Simple Diy egg carton

 Hi Friends,

Today I'm trying to recycle a couple of paper pulp egg cartons.  My thought was to make a few more vessels to display a few more of my upcycled plastic Easter eggs.

Starting with a 12 count egg carton........

I simply cut the lid off the carton

Cut the locking flap edge off

Cut the cups side in half

I used the lid to cover the raw end of the six cup carton. I cut out the center strip in the lid and cut just to one side of the latch holes of the the lid.

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As you can see I  just glue the end piece holding tightly to help it stay in place. 

At the end is a little gap and I just cut a triangle from the lid to cover the gap

Here is the finish project, fairly simple craft that I can use to display a grouping of upscale plastic Easter eggs.

Taking some Spanish moss lining the egg cups I placed a couple of upcycled plastic eggs along with egg shells. I love how they turned out.

I'm so glad you stopped by, this project is a simple diy using items you may have around the house.  I hope I gave you a little bit of inspiration to try a simple craft project for your Spring or Easter décor.

So... until next time May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Finds - See How I Displayed Them For My February Décor

 Hi Friends,

I'm up to making some new vintage looking décor for February this year.  I have brought back a few of my favorite past Valentine DIY's and have made a couple DIY's this year.

I added a few Valentine card to the mantel. last fall I found a couple of new vintage Valentine cards will be added some where into my February décor

Coal bucket and shovel I had a coal bucket I've been using as a planter outside in the garden.  Today I'm using the coal bucket in doors by the fireplace, with a thrifted coal shovel, will also be added to the fireplace hearth, filled with pinecones I've gather this summer.

This DIY project was pretty simple.  I saw this awesome idea from Instagram and I just needed to try this project. So I went to the wood pile to look for the perfect log, carved our initials out and went over raw wood with antique stain.

I did thrift a music book with some classic Love Song,  aged the sheet music page with coffee grounds and display on a vintage clip board? I decided to add a few embellishments.

Teamed up the love song with recent thrift items. I love how the vignette looks.

Thrifted 45's I used to display the heart shape trinket box and dollies I've thrifted last year.

A new paper craft on the clip board and the cute little cast trinket box, new milk glass hob non candle stick.

I changed up the vignette with a cute white dish I thrifted along with a pink with white trim hot pad, and vintage brushes.

Thank you so much for checking in.

May God Bless You and Your Family.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

February is Fast Approaching - Decorate with Me

 Hi Friends,

February is fast approaching and I need to get some of my February décor put up.  This year I 'm keeping my Winter Décor up. I like the cozy warm feeling with my 'Winter Décor.'

The Den

 I brought out some of my years past February DIY's.   Here in the den, I just stuck these felt hearts I made a few years back, into a hurricane cloche along with the pinecones setting in a tobacco box I had out for my 'Winter Décor.'

The Spanish moss wreath added a nice touch to the red shelves along with the red wooden-bead charm.  

I placed white snowflake around to bring in the snowy cozy winter day on the red shelves where I display a couple of vintage cigar boxes. 

This year I tried to distress the edges of the DIY conversation hearts to tone the white down some. 

 I don't think it turned out to bad.  I definitely need some practice using the distressing technique

 

Another conversation heart I distressed a little

Another wooden heart I added a little distress ink hoping to age it a bit to tone down the stark white I was seeing.

On the hutch 

I added some of my favorite DIY's from the past. I also like using chalk boards here and there throughout my home for all seasons.

On the Mantel

Thank you for stopping by to see some of my Valentine vignettes, stop by next week to see more.

May God Bless you and Your Family.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Snowflake For Winter Décor

 Hi Friends,

Today, I'm just crafting a very quick and simple snowflake made from twigs the tree out back , to add a rustic piece to the mantel.. 

I grabbed a few limbs for the cottonwood tree out back, sized up the sticks and arranged the stick like a star by stacking one on top of each other glued them together.

I had thought about gluing the plastic snowflake on top of stick star but, decided to just add the center piece.

I feel this quick DIY turned out quite nice it definitely added some interest to the mantel.  Thank you so much for checking in to see what I have been doing this week, so until next time.

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Primitive Farmhouse DIY Felt Crows

 

Hi Friends,

Today, I'm going to try my hand at constructing a felt crow to add to my late summer décor.

I of course went to Pinterest and found a couple of free patterns and then just kind of made my own.

This is how my crow turned out with this pattern from Crow/Raven Pattern @ Silver Ravenwolf 2013. Minus the wings, because I'm thinking real feather or felt?  not sure yet.

Another felt raven pattern I found was by my3monster.com that had great instructions

This is how they turned out

I used some wire I had  to make feet for both the crows.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope I gave you some inspiration to give a new project a try.

So until next time....

My God Bless You and Your Family

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Farmhouse Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers - DIY

DIY Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers

I've always love working with felt and many years ago I started sewing up Primitive red felt hearts for Valentine Decor.

I really like the fabric bundles from Wal-Mart so with, a red stripe fabric, black and white checked fabric I bought last year from a local quilter's shop,  I thought I would make up some new hearts this month. 

Dug out the sewing box

Using cotton balls for stuffing the hearts using a blanket stitch to close up the heart on all sides

I thought the hearts looked kind of plain, so I added embellishments of red felt hearts, buttons jute.

Wha-La....

cute heart ornies/bowl filler

The hand sewing was a bit time consuming, but I think they turned out pretty rustic farmhouse looking. 

 Let me know what you think of the fabric heart bowl fillers.

Thank you for stopping by

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

DIY Pine Cone Garland for the Winter Mantel

I had been thinking about making this DIY pine cone garland project for some time.  I had been collecting pine cones for a while and had a good stash of pine cones for this project.

  Using jute string from Dollar Tree, I measured the length of the mantel, spaced out the pine cones to about 4-5" apart and hot glue the pine cones to the jute string.

I thought the cones didn't make a statement I was looking, they were to small

So I used a larger pine cone, hot glued the pine cone to another piece of jute string after measuring the length of the mantel.

I believe by adding the larger pine cone garland, has improved the over all look of the mantel.

Thank you for checking back for another DIY project.  Let me know, Do you use pine cones in your winter decor or use them all year round?

So until the next project, 

take care, 

Vicki

DIY Christmas Project - Paper Tree Garland

Hi Friends,

Today I'm making cut out book page paper trees.  I have seen this  very simple project all over social media, so thought I would give it a try.  

So... this is my version of paper tree cut outs garland.

Old book with small print, a cookie cutter in a tree shape, and a pair of scissors,

some twine and glue.

Finished product, I added this string of cut out paper trees to my winter pine garland around the book shelf in the den and I added a string of fabric trees around the top of the hutch.

This was a super easy project that I thought you might want to try.

Thank you for stopping by for another diy project.

I'm Vicki