Sun Flower DIY Project

Hi Friends,

This week I have been working on a little project using wooden sun shapes fun picture frames from the Dollar Store.  

I painted the wooden suns yellow and then added some black and white checked gingham fabric.

 

My vision was to use buttons for the center of the flower (sun) frame. It seems I always have a good stock of old buttons. 

So I took a look through my button stash, and found a set of five for each flower (sun) frame.

I heated up the dandy glue gun to attach the buttons to the center to make the frame look more like a sunflower.  I think all four flowers turned of very cute.

Have you made a diy for fall? Until the next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

A Rustic Vintage Heart Shape Keepsake Box

 Hi Friends,

I'm starting another project for my February home décor. 

I'm adding rustic vintage farmhouse touches to this cute heart shape box that I paid $0.50 from my local thrift store haul last month.  And needed a make over.

My inspiration came from Wendy at White Sparrow Living  she did a remake of a heart shape box similar to this cute box using fabric to cover the box. 

So I have this red stripe fabric, I purchased at a local quilt shop last year and thought this might go with my décor for February.

I traced the lid onto the fabric to cover the lid

Then I cut a stripe of fabric to go around bottom side of box and soaked it in coffee ground tea over night.

Liking how the coffee stain looked on the bottom stripe of the box

As an after thought, I also brushed the top of the box with some of the coffee liquid with a small paint. 

 Added some lace ribbon from Dollar Tree around the edge of the lid.  

For some embellishments, I made a few book page roses and added a little button to the center of the rose.  

I felt I needed to add a little more so I cut heart shaped from burlap and a book page added some raffia and twine.

Thank you for stopping by to see another item from my local thrift store that I have remade to fit my vintage farmhouse style.

Until the next project...

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

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

 

Very Easy DIY Checked Black and White Homespun Country/Primitive Garland

 Hi Friends,

I've started another project using fabric and yarn to make this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland.

I bought 2 yards of checked black and white fabric from my local Quilter's shop.

I cut 1 inch strips about six inches long from the fabric

I measure the width of the mantel to get the length of garland I would need to drape my mantel.  Using white yarn from my craft stash, I started tying the strips of fabric on to the white yarn.

I ended up making two garlands one for the mantel and one for the Livingroom hutch. 

This country farmhouse homespun garland will add a nice touch to all of my seasonal décor, this year.

Thanks for stopping by to checkout this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland project.

Until the next project.  

God Bless you, 

Vicki a Colorado Junkett