Initial Love

 I decided it would be fun to add a little decoration to the kids doors.

So I picked up giant letters at Joanns the other day and covered them in some Denyse Schmidt fabric I had at the house alla the Anthropologie style I've seen about on Pinterest. I used an interfacing under the fabric to get rid of the cardboard look and opted for grosgrain ribbon on the side instead of wrapping the fabric. Instant gratification is awesome I barely do any projects that take just a few minutes and glue!  

Gratuitous Micah shot... he does have other clothes it just so happens I did all of my picture taking the same afternoon... and he's such a ham I had to share a few! Also the pink on his face is strawberries which he stole off his Dad's birthday cake... 

Cork Balls

Uber and I were out window shopping last week and we popped into Anthropology to get out of the heat (yes heat!) as always their window displays were amazing, they had a cork instillation which I snapped a (terrible) picture of with my phone

I found this picture online of another store... ours was prettier 

So I decided to make some of my own cork balls because it looked like fun... here's a quick run down if anyone wants to make their own completely useless decoration!

You'll need

Corks

pruning sheers

styrofoam balls

brown pearl cotton or twing

long needle

hot glue gun

moss

I chopped the corks in half so the ball would have the look of a larger ball (corks being tighter together)

Grab a couple of Styrofoam balls in different sized- I checked the clearance section and found old snowball ornaments from Christmas and was able to  re-purpose them

I wanted the option to hang them so I threaded a long needle with pearl cotton and knotted a loop at the end

skewer the ball

hot glue the top knot in place, then tie off the bottom and hot glue

now the fun part - start adding your corks. I found working out from a center point seemed to work best. You can clip a little of the edges at the base of the corks off to keep them tighter as you go

Fill in all of the crevices with a dot of glue and moss

And you're finished! Place the balls randomly on shelves in your home...

I realized I have never showed you any of my gifts so here is one- Uber got me a Breville Frother if you love frothed milk in your coffee or hot chocolate you NEED this I mean look---

How amazing is that?! The funny thing is that I've never actually used it because he makes me my coffee in the morning but it is the best gift ever!!