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Hi Beauties,

I hoped everyone had a fantastic Christmas and a wonderful New Year! I also hope that everyone was able to spend majority of their holidays with family and friends. I for one had an amazing Christmas with my family, and was able to do majority of the crafts that I wanted to do in a short period of time. That being said, I have some signs that I painted over the holidays that my family absolutely loved and now I’m going to share them with you.

Here are the signs I painted for some of my family members. The tutorial for these signs are the exact same as my pervious sign tutorials. Click HERE for the tutorial.

Diy Barn Board Headboard

Over the past few weeks I have been putting together a headboard for my double size bed. I came across this idea through Pinterest. I was looking into purchasing a new headboard but they were too expensive, so I did some researching and came across a DIY headboard. I choose to create a rustic look using old barn boards that I found at my grandad's farm.

This project is really inexpensive and easy to do!

Items you’ll need to create a DIY barn board headboard:
9 Barn boards
Saw
Screw Gun
Screws
Wire brush
Electric Sander
Chestnut Stain
Varnish
Paintbrush

Step 1: Once you have 9 barn boards, set 2 aside. Use the other 7 boards and measure them to be about 1 foot longer then your bed. Once the boards are measured at the same length cut them. Use the other 2 boards and place them vertical on the back of the 7 boards. Use a screw gun and screw each board into the 2 vertical boards.

Step 2: Once the boards are all screwed together you can now see the outline of what your headboard is going to look like. My barn boards were dirty so I used a wire brush, kind of like a bbq brush and brushed all the dirt off.

Step 3: Once all the dirt is completely off the headboard you can start sanding. Now plug in your electric sander and sand the entire front of the headboard and all its edges. Sand until the headboard is soft and smooth.

Step 4: Once the headboard is completely sanded you can now start painting. Grab your paintbrush and chestnut stain and do 2 to 3 coats of stain each time a layer has dried.

Step 5: Once all the stain is dried, do 1 coat of varnish. You can also do 1 coat of varnish on the back of your headboard too.

EXTRA: There are multiple ways to hang the headboard against the wall. You can screw 2 large hooks in the back of the headboard and mount the headboard on the wall or you can add legs to the headboard.

Hope you guys love this project just as much as I did!

8 Point Deer Painting

This week I decided to get a little creative/different and make a painting of an 8-point deer. I wanted this painting to look a little rustic and vintage so I used some old beat up boards and varnish. This painting could look great over top of a fireplace, in your bedroom, or even in a “man cave”.

Items you’re going to need to create this painting:

7 or more beat up boards

Measuring Tape

Pencil

Saw

Hammer

Nails

Sander

Chestnut Stain

Varnish

Tracing Paper

Transfer Paper

White Acrylic Paint 

Paintbrush

Hanging Screws/Nails

**All of these tools can be purchased at any hardware of craft store.

Step 1: First find 7 or more boards and use a measuring tape to measure 5 of the boards at the same length. Measure the other 2 boards at the same length, but at a longer length then the other 5 boards. Once the 5 boards are cut, line them up and face the good side of each board on the ground. Grab the two longer boards and place them onto the 5 lined up boards. Place the 2 boards on each side of the 5 lined up boards and now take nails and nail the 2 boards into the 5 boards. The 2 boards hold the 5 boards together.

Make sure your boards end up looking like this on the back.

Step 2: Once all the boards are nailed together take out your hand sander and sand the surface and edges of the boards. Keep sanding until the surface and edges are smooth.

Step 3: Once the board is completely sanded, take your chestnut or any color stain and use your paintbrush to stain the attached boards. You’ll only need 1 coat of stain.

Step 4: Once the stain is completely dried I looked at a similar photo of a deer that I liked and then decided to draw it on the pattern paper. This took awhile to draw but I got it looking just the way I wanted my deer to look. Make sure that the deer will fill up majority of the space on the boards.

Step 5: Tape the deer drawing that’s drawn on the tracing paper and place it where you would like it to be painted on the boards. Use your transfer paper and place it underneath the deer drawing. Now use your pencil to trace the deer picture onto the boards. The transfer paper allows the image of the deer to transfer onto the boards.

Step 6: Once the deer is traced onto the boards take your white acrylic paint and paintbrush and do 3-4 coats of the deer. Use a smaller brush to paint the antlers. Once the white paint is completely dried, use your paintbrush and do one coat of varnish to make the painting look a little more rustic and shiny. After the varnish has dried, you can screw or nail hanging nails into the back of the boards and hang your deer painting anywhere you’d like.

Hope you enjoyed!

Diy Mason Jar Soap Dispenser Tutorial

This week I decided to create a cute Mason Jar Soap Dispenser; the most difficult part about creating the dispenser was finding the jar! I wanted to create a soap dispenser because we were really needed one for the kitchen sink and I thought it would be a much cheaper and cuter way to decorate the house, plus I love being able to reuse sweet things! These dispensers look great anywhere, also they can be made out of vodka mickey bottles for men’s bathrooms, garages, bars, and man caves!

Soap Dispenser Tutorial

Step 1: You need a Mason jar or any type of jar, a jar lid, soap pump from an old dispenser, scissors, a hot glue gun and soap. First place the jar lid on top of the jar, tighten the lid up. Carefully use the scissors to poke a whole big enough so that the soap pump will fit through tightly.

Step 2: Glue under the lid around the soap pump with the hot glue gun. This helps the pump stay in place. (The hot glue holds very well, mines still sturdy after a year.)

Step 3: After the hot glue has fully dried, add soap to the jar and tighten the lid back up, and PUMP ON!

EXTRA: I painted the lid of my Mason jar black to give it a nicer look; I did this by using spray paint. You can also use pretty paper or glitter for the lid to jazz it up.