vintage style, cottage living, home cooking
Welcome to my home…
On my front door you will see my version of an Easter Book Page and Tissue Paper Wreath.
I have been working on my Valentine Shelves and thought you might like to see the Book Page Valentine Art I made last week. I am really liking it, AND it was easy peasy!!
Doesn’t it look great for Valentine’s Day?? I love making anything with book pages, so I could not resist making book page Valentine art.
I started out with 2 book pages from a vintage dictionary I bought from the thrift store. I sealed them together with a glue stick. Using a cookie cutter as my guide,
Using a cookie cutter as my guide, and a pencil, I traced around the heart.
I used just very little paint, so you could see shades of red, not just a red painted heart. Some areas are darker than others, wwhich is the look I was hoping for.
This picture is a good example of what I mean. There are various shades of red depending on how little or how much paint I had on my brush. I tried hard to define the points and curves on the heart, so it didn’t look like a blob from a distance. Besides that, It looks perfect with my Valentine Polka Dot Bunting I shared with you on Saturday.
Finding the perfect frame for my Book Page Valentine art was easy. I like to use empty frames for decorating all around our home, this one is from the living room. I placed the book page Valentine art in the frame a put it on my kitchen shelves. Just the way I pictured it!!
What do you think, are you going to make some book page Valentine art ?? Let me know if you do, I really would love to hear about it.
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I hope you have been enjoying Simply The BEST of 2013!! Now it is my turn to share Simply The Best of 2013-What Meegan Makes. What Meegan Makes started on Dec 27, 2011. Yep, it has been 2 full years of posts, creativity, amazing followers, and lots of fun friendships. Thanks so much for joining me on this journey of What Meegan Makes. It was a very slow start. I was doing blogging all on my own until about a year ago. I “met” some amazing bloggers that invited me to their “groups” and “troops” to help spread the word about my blog. I am SO grateful from them. (There are too many to mention) I am a blessed woman, without a doubt.
I am looking forward to a new year full of ideas, inspiration and a new look. Hopefully, my blog will continue to be a place of inspiration, recipes, thrifting, and wonderful thoughts for you to visit each day. I also hope to make the blog more accessible for all of my readers and followers. It will be a fabulous year!!
Below is the full run down and schedule for Simply THE BEST:
Sunday December 29th:
Monday December 30th:
Tuesday December 31st:
CONFESSIONS OF A SERIAL DO-IT-YOURSELFER
With that being said let’s see Simple the BEST of 2013-What Meegan Makes…
Hang Decorative Plates With Hot Glue and Paper Clips
22 Ways To Use Barn Wood Boxes
$10 Thrifted and Painted Chairs
Quick and Easy Gift for Mother’s Day
Epsom Salt Christmas Jars (This post had my all time high hits in one day!)
Butter Lemon Snow Drops (This post was actually picked up by Pillsbury, and used on their site here. Woot woot!)
For some fun What Meegan Makes trivia: these last 2 posts below are clicked on EVERYDAY!! Even though they are from 2012. Cool, huh???
Dyeing Coffee Filters with Food Coloring
There you have it!! Simply the BEST from What Meegan Makes 2013. Thanks for letting me share the highlights from my blog in 2013. May there be many, many more posts to bring light to your days!!
Make it a Happy New Year!!
Hello Hello!! Christmas is just days away and nine bloggers and I have a beautiful and creative Christmas Tour of Homes for you. Thanks to Rachel from Like a Saturday for putting it altogether! To see the full tour schedule and to link up on December 20th, visit Rachel at Like a Saturday.
If you are coming from Kayla’s blog Home Coming-WELCOME!! I am so happy to have you here!!
Today, I am thrilled to share our Christmas Trees with a Christmas Tree Home Tour. I LOVE Christmas trees. But our 950 sq foot condo is too tiny for the size tree I want, so I have 4 little trees that bring the Christmas feeling into our home.
Each tree is unique and adds to the feel and look of our home.
This first tree is in our living room window.
It is filled with vintage “Shiny Brites”, snowflakes and icicles.
I used a glitter and crystal filled garland to lay around the tree as well.
The tree sits in my fleur box, along with the natural and glittered spheres from Pier One.
This white ornament is special because it was sent from one of my blog readers!! Isn’t she sweet??
My next tree resides in our bedroom. The colors are blue (one of my fave colors), silver and gold, with crystals scattered throughout.
With more vintage gold “Shiny Brites”, I was able to get the look and feel I wanted for our bedroom.
The bedroom tree sits in a barn wood box. and surrounded with burlap.
You can see the cracks in some of the glass ornaments, showing the wear and age on them.
“Merry Christmas” adorns the top of the tree, as a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
One of my Christmas trees is also in the living room, sitting in a vintage reproduction sleigh. I decorated the tree with a pine cone garland that I made last year.
The Santa and toys were crocheted by my grandma. Since she has passed on, they hold special meaning to me each year when I pull them out of the box.
Doesn’t Santa look excited to deliver toys on Christmas Eve??
Last, but certainly not least, is my DIY Flocked Tree in a Terracotta pot. Having it sit right by my vintage birdhouse is a perfect place for my bird ornaments.
My Christmas Tree Home Tour has been so fun to share with you. Each one makes me smile every time I see them and especially when they are lit up. Be sure to also see my WHOLE Christmas Home Tour.
Thanks SO much for coming over for the Christmas Tour of Homes! I KNOW you will enjoy each and every home as much as I have.
Your next stop on the tour will be with Gracie from Kitchen Table Art, tomorrow morning!! You will not be disappointed.
Make it a Christmas Home Tour kind of day! And, Merry Christmas.
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