Update to my desk redo

A few weeks ago I decided that I needed to redo my desk.  I wasn't ever (I do mean ever) using it as a desk, more like a big white shelf to pile junk on.  

I'm not too proud of this, but doesn't look better now?! And I'm very happy to say that I've been using it everyday now that I've made it into my vanity.  The "I can do anything with the right shoes" probably won't stay there but it's there for now.  

I decided to make the bulletin board look prettier by covering it in lace.  And I found out that not only am I a terrible cutter I can't measure either. My piece of lace didn't quite cover the bulletin board too well at first.  And I had a few bottles to use to decorate the top shelf.  I got a really pretty blue vase from hobby lobby and painted a wine bottle of my own.  

They are missing a little something I haven't figure out what it is yet.  

 My make is a little bit more organized now.

 I think my love sign is my favorite!  It was 50 % off at Hobby Lobby! (Yes!)

I also glittered all my makeup containers.  I'm a bit glitter obsessed, but that's okay.  I like them alot.  

Overall, I love what I did to my desk.   

Happy Friday!

I hope you're having a great Friday!  This week has been a bit stressful, but with all good things.  So here's my High Five for Friday!
1.  This week was the last week of me teaching Chem 1203 lab!  Yay!  I had a great bunch of students, but that lab is not my favorite.  We celebrated today by having cupcakes.  Yes, I am the TA that brought my students cupcakes.  Hey I really just wanted an excuse to buy cupcakes from my bestfriend's bakery, Sweetcakes :)
2.  I gave my demo lecture for a teaching position this week!  It could have gone better, but I'm glad it's over and I didn't do too terrible! I'm ready to get better and start teaching my own lecture section in the fall!
3.  I learned how to use the grill!  Oh yes!
4.  I've made some super awesome crafting projects for my new vanity.  The are the best kind of craft projects one's that include glitter!
5.  Speaking of glitter, I personalized my garden hoe so that no one could confuse it for there.  I did paint glitter all over it.  Just because gardening is outside doesn't mean it doesn't need glitter.
I'm looking forward to this weekend!  Hope you have a great one!

Pinspired and Rewired

Since I love finding craft ideas on pinterest I wanted to participate in the Pinspired and rewired contest from the blogs over at Southern Lovely, Family Ever After, Ginger Snap Crafts, and The Gunny Sack

 

This was my inspiration! I think this is super cute and I'm always looking for a wreath that is skinny because there's not too much space between the door and the storm door.

Yellow Mums Sunshine Wreath

The sunshine wreath from Yellow Mums.  I think it's really cute and plus I have alot of sticks outside of my house.  So I went to finding sticks and came back inside with this

A big back of sticks.  While I was out there I thought maybe there's a way I could use some of the stupid gum balls that are covering the entire yard.  If you don't have gum trees consider yourself lucky!  These gums balls are the devil!  What I decided to do with them was to paint them and cover them in glitter and some how place those on the wreath instead of the clothe rosettes on the original wreath.  I also personalized the wreath with a P monogram.  

Here's my box of gum balls and my P waiting for paint and glitter! 

This is the base of my wreath I used a hot glue gun to glue the sticks around a piece of foam board.  I found this to be pretty difficult since I had outs of spaces that were empty.  

Here's the final product!  I'm really happy with how it turned out I think it's pretty cute!  

Fork and a sign

I missed yesterday's post but here's a fork

A sign


























A sign of spring! These are in my yard and are totally beautiful! I'm really excited about these tulips because we have a few but they never bloom :(. A couples of weekends ago we found some tulips and the little daffodil on sale at Wal Mart and of course I had to have them. Hopefully they will do well in this part of the yard. At least they are pretty now.
Oh I also got my birchbox yesterday and it was packed with some awesome stuff (like usual) like this fancy glitter nail polish. I love love love how shiny it is.

Fruit

Today's picture is fruit. For lunch I had pink lemonade sobert with Fruity pebbles and a few sweetart jelly beans. So tasty!
Best part it was free from yogurt 101 because I had a free card yay! Pink lemonade is so good!
I'm also doing a bit of special crafting for my BFFL's birthday! More on that later :)

UP

So I've decided to try another photo challenge.  Hopefully this on will go better than the last one.  It's from fat mum slim it's march photo a day.  Since it's March 1 here's my first picture.
Up

I made some glitter lanterns for Rachel's bridal shower and put them on the ceiling.  They are still there and when I look up I can see them!  :)

Christmastime!

Last year for my Christmas presents I wrapped everything in beautiful glitter wrapping paper.  The problem with that was tape didn't stick to the paper very well.  This year I wanted to do something special with my presents so I wrapped them in plain craft paper then added ribbon and glitter to personalize them.  They took a long long time to wrap, but I really like they way they turned out.  Here's some photos of them.

 

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 Just in case the person didn't know who it was from.  :)

Making my plain shoes fabulous!

I love glitter!  That might be an understatement!  I am drawn to anything that glitters.  I just love glitter.  I can't help it!  I think almost everything can be improved if you add glitter.  My other love in life is shoes!  I have a vast collection!  So what could be better than shoes and glitter?  Shoes that glitter.  Alright I do have a pair of gold glittery shoes for Target that are amazing, but I've never made glittery shoes and the bottoms of the shoes aren't glittery.  That's what I set out to do last Friday afternoon.  I originally saw some shoes like this on pinterest (pinterest is quickly becoming one of my fav things right up there with shoes and glitter!).  I had the perfect pair of plain black shoes in my closet that were just begging for some extra attention so I decided to make the bottoms of them glittery that way anytime I walk somewhere I'll leave a trail of glitter.  Here's a before picture.

I had the most purple glitter so that's what I went with.  It wasn't my first choice but I didn't have enough hot pink for both shoes.  One pink shoes one purple shoe might have been a little odd even for me! 

Here's the back of my shoes.  

So here's how I did it:

1.  Mix the glitter with mod podge.  About 1/4 c mod podge and I just mixed the glitter in until I thought there was enough glitter.  

2.  Paint the soles of the shoes.  It will look a little bit white but the mod podge dries clear so no worries!

3.  Pour some loose glitter over the still wet mod podge and kind of tap it into the soles.  

4.  Let the shoes dry.  

5.  Put one more coat of mod podge over the shoes to make sure to set the glitter.   

6.  Let dry.  

7.  Wear and be awesome! 

In progress when I poured the loose glitter over the shoes. 

This is after I put the final coat of mod podge.  

Not a great picture but here's the final product!  I'm in love!