I thought I would share my latest creations with you! Some are Pinterest inspired but some are all me!
I found this idea on Pinterest! We haven't been using it because I haven't found the right place for it yet but we will put it to use soon! To make this all you need is a 4x6 or 5x7 frame, printer, pretty paper/scrapbook paper, and a dry erase marker.
The past 5 months I have been on Pinterest and I have just been pinning things and not trying anything I had pinned so a couple weekends ago after the holidays were over and life had calmed down I decided to try some ideas! Being low on spending money I knew I had to get creative about what I was going to try so I picked this to start with! I remembered I had a few extra frames in the top of the office closet so I got those down and looked through them and what do ya know I had a 5x7 frame! Yay! Next I needed some pretty paper. Well I have lots of that, I used to be BIG into scrapbooking so I had tons of paper to pick from. And lastly I needed a dry erase marker. Guess what!! I had a whole pack of dry erase markers!!! I spent no money on this project, well technically I did but I had already had everything around the house.
Next project! This is my favorite! Jeremy and I attended a marriage retreat here in town I think in October or November and this was something special we read to each other at the end of the class. This is in the back of our workbooks for the retreat so I retyped it and printed it out on pretty paper! It's a reminder of what our roles are as husband and wife. I want to do a vowel renewal for our 10 year anniversary and I would love to use this for our ceremony! Why do I want to renew our vowels in 7 years? I have just always wanted to do that every 10 years. Before Jeremy even came along I have just wanted to make that a tradition with whoever I married! This project was also cheap! I had a 8x7 frame I wasn't using, picked out a pretty sheet of scrapbook paper out of my stash and cut out a pretty heart to fill in some empty space on the top!
Third project...Pinterest inspired! A UNC wreath! This project required some shopping. You need a wreath, letters, ribbon, paint, hot glue gun and a wooden basketball or any sport of your choice. I got all of my supplies at Hobby Lobby and most everything was on sale! I don't think I spend any more than $15. I thought this would be prefect for basketball season! Hubby loves it :).
This was all my idea! For a couple years now I have been trying to figure out what to do with greeting cards from Christmas/New Years or even baby announcements. What I did here was I stacked all of our cards from 2011 from smallest to largest then hole punched them. I purchased a pack of binder rings and put the cards on the rings! Now they are out on an end table in our living room for everyone to see! This is way better than just boxing them up now we can enjoy them!
Lastly, I made a yearly calendar! Pinterest inspired! What you do is date 365 index cards with the month an the day at the top of the card then write the year on the first line. Each day you write down something memorable from that day...a wedding or even just a move you watched! Your first year will be boring but the more yeas you add the better it gets. Wouldn't it be cool to look back to see what you were doing a year ago? I think so! What you need is a basket or a box, index cards, dividers (post cards or decorative paper), a pen and if you have them some dated stamps! I found my basket at Hobby Lobby and added some ribbon I already had to the front and the back handles!
You're more than welcome to use any of my ideas! If you have any questions just ask!!
