HOMEMADE WOODEN KIDS PLAYHOUSE

We wanted to give our girls a playhouse for Christmas to have in their playroom.  When we started looking on Amazon at the prices and assembly requirements, the hubby decided that he would make it from scratch himself.

It took him about 3 months to complete, working an average of 2 days per week.  He designed it himself, cut all of the pieces, sanded it himself, painted/stained it himself, and assembled it with my Dad's assistance.  It was quite interesting moving the walls and roof pieces up the stairs from the garage, but we figured it out.  He assembled it on Christmas Eve while the girls were napping at my parents' house.  

It has a bar, bay window, windows with flower boxes, front door, very high ceilings, and custom shingles for the roof.  The only thing that the hubs wanted to possibly add -->

 a light for the inside ceiling.

My sis-in-law created the green pot and purple flowers using materials from hobby lobby (tissue paper for the flowers).  She also made the sign hanging over the door out of burlap and hand painted the letters.  Thanks to her for her awesome creativity!

 Needless to say, they loved it on Christmas morning and said, "Thank you, Daddy, for our new house."  

HOMEMADE WOODEN POT STAND WITH SHELVES

I wanted to elevate a pot that I used in the powder bathroom for holding extra toilet paper.  I requested the top be square and made with small pieces of wood joined together to make a unique look.  My hubby came up with the stand below.  It has 2 little shelves and they are offset in alignment.  I was very impressed with his creativity on this one!

SIMPLE DECOR PROJECT

I found this project on Pinterest a few months back and thought it was a cute idea.  Very simple, yet unique.  I just made the table top out of wood glued together, sanded, stained, and polyed.  The table is sitting on top of two white columns that someone gave me for free.  The picture frames are hanging from a curtain rod mounted to the wall.  I stapled some ribbon to the back of the picture frames and then tied them onto the rod.  This is sitting in the corner of our master bedroom.

HOMEMADE HIDDEN SHOE STORAGE IN MUD ROOM

My hubby made this awesome built-in project from something we found on PINTEREST.

It is hidden shoe storage with the ability to hang jackets and bags in our mud room.

We love it because it keeps the dirty shoe bottoms out of the carpeted closets!

With the doors open:

Before the doors and white paint:

REUSE CANDLE JAR - REMOVE WAX

Another project complete from PINTEREST.

Just follow these steps and it works great!

As you can see, I use my clean jar to hold my hair ties (Emi-Jay).

HOMEMADE CORK LETTER

We have been collecting corks for a long time.  Pinterest gave me the idea for making this project.

Luckily, my hubby is extremely creative and didn't mind gluing them together.  Before gluing, he made the letter flat on the desk.  Then, he used wood glue and a small paint brush to put it together.   He completed the letter in sections and allowed each section to dry before gluing the next.  

SIMPLE PLATE DECOR PROJECT

PINTEREST inspired this project.  My mom has great handwriting, so I asked her to help.

Materials:  plates from Target, black Sharpie pen, nice handwriting, plate stand.

HOMEMADE READING CENTER

Another great idea from PINTEREST!  

My hubby did a great job making a reading center in the playroom.

The kids love it and it is a great way to organize books.

HOMEMADE CURTAIN ROD & CURTAINS

I ran across an awesome idea for making a homemade curtain rod, thanks again to PINTEREST.

It gets really expensive to buy a curtain rod for a 9 ft by 9 ft window, so this was great!

Then it became so quick and easy, that I made more to cover the glass doors on the sides.

And then I made more to cover the big windows in the kitchen. 

I followed these instructions, but I bought the end knobs/caps from Hobby Lobby (about $2 a piece).

Also, instead of cutting the pipe with a tube cutter, one time I used a hack saw and other times my hubby used the metal grinder from his craftsman tool.  We also filed the end of the pipe, as it is very sharp when you cut it.  I bought the brackets and the curtain rings from Lowe's.  You can also find the curtain rings at Walmart or Target.  I bought the curtain material from Hobby Lobby, hemmed the curtains, and hung them on the curtain rings.  Fun and easy!  

5 REASONS TO JOIN PINTEREST

i joined pinterest about 1 week ago and already became addicted.  
it is a simple way to share ANYTHING!
here are my 5 reasons to join:

1. "Pin It" button (explained HERE on the pinterest site):  put this button in your browser's bookmark bar, go to the website you like, click the "pin it" button, click on the image you want to pin, and you are done!  you can even PIN VIDEOS!
2. a visual site (check it out HERE): it is great for people who love to learn visually and see pictures.  if you do not want to read the caption under each picture or "pin", then simply don't. ;)
3. simple concept and facebook linked:  you do not have to be a computer genius to use the site.  all of the dropdown menus are self-explanatory.  they even have a HELP feature installed.  it is also already linked to facebook and twitter.
4. easy privacy settings:  unlike facebook, the privacy settings are complete with ONE CLICK instead of being buried.  if you click on settings under the menu under your name, you can click the "visibility" box to prevent your profile from showing up on search engines (if you want to, that is.)
5. learn new stuff:  have learned a great deal of cool things about my friends and about how to organize/clean my house on a budget, make things from scratch for gifts/my house/family, cook great new recipes, think about new sayings, etc.

as they say on pinterest:  HAPPY PINNING!