint
Foam brush
Different patterns of fabric
Scissors
Glue gun

1. Paint the outside hoop. Let dry. Pick a color that will contrast the wall color.
I painted my hoops white, and they look great against the brown wall.

2. Cut a piece of fabric a little larger than the hoops. Join both hoops together. Tighten the hoop screw. ( I dont know how you call it )

3. Cut around the fabric leaving around 1/4 in.

4. Here I have all my hoops ready to be completed.

5. The piece of fabric you left will be glued to the inside hoop. The easiest way is to use a glue gun.

Here is the final project! Don't you just love these! In this picture, the walls look a little lighter. The white hoop makes a huge difference. Its nice that while I am blogging I am also looking at my beautiful art that inspires me. Its a simple project, inexpensive and beautiful! I dare you to try it! :) Enjoy!

The winner is....

Drumroll please.......

The winner is

Amy @ Tj, Amy and Ava Pugmire

CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway! Many more to come so check back soon!

Dont forget to sign up for my hair bow holder giveaway!

Hair Bow Holder Giveaway

Square Scalloped Punch

It had been a while I wanted these giant square scalloped punches. I finally got them and I love them! Have you used these before? If you have them, please share how you've used them. I would love to see!

I made these cute cupcake toppers using my punches. I listed them on my etsy shop, So Lovely Creations and I had my first cupcake toppers sale yesterday. Andrea is organizing a bridal shower for this weekend and she ordered these toppers. Bridal shower colors are brown and pink, so these were perfect. Are these cute or what? They are hand stamped and I could do them any colors! Sale going on now, 15 toppers for $7.

I googled square scalloped punch and tons of ideas came up using these punches. I really like this idea. These are Monogram Favor Boxes.
They could also be used as an envelope sealer.

This is a card that was made using these square punches. Isn't this a cute card?

Card

Please share your ideas!

Simple Project

I have been busy with custom orders, good thing! :) There are a couple of things I want to share with you today. First of all, thank you so much for your great comments. I have been receiving emails and comments every day! It makes me very happy!

Also, I won a blog makeover from Shabby Pumpkin! Its all great news today. I entered a giveaway she was having for Shabby Pumpkin's Grand Opening and I won! So girls, come back soon and check out the new So Lovely Creations blog!

Please check out Mandy @ Shabby Pumpkin! She also creates digital cards and photography! Her designs are awesome!

She designed Mandi's blog @ Miss (es) Canadian Pie
I love Mandi's blog! You cant go wrong with pink and brown!

Quick and easy project I want to share with you today. I've been trying to use some of the things I have at home to create beautiful pieces. A while back, I found these unfinished wooden candle holders at Michaels for .50 each. The round wooden plaque I bought it at Walmart for $1.12. It was originally going to be a bow holder, but never used it.

This is a really easy project and it turns out really cute! I used my glue gun ( i love you glue gun!) to glue the wooden plaque on top of the candle holder. I then spray painted the piece white. Let it dry and ta-da! You are done! Now, wasn't this easy? It doesn't get easier than this girls. I made this to hold a bigger candle I had, but I played around using different objects.

I think I might use this to bring life to my fruit bowl! This looks like one expensive decoration, but its not! I bought the bowl at the Dollar Store and it looks like a glass bowl but its plastic. I know, incredible! This total project was only $2.50. What a deal! Just lovely!

I tried as a plant holder.

I tried it as a candle holder. But at last, I decided I liked it best with the fruit bowl holder. I dare you to try this project! So easy, inexpensive and cute! Have a great day!

Button with a scroll box

Check this out! I finally have my own button! Please copy code and add to your blog if you'd like!
I found a short and easy tutorial on how to create your button with a scroll box.

Button with a scroll box tutorial

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Canvas Picture Frame Art

Thanks to Chrissy, I created this beautiful canvas picture frame. I love the way it turned out. I had to display one of my best wedding pictures. It was taken towards the end of our day. We each had huge sparklers and our photographer had the greatest idea. We had to try to make a heart with the sparklers. It was a little hard since my husband is really tall. His side was always too high. Our photographer caught this picture and its great! I love that the picture is black & white and a little blurry. Tawnya is the best photographer ever!

Canvas picture frame art now in my etsy shop!

So Lovely Creations

Shabby Block and a prayer

So, what do you think? Ive seen some of these initial blocks on etsy, but I never found a block I had in mind. So I decided to make one myself. It takes a while because I cut the wood, sand, prime, paint, decoupage, let it dry in between coats and paint again. Plus I have to finish with a coat of varnish for the final touch. I think it turned out great though! All that time was worth it! I am thinking this could be great to give as gifts! They really look wonderful! I love the wrinkly look! I post this block on etsy, hopefully I could sell some.

One little thing before I finish this post. Just wanted to ask for your prayers. I haven't worked as much as I would like to. Work is a little slow. I just received an email saying they are lowering our pay due to economic crisis! Its not much, but does make a difference. I still have no insurance. I love my job, but I am working less and less. I only worked 2 days this week :( where normally I worked all 5 days. Please, if you can, please pray for me that my job gets a little better. It makes me so sad watching the news of families who lost their homes, their jobs, people who are committing suicide because they cant keep up. Its hard. Its emotional. We have to be strong, and pray that everything will be all right. I pray every day that everything will get better.

God listened to my prayers last week! I was praying to sell some of the things I do to cover at least one of the days I didn't work and I had 6 orders! Wow! That was great! God is so good! Hopefully I could sell some more stuff!

Thank you girls! I really appreciate your nice comments! They make my day! :)

Have a great day!

Milk Glass

Love it or hate it? I personally love it! I bought these beautiful pieces at an antique store today. I didn't know milk glass could be so expensive! I have my eye on a beautiful milk glass bowl but its $110! Thats a little too much for me. I don't get paid that much too afford a $110 bowl. :) But its beautiful and I want it! Hopefully they could put it on sale soon! Cross fingers!


I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy these. All of our decoration in our home have normally dark colors. I didn't know if they would go well together. White does go with everything, doesn't it? Well I tried dressing up my entry way table with the milk glass decorations and it looks funny. Maybe because I am not use to having white decorations in my home. Spring is just around the corner and I want it to have a "spring-e" feel ( I know, made up word). Fall is over and so is winter! I want to incorporate more lighter colors this spring. So, what do you think about the new "spring-e" look? I am thinking of buying a antique white lamp and replace it with the darker one. Does it look ok? To tell you the truth, I like how it looks in person, but when I saw the pictures I did not like them at all. Should I replace all of the darker decorations in the table with lighter ones? Should I just keep the old decorations? I never thought it would be so hard to dress up an entry table! Leave comments, be honest I wont get upset promise! All comments appreciated! Also, if you own milk glass decoration, I would love to see how you use them to decorate in your home!
Thanks!


BEFORE

AFTER

Hayden's Home

Meet the Hayden's :)

Katie was my mentor teacher during student teaching (1st grade). She is an awesome teacher and I learned so much the semester I was in her classroom. She is a very kind, sweet, fun person and I am grateful I met her.

I want to share with you some pictures of their home. I love their home! They have a great way of decorating. The colors are great, decorations are beautiful everything just looks perfect. I really like the open floor plan. I wish I had that in my house. In our home, there is a wall that divides the kitchen from the living room. Future plans are, bringing down that wall or even buy a new house! Who knows! Another thing I love about their kitchen is the granite countertops. They look beautiful! So, what do you think? Enjoy!

I've been busy...

Making these cute custom wooden peg hangers......

This cute hair bow holder...

and this cute frame! I am currently working on two more projects. These items have been created and shipped. I still need to finish and ship two more custom orders! :)

Good News

First, I have received 3 awards! :) This makes me so happy!

Second, I have joined the gym! :)

I really enjoy all the comments you write! Thank you so much! Everyone has been really sweet and kind! It makes me want to blog more!

I received this Kreativ Blogger award from TBerri @ The Four Frugal Scarbarys. Thank you so much!

Here are the award rules:
List 7 things that you love and then pass the award to 7 bloggers. Be sure to tag them and let them know they have won. You can copy the picture of the award and put it on your sideboard letting the whole world know- you are KREATIV!


7 things I love:

1. I love Jesus
   
2. Husband
3. Family
   
4. Traveling
5. Being Crafty
6. Blogging
7. My Job

7 of my favorite blogs I'd like to pass this award on to:

1. Living Life Patino Style
2. The Maisy Report
3. The Nesting Place
4. 320 Sycamore
5. Be different act normal
6. Little April Big World
7. Miss(es) Canadian Pie

Thanks!


I received this award from Steph @ Southern Fairy Designs. Thanks!

Now I have to pass it on to 10 people who do inspiring projects/work and generally make me smile and laugh.... so in no particular order at all...

1. Cottage Style
2. Katie
3. Oh So Fabulous
4. Rachel
5. Dawn
6. Kim
7. Trina
8. Shay
9. Chrissy
10. Lyndsie

This last award I received from Shay @ Everyday Moments. Thanks!

The friendship award rules.
These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find friends and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships will be propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to five bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly- written text into the body of their award.

1. Kimberly
2. Peace Love Applesauce
3. Stacey
4. Krista
5. Kelly

Thanks to all of your comments and kind words! :) Much appreciated

Hair Bow Holder Giveaway

This was a custom order I made yesterday. I loved it so much I am giving one away today! I love giveaways so I am having one today!

All you have to do is:
leave a comment telling me, what two colors you would choose if you won this item

and

link :)

A winner will be chosen March 16th!
Good Luck
Thanks!

So Lovely Creations