Hello my friends and Happy New Year!! Hope you all had a safe and fun evening last night. My evening consisted of a Homeland binge watching session and some sparkling wine with the hubs at midnight. A perfect evening as far as I am concerned!
Today I'm sharing with you a dollar store hack that I used to make Christmas presents for my littles. Miss A has been asking to update her bedroom for a few months now. Originally she asked to paint the lower portion of her room green like grass in a field, and the top part of the room blue like the sky, paint a fence and put pictures of horses all over the walls.
That tall order was not going to happen (not right now anyway) but I wanted to bring some horse themed artwork into her room. Rather than shell out big bucks for artwork at Home Sense or Target, I thought I could find a way to do it for cheap. So, off to my favorite store these days - Dollarama!! I picked up a horse calendar and some photo frames and got to work!All in I spent $13 to make four art pieces for my littles; 4 frames at $3 each and a buckeroo for the calendar.
Once I took the stock photo out of the frames, and the matting out, I was able to "frame" out which calendar pages would work out best for my project. I lucked out and found that more than half of the calendar pages would have worked! I picked out the ones I thought the girls would like best (especially since Miss A asked for a real horse that's brown with white spots for Christmas!) and using scotch tape affixed the calendar pages to the matting.
I also put together one other art piece for Miss A that wasn't horse related. Since she isn't exactly a morning person (like at all) I wanted to find a fun quote about being happy. I scoured Pinterest and found this quote that reads "Today is the perfect day to be happy" - it was an ad for a Color Run, and I just cropped the runners out of the bottom of the picture, resized it to fit on an 8 1/2 x 11 page and printed it on cardstock.
Here are some photos of how the prints look in the girls rooms. Pardon the horrendous lighting, I took the pics at night and the chandeliers in the girls room aren't exactly the best sources of light for photos!
Notice anything in this one? My assistant Miss E snuggled herself into the bed disguised as a stuffy. And yes, she actually sleeps with all of those "babies" on her bed each night!
I decided to put the Happy quote on Miss A's wall right at the end of her bed so that when she wakes up for her compulsory 12 minutes of stretching each morning, it'll be the first thing she sees! Here's hoping it works!!
Thanks so much for stopping by to check out my dollar store artwork - maybe it'll inspire you to put some fun pictures up in your house!
Everywhere I look in blogland these days, I see people posting photos of their holiday mantel. Now, I have never been a person to season up my fireplace (except for at Christmas), but today is the day. I didn't update it for the Spring Season, or for St Patrick's Day or for Easter.
I decorated my fireplace mantel for the most important season of all: Canucks Playoff Season. It's what we live for in my house. Literally. My children stand up and belt out their tiny little versions of Oh Canada every night no matter what team is playing.
And on Canucks Game Day? OMG, it's insanity. Last season we had tv's setup on the stoops in our complex. The kids could play on their bikes while all of the adults (sometimes as many as 20 of us!) watched the game from our lawn chairs on the driveway!
Canucks Playoff hockey is serious business.
As the Canucks enter the post season tomorrow night against the LA Kings, I knew that I needed to break out the Canucks gear and set it up. In years past, the Canucks paraphernalia was strategically placed on the TV stand.
GOCANUCkSGO!!
This year I thought I would take my cues from blogland and setup a full-on Canucks mantel. Hopefully it stays up right through the entire NHL playoffs, and doesn't come down until they win the biggest trophy in sports.
On our living room mantel you'll find: a couple of our car flags (they don't really fit on the minivan when I park in the garage),
Trevor Linden's retirement banner (best game of my life, I cried for an hour!), the head band thing that Aidyn made at preschool last year, a little wee Stanley Cup I got on Ebay, and our MOST prized Canucks possesion...
The hubs had an aunt and uncle who passed away a number of years ago. Uncle Harry and Auntie Trudy were big time Canucks fans. When Auntie Trudy passed away, hubs inherited a 1982 Canucks Playoff Mug and a tiny little Canucks ring. They are awesome, and we treasure them. Hopefully they will bring our team luck.
Everyone let's start the chant: GO CANUCKS GO! GO CANUCKS GO!!
