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I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! We are at my parent’s house since the hubby is staining and sealing the last section of floors in our home. It smells pretty bad so we keep the kids away from it. One thing for sure though, we are in the home stretch on the floors! 

I will be sharing more kitchen plans in my next post, but I thought it would be fun to share how to make these super easy farmhouse inspired napkin rings made from items at your local Dollar Tree. 

All you need are two things. Those plastic silver napkin rings….

…and those raffia packs you find in the floral section.

If you don’t find the raffia packs you can always use a Hawaiian skirt, like I did with my faux rattan vase. Works just as great! 

So, here is what you do…

Take the raffia and start making individual braids. Make sure to get the longer pieces. If you do, then you all you need is one braid per ring. 

Next, hot glue the braid onto the ring. Make sure to fold over the end piece underneath itself to give it a clean start. 

Oh and that is the same silver ring from before. I just happened to paint it for another DIY and it didn’t work out. #craftfail

Begin on one end of the ring and continue to wrap the braid around tightly. Secure with hot glue as you go. Make sure to cover the edges and not let any of the original ring shine through.

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Continue until the other end of the ring. 

And that’s it! Just make as many as you like for your table setting. I think they are so pretty! And you can make and entire set of them for $2! 

They are a perfect complement to my faux galvanized chargers as well. 

Well, I hope you like this super easy DIY. I will be back with more kitchen plans! 

Don’t forget to share with your friends and I will see you in the next one. 

Until then… adios! 

Dollar Tree Patriotic Decor DIY

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Hello friends! I hope you are all doing well! The school year is finally behind us! We got to see our teachers this week and it was bittersweet farewells until next year. 

I will say we are looking forward to summer vacation though. We need a BREAK! We are looking forward to all this summer has to bring! 

And speaking of, Memorial Day is around the corner (and 4th of July will be here before you know it) so why not start creating for it! 

Have you seen these wood squares at your local Dollar Tree yet? They come 6 to a pack.

For this I used 4 of the planks and I created a bottomless crate. I glued them together with some DT tumbling blocks I had leftover from my Neiman Marcus tray dupe.  

I hot glued the blocks onto the planks, but I used Dollar Tree’s new wood glue from their craft section to glue the edges of the planks for a stronger hold.

While that was drying, I took out my scrapbook paper from Hobby Lobby. 

I cut them down with my paper cutter in order to get nice straight lines. 

I cut the striped paper and then did the same with the star paper, making sure the star patterns were the same on each page. 

Then I took some Mod Podge ( I prefer the matte one) and began to apply my star paper.

I made sure to measure and mark all the way around the crate in order to keep the paper at the same level. In addition I cut the pieces of paper so that the stars would line up on the corners. This gives the crate a more polished look.

Next, I Mod Podged the striped paper, lining up the stripes.

TIP: I use a Mod Podge squeegee in order to get my paper nice and flat every time so if you have trouble with your Mod Podge projects and experience wrinkles definitely check it out. 

Let that dry…

Once dry, cut the excess paper on the top and bottom of the crate. 

Apply a layer of Mod Podge over the entire crate and let dry. 

You can definitely leave it like this, but I wanted to make it extra special so I decided to cut a couple of pieces of faux leather. I bought a pack from Hobby Lobby on sale for one $3.14. 

The straps measured 3 1/2″ x 1/2″ and I just used a little bit of hot glue to adhere them onto the crate. 

I added some faux greenery and that was it! 

I love how it turned out! You can add it to your decor in your home, or make several and use as centerpieces for a 4th of July party! What do you think?

And if you are not into Patriotic decor that’s okay, you can take this same concept and create an everyday look for your home. 

If you want more Patriotic ideas, you can check out 3 more in my Youtube video below! 

As always if you enjoyed, don’t forget to share!

Thank you and I will see you in the next one. Until then, adios! 

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Good morning! Hope you all are doing well today. This week has started great and lots of progress has been made. Stay tuned for an entire series of renovation posts.

I have so many pictures I am going through and will be sharing all about. So much going on in the background. If you have been following along on Instagram you have already seen quite a bit of the behind the scenes. But I will admit it has always been so much harder for me to do progress blog posts, they are just so much harder than a DIY tutorial for me. 

Perhaps it’s cause in the beginning there are no “pretty pictures” to share. And I feel like no one wants to see those. 

I mean, if you saw the carpet dilemma we had to deal with last year including my trip to the ER, you would understand that this house was a complete hot mess. 

And it has been depressing at times. 

I will say that after a lot of hard work we are finally seeing some real changes so I think I will need to JUST.START.WRITING. I have been asked on many occasions if we regret buying the house, and despite everything we have been through my answer has always been a quick NO. The vision I have for this house is just too grand. 

The land and location alone makes it so worth it. The house is just a bonus. LOL!

But okay, I won’t see talking about that. Let’s get on with this fun DIY! 

Dollar Tree, as you might know, has a pretty large assortment of candles and while their scent variety is getting larger and better, they are all very small in size. 

I had bought the following 3 candles in 3 colors: white, light blue and blue. 

Yes 2 of them are used… we had a brief power outage over the winter and we were short of candles, but I still had enough to continue with my idea. 

I thought it would be great to try and make one larger candle out of them. But instead of mixing them all together, I had an idea to create an ombre effect. 

So I put them in pot of water on low on the stove and melted them. 

Then I took a mason jar that I had on hand and placed a new wick inside. You can find wick kits like this here. 

I am trying my hand at making my own soy candles so I already had some wicks. 

The first thing you want to do is get the darker candle and pour it into the container. 

Be careful, it will be hot. 

Try to make sure the wax doesn’t touch the side of the container as it goes in. You want it to go straight down to the bottom. 

Let the wax cool completely. You can put it in the fridge to speed up the process too. 

Then add your next candle and let cool.

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Do this again with the last candle. 

Let the wax cool and cut the wick….

Add a ribbon or jute, depending on your taste and that is it! 

Your very own ombre candle.

This is perfect as a gift or you can make one with different colors for different occasions or holidays! It really is that easy. 

Of course, if I were to do it again, I would probably add at least one more candle to fill up more of the mason jar, but this was all I had on hand. I still think it turned out so pretty. 

Love the white and blue combination? There are more Blue & White DIYs here. 

I hope you enjoyed this simple DIY! Please share it if you know someone who would enjoy it too! 

I will be seeing you all soon! Until then… adios! 

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Happy Monday! It is week 7 of homeschooling (apparently that’s how I keep time now) and I’m feeling optimistic. Our state is slowly opening back up and it was nice to see more people out and about over the weekend. 

The hubby and I went out and picked up several things that we needed and worked on several projects while the kids were at my parents over the weekend. 

However, today I am sharing another beautiful Dollar Tree DIY with items I already had in my stash. 

I never thought I’d say this, but my crafting items are looking sparse. Yikes!

Anyways, I am sure you have seen the beautiful moss filled cement planters that are everyones’ farmhouse “must haves” right now. 

Well, they are expensive. 

And by that I mean CRAZY expensive. 

Like the one below from Houzz. 

Succulents are still in demand and now in cement bowls too. The one below from Overstock is almost $300 (on sale no less!) 

Ouch!

They are gorgeous, but not for me at that price. 

So I decided to try my hand at recreating that Look for Less. 

I had this clear plastic bowl from Dollar Tree that I picked up (honestly, I can’t remember when). 

Dollar Tree Faux Cement Bowl

And I had this paint that I had received from Plaid last year as part of their Ambassador program. 

It’s supposed to have texture already in the paint so I thought it would be great to create a cement look. 

It wasn’t the color I was going for, but I knew I had to create layers so the color was going to be covered up anyway.

I started to paint and I tried to get a close-up so you could see the texture of the paint. 

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Next, I layered on another gray. 

This one was actually still too light, but I gave it a second coat anyways. I didn’t bother to cover everything perfectly. 

Since I didn’t seem to have the color I needed, I made it. 

I used my favorite White Adirondack chalk paint and mixed it with black chalk paint, until I got a cool dark gray. I made sure to not mix thoroughly, because I wanted the paint to go on streaky, with lighter colors and then darker ones, like this. 

Here is a closer look of the variation. 

It’s starting to look like cement! 

Once, that was done and dry, I added styrofoam to the bowl and secure it with a little bit of hot glue. 

Next, I added some Dollar Tree moss balls and floral moss (I always have those in my stash). 

I adhered them with a little bit of hot glue. 

Finally, I added some succulents. I thought 3 was just enough since I wanted the moss to be part of the arrangement as well. 

I love the final result! 

The texture that paint gave was awesome and my final blend of black and white looked like cement. 

This pretty much cost me nothing since I already had everything and a lot of stuff were leftovers from other projects, but if I had to buy everything it would run above $7 or so. Not too shabby I think!

I am so happy with my Look for Less this month and I have another one that I created that you can watch in the full video here. 

Let me know what you think of this quick DIY! Perhaps you already have your items to make this!

 As always, share with your friends who would love this too! 

See you in the next one!

Until then…. adios!