Fun With Frames

My hubby works for a bakery and he's been bringing me all sorts of goodies lately. I'm not talking the sweet, chocolate-filled kind. I mean leftovers. Leftover ribbon, leftover boxes, leftover frames. All things that the company has discontinued using. It's awesome.

He brought me one the other day that was a good color for the kitchen. So I made this:

I am in love with the Early Bird fabric line from Cosmo Cricket and while I was shopping etsy for it one day, I found these lovely scrapbook tags instead. I didn't really know what to do with them, but they were cheap, so I snatched them up!

When hubby brought home this frame, I knew I had found my project:

Aren't they cute? Double-sided too:

The frame was a bit roughed-up, so I took a piece of sandpaper to it, just to make sure it looks intentionally scratchy:

I used spray adhesive to tack down my tags and flowers. Then I adhered it to somem leftover corkboard peices:

I used the cork so that I could put some pins in the tags (so that they'd look specimin-like):



I think it's a nice way to dress up the white space!

That's not the only framed project I've been working on though. I re-made an old, ugly corkboard into a new inspiration board for my sewing table: 

I got the idea from Tatertots & Jello.

I will be linking up to these great parties this week! And don't forget to come back on Friday and link up anything you've been working on too!

Everybody's Doing It

I'm so excited about this post! It's the time of year when everyone is organizing, and I've gotten some great inspiration from all the blog-hopping I've been doing (and I have the carpel tunnel to prove it!). It seemed like the right time to revamp my calendar station.

Okay, "calendar station" is laying it on a little thick. My "calendar station" really just consisted of this:

Pretty pathetic, huh?

Now it looks like this:

I'm not really a fan of reproduction 40's-looking fabrics, but I fell in love with Punctuation by Moda. These message boards are made of an old board game box that I just hot glued the fabric too. Then I made the rosette's out of old cds and glued on some cork board from Wal-mart, too.

In fact, I like the fabric so much, I whipped up some matching tea towels! (My exact words to hubby about them: "These kinda took me awhile to make so please don't wipe down the counters or clean up urine with them or anything. They're sort of just decorative.")

My magnet board is a tin sign that was on clearance from Hobby Lobby. I just covered it with scrapbook paper!

And I've seen some really cute shelves around blogland. I bought this one unfinished from Michaels and stained it myself. Then I cut out an initial for each family member. I love that it's hung low so the kids can actually reach it and (hopefully) hang up their coats.

And it wouldn't be complete without a new calendar, right? This is hung on the adjacent wall. I added vinyl to a picture frame I had hanging around and I'm so happy it turned out well!

I color-coded each person's activities. Since my kid's fav colors sometimes change, I used fill-in circles so we can change them if need be:

And that's it! I also made a new file folder, inspired by A Bowl Full of Lemons, but mine isn't nearly as cool as hers, so you should really just click on over there to check it out.

Has anybody else been organizing?

Linking up to these great parties.