A New Series...

Hey Friends! Happy Wednesday! I'm so excited to be introducing a new series we'll be having here regularly on the blog! It has to do with awesome creative projects easy enough for anyone to pull off... 

Grace and I met on a trip to Uganda, Africa while we were both in college- and we've been buddies ever since. This girl seriously has talent for creating... I mean you walk into her house, and anything that screams cute, she made herself. She's the queen of DIY and doesn't even realize how talented she is. Not only is Grace humble, but she's an amazing friend who views life in such a beautiful way. She's one person who I feel completely comfortable telling anything to- our conversations always leave me inspired. Not to mention- she loves coffee just as much as me, which is totally a friendship bonus!

I know I keep mentioning this- but I AM getting ready to launch a new site (these things take time!) I asked Grace to come along and be my first regular contributor to my new and improved blog! She was so kind to say yes :) Needless to say, my new site is not up yet, but Grace started sending me projects and I couldn't help but post one! Just think of it as a sneak peak to all the goodness that's to come! 

So here it is, project #1!

What you'll need:

- Three small plants that will do well indoors (I would use succulents, herbs, or different types of fern)

- One 2x4 and a handsaw if you will be cutting it shorter

- Three mason jars

- Three silver things (I honestly have no idea what they are, I just know they live in the plumbing section at Home Depot. If you take a mason jar with you, pick the one that fits snugly around the mouth)

- Nails

- Small rocks or pebbles

- Fresh dirt

This project is a little more about spacing and placing according to what you feel looks right, so I'm throwin inches and precision out!

STEP ONE: Place the metal fasteners at even distances on your piece of wood.

Take the first mason jar, fit the fastener around it and nail that bad boy down (easy peasy). Repeat with the other two, spacing them evenly along the board.

STEP TWO: Put a few pebbles or small rocks in the bottom of your mason jars to make sure your little planties get plenty of drainage. This way you can watch the water level to make sure you don't drown the poor fellas.

STEP THREE: Fill each mason jar about halfway up with dirt.

STEP FOUR: Hang them. You may want to nail directly through the board, or drill holes in the back for hanging (I did both for extra support).

Now sit back and enjoy your little wall forest!

You can tweak this how ever you want. Maybe spray paint the fasteners gold, or paint the wood a bright color, use your creativity!

Thanks so much Grace! Looking forward to more DIY's!! (And a new blog- it's coming I promise!)

Another Craigslist Adventure

So now that we have our fridge all chalkboard-y, we have our next Craigslist adventure.

Re-creating this Restoration Hardware coffee table.

We bought an old cart very similar to the actual vintage ones they use at RH- with the original
cast iorn wheels and wood. This thing is built to last! Except instead of paying thousands of dollars
at RH, we paid $50 on Craigslist. Gotta love that site.

This project is going to be attempted this weekend- we will see how it goes and I will definitely be
blogging through the process! Hopefully by the end we'll have a wonderful new (to us) coffee table.

If Restoration Hardware can do it- we can too, right??

Happy Thursday everyone!

It is Finished!

So I told you this weekend Nolan and I were going to transform our tagged up fridge-
we actually did it and couldn't be happier with the results! It really wasn't too hard,
all it takes is a little bit of time, the right supplies and some good help (having a handy man
around is so awesome).

So I documented the whole thing and have a little tutorial laid out for you, incase you're ever
in need, or want to for fun, create a chalkboard refrigerator :)

Here you go!







Its that easy. Now we don't have to feel too gangsta when we walk into our kitchen. I love
our new fridge and can't wait to see how we use the chalkboard. I'm thinking love notes,
grocery lists, and possibly some quotes like "where's the frat party at?" Those are always great.

If you have any questions feel free to email me.

Has anyone else done a project like this before? How did it go? I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks guys and happy Monday!

The Wonders of Craigslist

Yup. This is our kitchen and this is our fridge. And yes, that is graffiti. All over it.

One thing I know for sure- when your newly married
and have no money, craigslist is your best bud.
And thats where we found this wonder.

So we do actually have a vision for this piece of art... It fits perfectly in our tiny kitchen,
we got an amazing deal on it, and despite what it may look like, its actually a fairly new fridge and a
good brand.

So here's the vision part: this weekend, we are going to magically transform this ghetto tagged up fridge into something that looks a bit like this:



A beautiful chalkboard fridge! Here's the tutorial on how we're gonna make it.

I'll document the whole thing so you can share in the joy of this transformation with us.
I'm pretty excited about it, although this one has kinda grown on me in a weird,
strange way...

But until then, we have a tagged up frige. Its cool. Literally! ha