Featured!

Jen over at Tater Tots and Jello featured my sewing room wall redo on her oh-so-fantastic blog! You'll have to go check out all of her wonderful projects. I'm currently loving her ruffled bench cushion.

Thanks, Jen!

Another blog to add to your list

Have you checked out eighteen25 yet? They've got a lot of fun ideas for holidays and some yummy recipes. I used their free Easter download to make some fun presents for my mom and mother-in-law to pass out at their work, and I gave a few to our friends at our weekly get-together.
I thought it turned out cute. The only not cute thing was the incredible amount of green and pink "sand" on my floor the next day. It took me a while before I realized it was peeps dust. Go check them out, and tell 'em I sent you.

My AHA! Moment

Don't you just love (or hate) aha! moments? I love them because they give me something new to work with, but I hate them because they make me feel like an idiot for not thinking of it years ago. I had one of those this morning as I was reading through some of my favorite blogs.

All Things Thrifty is a fairly new addition to my RSS feed and I'm so glad I started reading! It was as I was breezing through one of their tutorials on creating an upholstered headboard when I was slammed with my aha! moment of the day.

Remember when I was pretty-ing up my "Lots of Potential" chair find? Isn't she pretty?

My big dilemma was whether or not I should replace the seat foam because of the nasty, scary, unknown stains that lived on the fabric. I didn't, mostly because my mom convinced me it would be safe not to, but also because of how stinkin' expensive foam can be!

No more. No more will I be held captive by expensive foam thanks to All Things Thrifty.

Their big idea? Use foam mattress toppers. As in, cheap egg crate toppers. GENIUS! So, instead of paying between $10-12 for less than a yard of foam, you can have an entire mattress sized foam piece for roughly $7 (walmart). Why, oh WHY did I not think of this years ago?!

If you head over to the All Things Thrifty blog you'll also see other works of genius like:

Using cheap rubber welcome mats to replace the not-so-kid-friendly glass doors on her entertainment center. Don't believe me? How cute is this:

What's your most recent aha! moment?