Dollar store wreath!

Things you need 

Dollar store floral wreath 

Package of jute

Package of clothes pins 

Brown paint

Anything to make your Be Merry sign

Trusty glue gun

Plug your glue gun in and start by tying your jute around the wreath. Now, wrap it around counting them as you go I chose 21 just by the looks. Keep alternating your colors and I glued just the ends. 

Have fun with this Be Creative everyday!!

Mini Meatloaves

YUMMY!

So I am no chef by any means! I love recipes that I can alter with what I have on hand.

 For this you need

• Ground meat of choice or you can grind your own
• Bread crumb Or crackers, pretzels, cereals, old bread, potato chips.... 
• spices I used garlic, onion powder, Montreal seasoning and Italian spice mix
• two eggs
• butter, oil or cooking spray
• BBQ sauce and worcestershire sauce

So I had some old stale potato bread I blended for my bread crumbs. If it is a little sticky add some pretzels to dry it quickly or use your oven to toast.






I added all my spice to my bread mixture, helps liven up dry spices!
I had some shredded steak I ground up also in my blender, Do this in small quantities it makes it a lot easier. I probably could use a food processor....

Mix all together with wet ingredients in large bowl. I also added frozen pre chopped onions love them for a quick and easy flavor. Roll to your desired size and put them in a cup cake pan for easy individual servings. Top with BBQ sauce of choice cook on 400-425 for 35- 40ish mins I always check one before serving. Make it Uniquely yours and Enjoy!!

Wooden Signs

Easy wooden signs

     So I was checking out all these signs on Pintrest and I love them all but the process seemed long. Not my style I have a 23 month old and I try to bust stuff out while he's napping. So I went to the scrap wood pile we have had outside for over a year! We had the intention of having camp fires this past summer but we managed only one:( But I think it has work out for me in the end so not a total loss right!!

I really love this saying! We aren't a traditional family because we aren't married. But we have been together for over 7yrs & have two beautiful babies, no matter what we will forever be a family!!

This one is Just so very true to Maine!!! Let it snow! you can't stop it, So you might as well watch it and enjoy the tranquility of all the white stuff.  I did both by hand no stencils  used a simple disk of raw ash tree that fell last year for my O snowman face!! Love turning trash to treasures!! Get inspired:) 

Rustic Wall Family Tree

Family Picture Tree

Been slowly working on my family tree..... I wanted something to display my everyday pictures without costing a lot. So I got this idea some sticks, scrapbook paper, jute twine, clothes pins and my trusty glue gun, I got to work. First, I thought on long branch would be a good solution but tried to find a place to hang it.... I have a house that is over 100 yrs old and horse hair plaster for most of my walls, it was just to long! I decided on this..

The best thing is I printed the pictures right on normal paper!!! I want to be able to change the pictures every 2 or so months:)

My 2yr old son loves looking up at momma and dada and baba ( that's his older sister) Soon I will change them out for different pics and he'll be excited again:)

I hope this tree inspires some great ideas for you to display what you love!!

Shark vacuum, a plastic baggy and yes my glue gun!!!

I looked for about an hour! Tape, I needed  some tape! Now, I've been tapping my shark vacuum hose for about a year and a half :( I have a problem with spending the most I ever had on a vacuum( 150.00 isn't a lot to most but I am not rich and principal) and a year or so into it I have to buy a $30.00 part.....
So yesterday the tape gave away on the bottom half.. I have two spots tapped now upper and lower! I swear you can't pull on this hose at all. I think they designed it to break or you have to pull apart aka lift away the engine part to reach with it which isn't convenient!!!!!!

Well, I couldn't find tape..... so, this is what I did I crafted the shit out of it!!! Yup I glued a baggy to my shark hose with my glue gun!!!! judge me if you may but a cat, dog, 2 kids, and 2 adults I NEEDED TO VACUUM FOR MY SANITY!!!!!.......found the tape SMH!!:/

My Mind!

My DIY Brain!

My brain is very crazy!!! I am constantly thinking of my next project before I have even come close to finishing one. I love me some thrift shopping! I see so much potential with everything their is there it's so tough to keep my mind on my current project...... So right now trying to stay on track and finish our halloween costumes OZ theme! 

   Working on her shoes now still need to work on tin man costume. I know cutting it close! Then we did pumpkins! I also have two chairs I am redoing and I have a great piece in my garage that I am reclaiming. This piece is amazing, with sweat & hard work it will be salvaged and added to my kitchen as a Unique bar with original copper hardware. Very exciting 1st costumes to finish then these chairs have three rows of staples OMG..... Momma needs some new tools!!! Not sure how other DIYer's brains work but mine is everywhere!!! 

Well wish me luck:) 

                            Oh! I am pretty sure both will have     the green fabric and Burlap backing>

Unique Lion Toddler costume

Toddler Lion Costume

 What You Need

• Old costume you have from prior halloweens or 2nd hand for free or cheap.
• Your own brown pants and shirt
• Trusty glue gun
• Lots of glue
• Felt
• Cheap yarn 2 colors (yes that's yarn!)

Start pre-cutting your lighter color keeping it shorter around the face. 

I also glued a full sheet of felt over the old face. Now just keep measuring and glueing.

I Just cut off the green stem. CUT, GLUE, REPEAT!










I Just need ears and a tail and it will be complete. with brown fleece pants and shirt my little guy will make a great cowardly lion! I'll post final later:)

Trash organizing

Simple Rustic Holder

It's trash day here at my Maine home and I love seeing what I can do with trash! So I took some Toilet paper rolls and made them in to cute little holders for stuff!

What you Need

• TP rolls 
• Glue Gun
• Twin, Jute rope, hay or ribbion
• Buttons or other accent pieces

So make sure they are in good shape and glue them in a triangle. Make sure you glue them level.

Now, the fun part you can do so much with these!

Add lace and burlap for a rustic wedding feel, hold pens, hide little faces for flowers.

At a baby shower could hold pens for games or straws.

At a BBQ your plastic utensils.

Save  a lot for individual napkin utensil holder.

Wedding initials!

 Baby Shower cute animal!

Buttons simple but fun!

 I just used simple hay from my scarecrow project, glued the bow, added accent and its done!

So many possibilities..... add more rolls for kids markers paint brushes... Let me know or show me what you guys come up with!!

 

Scarecrow DIY

To Make this you will Need 

• Old socks
• Hay 
• Glue gun 
• Scissors & a Box 
• Vacuum:)

For me and my SO our costumes are simple but fun! I am going to be the Scarecrow!

I cut the tops of the socks off to make a cuff. Then opened my Dollar store hay like product mine was a big ball of a mess!

Take the cuff off of coarse and start glueing the hay on just remember depending on the thickness of your sock you might need to put card board in-between . I also used a box to push down the hay so I didn't burn myself.

 Cut the end toward you neatly and the outer edge leave messy and you are complete. I only did the top I hate itchy things but they're going to look great under my plaid flannel shirt! I will show a full picture closer to Halloween:)

Up Next I will be taking an old pumpkin costume and making it into the Lion!

My creative Journey!

I think the first time I got this creative crazy idea feeling, was when I was playing with my Barbies and Oh!, how she needed a hair cut!! Then, of coarse I managed to cut my sisters Barbies hair and a fight broke out and a little yelling.... My resolution was offering one of my Barbies to let my sister have at it but she was more keep my barbie in its original box sort of kid. I eventually made lots of bracelets, I helped my mom bake, I started gardening at 12 neither of my parents liked landscaping but I did.  I think I stopped coloring in my early 20's just gave my box of crayons to my 6 yr old.  I started dyeing my hair I even had dreads a friend help make for a bit. I wore different clothing not to crazy but double lined true army pants one day and a tight knee length skirt and tall boots the next. When I got into high school I started painting worked with clay I liked it but not as much as seeing something old become new again, creating something from something else or restoring something back to its original form. 

      Don't get me wrong a lot of what I think of I haven't even attempted but that is were this comes into play you get to learn, gain, or even laugh with or at me!!:) I am a mom of two and I am not perfect I will be learning a lot of my skills as I go or refreshing somethings I haven't done in years. My goal is to give you instructions on what I did and you can take My ideas, tweak them & make  them fit in your life some how.  Be Creative with me Life's a Journey lets make it Uniq together!

Up 1st Halloween: We are doing an OZ theme!! Stay tuned