Bring A Smile With Homemade Gifts

 My favorite thing to do is give a homemade gift. Be it a holiday, birthday or just because. The best thing about it is seeing the happiness and surprise of the recipient!

After seeing several very unique ideas for displaying your jewelry on Pinterest, I made this jewelry display for my sister's birthday. I used an old frame, wood, chicken wire and paint that I had lying around the house. I found the drawer pulls at our local hobby lobby store, half off of course! I never pay full price for anything there!

The earrings hang perfectly from the chicken wire and come on and off easily!

She had just enough jewelry to fill it nicely, with room to spare.

I am really happy with the results and even more happy to see how much my sister loved it! It looks great hanging in her bathroom!



I am always searching for new ideas for crafting, decorating and gifting.
My mother-in-law has so many grandchildren I decided she needed somewhere to display pictures of the kiddo's. I made her a super cute sign for Christmas, one that she can easily change pictures in and out of.

I kept it on the smaller scale, so not to overwhelm her wall space. I bought the wood plaque, clothes pins and ribbon on sale at a my favorite craft store. I had the paints of course, and I used a stencil I had for the words. The photos needed to be fairly small, so I printed wallet sized photos from Wal-Mart.

She loved it!

My Madison's Doll House

It feels like forever since I posted anything here, so what better way to catch up than with Madison's Christmas present. This year.....rather last, my husband and I decided to make our Barbie loving daughter her very own doll house. Keeping straight to the point, I wanted all of Barbie mess out of my living room floor! It was a success!! She loved it and we (my husband and I) had alot of fun building it together!!

Half way there!

                                                  

She was super excited and loved it!!

                                   



Daddy got a huge hug!!!!!!



                                             

           We also made cool beds, table and chairs for the kitchen and a couch.
I was super excited about the flooring in the bathroom and kitchen area, we found cute black and white checkered duct tape. Cool look and super easy!!

The doll house was fun to build, not so much fun to prime and paint though. Took forever. We were really happy with the total outcome and hope that Madison enjoys it for years to come!!