May was a very busy month here at Exquisitely Unremarkable! Here's a recap, in case you missed a post and one new one, for good measure.
Learn how to make an easy DIY floral garland headpiece, perfect for a bride and her wedding party, flower girls, communions or Halloween costumes. It's super simple to do even if you've never crafted before and very inexpensive, plus the results are elegant and outstanding. Come see. I enjoy creative jobs and have held many, many of them throughout the years. I fleetingly mention some of them on my about me page , but I don't really think that I have ever discussed my theater gig, in any detail. For the past decade, I have been costuming children, in one capacity or another, for a small theater group and it has been one of my greatest pleasures.
Make your own magazine hanger with this easy DIY. Just grab an old wooden hanger and a few book pages to create a stunning new accessory. And you can keep those magazines off the table and on display.
I recently came across an article touting the benefits of Feng Shui and how to apply its principles to every area of your home…right down to picking out a bathroom floor mat. To be very honest, I don’t recall where I saw it (ah, middle age), but I will read just about anything on the subject of home décor, so I dug in.
Gift baskets make great presents for birthdays, showers, holidays and fundraisers. Here's how to make a beautiful one and look like a pro put together. I was recently asked to make a couple of baskets for a fundraiser at our church. Of course I said yes, immediately. I was super happy to contribute, so I offered up two craft baskets. I figured I would make one with activities for children and one for adults. I know crafts and enjoy crafts, it would be an easy way to give back and help out...or so I thought!
Photo from Mom's Hobby Farm Before I started blogging, I had never really visited or read another blog. Not one. Not on purpose anyway. In retrospect, I am certain that I must have tripped across a few random posts when I was googling things, but at the time, I did not recognize them as blog sites. I was pretty clueless.
Last year, I featured a tour of our yard . It looks very different now as opposed to when we moved in over a decade ago. We cleared a lot of shrubs and brush, added a pool, fence and patio. We painstakingly chose each element, as we wanted the landscape to look as if it could have been original. Keep in mind, the house was built in the 1920's.
Upcycle a plain pullover sweater into a cute refashioned cardigan with this quick and easy tutorial. Come see the easy steps that turned this cut and tattered sweater into a showstopper. My daughter is a budding fashionista. She has a real affinity for clothes and a definite style. I remember when she was in preschool, I pulled out some of her older sister's clothes, thrilled I was going to get another wearing out of them. Silly mother. Instead, she put her hand up and told me in no uncertain terms that, NO, those are not my style! What? What style?? She was three!!
I got an email from my cousin recently. She stated simply, if rather tongue in cheek, that she was not sure she could continue to read my blog, because my house was always too perfect and it was beginning to make her feel bad about herself. I laughed as I looked around at my kitchen, in complete and total disarray, snapped a quick pic on my cell and sent it to her. I told her that the photo was a much more accurate representation of my home, than the blog.
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