White Painted Headboard

 I finally put up our "new" headboard!

Here is the before

I had painted some old canvases and hung them above the bed just to have something there.  I got really tired of hitting my head on the bottoms of them every time I sat up reading in bed.

I didn't want to spend money on a frame so I painted one right on the wall.  This solution worked for a while but I figured it was time for a big-girl headboard.

My friend Andi from Jane of All Crafts took me thrifting a while back.  She introduced me to the most awesomely awesome store for furniture finds!  My first time there, we found this

It was originally $35, marked down to $25, and we talked them down to $18.  Andi says it looks like it's mid-century modern.  I don't know what that means.  I call it mid-century awesome.  Do I use the word awesome enough?

I tried this paint/primer for the first time and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with it.

The coverage isn't spectacular, but I liked the fact I didn't have to buy a separate primer.  And it was cheap.  Have I mentioned before that I'm cheap?

Behold, the "weeny roller"!  I love painting walls and loathe painting furniture so I'll use whatever I can to speed up the process.  It took about 3 coats.

We anchored the headboard right to the wall with screws since I wanted it higher on the wall than the bed frame would allow.  Mattresses didn't used to be as tall as they are now.

I really don't know how or why my husband puts up with me.  When we first hung this thing, it was this height

Perfect, right?  Not when you put the pillows on the bed!

Too much of the gorgeous detailing was covered up for my liking.

So we raised it up higher

That looked just crazy.

I promised him this would be the last time we moved it.  I don't know if he believed me, but he did it anyway.  I love that man!

Ahhhhh... just right

the wall color is Benjamin Moore Ashley Gray

Did you need to see that many angles?  Probably not.  But I'm a little excited about this thing.  Do you see how the pattern on the headboard coordinates with the lamps?!?!

Let me know what you think in the comments.  Do you have a vote for a favorite height? (not that I'll be able to talk the hubs into moving it again).  Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Jamie
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Dora Birthday Party

So, this is the Dora half of the "Spidoraman" birthday party.

Here are the shirts I made for the kids

I saw a tutorial for making appliqued shirts at Flexible Dreams.  I never thought to do a blanket stitch around an applique!  My machine can't do a blanket stitch so I did it by hand before ironing it to the shirt

I just did the good ol' zigzag stitch for the Spiderman shirt

And here are a few of the other details from the party:

I think the crown is a little too big :)

These are a couple of the favors

Jelly bean bracelets (my thumb still hurts from threading all these!)

and homemade crayons (in the shape of "estrellas")

I packaged it all in these

And here are the cupcakes

Dora is actually a ring

They were displayed on this zero dollar cupcake stand (tutorial here)

Here are some chocolate covered pretzels from the Spiderman side of the party

I didn't get any good pics of the actual party set-up... it was at one of those bounce house places so the people there set everything up.  I was too busy partying with the kids to go snapping pics of the stuff!

OK, I'm all partied out and ready to nap for about a week.  There is so much I want to show you from our son's new room, but that post will have to wait a little bit.  See you again soon!

Blessings,
Jamie

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Spiderman Party with DIY Cupcake Stand

We just had a party for both the kids' birthdays this weekend.  I decided to make cupcakes, but didn't have a stand to display them.  So I made this!

It was really easy and I used things I already had around the house.  Here's what you'll need:

• glue gun
• 2 or more cans (I used 1 smaller and 1 larger)
• Decorative paper or cardstock
• plastic plates (you can also use cardboard cake circles)

Is it bad I made chili this week just so we could have the cans for the project?

Wrap your cans in paper (the pink and purple one is for the Dora half of the party)

Put some hot glue around the edges of one end of the can and glue it to the bottom of a small plate

Put glue on the edges of the other end of the can and glue it to the top of a bigger plate

Keep doing this for however many tiers you desire!

Here is the Spiderman one with cupcakes on it

Speaking of cupcakes, here's how I made the "webs"

I put some candy wafers in a disposable pastry bag

microwaved them for 30 second increments until they were melted (be careful not to burn them!)

Snip the tip off the pastry bag with scissors and pipe your web onto a cookie sheet lined with wax paper

If you need a guide, you can print out a picture of a web and lay it underneath the wax paper to "trace".

Pop them in fridge for a half hour.

Place each one on a frosted cupcake of contrasting color and put a spooky spider on top (spider rings would work great for this too).  I think these would be really fun in orange, black and purple for a Halloween party!

Here's my little Spiderman helping to decorate the favor boxes

No, really.  He IS my little Spiderman!

More details from the party to come in a day or two.

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings,
Jamie

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