So for the past couple of weeks, I've been redecorating our living room (and kitchen) with empty glass jars from our spaghetti dinners, ribbons left over from our wedding invites and the gobs of paper, paint, fabric, tags and buttons that I have in my collection of craft stuff. It has been a really fun challenge and I haven't spent a cent! Here are some of my favorites (sorry that I don't have "before" photos.)
After digging through a bag of block letters that Devin's grandma gave us (for Devin's infant photography), I spelled out "Hanson" on our bookcase.
Spaghetti sauce jar filled with stale coffee beans, wrapped in leftover ribbon; add a cute little tag from scrapbook stuff and silk flowers I already had; arrange with candle, photo, shell from our honeymoon and cute mini jar wrapped in matching ribbon- and voila!
I organized all the markers and pens that were scattered all over our kitchen into this adorable labeled display using more jars and tags, leftover fabric, ribbon and some glass stones that I already had. (We also already had the little photo plates.)
A plain black frame and a simple silver digital frame got new life with the help of a little paint, scrapbook paper, ribbon, buttons and double-stick tape. I added another tag/ribbon combo (I'm obsessed) to our "goodies" jar.
To consolidate all the random items we had sitting on our coffee table, I grabbed an adorable "breakfast in bed" tray that we hardly used and accented it with scrapbook paper (that matches the above picture frame.) ::SIGH:: I love when organization looks so pretty.
Last little touch: I wrapped the bases of one of our lamps in brown ribbon and added a blue button for a pop of fun and color.
Next stop: Our bedroom. Dum-dum-dum....
Great job. LOVE all the blue!
ReplyDeleteI love it! I've been saving old glass jars, too, and this sounds like a fun use! I was planning on putting hot cocoa mixes in them for Christmas, but Christmas came and went last year and I never made any...
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love your idea of an Acts 2:45 jar that you wrote about on Marla's blog! I think I'm going to start one, too!!!
How fun! I love that blog too!
ReplyDeleteinstead of labeling things what they are you should change it up an learn new languages.
ReplyDeleteSoo freaking cute! You are so creative! Will you come to my house and decorate!?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteI have so many jar's here i use in my kitchen for flare....i love it!!! rice, sugar, creamer, noodles, oil, (in old wine bottles with a cork) even have one for binkies. :) Jaiden has to have one too!!
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