Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Homegoods beats Pier1 any day!

Hey everyone! So I was eyeing this bowl at Pier 1 for months! It’s 20 bucks there and I always waited to get it because I knew it would be around a while longer. I don’t know why but I am in love with this bowl! Anyway! I found it at, where else, but Homegoods! For 17 bucks LOL. Not that much of a difference but hey I’m not complaining I was thrilled and obviously I bought it! LOL!

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I love its scalloped edges :) I just have an obsession with this bowl haha! I obviously need more lemons but this was my original idea for the bowl :) I love the look of bright yellow lemons in a bowl :) I also got the cutest bowls at Homegoods! They are kind of off white with cherries! You’ll love them! Everyone go to Homegoods LOL.

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Look at how much Homegoods was selling it for!!!

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Oh Homegoods is good to us isn’t it LOL.

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Cute with lemons in it too huh! I’m telling you lemons look good in anything! Well everyone I hope you have all had some great shopping experiences lately! All the best!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Shabby chic furniture

Yay for garage sales. The same garage sale that bequeathed me the fan and mirror also produced this splendid little wire cabinet and this other one with a glass panel. The one with the glass panel is kind of cheap like made of cardboard or something. The top is all grungy I’ll show you pictures. So how can I fix that!? Ahhh. Ok but the other little shelfy cabinet was fine and really cute.

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2 bucks. Kind of cute how it’s signed on the back huh? lol The dried hydrangeas came with it :) I really like this chippy little thing, I almost left it behind! So glad I went back for it LOL. The next thing doesn’t have great pictures because I left it in my car and took it to my dads house to store it.

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Now I’ll show you the top of it that is all messed up. How can I fix this?!

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It was 2 bucks too so I couldn’t pass it up and I thought I could somehow fix the top. It’s bubbled up like paper does when it gets wet so I don’t really know what to do! Like I said it’s like made of some composite material and kind of cardboard-esque. I was thinking worse comes to worse I will try to scrape the top off and put shabby wall paper on it or something. Unless you guys have a way better idea and I’m sure you all do! All the best everyone! :)

Thursday, June 25, 2009

How to make a faux cupcake

Here it is ladies! How to make a faux cupcake :) Off we go! First you need some supplies.

Styrofoam balls (small enough to fit in a cupcake liner)

Patching plaster ready mixed in a tub (any hardware store)

Cupcake papers

Glue gun

Bits and bobs that you could use to decorate

ribbon, paper flowers, faux pearls, clay whatsits, glitter, acrylic paint, on and on…

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Directions:

First you have to glue your cupcake liner to the styrofoam ball

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to look like this

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Then you use patching plaster

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When you open it mix it around a little then you just smear it on with a plastic knife or something I used  a spoon because I didn’t have a knife hah! And it worked fine. It will look like frosting, spread it around as if you were icing a cupcake.

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Be careful as you’re getting closer to the paper that you don’t get it on there but get close enough so that you can’t see styrofoam anymore. The completed frosting.

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You have to let this dry now. The bucket says for 1-5 hours but I let it dry over night because you’ll find it’s still soft if you only wait 5 hours. So I highly recommend you let it set overnight! Especially if you’re going to paint it! I am not going to paint this one but I still let it dry. If you paint just use a normal paint brush and any acrylic paint and paint away lol. There are a lot of grooves and cracks so you’ll notice where to cover those because the white shows through. After it’s dry get your bits and bobs ready.

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I just used ribbon, a glass bee, and a clay rose and petals I made. If you want to know how, I got the directions  here from Lorena at Rose Chic Friends! From this point on the decorations are purely your ideas. You’ve got the basic how to with the cupcake.

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I glued these together then I glued them to the cupcake.

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Then glued the clay rose and petals on top and added the bee.

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The plaster cracked on the back and little things like that bother me LOL. So I added faux pearls all over to cover that LOL.

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Then all you do is put it on your cupcake dome and display :)

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If you paint make sure you let it dry before you add your bits and bobs! On my other cupcakes I added trim around the paper which I’ll shower later :) A glue gun really does work best. When you glue the styrofoam ball to the paper cup make sure you squirt some along the sides of the cup so that sticks to the ball! I hope you all have fun if you make them and that they work out for you! All the best!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Garage sale finds

So the cupcake how to is coming along but for now I will entertain you with some recent garage sale finds :) So I got this cool lighted mirror! It’s old but the lady didn’t know how old. I like it :) I’ve always wanted an old fashion lighted mirror.

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I tried looking up this company and couldn’t find anything except electrical switches lol.

The best part of the whole thing is that it works!

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Check out the engraved look on the side.

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Pinky inspecting the fan LOL.

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I got some other really neat stuff that I will share next time :) 2 bucks for the mirror and 2 bucks for the fan I think it was a good deal lol. The fan works too! But the button to turn it on and off is broken you have to unplug it to turn it off LOL. Oh well. All the best everyone!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Ye old apothecary

Look what I found! This cute window display at Disney that is all old apothecary-esque lol. I love it! There is even a dome guys look! LOL. Enjoy the photos :)

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Here is some random fake food they had and these pretty copper pots!

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Did ya love it? I loved it! I wish I owned a few of those things. Did you see the tussie mussies! Ahh I was so excited when I saw that and the dome! LOL. So cute. I love all this old neat antique doctor stuff. I just bought an apothecary jar too! So cute. Show ya later. All the best everyone!