DIY Footstool

I had originally found my glider for the baby room on Kijiji for $40.00. Now the material wasn't the nicest but I figured I could recover it ( which I did!) but it didn't come with a footstool, which would have been SOOO nice to have at the beginning when I was breastfeeding. Anyways...after keeping my eyes open for various options, I snagged this table at a garage sale for $5.00!! It was just a pine colour, so I sprayed her up in a nice clean white!! ( I forgot to take a picture of the table before, sorry!!)

Then I went to Walmart and picked up a piece of foam...what...24x16 inches??? Perfect...that happened to be the dimensions of the top of the table...no cutting.

I added on some batting from making quilts to soften all the edges where I would pull the material, and I had the perfectly sized piece of material left from the chair to put on the top. Out comes the heavy duty stapler, I folded over the material so it would have a nice clean edge.

And Voila!....a nice footrest...or even a bench when all the babies are done their rockin'!

Easter Mantel

I generally don't decorate for holidays/seasons, with the exception of Christmas, but was wanting my house to feel more "spring like". Seeing variations of this set up on some blogs, I set out to see how I could do it in mine. I got the tiny little Apocrathy jar on kijiji for $2, the 2nd vase from my own collection, and the 3rd from Pier 1 ( on clearance). It was still expensive enough since I generally don't spend alot on decorations for the house. I added in some moss from the Dollar Store, some larger eggs form Pier 1 (again on 20%) and a few smaller eggs donated by my friend Rachel. All in all I love the look thats not only for Easter but for spring in general. Now....to start thinking about summer...

Easter Basket

So this might not exactly be something I created, but re-created. I wanted to get a similar easter basket for G but knew I wouldn't find one. I stopped in at a garage sale and found this one and thought...hmmm it looks similar...but the colours weren't really easter.

So off to Home Depot to see what I could find to change up the drab basket. So I added in some Carribean Blue Spray Paint...

And Voila!!! New easter Basket for under $5.00...I might even get 2 more colours and re-do the other boys baskets....