DIY Tutorial: How To Make Necklace Organizer With Picture Frames

Tired of tangled necklaces in your jewelry box? Want the easy access to your beautiful jewelry without taking a lot of space? I have got an esy DIY to create a beautiful hanging organizer that looks like an art work. All you need is an old picture frame (or get a new one if you like!) and some felt and cotton fabric.

Let's start! 

 Supplies Needed:

Step 1: Take the picture out of the frame. Usually there is a cardboard back of the frame, but my frame had a thick plywood kind of back that wouldn't allow me put fabric and felt in the frame. If you have a cardboard frame, you might not need to buy cardboard.

 Step 2: Trace the cardboard with the picture/frame backing and cut it to fit the frame.

Step 3: Cut the felt and the cotton fabric little big bigger than the cardboard so it can wrap all around the cardboard when you fit it in the frame.

Step 4: Put the fabric, felt and cardboard in that order to fit into the frame. The fabric shows at the front and felt makes it easier to put pin tacks for hanging necklaces.

Step 1: Pull everything tightly in the bacl of the frame before securing it. I used packing tape to secure the back, but you can use hot glue too if you want.

That's how it looks when it is ready. Now stick the pin tacks/push pins as you like to store and showcase your beautiful necklaces! 

 Stare lovingly at your DIY creation:-) You did it!

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{Tutorial} How To Make A Rustic Chic Burlap Wreath For Christmas Decor

Can you hear the sleigh bell ringing yet? I am so excited for Christmas and all the festivities this season brings. As we were traveling on Thanksgiving, I have not yet put up my tree yet (usually we do it on Black Friday!), but I am getting the the groove of things. Hopefully this weekend, the tree will be up.

 Meanwhile, here is an easy DIY idea for a Christmas wreath that will look good on smaller place/doors, windows, even on mirrors on the entryway. It took me just half an hour to finish this project. I saw this cute polka dot print  urlap ribbon in Walmart recently and wanted to use it for my Christmas decor. I love this time of the year. This season inspires even the non-crafty girls like me to create something!

You can get these supplies in any craft store or the seasonal section of drugstores. For a 12" wreath, I used one roll of 5" x 3.4 yard spool of ribbon. For this super easy wreath, you just need to wrap the ribbon on an angle on the Styrofoam frame. I overlapped it to finish the spool. 

I secured the starting corner of the ribbon with a flower wire to make the wrapping easy and tight.

 When you reach the end, tuck the ribbon with some pins. Sewing/quilting even applique pins will work fine.

 The fun part of this wreath is that you can decorate it any way you like. You can use little pine cones, small plastic apples, cinnamon sticks, fur leaves and holly. I glued the silk poinsettia flowers using heavy duty craft glue, but I think hot glue would have been even better. But because the base is foam, I just used floral wire and sewing pins with the glue to secure my arrangement. The wire is not visible on the front - so no worries!

All done!! BTW, I am thinking this wreath will make a great center piece too. Put it on a glass cake platter, decorate all around the rim with fur leaves, fake snow sprinkled cones, cinnamon sticks and some sparkly ornaments. Put a pillar candle in the middle and voila! (*Not to self- start working on the burlap center pieces!)

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How To Build A Dollhouse

Like most little girls of 6 years, our daughter loves to play with dolls, but not the big dolls like barbies or Journey dolls - she loves to play with miniature size toys. Like Olivia family, miniature dolls and of course her little ponies! (All of you who have kids would know what I am talking about!!! LOL!)! For Christmas she wanted a doll house. And although my husband and I are not the typical DIYers (but hubby dear is good with tools - what a blessing to have a handy man around;-)), we both thought it'd be fun to build a wooden doll house for Mili.  After searching a lot of craft/home improvement blogs, we found some great suggestions (here, here and here) and decided to make our own doll house! We closely followed the amazing house improvement/DIY blog Young House Love for the dimensions and decorations, but we added an extra shelf to make the doll house taller for Mili's height. (Well, more square footage never hurt no homeowner, right!!)

So on Christmas, 'Santa' delivered the supplies (with a letter explaining Mili  how her dad can make a doll house out of wood pieces!) dad built it and Mom decorated it. The furniture came from ebay! I had so much fun finishing this project and my husband still suspects I wanted the doll house more than Mili!! 

The doll house is almost 3 feet tall with raised ceilings at the top floor! (We had a good realtor!)

For the building process, my husband drew the dimensions, got the wood pieces cut to desired length from home depot, and glued and nailed the pieces together! (For details, please follow directions at Young House Love)
The big plywood board was nailed in the back to finish the structure. Easy peasy!:-)

Then it was mom's turn to paint two coats of white water based latex indoor paint with a roller and a small brush for hard to reach corners. Then a trip to carft store to buy some decorative paper in different designs for the 'wall paper'. I got 14 (12x12 size) papers from AC Moore, cut them to size measuring each 'room' back wall and stuck the paper with modpodge. I also sealed the paper by putting a layer of modpodge on it.

Here is the finished doll house!

Then started the search for perfect furniture! I was lucky to find a great lot of mixed furniture in excellent condition on ebay for $50. I am so in love with house! Sigh!

I wish my dresser was as organized and ornate!

Baby says hi!

We had to have a ballerina somewhere in the house!;-)

The contemporary furniture is actually a set of erasers! (for 77 cents for one set - we got 2 sets for this room) although Olivia's dad looks giant with it! :-) But hey, he got an option to sit down in another 'sitting room' on the velvet upholstered chair (Fancy!)!!

The kitchen is still work in progress, we need to find a good size refrigerator - still making do with 'basement-bar-sized' one that came with the eraser set! LOL! 

The clawfoot tub and golden faucets! C'est magnifique!

Now the big question - WHERE IS THE FOOD? 

So now you know why have I been slow to post since the holidays!! I spend way too much time playing with my daughter and her doll house!

How do you like our attempt to build a doll house?

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