Baby Girl Lamp Update

I found these adorable little butterflies at Dollar Tree and thought they'd be perfect on Baby Girl's lamp! It's been needing something!

The butterflies had little wires to wrap around, ummm I'm not sure what! It had to come off to get them to stick to the lamp, but I couldn't cut it too shore because the wire was also part of the actual butterfly!

I added some two sided sticky foam to the back and simply stuck them on!

I added the rest to little buckets also purchased at the Dollar Tree.

Simple update, easy to change! Which I'm sure I will because in a couple years she'll be able to yank those suckers right of!! Liking it for now!

Apothecary Beach Display

I'm getting pretty tired of decorating in my dining room- switching it out for every season. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I just need a change of pace/room!

Inspired by Emerald Cove's post on her apothecary jars in her bedroom.....


I thought I'd see what I could do with mine on my bedroom dresser! I posted about my recent Goodwill apothecary finds here, and decided to use them with beachy finds like Michelle did!

By the way, GOOOOOO see what she did with her bedroom and the AMAZING faux fireplace!! I want to steal every idea in there!!

My bedroom has been needing a change, but I've been working on so much else that I've put it off! This was a quick and easy change though!

Here's the before of the decor on top!

It's been like this since Christmas when I removed a shelf unit to make room for Baby Girl who stayed in our room since company stayed in hers. Some of the stuff from the shelf ended up here! I've got plans to redo the dresser that I slapped paint on awhile back without prepping it correctly! This was never how I intended for it to look!

And the after!

I glued the small apothecary jar up onto a Dollar Tree candle stick which I like much better! Added my driftwood sign I made (which I'm super glad I finally found a good home for!), lots of shells and sand- some bought some gathered from beaches myself, and a picture of Baby Girl's first view of the ocean last month at Tybee Island, GA (I'll be replacing this with a real pic! It's a computer printout for a quick fix!). I got the frame at Dollar Tree years ago! Love it and wish I'd gotten more at the time!

I also moved the crab sign down about 6 inches and am liking it alot better!

I also found some old, falling apart books and tied them with ribbon and twine. I'm already not super loving the way I tied them, so I'm looking into fixing that!

Here's some more close ups of details...

I still think it needs something else around it, but this wall is limited because our huge TV shelves are to the left of it! I also need to do something about the clock I removed! It's so super ugly, but functional! I need to see the time in the middle of the night to know if Baby Girl is waking up because she's hungry or just needs to be soothed back to sleep!

So far, I'm super happy about this display! I love finding inspiration around bloggy land!

For more inspiration, check out these lovely ladies and their fantasitc parties I'm linking this to!

Dollar Tree Roses

I'm working on an aqua, light pink and white Valentine's vignette. I don't normally decorate for Valentine's Day, and I wasn't planning to this year. But reading blogs....I got the bug!

Here's what I'm currently working on (and have the hot glue bits stuck to my fingernails to prove it!)

I'm making over these blah Dollar Tree Roses. Here's the white ones I've yet to re-do.

The flower itself is really pretty, but the leaves are just iiiiickkkk! Trust me, they look worse in person than in this photo. Plus they are tissue papery, and they were so awful, I almost walked right by them. Then, I tugged at one and realized it could come off and one pink and one white bouquet hopped into my cart!

The petals are kind of foamy and lightweight and have shiny glitter on them- not realistic, but pretty!

Here's the pink bouquet made over:

I used my Silhouette to make the leaves (with a leaf shape included already!) out of cardstock, small ones for around the rose and bigger ones for the leaves on the stems. The leaves I took off did leave some nasty bright green spots around the roses I had to cover up, plus the flowers now looked nekkid!

Then I wrapped some jute twine around the stems to add some texture!

I simply used hot glue to keep it all in place! They're a bit messy, but only I can tell!

Again, not realistic looking, but that's not what I was going for! Plus I can use these for years to come!

Cost- $2! I had all the supplies on hand except the actual roses! Glad I got the pink ones when I did, because I couldn't find any pink the next time I went!

Off to go rip the nasty leaves and re-do the white ones!

Hopefully in the next day or two I'll have my Valentine's vignette fixed up so you can see how I use these pretty babies!