February Vintage Farmhouse Décor Project

Hi Friends,

I'm at it again with another project.  

Thrifted Wooden Heart Transformed to fit into my February Vintage Farmhouse Décor 

I haul this wooden heart earlier this month and am just now getting to this project.  

  I'm going to white chalk paint it

Then using some yardage of red and white striped fabric I'll cover the wood heart.

I traced the heart shape on to the striped fabric 

using Aleene's Tacky Glue to attach the fabric cutout onto the wooden shape.

I've had this wooden love piece for sometime, I'm pretty sure it came from Dollar Tree.  I just painted it with the Waverly White Chalk paint distressed it with a black sharpie

 

Here I added some fabric hearts and a button to the top and at the bottom of the heart.

Using some fine sand paper I sanded down the excess fabric off the edge when it had dried.

This was a fairly simple projects, allowing the fabric to dry took over night, but all in all this project was easy and quick.

Thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage and checking out another of my February projects.

God Bless you, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

 

Diy Snowflakes Projects For My Winter Decor

Last year I cut out a few different patterns from paper snowflake patterns card-stock and attached the paper snow flakes to the small willow wreath forms I use around the house.

 This year, I'm still using snowflake in my winter decor, but I'm branching out and using some different mediums like stencils, box signs from Dollar Tree, and old book pages. 

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For both of the diy, I painted 6 x 6 little box sign from Dollar Tree
with Waverly white chalk paint.

For the first project

With a mix of blue and acrylic paint, I came up with a gray color 

placing a snowflake from Wal-Mart on top of the box sign  then using paint brush I brushed the gray color over the snowflake ornament while holding down the snowflake and let dry.  Turned out like this, not to bad this project was a bit harder than I thought.

So, the second box sign I painted the top  with the gray color, let dry and mod-podge a paper snowflake on it, quiet a bit easier.

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Using two more of the painted 6 x 6 little box sign from Dollar Tree that I painted with Waverly white chalk paint.

 I measured out lines to make the appearance of a wood strips.

Then I went back over the lines I drew and using my box cutter and a ruler made grooves on the lines to emphasize the board lines.

 I went back and added brown and black paint over the grooved lines to add distress marks.

With the  snow flake pattern  I found on Pinterest, I used old paper back I had and made the snowflake from the book pages.

I used tacky glue to attach the paper snowflake to the box sign.  I really like how these turned out.

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Thank you for stopping by, I hope I gave you some simple ideas to add to your winter decor.

Until the next project, Vicki

Farmhouse Aged and Distressed Christmas Tree Sign

Hi friends,  

Here is another seasonal piece, I added to my Christmas décor on my hutch.

I started with this cute sign from Dollar General 

and turned it into this.....

I used black chalk paint around the edges drew out lines for planking and and mixed black and white chalk paint to make some age lines and wear.

I believe it is a nice touch to my Farmhouse Christmas décor.   thanks for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day, Vicki

Farmhouse Spring-DIY Project for Spring

Terracotta

I decided to use some of the terracotta pots from the Dollar Tree, to add a nice touch to my Easter/spring mantel this year.  

Here on the mantel I put a little yellow chick into a pot that was laying on it's side.  I also use the waverly chalk paint to paint some of the pots, and I stuck a little nest with some tiny bird eggs.

The Dollar Tree sells 3 1/2 inch pot two to a package and 2 1/2 inch pots 3 to a package.  This was a very easy project and I think the pots added a nice touch to my seasonal decor.

I got this idea off of pinterest, go check it out there are so many ideas. 
Let me know what you think of this project.
Thank you so much for stopping by, until next time ahve a wonderful day!
Vicki-Colo Junkett

Farmhouse Décor for Spring-Upscale Thrifted Bird House

Hi Friends,

Today I'm giving my collection of thrifted bird house a facelift.  By giving the home décor bird houses a new color.

This is what two of the houses looked like before I painted them white

My little wooden bird houses that I have collected over the years, were all sorts of colors. This year I decided to change things up to more of a farmhouse style. 

I took Waverley white chalk paint and gave all of my little wooden bird house a new coat of paint.

Here are two bird houses from the Dollar Tree craft section, that I glued the pre-cut pieces of wood in the packet together to make these cute bird houses. This is the first coat.

This cute little bird house I displayed on my mantel in the den.

I added these two cute bird houses on top of my entertainment center in my living-room.

I really like the new touches that I have made to my little wooden bird houses.  What do you think?

Until the next time, have a wonderful day,

Vicki- the Colo Junkett

Rustic Farmhouse Valentine Conversational Hearts Diy

Hello Friends,

I have another rustic farmhouse project from a thrift, paper heart banner I picked up in January.

The heart were pink with glitter and as you know I'm not much into glitter so, I painted all six heart with Waverly white chalk paint, it two coats. 

I used Sharpie fine point markers to free write the saying and added the doodles.

Added a red felt heart then glued a wooden heart shape painted white that I used stencil to write X O, and free hand arrows around edge.

With this cute heart I used a black Sharpie, to free hand the word and vine, added a checked fabric bow.

Another heart I just used black and red Sharpie markers wrote Be Mine then free hand the little heart vine

The last heart I added a large fabric heart and glued a small red felt heart in center and then added a little doodle around the edge.

I think the finish project turn out quit cute. 

Thank you for stopping by,

Vicki

February Decor

Here are some of the areas of my home that I decorate for the seasons

In my living room on top of the entertainment center

A cherished black shelf in my entry way, that my mother painted beautiful flowers on.

The two tiered shelves in our main bathroom.

The mantel of the den fireplace.

I want to thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage.  And have a wonderful day!

Vicki

DYI Heart using Puzzle pieces

Hello friends, I found this Idea off of YouTube at

Krafts by Katelyn  

I took puzzle pieces that were missing pieces mixed paint to get this gray color and painted the puzzle pieces

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This heart was purchased at Dollar Tree I chalk painted it and tried a little distress technique with a brush and some of the gray paint.  You can see I need a little practice.

Glued the puzzle pieces on the edge three layers deep, the tin heart was from a sign also purchased at Dollar Tree and I tied a jute bow and glued it to the tin heart.

This is how I displayed  the heart in my den on the tiered red shelves.  I think it turned out to be a great item to my decor, it was very easy and looks so nice sitting in this cigar box on a shelf in my den.

Thank you for stopping by, and please check out Katelyn's You Tube channel.

Have a wonderful day!  Vicki

Spring Break is here! and I have a Spring Farmhouse Project to Finish

Spring Break is Here!

During Spring Break I have a few things I would like to accomplished around the house.

• Get Spring decor out
• get laundry caught up
• vacuum the house thoroughly, lol will see!

Remember the big bag of all size plastic eggs

Painted the plastic eggs with white chalk paint, but as you can see they needed another coat

 I ended up with close to 3 dozen from that bag.

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I also found two cartons of easy paint Easter eggs on  clearance at Walmart for $1.00 a piece.  I've been working on getting these eggs painted for my Easter décor

The paint I used was Waverly white chalk paint with Ceramcoat - 'Moss Green' and a old bottle of Delta Ceramcoat -Copen Blue. 

I ended up painting 6-18 count egg cartons full. Now I have plenty to use around my house for my spring décor

I hope you all had a great week, So until the next project.

I'm Vicki the "Colojunkett"