{Fabulous Frames}

This is one of two that I did for a friend.  I am about to add her daughter's names to the frames, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

This is actually just a white frame--for some reason I edited it and it looked great on my phone, but not so great when you look at it larger. 

Ok, I am In love with these frames I got from  Oh my crafts for only $13!  I painted them with basic acrylic paint then took my sander around the edges.  What a super cheap gift!  {Bonus}  if you spend over $30 you usually get 20% off your order which makes them really a good deal especially if you are doing them to sell like me.  

These are really heavy, thick wood.  Holds a 4x6 picture. 

The water bottle is there so you can see the sizing of the frame.

{Monster Party}

We celebrated my son's first birthday with a monster party!  Below are some pictures of how everything turned out. 

The little gifts for each kid to take home with them

Found these little pins at Walgreens for $1.99 in the Valentine section!

Little Monster bowls.  I found these in sets of 4 at Taret for $1.99.  I saw online little monster bowls and loved them, but they were $7.99 each which is just too pricey for me so I bought these plain bowls at Target then made little vinyl monster faces and put them on.  Super cute!

These were lollipops left over from my daughter's rainbow party.  I put some monsters I made over the front of the lollipops and hello Monster pops!

Bought these monster mouths as a download for $5 on Etsy--so cute!

Little monsters I got of Amazon --  adorable idea!

The gift table for the kids

 

Monster bowl!

Monster Cake!  This turned out larger than expected but so cute! 

Monster cupcakes!

 

So cute and so much fun!

Fruit

Little cheese please!

Gotta have gold fist!

Monster animal crackers

finger puppets and swirly straws

Food table (minus the pizza boxes that we had in the kitchen)

1st birthday timeline above the food table

I put wiggly eyes on everything I could stick them too!

Got this book on Amazon for like $4~great addition to the table

Monster wall decals from Amazon.  This picture is not so great, but I had to show that they went down the walls in the dining room

Food table again

The mantle banner (gotta have a banner!)

Monster plates from Target

Told you I stuck the monsters everywhere--even in the bathrooms!

Our second mantle--I just did a simple banner here

silverware

 

And that is all--I of course took over 200 pictures, but I didn't post any of the kids since I don't think the parents would love their kids being all over the internet.  I was pretty happy with the party and the kids LOVED all the fun stuff!

{Masterpieces}

Everytime I do something new I think it is my favorite~but I do have to say that this one ranks up there in the top 10 no matter what!  The fact alone that it clears the clutter off my fridge just makes it worth getting the electric screwdriver out!

I put this right beside our kitchen in our hallway with our little hooks and bench.  This is mainly where everything gets cluttered up so this addition might actually help me from putting stuff on the top of that shelf!

I got this little cafe curtain rod at Walmart for $3!  Are you kidding me?  $3 is fabulous!  I was going to get a real ornamental one for like $15 then I saw this and it actually looks better because it is smaller and doesn't look "bulky" in the middle of my wall.

I did get these hooks at Target for $5.  I paid a little more, but they look nice and they are antique brass looking.  Worth the extra buck or two.

I put this right below our family calendar.  I did the rod at the shortest distance for 2 reasons:  first I don't really want a super long wall of kid pictures--a couple are enough and second the longer and farther out you get the rod will sag in the middle if much weight is applied to it.  I figure that with my daughter hanging her art work on here she will be pulling and tugging.  I need it as tight as I can get it!

A level, screwdriver and hand sanitizer.  What a combo.  The hand sanitizer somehow made it into the picture.

{Super FAB}

I cut the word "Masterpieces" with my Cricut machine and slapped it on the wall. 

My cluttered up hallway.  I clean it up and within hours it is back messy.  

This project cost a total of $8 and took me about 45 minutes.  Best 45 minutes I have spent in a long time and my husband loved that it was so cheap!