Garden Grow: Chandelier

The dollar store had some solar lights for.... a dollar...duh... I painted them, popped the heads off the stands and then used poster putty to stick them inside the "candle sticks" of this chandelier I got from the thrift store for $8. Has a cool effect :) Tricky to get a photo of though.

DIY Cat Toys

Get this:

From this:

Pretty easy! All it took was this: 

Yay for fancy duct tape! 

So if you're a cat owner you know that they will play with a box whether it's fancy or not, but if you're like me then you want your living room to not look like a trash heap. In comes the duct tape.

Take a mailing box or other not so deep box and cut some holes in the top big enough to fit some little kitty toy balls.

Add the duct tape.

And the balls

Ta da! Ok actually I did this one second and so was out of tape. This other guy took up all my tape!

But kitty thoroughly enjoys it :) So yeah....like...what...$3 for the fancy tape? a $1 for a bag of kitty toy balls form the dollar store? Not too bad.

"Tea by the Sea" More Decor

You're not going to believe this but I got another cold (thanks Hubby...poor guy) so this is another short entry but I hope you enjoy the pictures of the decor. Much of what we had was contributed from people's own things, was already owned by the library or was found at thrift stores and the dollar store.

Christmas Wreath

Like my new pretty? :) This is all either thrift store, something I had already or dollar store. I am pretty happy with it! It took a little while with the letting things dry bit but other than that, really easy to do.

Slice a strip of fabric

Glue fabric to the wreath

Glitter!!

Let dry

Making the bow;

Bells from the Dollar Store

Thread the bells down some ribbon, knotting the ribbon where you want the bells to stay

Glue ornament to the top

Using the light green puff paint...

Let dry... again...

Hang up and think happy Christmassy thoughts!