Homemade Valentines - Baby Style

Back in the day before early mornings, long work hours and loads of laundry and dishes - I had extra time to do fun creative DIY crafts. Because I want to be that mom that's involved and creative and messy and most importantly FUN, I'm making time with my baby to do these things! 

Last weekend after breakfast, Kingston and I started on some DIY Valentine's. 

Supplies Needed

Card Stock

Washi Tape

 (because it's thin and not super sticky which makes it easy to remove at the end)

Washable Paint

 (because this will be all over your baby, the highchair and yourself)

1. Use your washi tape to draw your design on the card stock 

2. Dab on paint sporadically across the card stock

3. Tape the card stock to the highchair and let your little one go to town 

4. Let dry, remove tape and give away!! 

We plan on folding these in half and sticking them in the mail to send to all our loved ones far away. This DIY was super simple, super inexpensive and the boy LOVED playing in the wet/messy paint. Sensory play is beneficial at any age - but I'd say 6 months is the perfect time to start! 

Week 31

How far along: 31 Weeks 

Food Comparison: 4 Naval Oranges

Gender: Boy!! 

Weight gain: +19 lbs 

Maternity clothes: A few pieces here and there. 

Stretch marks: I've counted 4 but none on the belly. =(

Belly button in or out: Out

Sleep: My night goes kinda of like this - sleep from 11a-245p, rest room break, toss turn toss turn toss turn until I wake up at 530 to go to the bathroom, then toss and turn until my alarm goes off 15-45 mins later. 

Best moment last week: The three day weekend! I wish we had those every weekend. 

Also - making Kingston an awesome mobile! 

Minky, felt, batting, and bakers twine!

 I love all my mama-made decorations. 

Like it too? Let me make you one! 

Worst moment last week: Backaches galore and he is definitely playing in my ribs these days. 

Miss anything: A few things but I wouldn't trade my little man for anything.   

Movement: This little man is active! Luckily I haven't really had any painful kicks or jabs but he is moving up a storm in there.

Cravings: Not really. I'm having to make myself eat these days. I'm not really hungry.   

Queasy or sick: No. 

Looking forward to: My birthday (on Friday)/ babymoon - we are taking a road trip to Dallas. Casino, IKEA, Dillard's clearance, Nordstrom rack, pool, food trucks, and diner drive-ins and dives. Then seeing Kingston next Monday. We have another ultrasound to see if he's officially turned into the right position.

Prayer Request: This week I pray for comfort. I'm so thankful I was able to make it to 31 weeks without being super uncomfortable - but the time has come where I'm really starting to feel pregnant. I pray that Kingston calms down on the tickling of the bladder and the kicking of the ribs. 

Operation Project Nursery: Closet Makeover

Yesterday evening I spent 30 minutes with a roll of wrapping paper, some scissors, and a can of spray adhesive and came out with my favorite nursery project yet - a wrapping papered closet! 

{You can check out what all i've accomplished in the nursery so far (here) and to learn a little background on the space we are working with.}

This closet originally housed all of my seasonal decor, our Christmas tree, luggage, and cleaning supplies. Because it housed so much junk, the walls were nasty and super scuffed. I knew I didn't want to spend time painting it so I had to come up with a different solution. 

Heather at Southern State of Mind used moustache wrapping paper to line a  dresser and I knew I could use the same concept to line the walls in our little man's closet. 

Before:

During:

After:

This project was totally meant to be when I headed to Hobby Lobby and was able to snag the last roll of this super cute black and white mustache wrapping paper. Plus with my 40% coupon it came out to only costing me about $2.99.

I started out by measuring the sections of the closet with a tape measure and then using the oh so handy grid on the back of the paper to cut straight lines.  

When it came to actually hanging the wrapping paper up - I started off thinking double sided sticky tape would do the trick. . . . not so much. Luckily, I had some left over Elmer's Spray Adhesive which is seriously the best invention ever and easily did the trick. We live in an apartment so I knew I didn't want something permanent. This was the perfect solution -  it's not permanent but it's definitely sticking! 

I love it so much that I want to leave the closet door open 24/7. 

You can't beat a project that turns out this well - especially when it only took 30 mins of my time and cost $2.99. 

What can you spruce up in your house with wrapping paper?

Linking up with Craftberry Bush and Artsy Fartsy Mama and Serenity Now and The Stitchin Mommy and Angels HomeStead and Word It Wednesday

Chalkboard Walls . . . Drooling

I've been doing the equivalent to drooling with your mouth, with my eyes in regard to these awesome chalkboard walls. Chalkboard paint is nothing new to anyone, but I stumbled across some really classy/clean chalkboard walls on pinterest the other day and I knew I had to have one in my house someday. 

I love the sharpness of the lettering on this wall. I need to find out how they made it so perfect? A chalk pencil? A stencil? I need to find out their trick! 

Who doesn't love a calendar and even more a calendar in chalk? The colorful frames finish the look. I love them! I've seen the exact same ones at Michaels for less then $3. I even have a few laying around the apartment waiting for me to turn them into something cool. 

I like the size of this chalk board wall. It's not too big and it's not too small. It's my fave that I've stumbled across! I also love how the shelf separates it from the top of the wall, making it look super classy. 

 all via pinterest

I love how they used this chalkboard wall to draw frames for their already hanging artwork. This technique would be super fun in a playroom.

There are so many fun and creative things you can do with chalkboard paint. Painting walls is only the beginning! I just need to figure out how to eventually one day talk the hubby into this! As long as I can make the writing look pretty and be able to clean the chalkboards so they look crisp, I think that'll convince him! And if it doesn't, you know how the saying going "happy wife, happy life" (I'd probably get my way anyways!)

How have you used chalkboard paint?

Weekend Plans

Praise the Lord - it is the weekend!! 

Even though this work week went by fast, I was counting down the hours until 4:45 today.

 All I wanted to do was come home and veg out. 

 It's been dark when I go to work and dark when I leave work which is really throwing me off. Fall is officially upon us and winter is making it's way in! It actually snowed here in Kansas today. October the 18th brings snow and tomorrow it's suppose to be in the 70's. Gotta love our weather! 

Anyways, this weekend I have lots planned. 

Alumni volleyball game tomorrow morning.

Homecoming football game for CT tomorrow afternoon.

Little sister in town to hang out tomorrow night. 

That calls for red box, haunted houses, pumpkin decorating, church, pizza, and shopping! I'm trying to cram as much into one evening and one morning as possible! 

I'm super pumped about this pumpkin decorating that we will be doing. 

Jewels, glitter, and ribbon! Leave it to Pinterest to give me some fabulous ideas. There will be no carving pumpkins for me this year. 

FOOTBALL Friday!

I am so excited to kick off football season with this post! 


CT, my hubby, is a college football coach at our alma-mater Friends University. He was a receiver in college and is now the head receivers coach at FU, and he loves every second of it! His ultimate goal is to one day be an offensive coordinator at a big D1 school {hopefully KU}, and I will be here every step of the way supporting him. 

I was quite the football groupie {aka great girl friend} in college and I still am now as a coaches wife! 

Let me take you back in time a little bit. 

{Freshman year of college}

{Sophomore year of college}

Junior year of college CT tore his ACL one of the first practices, so he had to medical red shirt this year. 

{Senior year of college}

It's crazy seeing how much we grew up in those few short years of college!


Check out how creative I was with my fashion during our college football days. 

Sometimes I wish I could still wear these, because they are so cool.
 I love that my dad passed on the creative gene to me. 

I have the shirts saved away for the day when we have a man cave basement. I have already consented to it being decorated with all our sports memorabilia, so these will hopefully one day be framed on a wall. 


Now to present day football! 


I am looking forward to Saturday evenings under the bright lights, watching CT walk up and down those sidelines in his headset. 

I am anxiously awaiting Sept. 15th when we are going to our annual Cowboys game. Yes ya'll, we are die hard Dallas fans! 
{Don't you know, it's America's team. They even have a hole in their roof so God can watch His team. =)) } 

I can't wait to break out the skinnies and boots, for some fun fall football fashion. 

 {This is definitely not the type of football fashion I'm talking about!}



Can't you tell how excited I was about kicking off football season. 
SO excited - that I didn't have a clue where I was going with this post. 
EEKK! 
Happy football season! 


PS - I hope you link up with us to showcase your football Friday posts! 

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Washi Tape Wednesday: Link Up #6

Welcome to my Link Party - Washi Tape Wednesday! 

Washi tape is one of my new found loves. It's a craft supply that is super affordable and there are so many uses for it. From decorating, to labels, to color coding your planner - the possibilities are endless. 

This is a place where you can link up your best washi tape post of the week. 


Link up rules

-Follow Crafting a Fairytale on GFC & Bloglovin'

-Add my button or do a text link back to my party in your post


 

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-Link directly to your post and not your home page. No items for sale, etsy shops, ect.

-Spread the word of Washi Tape Wednesday

-Check out other links and leave a comment! 

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I have been seeing all these cute cards around Instagram lately that I'm obsessed with. I didn't dabble around with a card this time, but something similar. 

I had some random tags laying around that I figured I could spruce up with some washi and then use them for all my upcoming gifts.
 {Yes, I'm thinking of gift giving season already!}

I think the blue and black tag is my favorite. 


This week, I was kinda stumped on what to do. I was looking at my small collection of wash tape thinking I needed to expand my color selection. 
Where do ya'll get yours? Preferably for cheap, because we are on the saving money kick.

Washi Tape Wednesday - Link Up #5

Welcome to my Link Party - Washi Tape Wednesday! 

Washi tape is one of my new found loves. It's a craft supply that is super affordable and there are so many uses for it. From decorating, to labels, to color coding your planner - the possibilities are endless. 

This is a place where you can link up your best washi tape post of the week. 


Link up rules

-Follow Crafting a Fairytale on GFC & Bloglovin'

-Add my button or do a text link back to my party in your post


 

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-Link directly to your post and not your home page. No items for sale, etsy shops, ect.

-Spread the word of Washi Tape Wednesday

-Check out other links and leave a comment! 

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This weekend CT and I upgraded our old PC to a new macbook pro! I am in love with it. The battery has lasted 3 full days, it's super quick, and I love the fact that I don't have to get worried about it getting viruses. 

So I went on amazing as soon as I got home for a cheap cover to protect this bad boy. 

Who doesn't love the color robins egg blue?

I also then found this super fun keyboard cover. 

Pink + Chevron = totally my style. 

I figured if my computer was going to be super cute that I needed to make the charger super cute too. 

Why not add a little washi tape to spice things up. 
Now that I see all the colors together in this post, I'm not sure I like the blue.
I'll have to see how it looks when everything comes and I get the cover and keyboard put on. It may be too blue so I might have to redo it. 
Good thing it's super easy to remove. 
That's a plus and negative to washi tape. 

What color do you think would look good? 
I'm thinking probably pink.

Dabbling in Etsy . . . HELP!

The more I craft and make awesome handmade goodies, the more I want to sell some of my creations on Etsy. 

Taking this jump is a huge step for me. It means possibly a huge time commitment, coming up with new ideas that are different from everything else that is out there, perfecting my craft, and really being fully committed to making this new business venture work. 

For all of you who have Etsy shops:

What does it really take to start a handmade business? 

Things on my to-do list before opening up for business.

- Cute packaging 

- Business Cards

- Facebook page

- Having good descriptions for the products

- Photography back drop

- Creating an Etsy email account

- Get a good amount of product created 

Is there anything I'm missing? 

Help! 

My ultimate goal is to have this up and running before the holidays.

Wish me luck!

Washi Tape Wednesday - Link Up #3

Welcome to my Link Party- Washi Tape Wednesday! 

Washi tape is one of my new found loves. It's a craft supply that is super affordable and there are so many uses for it. From decorating, to labels, to color coding your planner - the possibilities are endless. 

This is a place where you can link up your best washi tape post of the week. 


Link up rules

-Follow Crafting a Fairytale on GFC & Bloglovin'

-Add my button or do a text link back to my party in your post


 

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-Link directly to your post and not your home page. No items for sale, etsy shops, ect.

-Spread the word of Washi Tape Wednesday

-Check out other links and leave a comment! 

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 This weeks washi tape craft was a gift I did for a good friend of mine who is getting married at the beginning of next month. She is a newbie to cooking and I wanted to give her some of my favorite go to recipes.

I wanted it to be a little bit more personal, so I purchased the recipe box from hobby lobby and up-cycled it.

I had to break out the cricut to make the red piece because when I tried to hand write her name, the marker smudged! 
I think it turned out better this way.

I decorated the edges of the divider cards with Washi Tape. So simple but it really gives it some pop. And it helps to color code the different categories. 

It's not super fancy but it's cute and functional and fun!
A little washi tape can really transform anything.

I then added in my recipe cards and wa-la!

Washi Tape Wednesday - Link Up #2

Welcome to my Link Party- Washi Tape Wednesday! 

Washi tape is one of my new found loves. It's a craft supply that is super affordable and there are so many uses for it. From decorating, to lables, to color coding your planner - the possibilities are endless. 

This is a place where you can link up your best washi tape post of the week. 


Link up rules

-Follow Crafting a Fairytale on GFC & Bloglovin'

-Add my button or do a text link back to my party in your post


 

 <div align="center"> <a href="http://craftingafairytale.blogspot.com" title="Crafting A Fairytale"><img src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q657/tiffross5/WashiTapeWednesday_zps8d468a7c.jpg" alt="Crafting A Fairytale" style="border:none;" /></a></div> <br><br> <br>

-Link directly to your post and not your home page. No items for sale, etsy shops, ect.

-Spread the word of Washi Tape Wednesday

-Check out other links and leave a comment! 

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This week, as I was searching high and low for a chip bag clip I couldn't find anything but I stumbled across some clothes pins. 

 
I knew they would be the perfect solution to preventing stale chips! 
And what better way to give them a little extra pizazz then add some washi tape! 

I then wanted to add some magnents to the back just incase they weren't being used on chips I could use them to help hold  some goodies on the fridge. 

The backs aren't the prettiest but they get the job done! 

My fridge now has a little bit of color on it! 

If you are into homemade gifts, I would recommend these! 
Super easy and super cute. 

I would also recommend when using washi tape on clothes pen, to use the 3/8 inch size of tape. It covers the pen perfectly with nothing hanging off the edge!

Also linking up with Wow Me Wednesday.