Easy DIY project for Kids (makes life easier on mom)

Kids of every age have an innate desire to doodle. They love to color on your favorite things, your walls, their toys, your toys, their clothes and so many more places. Why not give them a place to doodle over and over again. The super simple doodle desk

Clean your surface well with soap and water

Make sure it is completely dry

Cut, measure and lay out your peel and stick paper

Make sure you unpeel it and smooth it out very slowly at the same time 

or you will run into the jumbled mess I did

Hand your kids their markers and let them go to town

Wipes down with a wet cloth

 Be inspired to Create

From Trash to Treasure.. Dumpster diving again

This time it was my 13 year old daughter who did the dumpster diving. She came home with this little gem. She pulled it out the other day, ran home and placed it at my feet like she was giving me an offering for her supper haha.. Sorry about the vintage effect. I promise I will change back soon. I have instagram on the brain:)

1. Start with something absolutely rusty and beat up

First I started out by wiping it down. It was completely filled with cobwebs. Yuck.. Then I pounded the front in a bit
Next I gathered my supplies for adding the word HOPE.. Even in the dirtiest things and situations we can find hope if we look for it

Then I added my dirt and flowers and wallah.

Free Printable pantry labels

Inspired to get organized again. I uploaded these in png, psp, zip and pdf format.. I love this color.

 

Cool Stool.. recycled curb side stool

I found this stool on the curb during the city wide trash day.. Btw I love that day.. Lots of goodies to recycle. Very simple project for any chair or stool

1. Find your goodie

2. Sand down by hand 

3. recover seat with heavy duty stapler

5. Spray paint to make sure you get all the nooks and cranny's

6. Make sure you let it fully dry overnight

7. distress with sander

8. Screw the seat back on

BEFORE

 

 

AFTER

Inspired to Design. Repurpose an old built in

Many many years back when I was just a little itty bitty little girl, I lived in a rental home in Milwaukee. There, in the basement, was this built in china cabinet. I have no idea how old the thing was but when my parents moved from the place, they literally stripped everything from the basement which included this ugly old built in. My mom stored it in her garage for years. Even when my parents divorced it remained a dead fixture in the corner. When I got married way back when hmm.. about 17 years ago my mom gave it to me. We sanded it down and put a sealant on it and then it became our built in. Still remained a wall fixture because it never had a bottom or backside. Recently when we purchased this foreclosure it was time to get rid of most of our things for space sake. I knew somewhere in my mind there had to be a place for the piece of history. I decided to create an island for my kitchen. I began with deciding the top for it. Initially I thought marble? Laminate? Butcher block? None of that seemed to give me a mental design rush so I decided to purchase some cheap wood, distress it and poly the top for what I call today my masterpiece. I ended up painting the cabinet white and distressing it. I found some old antique style drawer pulls and some rod iron shelf brackets and I went to town.

I started by cleaning the whole cabinet with soap and water. I then removed any hardware and sanded the whole thing down by hand

 Measured and with some help from a friend started cutting

Next we added a piece of wainscoting as the backing

Began painting with the cheapest paint I could find. It was a Bogo sale.

Next added my clearanced out hardware from Hobby Lobby. I believe I paid $1.67 a piece for the pulls

 Then I distressed the entire thing with a hand sander.

Next I polyurethaned the to.

Lastly we added the little side shelves and the saddle stools which I got off of craigslist; 4 for $30.. I'm so happy with it because instead of dragging everything to the table each night the kids hop up on a stool and I just swing around with the grub:)

Intentionally Inspire yourself to repurpose something today

xoxo

Kristin

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