Old crate into storage footstool!

I forgot to take a picture before I painted the outside, but just so you get the idea it was the same as the wood that you see on the inside :)

It was an old tomato catsup crate that I found at my local antique store for $16!

I used it for a friends baby nursery (more pics to follow) made an upholostered lid and voila!

Old mini blinds = NEW Roman Shades!!

What a money saving this trick is!!!!
I stole this idea from pinterest, had to try it out! Heres how I did it!

Start by taking off all of the slats, so all you have are the strings.

Next hem all of the edges of your fabric. Then lay it out, and glue the top of the blind onto the top of the fabric.
I started to put some of the slats back in I spaced them every 9 in". Then I ran the string back through the slats as well, and glued them down.

 Heres how it looks layed out. I put the bottom back on and finished off the the string with a knot.

And the finished product! I would make sure to use a little thicker fabric because you do see the slats when the sun comes through.

Fabric flowers!

Start with cutting circles from fabric, I used the cap off a spray paint can to trace my circles. I cut about 90 for this larger flower.



Then you cut out a larger circle and fill it with stuffing and glue it, this will become what you glue the petals to.

Now with each circle you will fold in half and hand sew the open end with a simple stitch. And you will just start stringing them onto the string until you have a long chain.

 

Next you will start to glue them onto the pouf of fabric and start from the edge and work your way around until you get to the center.

Then I added some little gold pearls to the center!

I chose to pin several diferent types fo fabric flowers to a white linen shower curtain, but they would look cute on just about anything!!

Square tufted Cheat!

I found this great bench for $8! So I took the cushion off and painted the whole thing black.

 I wanted to use burlap for the cushion, I measured and then sewed pleats creating a square pattern (sorry I didn't take pictures of that process) I really wasn't up for diamond tufting nor did I have all of the materials to do that. So I came up with just screwing the tufts in! SO easy and it still looks nice, what an easy way to cheat!

 

You have to use washers as well otherwise the fabric will eventually pull around the screw and come undone. I put them right in the middle of each crossing of lines.

 

Then I hot glued nail heads down after chopping off the nail part!