I Bought a Palette...

So. We're not going to talk about how long it's been. We're not going to acknowledge that I'm the worst blogger in the history of blogging. We're going to pretend I've been really busy with lots of important things, and that's why I haven't posted anything in NINE MONTHS. And we're going to act like I'm a crafting genius with this project. Yeah? Cool.

I go to Walmart a lot. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. And I buy unnecessary things. Like that one time that I bought a wooden palette. Yep, you read that right. Do I paint? No. My artistic abilities take a screeching halt at stick figures wearing tutus.

So now I have this palette. And and a glorious, long-awaited, entire weekend full of... nothing. But this palette.

And some paint.

I turned to the only thing in my my that never lets me down, Pinterest and it let me down!!! Nothing. No ideas to attempt. So I had to get creative. I found this quote a while back and fell in love with it, and seeing as my canvas was a palette (get it?), I thought it'd be really cool to use.

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." -Edwin Land

The rest was really easy. All I did was make a single spot of of each color on the palette, just like a painter would do. Once they dried, I wrote the quote in pencil and, once I was happy with it, I painted over the words.

It came out even better than I had hoped! (It is me, after all...)

I had a can of clear gloss left over from another project (that, of course, I didn't document or post) that I used to spray the palette once it was finished. It completely changed the look of it for the better! I loved it even more! Tadaaaa!

I'm sorry, it's really not the best picture. But the finished product! In all, it probably cost me less than $10, and was super easy! Try it for yourself, and post your finished product for me to see!

XOXO Erin

Tutu Wreath

I'm back! Oh my God I can't believe how long it's been. I'm embarrassed. But being going to school and working two jobs gets a little complicated. Social life? What are social life? I'm rambling.

So if you live in the U.S.A, you know that the east coast has just been hit with a massive snow storm, and my little state of Delaware was smack dab in the middle of it! So today I have what is probably my first snow day since I graduated high school. Woo! So instead of working on my paper (due Friday), I decided to be productive!

(I couldn't include a link because the pinterest page took you to a completely unrelated site. :/ )

I found this gem on Pinterest, and the ballerina in me knew that i just had to try it. I mean how adorable?!  Since the picture itself wasn't helpful, I scoured pinterest for one that would, and found this extremely helpful blog. She recommended buying spools of tulle and cutting strips, then simply tying them to a pre-made ring. Thankfully, it was easy enough for even me to handle! Over sixty yards of tulle later, I finally finished! And since I'm a visual learner and need lots of pictures, I may have gone a little overboard. Bear with me…

I chose to use a double layer of tulle for each knot like the blog recommended, and double knotted each one. Above, you can see my first knot and my progress before I quit took a break for about a month. Don't take up this project lightly; it's time consuming and monotonous and the knotting WILL hurt your fingers.

Then I started back up today…and ran out of tulle. Crisis major, because obviously I'm not going anywhere today…

But alas! I remembered I had sparkly tulle! Oh, the sparkles! If you use this, which I highly recommend, be prepared for a mess of glitter proportions. I only used a single layer of sparkly tulle for each know, though, because two made an awkwardly large knot.

A lot of knots and a few Dawson's Creek reruns later, and I finished! Hooray!

I found these glittery snowflakes in the Christmas decorations at Walmart. They were perfect! I hot glued them with my fancy new hot glue gun (it has flowers on it!), and, tadaaa! I hot glued a piece of ribbon to the back (it's glittery blue, I know, I have a problem) to use to hang the wreath. Then I hung it up, posted it on instagram, and admired my pinterest knockoff!

So happy with how it turned out! Have you tried something like this? Did you do anything differently? I want to hear your stories! And one final question: What are your favorite small-space organization hacks? I'm desperate and drowning in stuff!

XOXO Erin