The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop

 

Welcome to The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop! The Creative HomeAcre Hop is hosted by me and,

Manuela from A Cultivated Nest

Mary from Back to the Basics and Mary’s Kitchen

Alison from Mumtopia

Andrea from Opulent Cottage

and Lisa Lynn from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

That means that when you link up your posts each week, they will be viewed by even more people! Each host will be sharing her own picks for Featured Bloggers. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured and increases your exposure to new readers. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured!

I’m afraid I have no features for this week’s party because I have been in New York and was able to schedule this post before we left.  

Don’t forget to visit the other co-hosts to see who they have featured. If you were featured, please feel free to grab the I Was Featured button!

The rules are simple for linking up:

1. Share up to 3 of your Creative Home posts featuring home decor, home cooking, eco-friendly crafts, your gardens, vintage finds, thrifty tips, objects d’ art, fiber arts and sewing, farm girl fashion, food preservation, photography, creative writing, and gardening helpers, hand made ‘wholesomeness’, and good ol’ fashioned homemaking news. Etsy sellers are welcome to share here, too.

2. Please link back to the hop in your post. If you don’t take a couple of seconds to do this, you won’t be featured. You can use the cute buttons, or you can use a text link in your post. Thanks for sharing the hop with others!

3. Please mingle! Visit a few of the bloggers posting. Don’t just link and run The whole point of a hop is to build a community of like minded bloggers who share and support each other.

4. You are welcome to link your archived posts here, as long as all of the content you share is your own.

5. Link your posts once. Please do not link the same post you linked last week! Let’s keep it fresh and fun!

6. By linking your posts here you are agreeing to let us share your post and images on social media and our blogs.

I’m really looking forward to seeing all of your inspiring posts!

Odds and Ends

I wound up making an unexpected change to our  main bathroom last week.  I went to TJ Maxx to look for a new wallet {found two} and decided to browse the clearance aisles in the home section.  I found this Laura Ashley shower curtain for $10.00.

I had just been thinking that a shower curtain with more white in it might help brighten up this windowless bathroom, too.  I had left our striped one up because it at least had a little bit of white in it.  This is an older picture of what it looked like before {also before I put the frame around the mirror}.

Here it is with the new shower curtain. I think it is perfect for the warmer months!

That same day I also hit Hobby Lobby for the pillow form I needed and I finished off my second Alice themed pillow.

This one features the tea party setting and two lacey ruffles.  This is now in my Etsy.

The last thing I have to share today is this little fern I picked up at Home Depot.  I put it in the birdcage in our sunroom. 

Let’s just see if I can keep it alive long enough to get a pot for it. Hopefully, at one of the garage sales.

 

Master Bedroom For Summer

I like to lighten things up for the Summer months and the master bedroom is no exception.  The only thing I really changed out was the quilt that I had on the bed to this white gathered duvet cover. 

I also picked up this light quilted toile throw from Joann’s when they were having them on sale 50% off a few weeks ago.  The colors go with the other toile I used in our room, as well as the Duck Egg and the Pottery Barn drapes.

I also finally finished off the other side table’s dropcloth table skirt {which I copied from Vanessa from At The Picket Fence}. 

I’m enjoying this lighter look!

 

A Petite Stool “Moo”kover

I found this little stool a few weeks ago at a garage sale.  It was cute and sturdy, but not quite my style. 

I painted it with Old White chalk paint and decided to try using Acetone to transfer the image. This is another transfer method where you have to use a toner copy.  I print mine out and take them with me when I go to the library, and copy several at once so I have some on hand.  To pay homage to the cow that was originally on there, I went with this image that I found on Pinterest.

It came out a bit lighter than I would have liked {and not as sharp as I would have liked} but I decided to leave it, especially after I noticed that for some reason the top of the stool had started to crackle.  I didn’t add any kind of crackle medium, it just appeared on its own. 

I sanded it just a bit in spots to distress it and then applied some clear and dark waxes. 

I think the lightness of the image gives it the appearance of being older and having faded over time.

It will be “moo”ving into the booth!

Linking up with

Make It Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House

Inspire Me Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop

Welcome to The Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop! The Creative HomeAcre Hop is hosted by me and,

Manuela from A Cultivated Nest

Mary from Back to the Basics and Mary’s Kitchen

Alison from Mumtopia

Andrea from Opulent Cottage

and Lisa Lynn from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

That means that when you link up your posts each week, they will be viewed by even more people! Each host will be sharing her own picks for Featured Bloggers. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured and increases your exposure to new readers. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured!

Gail from Gail’s Decorative Touch beautifully made over a set of twin chairs.

Susan from Sunflower Hugs used burlap sacks to make over table tops!

Jamie from Domestically Speaking made this beautiful coffee filter wreath and banner for her soon-to-arrive baby’s nursery.

 

You can find all the posts that I have featured on my Pinterest board, The Creative HomeAcre Hop Features. Don’t forget to visit the other co-hosts to see who they have featured. If you were featured, please feel free to grab the I Was Featured button!

The rules are simple for linking up:

1. Share up to 3 of your Creative Home posts featuring home decor, home cooking, eco-friendly crafts, your gardens, vintage finds, thrifty tips, objects d’ art, fiber arts and sewing, farm girl fashion, food preservation, photography, creative writing, and gardening helpers, hand made ‘wholesomeness’, and good ol’ fashioned homemaking news. Etsy sellers are welcome to share here, too.

2. Please link back to the hop in your post. If you don’t take a couple of seconds to do this, you won’t be featured. You can use the cute buttons, or you can use a text link in your post. Thanks for sharing the hop with others!

3. Please mingle! Visit a few of the bloggers posting. Don’t just link and run The whole point of a hop is to build a community of like minded bloggers who share and support each other.

4. You are welcome to link your archived posts here, as long as all of the content you share is your own.

5. Link your posts once. Please do not link the same post you linked last week! Let’s keep it fresh and fun!

6. By linking your posts here you are agreeing to let us share your post and images on social media and our blogs.

I’m really looking forward to seeing all of your inspiring posts!

Corralling Escaping Fabric

The Where Bloggers Create Linky Party over at My Desert Cottage is coming up in about a month’s time.  That’s my cue to start straightening things up in the craft/sewing room so I can take some pictures to share my space.  If you’ve never visited this blog party let me just tell you it is a wonderful way to get some inspiration and creative ideas for your own creative space ~ no matter how big or small.

I started in on a few updates shortly after last year’s party.  This was my fabric as of last year’s party.

One of the things I did to get this pile neater was find a bin I already had and call it into use for my fabric.  Only thing was I have so much fabric I needed two bins!  Since I had the one for several years, I knew chances of Michael’s having the exact same one were slim to none.  They didn’t, but they had one that was close enough.

Up until today, this was how it was looking.  Pretty sad, especially since I wanted to use up what I’ve got before bringing more into the house, but as a fabric addict that can be hard to do.  Plus, I’m a sucker for remnant bins and clearance sections! Unfortunately, I was losing track of what I had because I just put fabric on top of fabric.

How much is too much fabric!  A clear out was in order. So I sat down on the floor in the sunroom and took all the fabrics out of the bins.

I got to work going through it all.  There is a pile to donate {or go to my daughter}.  

And a pile of “why was I keeping this?” to go in the garbage.

I put the fabric back in the bins in a way so that I can see what I have at a glance now.  

I think it is looking much better!

Next it is onto the bookcases!  I’m amazed sometimes that I can even find anything.

All Alice

I had a quilted cream colored fabric that I was going to get rid of but started wondering how it would take an iron-on image.  Well, it came out great and I decided to keep it and use it to make a few pillows {and maybe a Christmas stocking}.  I now have one pillow in my Etsy and one in the process!  I used the White Rabbit image on this one.

Added a ruffle, some crinkled seam binding, and a bit of bling {an earring I found at an estate sale}.  It measures 8 x 11 {from ruffle to ruffle}.

I’ve added this to my Etsy shop.  As soon as I buy the pillow form for the other one, I’ll have that finished up and in my Etsy shop, too.  Meanwhile, last week I did a little girl’s apron with the White Rabbit, too.

It seems like it is all Alice all the time here at the moment!

Linking up with

Blissful Whites Wednesday at Timewashed

Refresh Of A . . . Um . . . Thingamabob

As you can tell, I’m not really sure what to call this “thing” I picked up for $3.00 at our community garage sale about a month ago. 

It’s got two baskets {that lift up}and four hooks on the bottom.  I think it would be great to use in a kitchen displaying some dishes and holding either towels or aprons, in a bathroom with rolled up towels in the baskets, or even outside with the baskets planted with flowers and the hooks holding some small garden tools.

I wanted to give it a refresh because I wasn’t feeling that green color.  I sprayed it with Rustoleum’s Heirloom White 2x coverage spray paint.

I found a spot where I could hang it up and style it to give a few ideas for its use. 

I will ask my daughter if she is interested in it, otherwise it is going to the booth.

Linking up with

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

Tuesdays At Our Home at Our Home Away From Home