Pinned It, Did It

With all the Pinterest craze there is always a joke to be found in the fact that we pin 1200 things and only follow through with 3 of them, ha! Well, some pins are just inspirational pictures but a lot are "to do" pins. I am thoroughly enjoying Pinterst and have pinned many to do projects. I'm proud to say I've actually carried out some of those projects! So I thought I'd share. (Please excuse my iPhone quality photos, my camera's auto focus is kaput!)

This project for Sean's play room required very little effort! I thought this would be cute to hold both pictures and Sean's art. I already took down his little pumpkin art. I used an old frame I've been holding onto and the twine and clothes pins we already had. The mirror broke years ago, but I liked the frame so much I didn't want to toss it! There were staples still in the back side of the frame so I just strung the twine through those.
I also bought a cookie jar from Wally world to hold Sean's crayons. I have since moved the crayons into a screw top jar (that he can't open) to prevent the frequent crayon torando that used to occur.

Also in our playroom are these shelves Thomas built out of 1x4s and 1x2s. The pinned photo shows shelves from Ikea, but they truly are simply to make. Look here to see just how easy. We just painted and screwed into the wall studs. We hung them fairly low so Sean could at least reach the bottom shelf.

I thought this birdie art was so cute and would be just right for Kayla's nursery. Already had the frame, wire and ribbon. I found the wooden birds at Michaels along with the scrapbook paper. I modpodged the paper on the birds and hot glued the ribbon to the birds. I'm debating putting a rustic-y coat of white paint on the frame like the other one...what do you think?

We had our Life Group Thanksgiving dinner at our house and I thought this guy would be fun for us all to write our "I'm Thankful for..."s on. I had to give him feet for balance, I guess my turkey was a little heavy in the head area, ha!

The wall in our living room above our couch has needed art since ohh 2008. I had these four canvases  from a previously ditched project. I decided to do a gradient of colors in stead of solid. It works for me!

I hope you are pinning like a mad woman too, and actually finding time to do them!