Creamy Taco Soup

If you are like me, when the weather is cold, you want to curl up in front of the tv with a nice bowl of soup. Not just any soup will do, give me a thick, creamy broth-none of that watery stuff. This one is very simple with few ingredients and only take a half …

Santa gets a makeover…

Santa and I have been friends for almost two decades. He is still a handsome gent, but his fur has yellowed over the years. And his clothes have a few rips. And his beard is detaching a bit. As you can see, he needed a little bit of help. Pardon any dog hair you see, …

DIY Fall Decor

I have been doing tons of DIY decorations this year for fall and now starting on Christmas. Here are three of the things I did for fall this year. I started with a charger plate from the Dollar Tree for this one. I used some Waverly chalk paint in White with a little Mineral mixed …

Updated Dollar Tree Scarecrow

I saw this scarecrow at the Dollar Tree and thought it had potential to look much better. I liked the buffalo plaid as I am using it quite a bit this year in my fall decor, but I wanted to spruce the whole thing up a little. I began by removing the hat and that …

Blessed sign

I found this little sign in the clearance section of Hobby Lobby. It was originally 9.99 but I got it for 90% off, so I only gave $1 for it. It is a solid piece and I knew I wanted to make a new sign out of it. I decided to use the back as …

Stacked Pumpkins

I am finding more ways to create fall decor by using stuff from the Dollar Tree. For this one I stacked three different sized pumpkins, all from DT. I picked these three because I thought they stacked nicely. I then painted the bottom one a moss green with Waverly chalk paint. The middle I used …

Pumpkin DIY

I have seen a number of DIY's with the DT carvable pumpkins, so I thought I would try one myself. This is what I started with. I decided to go with a metal look so I removed the stem and cut some strips of thin aluminum foil, also from the Dollar Tree. I started at …

Fall Decorating #1

As much as I love fall decor, it is something I rarely spend time doing anymore. I am one that loves to decorate for Christmas at the beginning of November- I hate decorating for 3 weeks only to take it all down again- so, I just usually skip fall for the most part. This year, …

Rusty jingle bells

Unlike my husband, I prefer my bells a little less shiny. I bought some of these bells from the Dollar Tree a couple of years back with the intention of rusting them and never got to it. I forgot to take a pic of them and got this photo from the net. I took a …

Book File

I have recently started art journaling and have so enjoyed the time I have spent creating new spreads. I am constantly looking on Pinterest for new ideas to use, and ran across one a couple of weeks ago that wasn't really art journaling, but was so adorable I decided to make one for myself. This …