Wednesday, December 5, 2012

NO SEW Dropcloth Tree Skirt

Hi y'all,


Today I spent my sons nap making a new tree skirt. I'm so happy with how it turned out and it was only about $11 in materials. I used our old tree skirt that doesn't match our tree and some drop cloth. I got mine at Lowes for less than $11 and I have some leftover (I see anew wreath in my immediate future) I got this idea from a very expensive tree skirt I saw in a store and just could make myself spend the money on it. So I decided to make my own and you can too!! you could definitely use any fabric you want and even use more than one color :)

I started by tearing the fabric into strips and then laying them out into folds row by row. I started at the bottom and laid the fabric out first to make sure I liked how it looked and then went back and glued it down with my glue gun. Then I moved onto the next row, overlapping them a little bit.

I really like the bigger ruffles but you could definitely do smaller ones.


The top was the tricky part for me but it was still very easy. You just have to turn more as you go =)

Don't mind my feet in this one lol This was done during nap time so there was no time to edit! This is the finished product!!

And here it is under our tree. I love it!!

Only about 3 hours of work and it was super cheap to make!!






Hope you guys are having a great month of December so far and that you get some inspiration from this to make your very own fabulous tree skirts =)


Sunday, December 2, 2012

Gold Framed Chalkboard





Hi Y'all,

I couldn't wait to show off this little beauty and it was super duper easy to make! I just took an old frame and used gold spray paint on the frame and painted chalkboard paint on the glass. It took quite a few coats of chalkboard paint but it was worth it!! I'll post more pictures of this once I get it hung and the decorations on the table.


Talk to y'all soon