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🎃🎃The Halloween projects and DIYs have begun. Let’s start with a good pottery barn dupe.
💀👻Isn’t this skeleton bat mat just the cutest? I made this for less than $5.00
💀How:
1. I started with a doormat that I bought at @Dollar Tree for $1.25
2. I sprayed the mat with black spray paint. It didn’t take much so I used a can I already had on hand.
3. I used the photo of the pottery barn mat to recreate and sketch this out. I did that using chalk and believe me when I say I had to erase and start parts over. The chalk works great for that.
4. Then I used white craft paint to paint over the chalk lines.
5. Next cut the cutie out. Because the mat isn’t super thick regular scissors work great for this.
6. Spray with a matte clear coat spray paint
7. Add to your door step!!
Happy spooky crafting friends.
#potterybarndupe #dupe #looksforless #halloweenporch #halloweendupe #halloweenporches #skeleton #bat #diyhomedecor #craftwithme
💀👻Isn’t this skeleton bat mat just the cutest? I made this for less than $5.00
💀How:
1. I started with a doormat that I bought at @Dollar Tree for $1.25
2. I sprayed the mat with black spray paint. It didn’t take much so I used a can I already had on hand.
3. I used the photo of the pottery barn mat to recreate and sketch this out. I did that using chalk and believe me when I say I had to erase and start parts over. The chalk works great for that.
4. Then I used white craft paint to paint over the chalk lines.
5. Next cut the cutie out. Because the mat isn’t super thick regular scissors work great for this.
6. Spray with a matte clear coat spray paint
7. Add to your door step!!
Happy spooky crafting friends.
#potterybarndupe #dupe #looksforless #halloweenporch #halloweendupe #halloweenporches #skeleton #bat #diyhomedecor #craftwithme
🎓🦋Our cute @stella is graduating in just a few days so…
… I am making her some money leis!! 💵👩🏼🎓🎓
How did I do it? @YouTube and a search bar!! 🤣
🎓I simply looked up how to make ribbon leis and origami dollar bill butterflies!! I put the two together and wa-la!! She will be adorable. 🦋
💛💙Stellas school colors are yellow and blue but she adores pink so of course I made her a pink one!! 💗💗
🎓Tips for making these:
You need 4-6 yards of each color of ribbon; depending on the length you want.
💛2 inch ribbon is almost to think. I preferred the 1.5 inch ribbon
💙Silk ribbon seems to work best.
🎓Braiding the ribbon is easier when you tie the two ribbons together at the bottom.
🦋The larger butterflies take two bills!!
💛💙Stay tuned for a couple more graduation ideas this weekend.
👩🏼🎓Congrats to our sweet @stella_swenson We are so so proud of you!! Love you baby girl!!
#graduation #graduationday #graduationpictures #graduationleis #graduationlei #graduationleis🎓 #graduationideas #moneylei #moneyleis #graduationgift #graduationgifts #graduationgiftideas #highschoolgraduation #highschool #proudofyou #stellagrace #diyprojects
#classof2023 #classof2023🎓
Graduation / money lei / gift idea / graduation / graduate / class of 2023
… I am making her some money leis!! 💵👩🏼🎓🎓
How did I do it? @YouTube and a search bar!! 🤣
🎓I simply looked up how to make ribbon leis and origami dollar bill butterflies!! I put the two together and wa-la!! She will be adorable. 🦋
💛💙Stellas school colors are yellow and blue but she adores pink so of course I made her a pink one!! 💗💗
🎓Tips for making these:
You need 4-6 yards of each color of ribbon; depending on the length you want.
💛2 inch ribbon is almost to think. I preferred the 1.5 inch ribbon
💙Silk ribbon seems to work best.
🎓Braiding the ribbon is easier when you tie the two ribbons together at the bottom.
🦋The larger butterflies take two bills!!
💛💙Stay tuned for a couple more graduation ideas this weekend.
👩🏼🎓Congrats to our sweet @stella_swenson We are so so proud of you!! Love you baby girl!!
#graduation #graduationday #graduationpictures #graduationleis #graduationlei #graduationleis🎓 #graduationideas #moneylei #moneyleis #graduationgift #graduationgifts #graduationgiftideas #highschoolgraduation #highschool #proudofyou #stellagrace #diyprojects
#classof2023 #classof2023🎓
Graduation / money lei / gift idea / graduation / graduate / class of 2023
Take your kitchen sink to the next level by adding a few key elements: 1. Cover your disposal with a stand and add some nice amber soap dispensers. Ours out from @amazon labels from @ChurchStreetDesigns 2. Add a fun canister to hide away your dishwasher tabs for easy access! 3. Then a pretty Turkish towel for your hands is always a nice touch!! #kitchenisland #organizedhome #organizedkitchen #kitchenhacks
🥗I’m back in the pantry sharing another favorite appliance, along with my favorite summer salad.
I am using this @Instant Pot vortex air fryer because it makes cooking simple and delicious.
This salad is under 400 calories and doesn’t require an oven or stovetop so there is no heating up your house during the summer. It’s also a quick and easy summer lunch and can be made in under 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
8 peices of Bare chicken from @Costco Wholesale
Green leaf Lettuce
Spring lettuce mix
1/8 cup shredded cheese
1 T craisins
2 T wonton strips
3 T @@California Pizza Kitchen Thai dressings found at your local grocery store
Total calories: 365 and full of yummy greens and protien!!
Enjoy!! Head to my stories for the link to our favorite air fryer.
Happy summer days!!
#summersalad #summersalads #cpk #thaidressing #barechicken #costco #airfryer #airfryerrecipes #recipes #simplemeals #healthymeals
I am using this @Instant Pot vortex air fryer because it makes cooking simple and delicious.
This salad is under 400 calories and doesn’t require an oven or stovetop so there is no heating up your house during the summer. It’s also a quick and easy summer lunch and can be made in under 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
8 peices of Bare chicken from @Costco Wholesale
Green leaf Lettuce
Spring lettuce mix
1/8 cup shredded cheese
1 T craisins
2 T wonton strips
3 T @@California Pizza Kitchen Thai dressings found at your local grocery store
Total calories: 365 and full of yummy greens and protien!!
Enjoy!! Head to my stories for the link to our favorite air fryer.
Happy summer days!!
#summersalad #summersalads #cpk #thaidressing #barechicken #costco #airfryer #airfryerrecipes #recipes #simplemeals #healthymeals
🍓Using my @NinjaKitchen Creami to eat healthy and enjoy summer treats is my NEW SUMMER JAM!!
🍌This appliance is ONE of our most used appliances in our butler’s pantry.
🍦🍨You can turn just about anything into icecream with this machine.
🍧We have used a chocolate protien shake and added PB fit for some yummy PB chocolate icecream but…
🍓🍌🥭Smoothie bowls have to be my favorite. Frozen fruit, almond milk, @Clean Simple Eats vanilla protien powder and revivemd fiber powder found on @Amazon Home Freeze, mix and enjoy with toppings of your choice.
🥭Stay tuned as I share more of my families favorite appliances and pantry must haves all this week!! I’ll also include links to all the products, including proteins and fiber powders.
🍓I’ll include a full round-up of pantry appliances and storage product favorites on my blog next week!! Stay tuned for MORE!!
Now go enjoy a summer treat!!
💛Andrea
#ninjacreami #ninjacreamicreations #favoriteappliance #pantry #pantrymusthaves #butlerspantry #pantrygoals #smoothiebowl #summerrecipes #healthyrecipes #healthytreats #mango
Pantry / icecream maker / butlers pantry / appliance / kitchen appliance / smoothie bowl / strawberries / mango / blueberries / banana
🍌This appliance is ONE of our most used appliances in our butler’s pantry.
🍦🍨You can turn just about anything into icecream with this machine.
🍧We have used a chocolate protien shake and added PB fit for some yummy PB chocolate icecream but…
🍓🍌🥭Smoothie bowls have to be my favorite. Frozen fruit, almond milk, @Clean Simple Eats vanilla protien powder and revivemd fiber powder found on @Amazon Home Freeze, mix and enjoy with toppings of your choice.
🥭Stay tuned as I share more of my families favorite appliances and pantry must haves all this week!! I’ll also include links to all the products, including proteins and fiber powders.
🍓I’ll include a full round-up of pantry appliances and storage product favorites on my blog next week!! Stay tuned for MORE!!
Now go enjoy a summer treat!!
💛Andrea
#ninjacreami #ninjacreamicreations #favoriteappliance #pantry #pantrymusthaves #butlerspantry #pantrygoals #smoothiebowl #summerrecipes #healthyrecipes #healthytreats #mango
Pantry / icecream maker / butlers pantry / appliance / kitchen appliance / smoothie bowl / strawberries / mango / blueberries / banana
SURPRISING my hubby!! He lost his wedding ring a few years back. So while in St. Louis on vacation, I surprised him with a new ring from @antlerrings
Its the perfect gift fo him. As a guy who loves to hunt. This ring made of elk antler couldn’t be more perfect.
#surprise #weddingband #antlerrings #stlouis #husbandandwife #24yearsandcounting
Its the perfect gift fo him. As a guy who loves to hunt. This ring made of elk antler couldn’t be more perfect.
#surprise #weddingband #antlerrings #stlouis #husbandandwife #24yearsandcounting
In honor of my two dancers… my love of dance and the ballet; I am making my dining room table nutcracker themed!!
Let’s make a nutcracker napkin ring.
These are so so simple and can be whipped out in less than five minutes.
I ordered this pack of six wooden nutcrackers on Amazon
A little velvet ribbon and a star anise!!
Simply tie up your napkin and add a little fresh pine!!
So festive!!
Do you like to go to the nutcracker this time of year?
#c#christmastablescape c#christmasdecor c#christmastabledecor c#christmastable c#christmasnapkinrings n#nutcracker c#christmasdiy d#diyhomedecor f#forestgreen v#velvetribbon s#staranise c#christmasiscoming h#howihome howiholiday
Let’s make a nutcracker napkin ring.
These are so so simple and can be whipped out in less than five minutes.
I ordered this pack of six wooden nutcrackers on Amazon
A little velvet ribbon and a star anise!!
Simply tie up your napkin and add a little fresh pine!!
So festive!!
Do you like to go to the nutcracker this time of year?
#c#christmastablescape c#christmasdecor c#christmastabledecor c#christmastable c#christmasnapkinrings n#nutcracker c#christmasdiy d#diyhomedecor f#forestgreen v#velvetribbon s#staranise c#christmasiscoming h#howihome howiholiday
Here are a few of my favorite ways to hang ornaments.
1. Hang large ornaments in a triangle to create symmetry
2. To hang ornaments in grouping use a pipe cleaner
3. Hang ornaments deep inside your branches
4. Don’t forget those underlying limbs too. Ornaments look so pretty hanging below your tree
5. And the last one, I didn’t share this in the video but I love to use ribbon for the hangers. Simply switch out the ornament hooks for a favorite ribbon!!
#kingofchristmas #christmastree #christmastreedecorating #ornament #christmasornament #velvetribbon #hacks #christmashacks
1. Hang large ornaments in a triangle to create symmetry
2. To hang ornaments in grouping use a pipe cleaner
3. Hang ornaments deep inside your branches
4. Don’t forget those underlying limbs too. Ornaments look so pretty hanging below your tree
5. And the last one, I didn’t share this in the video but I love to use ribbon for the hangers. Simply switch out the ornament hooks for a favorite ribbon!!
#kingofchristmas #christmastree #christmastreedecorating #ornament #christmasornament #velvetribbon #hacks #christmashacks
I am changing up the colors on my basement tree!!
I am going for more natural feeling elements and colors, and I thought it would be fun to make some ornaments.
These were so simple… hwre is what you need:
Plastic ornaments from @Dollar Tree
A package of Star Anise from @amazon
Hot glue
Velvet ribbon
Simple glue all the star anise on your plastic ornaments and add velvet ribbon to hang and as a bow!!
What do you think? Would you try to make these?
#c#christmasornaments c#christmasdecor h#homemadeornaments d#diy d#diychristmasdecor d#diychristmas staranise
I am going for more natural feeling elements and colors, and I thought it would be fun to make some ornaments.
These were so simple… hwre is what you need:
Plastic ornaments from @Dollar Tree
A package of Star Anise from @amazon
Hot glue
Velvet ribbon
Simple glue all the star anise on your plastic ornaments and add velvet ribbon to hang and as a bow!!
What do you think? Would you try to make these?
#c#christmasornaments c#christmasdecor h#homemadeornaments d#diy d#diychristmasdecor d#diychristmas staranise
HAPPY NOVEMBER!!
Christmas is going up… and I spy a new @King Of Christmas tree. It is so much fuller than my old tree that I ended up moving furniture, and I am loving the new set up… ….AND I LOVE THIS NEW TREE! I have seriously never had a prettier tree!!
This new tree is the 7.5’ Aspen Fir Quick-Shape Tree with 1400 Warm White & Multi-Color LED Lights
Stay tuned for later on in the week for more amazing details about this tree, and see how I decorate it; including some decorating tips.
I will also be sharing my top Christmas mantle must-haves.
#kingo#kingofchristmas s#christmastree s#christmasmantle k#stockings s#christmasdecor enthomeview
Christmas is going up… and I spy a new @King Of Christmas tree. It is so much fuller than my old tree that I ended up moving furniture, and I am loving the new set up… ….AND I LOVE THIS NEW TREE! I have seriously never had a prettier tree!!
This new tree is the 7.5’ Aspen Fir Quick-Shape Tree with 1400 Warm White & Multi-Color LED Lights
Stay tuned for later on in the week for more amazing details about this tree, and see how I decorate it; including some decorating tips.
I will also be sharing my top Christmas mantle must-haves.
#kingo#kingofchristmas s#christmastree s#christmasmantle k#stockings s#christmasdecor enthomeview
Today I am sharing one of my favorite reels from last year.
What I love about it?
1. I made the gingerbread house with my friend Lori @loris.place (I love thinking about time spent with good friends)
2. This image was featured in the new holiday magazine for @entertainandcelebrate (have you got your copy yet)
3. Happy Friday!! This has nothing do with this reel but I just love Fridays!!
#kitchen #kitch#kitchenisland i#cuttingboard r#nutcracker e#gingerbread erbreadhouse #traystyling #neutraldecor dcelebrate #holidaycottage
What I love about it?
1. I made the gingerbread house with my friend Lori @loris.place (I love thinking about time spent with good friends)
2. This image was featured in the new holiday magazine for @entertainandcelebrate (have you got your copy yet)
3. Happy Friday!! This has nothing do with this reel but I just love Fridays!!
#kitchen #kitch#kitchenisland i#cuttingboard r#nutcracker e#gingerbread erbreadhouse #traystyling #neutraldecor dcelebrate #holidaycottage