Spunky Junky Feature Friday Link Party #7

Welcome to another Spunky Junky Feature Friday friends! I am so glad you could all join. There were so many amazing projects last week. Ya'll have some serious talent! Here are just a few of the projects that made we ooh and aah!

Lella Boutique made the cutest baby stitchery and she has an awesome tutorial too!

Kelsey at Poofy Boutique made her own homemade chalk. a.w.e.s.o.m.e.

Check out the amazing drawer-to-tray revamp by A Very Dandoislion Life!

Ladycrafter totally rocked out a pair of awesome butterfly pillows! They are sa-weet!

I big puffy heart love this yard globe light! Head on over to Roundabout to see how to make one or two or maybe three...

Modern Wivelyhood made the most whimsical mobile!

Vivienne at The V Spot created the easiest grass container!

You chicks are too cool for school! Make sure to grab a button!

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This post is sponsored by Little Brick Studio. Make sure to check out this week's giveaway from my newest sponsor!

Here are the rules for the linky party

*Link to a specific post, not your homepage, or a giveaway.

*Post something that you have done in the last month

*Check out at least one other lovely and give them some sugar! Everyone loves comments and compliments.

*Grab my button and put it somewhere on your blog!

*Come back next week to see the featured projects!

Hello April Meet My Friend Snow...

This morning we woke up to a nice fluffy blanket of white goodness on the ground. If I lived anywhere else I may have been pleasantly surprised. But knowing that the snow usually hunkers down here until June I just shrugged it off like any other day.

  I was, though, surprised by it's snowball making capabilities.  For those of you not versed in the making of snowballs I shall explain.

 Light, airy, fluffy snow=bad snowballs

hard, wet, heavy snow=A.Mazing. Snowballs.

And on a different note. My tulips decided to make a premature entrance into the world. They, obviously, did not get the office memo that Spring starts in June in these parts....

I Loathe Easter Grass, but I do Love Free Printables...

My old Easter decorations were kind of obnoxious. There was a lot of fake grass, eggs, and baskets. This year--I went for a more simplified look that excluded any form of grass. I think the inventor of Easter grass is in cahoots with the vacuum cleaner industry....

To make my bunny banner I found a peep stencil at Petit Design Co., I then used paint sample cards to cut out each rabbit. Once I cut out all my hoppers I sewed them together. Easy-Peasy.

If you would like a copy of "Meet my Peeps" and "Hippity Hop" you can get them here and here. I printed mine out at Costco on 11x14 photo paper, but you could also do 8x10 copies as well.

*Enjoy*

Partying Here!

{Tutorial Tuesday} This project took a ba-zillion hours to brainstorm....

During the final week of One Month to Win it we were asked to do a "Power Hour Project." Easier said then done.

I wanted to make a ridiculously inventive project, but alas I settled on a lamp.

Lamps serve a two-fold purpose in our home. i.e. they are great accent pieces as well as great light sources (yes, I just stated the obvious).

Here is the skinny. Most the lamps in our home are not plugged in or have never been turned on. I relish in the fact that I am minimizing my carbon foot print, or I am just too lazy to plug the lamp in or buy a bulb...

 

If any of you are drawn to Target on a regular basis you may have seen the lamp on the left. I would venture to say it is their staple lamp. I have a couple of them. They are cheap, and modern, and fun.

But I also love lamps, that are bold, bright, and contain patterns that make my eyes go all wacky. They, however, are not cheap. Which means no fun.

So I decided to design my own shnazzy "expensive looking" lamp, using a cheap lamp....

I don't know the technical term, but I wanted a lamp base that had "stacked ball" look. hahaha. I don't know why that is funny...

 

To get the "stacked" look, I took styrofoam balls and I drilled holes through the center of each one. Then I cut each ball in half and hot glued them to the metal rod of the lamp. I then primed and spray painted the base of the lamp.

While, the base dried I made a removable lamp shade cover. My sewing machine has been on the fritz so I had to make one without my trusty sidekick (GREAT news for all of you non-sewers)! I used Heat n' Bond to hem the edges of the fabric, then I also used Heat n' Bond to attach the ends together to make the cylinder shape.

Once I finished the lamp shade cover, the lamp base was dry enough to attach the beads. I used Christmas bead garland to give the base texture. I super glued the beads around the base and around each ball.

 

So instead of paying a $100 dollars on a lamp, I only paid $20 dollars for my awesomely shabby chic room accessory. And the best news of all...do you wanna know? Doya? Doya? Because the lamp shade is removable I can change it out to fit any room, any color, and any design.

That's it. Time to feed the starving Punk.

P.S. don't forget to enter the awesomely cool giveaway sponsored by the Little Brick House Studio

Check it out here!

P.S.S. If you would still like to link up your projects to the Spunky Junky Feature Friday Link Party, click here.

This is where I am partying!

Okay, that's it. I must really feed Punk before he chews off his own hand.

{House Guest} Little Brick House...and a giveaway!

Top of the mornin' friends! Today I want to introduce you to Kasey. Peeps, Kasey. Kasey, Peeps.

Kasey is the awesome chick behind Little Brick House. She has a pool. We will now become best friends and I will live by her pool forever and ever.

Kasey also has a brick house. Isn't it beautiful?

She loves to decorate and spunk up junk. We must have been seperated at birth? hmm.

I love how she took an old boring pantry closet and opened it up to give the room a more airy feel--the pantry also serves as a great place for displaying beautiful dishes. And check it. She took a vintage paper towl holder and converted it into a sweet storage bin for fabric. Aren't her projects awesome?

Okay 'nuf of my yappin. Kasey has a sweet tutorial for ya today!

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Hi everyone!! My name is Kasey from Little Brick House and I am so grateful to be here today at Halsey's blog to show you a really simple and really [cheap] way to create some nifty wall-art [because we all know we can never have enough wall-art]!

But first can I just say how much I adore Halsey's blog? Seriously it's like a burst of color, everything is just so much fun to read and look at!

Okay so like many of you I am always on the hunt for some treasures to hang on my walls. Whether they be from a store, the goodwill or something I make totally on my own. Today is just that... something that can be made totally on your own and very inexpensively too.

 Tools you will need.. 3 pieces of square wood of either an old wall hanging [preferably made out of a hard/wood material] or canvas, Paint [color of your choice] and a paint brush. [Psssst... Stay tuned for the end of the post for a giveaway!]

So here I have my three  square pieces. I believe I had bought these at TJMaxx about 3yrs ago. They were botanical prints but they were darker in color and so they have been sitting in my 'project' closet for some time now.

I had already sprayed painted them with a white primer a few months back and started a drawing but never finished, so they will work perfect for this projects. Remember, they don't have to be this specific size, or shape... anything with a 'hard' surface will do.

For these I am going with a nice fun orange color to match the scheme I have going on with my dining room. Any paint will do, heck I even believe the Dollar Store sells paint? I used Liquitex Basics acrylic paint. I did not have this particular orange so I mixed up some Red and Yellow and than added some white so it wasn't to-to harsh.

I painted over my pieces and I just love how it almost has that 'canvas' effect with the different brush strokes in the paint. The last part is the fun part!

Adding some simple white silhouettes to your fully painted 'wall blocks' creates a simple yet fun way to add some art to any room/space in your home. I did some simple silhouettes of some grass of different lengths.

I did the same for the 3rd piece also... just randomly painting grass along the bottom of the block.

For the middle piece I added a daffodil blowing in the wind to create that little extra character between the other two blocks.

And now they are placed with some of my other pieces of 'art' and photographs and this entire project cost me $0.00.

I already had the materials so all I needed was some time to paint and viola! Simple, inexpensive wall art that you can create totally on your own :)

So there you have it folks. I want to extend an big big THANK YOU to Halsey for inviting me over and sharing with you my quick-simple and inexpensive wall-art tutorial , it's been a lot of fun!

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I am a total sucker for any DIY wall art project and Kasey totally rocks! I love, love, love the orange. It provides the right *pop* to her dining room.

So now for the exciting news!

Kasey runs a lil' etsy shop called  Little Brick House Studio, where she currently sells fun, modern, and colorful digital prints, photography, and canvas art (coming soon)!

And she is graciously giving away a FREE DIGITAL PRINT (of your choosing) to one lucky SJ reader!

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Mandatory:

Be a public follower of Spunky Junky (1 entry)

Visit Little Brick House Studio and tell me which print is your fave (1 entry) 

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Optional:

Blog, Tweet, Facebook about this giveaway (3 entries)

Buy somethin' somethin' from the Little Brick House Studio etsy shop this week (5 ENTRIES)

Kasey is also offering FREE SHIPPING for this week only at Little Brick House Studio!

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Thanks Kasey for stopping by Spunky Junky. I'm so glad you could come over and say, "Hi!"