If Paint Chips are Free...

... Then why is it when I pick some up for a craft, it FEELS like stealing? I convince myself and my husband that we are repainting a few rooms in our house as an alibi. And I get CRAZY nervous if a worker is watching me - I have even walked over to the paint can section to convince everyone (who I think maybe watching me) that I AM considering buying paint. I need to chill...

Well that was a side note to what I actually wanted to talk about... I’m currently using an old receipt as a bookmark but I have really wanted something “prettier” – so I’m making paint chip bookmarks!

Duration: 30 mins - 1 hour

Difficulty: Easy peezy (… lemon squeezy)

Supplies

• Paint chips
• Stamps
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Ribbon
• Paper cutter

Steps

1. Cut down your paint chips to bookmark size - remove parts with writing and round the corners.
2. Stamp away!
3. Hole punch the top, feed the ribbon through and using the scissors, curl the ribbon ends.
4. You’re done!

I went a little nuts, and I made one for each of my family members. And on some, I added a little shimmer to make them all fancy-like ;)

I have an Organization Fetish

A bit creepy, right? My husband is absolutely boggled by my fascination of lists, calendars and clear storage bins.

Well, since my husband never seems to know what's going on and when, I decided to make a dry erase calendar for our kitchen. I saw something on Pinterest using paint chips, but I used scrapbook paper because I just have WAY too much of it.

Supplies

• Cheap frame with glass (or plastic) front around 19x16 in size.
• Poster board cut to fit inside the frame
• Dry erase markers
• Scrapbook Paper (or paint chips!)
• Glue

Steps

1. The optimal size of squares for my 19x16 frame measured out to be 2x3 inches big (I considered that my squares will be 5 down and 7 across, and that the very edges of the poster board will be hidden behind the frame).
2. I cut out 35 2x3 inch squares and 7 2x1 smaller squares (to label the days of the week).
3. I placed all squares on my poster board to make sure the calendar was centered and fit nicely.
4. I glued everything down!
5. I also added stickers to label the days of the week, but you don't have to do this (you can just use the dry erase marker).
6. Put your poster board into your frame.
7. Your done!

Enjoy!

I Love Fall!

EXCEPT for my allergies... I am lost in a fog of sneezes until the first frost. But regardless, I decided I would kick off the fall season with a wreath.

I wanted to keep it simple AND cheap, so I hit up the dollar store and snipped out a couple Micheal's coupons. My wreath took me an hour and a half and ~$12 to assemble (I'm fairly thrift, but I bet you could even do it for even less!)

Supplies
- Twine/Vine Wreath; I grabbed it from Micheal's on sale for $4.99 CAD (woo Canada!)
- Approx 5 Steams of fall leaves/flowers; a dollar each from the Dollar store.
- Glue gun and sticks

Steps
1.) Cut the stems of leaves into smaller more manageable stems.
2.) Let the creativity flow and start arranging and gluing down the stems!

Pretty simple - and I only burned my self on my glue gun twice *highfive*!

Ha ha - you can see my reflection in the picture... ah well...

It turned out better than I had imagined - I came home from groceries later that day and I caught myself was oogling my own wreath! It add a really nice touch to the front of my house.