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If you remember, I re-wrote my Full Flower Pillow tutorial with better pics and more details for my post on U-Create. I thought I’d go ahead and share that side with you all here on my own blog now. 🙂 Today I’m going to show you how to make a Full Flower Pillow.  I made… Read more

Aloha! Today’s project is going to show you a sneaky little way to give burlap more of a feminine touch. Because of it’s generally neutral colors and rough texture, I think of it as more of a masculine fabric, but my house is full of mama and three pink-lovin’ girlies, so almost everything in our… Read more

This post contains affiliate links. This project is not for the impatient. Unless you’re really trying to learn patience…  “So why did you try another one of those if the last one took so dang long, and you’re really impatient, Charlie?”  Is that what you’re asking yourself?  You’re probably remembering my P.S. I Love You… Read more

Aloha! I told you I’d be back shortly with some actual posts for my blog! If you took a minute to vote over at One Month to Win It, I hope you were able to pick out my project “Bathroom Wall Art”. I was in a rush to send it over and neglected to enlarge… Read more

The half bath is almost ready for its big reveal!  I’ve been back and forth on the artwork and have one more thing to do on the lighting, and then it will be ready! Hopefully I can have it up this week. It’s so nice to have one room done. My kids love it. My… Read more

Well, if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you probably saw my sneak peek at my dining chairs a few weeks ago…it’s taken me that long to get the staples out of the rest of them!! Ack!  Pretty sick of staples right about now! I LOVE Hawaii! The weather, the people, the beaches, the trees, the… Read more

Our half bath is just awaiting a few finishing touches before I’m ready to share it with you. I wanted to break some of it up into some simple tutorials for those also interested in DIY projects. Today’s subject: The Crapper.   The flusher to the crapper, to be more precise. Yup. Our sad little guy… Read more

 Aloha Friends, Sorry if this looks like duplicate posts! I originally intended to include this stuff in the pleated basket liner tutorial, but it was getting way too long, so I thought I’d share hair pretties in their own separate post! With three girls (plus mommy), hair supplies are abundant. Ours, however, were getting a… Read more

Yep, I’m about two weeks late getting this tutorial up! I realized that I didn’t take any pics when I made the originals (since I was just winging it), so I had to find time to make more. And our visitors had taken over my sewing room! 🙂 If you’re visiting my blog for the first… Read more

                                        Aloha! Today I’m going to teach you how to make your very own chalkboard paint. FROM SCRATCH! Yep, I first learned the secret ingredient from the craft queen herself via her Martha Stewart Living Magazine.  In their version, they used a flat paint like you would purchase in the paint section at a hardware… Read more