Goodwill had some Goods

Usually our Goodwill has nasty early 90's crap that noone wants - not the cool vintage stuff that everyone else seems to find.
Last week, I got lucky and found this little gem for $3


I found a super cute HandyMan to help me paint


And it ended up looking like this

I took some leftover hydrangeas from my wreath and stuffed them in my candy jar with some marbles.

I LOVE IT

Front Door Wreath

I needed to buy a wreath.
I went to Goodwill and bought this *beauty*

(they actually wanted me to pay full price for it - did they think I wanted it for its beauty? #1 we all know my christmas colors are turquoise, purple, lime green and hot pink #2 are you kidding me? this thing is hideous)

I was kinda scared to take all the ribbon off the wreath, afraid that some bugs would come crawling out - but I braved it and it worked out lovely.

I paid $1 for this wreath and the Michael's price tag is still on it for $2.29
I forgot this ribbon makes your hands turn red


I decided to use the material I used for my grocery bag holder because I seriously love it and it matched my flowers perfectly

This little girl kept getting in my way


I cut strips of the fabric -freehanded, no measuring, that's why they're crooked but it doesn't matter because no one will be able to see


I took the strips and wrapped them around the wreath using quilting pins



It then looked like this


I then zigzaged tulle around (holding in place by the quilting pins) like WHIMSI KEL says to.

But obviously it needed some more love so I hot-glued on some geraniums


I added some organza ribbon wrapped around where the tulle was


The kids kept stealing my flowers and when Jax would bring them back he'd say "here you go your magesty"


Here it is hanging on my door. I seriously love it



But I think I might need some brighter colors for summer (this will probably be my spring wreath)

Twirly Flower hairpiece

I love wearing hair accesories just as much as I love putting them in MZ's hair.
Sunday we all wore pink and brown and my dress was mainly brown. I needed a hair accesories that would make me and MZ match a little better.
I came up with this.
Price (FREE - obviously - I made it an hour before church started) Tulle and ribbon was leftover from my sister's baby shower and the button is from Momma B



Here's MZ's two little flowers

Burlap Curtains

Whoever thought of Burlap curtains was a genius - oh yeah, that was Jen at Tatertots and Jello... AH-MAZING
So of course since I hardly have any imagination, I very sweetly stole her idea and made some myself during General Conference. I LOVE the way they look and they really bring my kitchen and living room together.

Baby Shower Gift

I needed a homemade baby gift at the last minute (that's what happens when you don't plan ahead)
I found THIS tutorial on making a hooded towel and I just added ribbon to it (because that's what my friend Keri did)

Too many bags

I have WAY too many grocery bags under the sink in the kitchen. But I have to keep them because I mostly use them for stinky diapers before I put them in the big trashcan outside. The other day I saw a grocery bag holder and wanted to buy it but that little voice said "don't do it Mary Beth". THANK YOU for the little voice because I thought to myself today - "I bet I can make one myself" so I googled a tutorial and found that Ashley from Make It and Love It had one. Why didn't I know that? I love that blog and I didn't even think to look their first. Shame on me for wasting time!
So here's what became of the grocery bags. I LOVE IT

(yes I wanted to do a cutesy multi material one like the tutorial suggested but I didn't have enough coordinating fabrics, so I had to deal with what I had and it still worked out nicely and you can't beat FREE.

FAB fabric Flower

I LOVE finding new craft blogs with creative people so I can use their ideas and create precious things for my kids
MZ loves her some Fancy Nancy and I found a VERY Fancy Nancy that is so fabulous (that's fancy for cool)
She had this amazing tutorial on how to make fabric flowers.
I followed and came up with this

Price - $0 (fabric was given to me by my mom and the button was, of course, Momma B's)
Time - 5 minutes, if that - SO easy
(of course I didn't have a bunch of fabulous material like she did, but I used scraps from material that I'm making a dress for MZ out of)