Tiled Bath Rules

I’m baaaaaaaaaack! Did ya miss me? I can tell ya’ll that I sure missed it! My ‘craftiness’ has kinda been in a funk the last few weeks but luckily it’s started to perk back up recently. And one of the reasons it has started to perk up was because of this project I saw on Pinterest. Unfortunately I'm not able to link to it as the link on Pinterest was unable to be found. If anyone knows the original source please let me know so I can give them proper credit! When I saw it I immediately knew I was going to be making it asap! So this is what I did. It took a little more time than a lot of my projects, mainly because of paint drying time but it was easy and very cheap, about $3. I hope you guys like it!

Here is what you’re gonna need!

A foam poster board

A foam brush

A small paint brush

A pen

A ruler

An Exacto knife

Double sided tape

Craft Paint in 2 colors- I chose red and yellow for my colors because those are the colors of my downstairs family room and these were going in the downstairs kids bathroom. Choose whatever colors you want to match your décor!

On the back of the foam board draw out a grid for your tiles. I used 18 2”x4” tiles. Once you have the tiles marked out flip the board over and put your base color down with your foam brush and wait till it’s dry.

Then start cutting.

Caution: Go slow! I may or may not have been distracted watching Once Upon a Time but I got to going to fast and this is what happened. It’s easily covered but just be patient and go slow to avoid this from happening in the first place.

Once your done cutting this is what you’re going to end up with. Pretty rough but that’s okay, you wont be able to tell when you’re done!

Start painting the edges! I really slathered it on the edges in some places, just make sure all the white is covered. Let dry. Once everything painted up close it will look a little rough but I promise that it won’t matter in the end.

This is what your going to end up with. Looks a little rough but thats okay!

Now probably the ‘hardest’ part of this project was this step. It wasn’t really hard but you do have to go slow and you will probably have to touch up the paint after it’s dry.

Lay your stencil on top and using your small paint brush start painting with your other color. If you are doing a light color on top of a dark color like I did than you are probably going to have to use a couple of coats of paint.

 

Then remove your stencil and let dry. Some of it will probably smear but just touch it up with some of your base color and it will be fine.

Once everything is dry place a piece of double sided tape on the back of all of your tiles.

Find a good spot to hang the project up. If you do the same words and measurements as I did than your completed projects will be about 2 feet across and 3 feet tall. 

Start with the middle and place one tile at a time on your wall. My tiles are about a half inch apart from each other, I just eye balled everything and it worked great. Once you have your first word up start adding your other words.

And that’s all there is to it! Like I said before waiting for the paint to dry was the most time consuming. Everything else probably only took me a total of an hour.

This made such a huge impact on the bathroom! I am so happy I came across this project. I am thinking about doing another one, with different colors and words, in the kids playroom. I will let you all know as soon as I do!

But until then, I will see you all next week! Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed week!

Who Doesn't Want a Little Sparkle in Their Life?

Hey there chickies! First off, I am simply overwhelmed with the response I received from last weeks post! It was amazing how many people stopped by both here and through Pinterest! I am so excited to see everyone and hear everyone’s comments. Thank you!

Now for todays regularly scheduled programming!

Here shortly I will be sharing with you all The Girls bedroom make over, which if I do say so myself, is pretty awesome. But for now I’m going to share with you guys a little sneak peak into it. This is just something I thought of last week and I used things I had on hand so it didn’t cost me anything but made a HUGE impact on her room! Wanna see?

Plain old boring light switch cover...

To a lightswitch cover perfect for the Diva in all of us!

Its so sparkly, We love it!

And aside from being a little messy, like all good glitter projects usually are, it was very simple to do!

This is what I started out with.

Now dont be hatin on my top of the line Modge Podge now. You too can have your very own! Here's a little bonus post within a post if you need the directions. Take a clean empty baby food jar, or any other type of glass jar. Fill halfway with regular Elmers type glue and halfway with water. Put the lid on, shake and done! Dont forget your custom label either, made of freezer tape and a Sharpie.

Annnnd, were back!

Remove your faceplate from the wall (be sure to put the screws in a safe place so you don't lose them) and paint it with your modge podge.

Now you may notice that I am using a tray for this project. If you've been with me for a little bit you know the consequences of an unprotected work surface...Argh, I still get upset with myself over it. Protect your work surface chickies. Protect. Your. Work. Surface.J

Now sprinkle you faceplate with the glitter.

Proceed to get it all over the place.

Wait FOR. EH. VOR! (name that movie)

I would reccomend you wait overnight to let this dry completely!

Then spray with a clear enamel to keep the glitter from flaking off. I used 3 coats, with about an hour of dry time between each.

Now once dry you need to reattach it to the wall. When you do this your screws will still be plain old glitter free. This is of course, not exceptable.

Just pour out a little glitter

and dip your brush in your modge podge very lightly and then dip it in the glitter and brush on to the screws.

And then your done!

The Girl thinks it cool, I think its cool, The Man only barely shook his head at me when I told him what I was doing, it was free, and it added a ton of pizazz to The Girls Room. Total win chickies!

I've seen others who have changed their light switch covers with things like scrap book paper, gem stones and even the ever useful Sharpies. There is so many great ideas out there! Have you done anything to yours? It's such a simple project and I cant wait to do some more in my home.

Until next week chickies!

A New Pair of Shades

So I've seen these floating around blogland for awhile now and I've been wanting to do it since I saw the first picture. But I've been scared cause I didn't want to mess it up and have to go spend money on something just because I've ruined a perfectly good, working shade. But I finally got up the courage to do it and I gotta admit, I am so happy I did! It may not be perfect but I think it turned out great! And it was a lot easier than I thought it would be too!

This is what I started with. Just a simple drum shade covered in a type of burlap fabric.

And I just took some of my favorite Bible verses and sayings and a Sharpie and went to town. The shade has a line where the fabric meets so I used it as a starting point and then basically just wrote it all out like it was a piece of paper. When I got to the fabric line I would just start at the beginning again and go around till I met the fabric line again.

I ended up liking it so much that I figured I would do something to another lamp we had. But I didn't think writing would look as good on the other one as it did on this one. It was bell shaped and was a lighter type of fabric.

And then I just free handed some swirlies on the inside of the shade. On the other shade whenever the lamp is on you can't really see all of the writing. I wanted this one to be opposite and only show up when the lamp was turned on.

The writing on the other shade was pretty easy but this was even easier than that!

You can't tell in the picture how well it shows up because I suck at taking pictures but trust me, it looks awesome all lit up!

What do ya'll think? I love them so don't tell me if you hate them :)

And the best part? They didnt cost me a dime. I used shades I already had a marker. That's it! Instant upgrade for zero cost! Plus I learned not to trust myself a little more as well. I didn't think I owuld be able to do a good enough job for this, and while it may not be as good as other peoples it still came out pretty darn good, atleast to me!

See you chickies next week!



                

Hair Stuff Storage

Hey chickies!

Running a little late this week so I’ve got a real simple, fun project for ya! It’s an oldie but goodie!

Turn this….

Into this!

All you need is an empty oatmeal container, an empty paper towel tube and a roll of Color Duck Tape. And some scissors of course.

The Girl loves zebra patterns so I picked up a roll of Zebra printed Duct Tape from good ole Wally World for about $3.50.

And all I did was wrap strips of tape around the container and the roll to cover them completely. I allso added a couple of scrapbook stickers I had laying around to the container. She keeps her hair brush and other accessories inside the oatmeal container and her pony tail holders around the paper towel roll. I also took two roughly 6” pieces of tape and put them sticky side together to create something she could put her bobby pins and clips on. She keeps this inside of the oatmeal container. Now, if your smarter than I am you will know to cut about an inch or so off of the paper towel roll before you tape it so that it will fit inside the oatmeal container as well!

Really simple upgrade that saves a lot of headache and counter top! The Girl knows where everything is and I’m not upset about the crap ton of hair stuff all over the place!

My Favorite Room in the House!!!

Okay this may be weird to some but my absolute favorite room in my house is my bathroom! We are lucky in the fact that our home has 3 bathrooms. One downstairs that is the kids/guest bathroom. The master bedroom bath which is my husbands and the hall bath which is mine and the guests bathroom. My bathroom has been remodeled twice in the 6 years we’ve been here. The first one, about a year after we moved in, was more of a necessity because what was there HAD TO GO!  

The bathroom was painted an awful dark shiny blue, had a baby blue porcelain sink, toilet and bath tub. And let us not forget the bright brass/mirrored sliding shower doors and peeling linoleum floor!

These pictures were taken the second time we toured the house.

We replaced the toilet, sink and bathtub about a year after we moved in. We used some tile that we had bought a couple of years before from a warehouse closing so that remodel only cost us the price of the tub, sink and toilet really. Unfortunately I don’t really have any pictures of the bathroom in this stage except a few that we took right before we started the next remodel. Since the walls and flooring were tiled before we had to tear it all down to studs and sub floor.

And finally, we got to the point where we could afford to do what we wanted to it and make it MINE!  And to give credit where credit is due The Man did both of the remodels himself! Have I ever told you guys how awesome it is to be married to this guy? Cause it is!

The shower curtain and towels came from Wal Mart but for the most part all of the decorations came from yard sales, The Dollar Tree and local thrift stores or were things I already had on hand.

This is the tile we used, luckily they were on clearance so we got a really great deal on them!

The mirror was the original that came with the house but The Man made a frame for it.

Oh and this lovely vanity? The Man built it! Yep! We had looked at ordering one but because the opening was a weird size they were really hard to find. And of course the ones we did find were ridiculous in pricing! I think the best price we could really find ws about $2,000! There was no way we could or would pay that! So The Man, being the awesome guy he is, said "I can build it". So we got a custom vanity for about $450! And $200 of that was the counter top that we bought and cut down to size. And my favorite part? 

It's like a secret drawer! I freaking love it! I hated all the wasted space in most vanities and this way we are getting as much storage as we possibly can.

So there it is! What do ya'll think? I was really second guessing myself and what I had envisioned once we got that yellow on the walls but now that it's all together I think it came out amazing!

Until next time!