The Ribbon Retreat

Hey guys!  Hope you are all having a fun time decorating for Fall!  We just wanted to share with you all some fun happenings over at The Ribbon Retreat!

-First of all, order by tomorrow and save up to 15% off your order!

-There is also a new link on the site for CLEARANCE ribbon and fabric!!  Woohoo!

-New to the Fabric site is Muslin!  Whitney and I just discovered this stuff for swaddling!  It is so soft and a perfect fabric for baby blankets!

Check out the new Little Fatties!   6 coordinating fat quarters all in one!

Love these Riley Blake fabrics!

Timeless Treasures!  Sooooo cute!  Love the blues!

Check out this adorable ribbon wreath!  Perfect for Halloween!!!  I want one!  Head on over to The Ribbon Retreat Blog for a tutorial so  you can make your own!

Want a Frenchy Bag of your own?  Here's how they made it!

There is just so much I want to share with you all!  Go check it out for yourself at

The Ribbon Retreat and The Ribbon Retreat and The Ribbon Retreat Blog!  This is hands-down our favorite place to shop for ribbon and fabric!  The prices are fantastic and the shipping is super fast!

Hope you all have a great week:)

~Ashley

 

Highlights and a Winner!!

Hey girlies!

Thanks again for another great month of projects!  We loved seeing them and it's always hard finding a few to feature but here I go...

Loved Domestically Speaking's Burlap Laundry Sign... So darn cute!

My hubby would love these(and I did too)... Check out Pretty Handy Girl for these Minnow trap lights!

Loved Infarrantly Creative's TV stand revamp... So cute!

Of course Donna from Funky Junk never disappoints... I have always been amazed by her work.  She should for real be in a magazine.  This is a post on her table... I like the whole darn room!

Home is where they love you had this super cute bird table...

Were those not so cute!?! I love seeing all of them and thanks so much for linking up!!

Remember to add our button if you want to be featured or put in the drawing!!

Thanks again to Rust-Oleum for sponsoring this months great prize!!

And our winner this month is...

Saturday Mornings!!

Thanks for linking! Send us your contact info!!

Thanks again to all of you... Say a prayer for Ashley and our youngest sister Leasha.  Both are about to pop (literally) my new nieces out and we are so excited.  That's why you haven't heard from Ash lately so just say a prayer if you think about it.

Thanks again!!

~Whitney

Silhouette Chargers

Hey guys!!

If you have not joined this month's I Made it Without My Hubby party just keep scrolling down.  You have just a bit more time left to enter and share!  In the meantime, I thought I would share one of my latest projects.  And yes... that was "projects" with a big "S" on the end!  I'm so thankful for my non-pregnant self that can actually get things done :)

I have been having all sorts of fun with one of our very favorite new products!!  This has to be one of the coolest machines ever.  I am in love...

It's my Silhouette! It is a digital cutting tool that connects to your computer just like a printer, but instead of printing designs it cuts them with a small blade. How fun is that!! My favorite thing about it is the ease of using graphics from the computer rather than trying to store 658,374 different cartridges somewhere in a drawer.  I like that I can pick just one picture that I need without having to go to the store!  Here she is...

I used my Silhouette to easily cut 2 bird pictures onto black vinyl.  This is the vinyl I used...

I will give a more detailed tutorial on a later post but it really was as simple as picking a picture and pushing print.  After doing that I started on the rest of my project.

I found these great antique sewing table drawers at my Meme's house several months ago.  I knew I wanted to do something with them but was waiting for the perfect project. 

 I decided to use them as plate holders in my kitchen.  My original plan was to buy some cute plates at Home Goods but when I ran across these chargers at Hobby Lobby I couldn't pass them up!

They were $1.99 and although the color wasn't my fav I did love the shape!  I knew a good coat of

Rust-Oleum would solve that.  I used Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch in Heirloom White.

Here it is drying...

I did add a little bit of Ralph Lauren Smoke glaze to them after they dried just to bring out the details on the edges.

I used some small picture hangers on the back of my drawers and hung them on the wall.

My next step was to add my birdies!  I just peeled the back off the vinyl...

And stuck it to the plate... That easy!!  And if I get bored of my birdies I just have to cut a new picture!

My final step was to put them in the drawers and take some pics!  What do you think??

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I am so excited to share some of the other great things this little machine does!  You will be amazed... And right in time to ask Santa for one ;)  Make sure you scroll down and link up your latest projects if you haven't done it yet! 

~Whitney

I Made it Without My Hubby!!!

Hey Girlies!!

It's that time again!!!

 

We want to see any and ALL projects, crafts and revamps you gals have done this month without the help of your hubby!!

We have another great giveaway for 2 of you lucky ladies!! This month our party is being sponsored by our friends at Rust-Oleum!!

Rust-Oleum has an AMAZING line of Metallic Accents paint!  It is an amazing paint that can be used on furniture, walls or just about anything else you can think of.  We will be choosing one winner this week that will receive 2 jars of Rust-Oleum Metallic Finish Paint!!

As always we will highlight a few of our favorites and we will randomly draw from all participants for our winner. You must add our party button on your post of sidebar to be entered in the giveaway. You can find that over in our sidebar!

Can't wait to see all you girls have in store.... Click the blue button below to link up!!

My First Touches of Fall!

Hey guys!! Happy Fall... Whoop!! I'm so excited to finally be saying that!  After way too many weeks of 100+ degree weather here in Texas I have never been so happy for Fall.  I just wanted to show you my first few touches.  I ran across these cuties in the paint section at Lowe's several months ago.

I loved them! They are perfect for so many things and I was finally inspired to actually purchase one when the pumpkins came out this year... Woohoo!  I just bought a bunch of different pumpkins and gourds from a local nursery and put them in the tub.

Not much of a tutorial here :)  Just fill it up and put it on a table somewhere.  I used mine for my dining table centerpiece.  It will be great during Winter too filled with other goodies!  Great $10 investment... Thank you Lowe's!

I also wanted to do a pumpkin stack in my entry right by the stairs.  I bought these super cute pumpkins in different sizes so I could stack them... So cute... And it required no spray paint ;)

I also found these great silver pumpkins at Marshall's last week!  I paid $13 for both together which I thought was a steal!  They look like they came from Pottery Barn with a much prettier price tag.

Here are just a few more touches I added this week.  I found this great galvanized container at Michael's for $3 on clearance.  My younger sister and I ran across these cherry blossom stems at Michael's too.  I am very anti-silk flowers in my own home but these were so cute to me!!  I added a bit of dried curly willow in with it.

I also found this antique rice bowl at my trip to Round Top last Fall.  I change it out with different goodies and for now it is full of baby pumpkins and gourds.  Did I mention that I LOVE Fall :)!??

So again... Not really a tutorial here but I did want to show you a few ways I am changing out the seasons at my house.  Have you gals been getting ready for Fall??  We would love to see some of your pics! Link them up to our Facebook page so we can see them and share them with our other readers!!  Have a happy Monday... I am going outside!!

~Whitney

Ruffled Lamp Shade

Hey guys!  So, I owe this post to Whitney.  Number 1 ~ she gave me the hand-me-down lamp and Number 2 ~ she gave me the idea for the lamp shade and did the sewing part of it:)

We started with fabric cut into 8 3 inch strips.  Then Whitney ruffled each strip and sewed red around the edges for added cuteness.

Next, I hot glued each strip around a 12" drum shade that I purchased at Wal-Mart for $14.99.  (This is a great drum shade btw!  The color is perfect so you can embelish it anyway you would like!)  I folded the ends where they met and hot glued them down for a clean look.

Work in progress....

I haven't decided whether or not I am going to revamp the lamp base.  I like it how it is now and I was too impatient to wait to put the shade on!

Little sneak peak of the nursery....

We used the same fabric that we used for the drop cloth curtains.  Got it at Hobby Lobby.

My Meme and sister Kyndra found that great chandelier for me at Sam Moon Home Decor store!

Again, I owe this post and my lamp shade to Whitney:)  I have absolutely no sewing ability so it could not have been done without her!  Thanks Whit!