DIY for the college girl & back to school

we loaded up the car sunday & moved savannah in to her sorority house at school.

yes, school cranks up mighty soon down here 

with my other girls beginning monday!

as much as savannah loved life in the co-ed dorms at UGA

she is thrilled to be in the sorority house.

earlier this summer i posted an instagram about some crafts she created for her room.

she really enjoyed what turned out to be easy peasy creations

that are each very thoughtful in nature.

her rommate made the "he will cover you" on an 11x14 piece of wood. 

stained first & then painted.

savannah printed off an enlarged silhouette of the state of georgia

& laid it on her canvas, painted over with gold metallic acrylic

& then removed the silhouette. she then painted a heart over atlanta/athens area.

the smaller 4x6 canvas with the lyre, the symbol for her sorority.

again using gold metallic craft paint.

then she made these beauties after being inspired by a similar craft on

pinterest.

she took 2 11x14 stretched canvas & painted over them with a gold/bronze metallic craft paint.

she then laid removable sticky letters down

to form the words from this famous hymm.

she then using a dry foam brush technique

painted over the gold/bronze & the letters with a creamy acrylic paint.

then removed the letters super easy without taking any paint off.

 

her friends went nuts.

wouldn't these be awesome in 24x36 format too?

so crafted more.

she made bailey & her roommate at ole' miss

each a canvas with their favorite scripture

done in the same technique, just different colors.

savannah made herself the psalm 103 to add to her menagerie of

other goldy metallic crafts for her room.

you might recall my own DIY jewelry board from this post

which was done on a large 24x36 cork board.

savannah's room isn't large enough for that size 

so she crafted one, with the help of dan, a tad smaller.

we used the door knob thingies from hobby lobby

& upholstery tacks around the perimeter

& then just push pins for the smaller pieces.

with the board being covered in burlap, earrings will easily hang freely from the fabric.

ta-da!

psalm 103. 1-5

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and all that is within me,
    bless his holy name!
  Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits,
 who forgives all your iniquity,
    who heals all your diseases,
 who redeems your life from the pit,
    who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
 who satisfies you with good
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

an embarassingly simple DIY jewelry board & my connection with beth moore

good morning everybody

i'll be honest, the last couple days i've been glued to my computer watching as much of the Passion 2012 live stream as possible.
for those of you who've asked, i think each session expires after 24 hours...however, you can purchase the all access pass & have all of it available to you as they release them over the next few weeks/months. i highly recommend that! 

i've bascially blown up my facebook & twitter accounts about #passion2012

i promise to talk about something else but i have a quick story to tell you.

so, tuesday morning i ran over to the mall for a quickie exchange.  since passion doesn't tell you the schedule of speakers, i was completely unaware that beth moore was speaking live at around 11:00.

i was in anthropologie at 11:00 looking at everything, including jewelry.

i picked up a gorgeous pair of chandelier earrings, however since i have an empty post-christmas bank account, i laid them back down.

so, i come home later & watch beth moore on the live stream. low & behold, THE beth moore had on the earrings ya'll!! 

couldn't find the exact color that "we" have/covet on line, but this is the pair in blue.

i'd  bet the farm these were what she was wearing.

i shoulda screenshot the image & zoomed in

like any good stalker would have....sigh.

surely ya'll would be as excited about matching jewelry style with a

veritable star right? 

it's like we're twins :)

so at the exact time i was picking up a gorgeous pair of anthro earrings, beth was speaking at passion...down the street. 

isn't that amazing? sorta like a cosmic sign that we're kindred spirits or something....or that we just have the same taste in earrings. i prefer to see it as a kindred spirit sign!

~~

ok

i have a pretty good size inventory of jewelry 

as that's my favorite accessory.

i needed to do something to make storage a little more efficient.

in fact, this little DIY project is so darn simple

that i'm embarrased to share

& it surely doesn't require step by step images

but the basics are as follows:

i used a 24x36 cork/message board

covered it with linen but burlap would be great too

headed over to lowe's & picked up upholstery tacks

measured & nailed them around the border.

while i was at lowe's i also grabbed some nickel plated style push pins

about 75 of those.

& went to town hanging my favorite necklaces.

i wanted this to be both functional & artsy pretty.

i keep my larger chunky necklaces on another display

but for the majority of them, i hung them on my board.

savannah is wanting to make a larger board

using vintage door knobs, knockers & drawer pulls

so i'm on the look out for those.

but for now, here you go...

my entire cost was less than $30

or you could swing by ballards

& pick up one for upwards of $219

 

okie doke, back to the live stream...today's the final day!

 ~~~

ps. many of my monogrammed pieces are John Wind

which you can find here