Category: Decerative Design

When you are spring cleaning and sorting through the piles of items from clothes to jewelry or just everyday items. Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Have I actually used/worn this?
2. When was the last time I used this?
3. Seriously, will I ever use this?

It may seem silly but honestly it works. Everyday items aside from decorations should really have a place and if it does not have a place in your home then you must ask yourself ‘why, am I keeping this?’ Most of the time the reason people accrue ‘things’ is generally due to an emotional attachment.

Other times the ‘things’ are just things. Junk can pile up over night and before you know it the clutter becomes too overwhelming. It’s often much easier to just shut the door to that spare room or junk closet even though you had all the right intentions to organize and go through, than to face it and actually do it.

So my advice is to start small.

What does that look like? Well, instead of tackling your entire attic or basement start with a section of a room or office. Or start by going through one drawer of your dresser at a time. If it’s your closet you need the most help than partition it off and only attack that space and only move on when that portioned section is finished.

For example: I have a bookcase in my office but I only use this bookcase and honestly our two other bookcases for the same purpose, to display the decorative books I have bought or that were given to me. My role of thumb is to only display the books horizontally on one side of the shelf while leaving the other side of the shelf open for a decorative basket or candle. By doing this small display you are organizing the books from largest on the bottom to the smaller books on top in a pyramid concept but your are not overwhelming your office space with clutter. Now, the purpose of utilizing baskets on the shelf next to the books is for those little knick-knacks or items you just can not part with and that is OKAY, we all have those items. The baskets are perfect for this to 1.) place these items in a designated area together 2.) taking these small items off of shelves immediately de-clutters any room 3.) the baskets just ground as well as balance the look and feel of the bookcase in a room.

Hope you all are doing well! As you all know Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and I wanted to share this fun and really easy craft project that you can do in literally less than an hour. Unless, you have little ones then it may be a bit longer.

This craft project was less than $5 to make!

So I had a few picture frames in my craft room box and really wanted to make something cute and functional that can be displayed beyond say Valentine’s Day. Using a few bags of river rock left over from our wedding and thought this might be the look I’m trying to get. So here it is!

Directions:

1. I removed the glass from the picture frame, (I hope to use this for a later project,) and painted the hard cardboard in the frame a distressed white. I let it dry completely. Now, paint the bakround white or any color (you could even paint the background of the heart a different color too it depends on the look you are going for). I wanted my heart picture to look rustic.
2. I lightly traced a heart shape so that I was about to get the heart shape I wanted. I actually dipped each one of the rocks in the mod podge because I really wanted the rocks to stick to the paint and not fall off…like ever. In this step if you go outside of the lightly traced line that is fine. The rocks edges can give the heart edge a rugged look that doesn’t look like a perfect heart.
3. Once I completed the heart with the river rocks I lightly brushed mod podge over the entire heart because it will keep everything in place. Plus, mod podge will dry clear!
4. I finally placed the dried cardboard with the heart river rock back in the picture frame and viola!

I hope you have fun making this heart that can be placed in your home for Valentine’s Day and beyond!