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Build Your Own Bathroom Storage

If you have seen any of my wood working posts, you probably know that I love the Shanty 2 Chic girls. They know their way around some power tools, and they come up with great, stylish, functional and DO-able projects to share with us. In my new home, I am in desperate need of some bathroom storage, and their DIY bathroom shelf is calling my name. I love how easy it is, and that it makes use of vertical space.

I am going to place mine where the birds now reside! If you have never braved a building project, this one is a great one to start.

Check out my other woodworking projects for more ideas:

Hand Stamped Leather Bracelet Love

by Johnnie Collier

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Creative bloggers are pretty much just rad, if I do say so myself. In August, I had the opportunity to gather with my people in Atlanta at a blogging conference (not a clogging conference, as my friend Rick misunderstood, although that could be interesting too). That is where I met Daune from Cottage in the Oaks. I was admiring a beautiful leather cuff bracelet she was rockin’, and I found out, not surprisingly, that she had made it herself. How cool would it be to have one with my blog name on it, I expressed. Guess what came in the mail!!

I love that it came with lavender in the package! My favorite scent. The bracelet is gorgeous. You can order your own custom text bracelet from Daune, or pick one that speaks to you in her Etsy Shop.

What. You are a DIYer and you wanna make your own? Little Blue Boo has a great DIY hand stamped leather cuff bracelet tutorial:

For more DIY bracelet tutorials, visit our 50+ Bracelets to Make:

Watch my Dogs Devour ALPO® Chop House Chucks

by Johnnie Collier

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ALPO® Brand Dog Food for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

ALPO® Dog Food

Recently, I shared with you some facts you can find on ALPO'S HOMEPAGE. Some of the points I shared are that it provides high quality protein, essential vitamins and minerals and all the nutritional requirements for health and longevity. ALPO® demands high quality, safety and manufacturing standartds from the suppliers of each of their ingredients. When you treat your dogs their line, you can rest assured that they are getting what they need good nutrtition for a healthy coat, strong bones and a happy life.

My crazy Jack Russell, Bovie, and his "big boned" brother, Ripley, were lucky enough to have a chance to sample ALPO® Chop House T Bone Steak Flavor in Gourmet Gravy. I just had to get the experience on video, and I must say it is pretty entertaining. Watch as the overweight Beagle helps his slower eating brother, and his denial that the food is all gone at the end of the video! Tails wagging, bowls clean as can be after all is said and done, it is clear that this nutritious food is a hit here in our home.

ALPO wet dog food certainly brought excitement during that mealtime, and delivers great taste, nutrition and variety. Visit them on ALPO’s Facebook Page for product updates!

Recycled Tin Can Halloween Treat Holders

by Johnnie Collier

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If you need a Halloween party favor that is easy to make and eco-friendly, this recycled mummy can craft from HGTV is just the project. What a cute use of what would become trash. All you need are a few supplies and not much time!

For more Recycled Tin Can Crafts:

Repurposes Mattress Spring to Wedding Polaroid Display

by Johnnie Collier

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Repurposed vintage pieces are add a beautiful element to wedding decor. A little outside of the box thinking goes a long way towards achieving elegance and charm. This rusty old mattress spring my friend used in her son’s wedding does just that. Guests were given Polaroid cameras to snap photos of the event, which they then clipped to the spring with clothespins! Easy, interactive, unique, lovely and personal… what is better than that?!

50+ Creative Pegboard DIY Ideas

by Johnnie Collier

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Pegboards are not just for the garage! They can be used to create great organization in any room, as art, and to add interest and function to your home decor. Today I am excited to share with you 50+ of my favortie DIY pegboard projects from around the web. Enjoy!

Halloween Party Decor with FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam

by Johnnie Collier

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*NOTE: I recieved product and compensation for this project. All opinions are mine and honest.

With just a month until Halloween, it is time to get down with some creepy decor. Today I am going to show you how to do just that with a little help from Make it Fun: Crafts. Using Design It:® Simple Style® Decorative Mesh and Burlap with FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam we will create a festive orange rosette wreath, perfect for your Halloween festivities!

SUPPLIES:

Design It:® Simple Style® Decorative Mesh

Design It:® Simple Style® Burlap Garland

FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Sheet

FloraCraft® Make It: Fun® Foam Cutter

Black wired ribbon or burlap

Hot glue gun

TUTORIAL:

I cut my wreath form from a sheet of foam using the foam cutter (which you can find on the Make it Fun website linked above). You could also just use a precut wreath form.

Trace the donut shape onto the foam sheet. I used two foam circles, one small and one big, for my “donut”. You could use a plate or other round object.

Cut along the outlines with your Styro Cutter Plus®, like I showed you in my faux pallet flag post.

Wrap your wreath with the burlap garland. This is to have brown instead of stark white showing through in any gaps that may remain after rosettes are added, as well as to give hot glue something to adhere to.

Once entirely wrapped, cut burlap from roll and hot glue in place on back of wreath.

Cut a 1.5 inch strip of orange Deco Mesh about 10 inches long. Twist into spiral shape from center towards the outside to make the rosette.

Hot glue rosettes onto wreath form until it is covered.

Hot glue black wire ribbon or burlap to the back and secure on nail to hang.

There are tons of ways to use these products in y0ur fall decor. Make sure to visit Crafts n’ Coffee to stay up to date on products and project ideas!

DIY Jewelry Display from Repurposed Vintage Grater

by Johnnie Collier

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I am always on the look out for interesting jewelry display ideas. While out junking with the ladies, I spied this cheese grater, all rusty like I like it. Immediately “earring holder” came to mind. Not because I am a creative genius, but because in my Pinterest browsing I have seen just that – a cheese grater earring holder. This is the easiest project I have ever done.

I bought the thing for $3, brought it home and removed the tag with Goo Gone Sticker Lifter. You just apply the liquid, wait 2 minutes and scrape away the sticky.

Make Paper Mason Jar Garland

by Johnnie Collier

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Mason jar crafts have become a phenomenon over the past 2 years, to say the very least. I, for one, am a huge fan of incorporating them into my home decor whenever possible. You combine mason jars with my papercrafting obsession, and it is almost more excitement than a blogger like me can withstand. Well, those two worlds collided for me in this Sizzix Canning Jars Die by Eileen Hull. Today I am sharing how I used it on some recycled cardboard and fall patterned scrapbook paper to make this fun garland adorning my headboard.

I told you about Eileen Hull’s Picket Fence Sizzix line a few months back, and am having as much fun with it as I predicted I would!

For this project, you will need:

Eileen’s Sizzix Canning Jars, 3-D

Fall or other patterned scrapbook paper; I used Recollections Harvest Delight

Corrugated Cardboard

Paper Cement

Jute or other twine

Mini Clothespins

Tim Holtz Distress paint Silver

Ranger Distress Ink Vintage Photo

3D foam adhesive squares

TUTORIAL:

Die Cut the larger jars out of paper and cardboard

Adhere paper to cardboard with Paper Cement or favorite adhesive

Cut tops out of corrugated cardboard and adhere to jars with 3D foam squares

Paint tops with silver distress paint, or leave as they are. they look cool either way!

Ink edges with distress ink on foam applicator and attach to twine with clothespins.

I love my garland, and have several more projects in mind for this die alone. Make sure you visit Eileen at her blog for tons of inspiration! You will want to set aside a chunk of time and be ready to watch your creative project to do list grow!

Easy No Carve Pumpkin Decor

by Johnnie Collier

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If you want a quick, easy, no carve way to decorate your pumpkins, Martha Stewart Pumpkin Sleeves are a great solution. They come in a pack of three and take 2 minutes to put on the pumpkin. I love the lacy look, and the cute skulls and spiders with webs. There is a drawstring at the top to cinch everything up around the pumpkin stem for that nice, finished Martha look!