DIY - I've come down with a case of Crafty.

So I got bit...no consumed by the crafty DIY bug. I'm completely infected and I don't believe that there is a cure known to man. And I'm good with that. If being crafty is wrong..I don't want to be right!

I've recently become a bit obsessed with Pintrest's DIY organization and Home Decor projects. Now let me start by saying that I have done things here and there before but never have I been so utterly fanatic about them as I am now.

I started with a little project that I saw called a Ribbon Memo Board - Check out the tutorial here at Momtastic.

Hers looked like this and was attached to the inside of a cabinet door.

It sounded easy to make and would clear up my kitchen counter of all the unorganized coupons, mail and other papers that I have stacked there taking up space. So I followed the directions and made my own! I had my girl Andi come over and she made one too.

I attached mine to the side of my pantry. The foam board that I bought was too big for the inside of my cabinet door and I was too lazy to cut it down to size. So here it is and it was really easy! Since it was so easy I decided to take on some other projects to re-decorate the Doodle's room. (I really shouldn't  say re-decorate as we never actually decorated it in the first place.)

Fabric - $4.38
Ribbons - (on sale 50% off)  $9.52
Foam board (2) - $5
Spray adhesive - $4
Duct Tape - $4

Total cost - $26.90 - that's $13.45 each. I actually had some of these things on hand so it was cheaper than buying everything needed.

I got another idea from Sugar and Charm for these painted vases...

 

I bought some old vases from a thrift store nearby for about .50 each. Went to the craft store and bought enamel paints. then I set to work...

 

 

When we painted these it was difficult to get a good coverage using a brush, it was leaving brush strokes that you could see through the glass. I found that using a foam brush to dab worked much better. On one vase I used a metallic (for some reason the metallics are much thinner) I poured the paint into the vase and then just rolled the vase around to cover the inside - This by far gave me the greatest results. I let them dry over night and then put them into my kiln (The oven) set at 200 for an hour and let them sit in the oven overnight while the oven cooled. This is how they turned out.

I did make the last one for a friends birthday gift - the rest are all for the Doodles room. I got a couple of cute floating shelves and painted one black and one red and these - in addition to the small photo frames that I bought at the thrift store and painted will sit on those shelves.

Vases - $4
Enamel paints (5 @ 30% off) -  $4.50
Foam brushes (pack of 5) - $1.33

Total cost - $9.83 I only made 6 of the vases - so it breaks down to $1.64 per vase. (I have leftover vases and paint so that cost will be less as I finish the others) Again, I had the foam brushes and some paint on hand already so the cost was even less.

I also made a fabric covered box and a small canvas painting for the birthday gift. A set of 3 that match her living room colors! I hope she likes it!

Her favorite flower is a sunflower and when I started to paint this I had no idea what I was going to do, it just happened to look like a sunflower as I started with one corner so I went with it and this is what it became.

Fabric from thrift store(I have about 3 yards of it left) -  $2.50
Vase we figured out to be - $1.64
Canvas (2pk @ 30% off for $3.51) - $1.75
I already had brushes and paints on hand.
Spray adhesive - which I already had as well.

Total cost - $5.89 and BAM - personalized birthday gift set!

I will post before and after pictures of the Doodle's room to show you all the transformation. She is almost as excited as I am!!

My next project is fabric covered wall hangings and more fabric covered boxes for decorative storage!

Here is my inspiration for the wall hangings.....

I found this through Better Homes and Gardens. I think that I can recreate this with foam board, spray adhesive and fabric. We shall see...Until my next infectious crafty moment...