Crafty-ish Saturday

Husband is at work today, so I decided to go and get my hair trimmed today and then came back to work on a few projects that I have been meaning to get to for awhile. The first is a small Christmas tree of Victorian-looking ornaments for the powder room. My aunt collected Victorian-looking ornaments for a long time and this year decided she didn't want them anymore, so I got them :) I found this tree at Goodwill for $0.99, but I wasn't particularly crazy about the blue theme and ornaments.

I found this little tin container at Goodwill also for $1.99. I took the Goodwill price tag off and the price tag underneath said $13! I don't know about any of you, but that's too much for this one-income household to pay for at little metal bin !

It was too deep for my little tree, so I filled it with some old paperbacks that we never read :

Next, I hot glued the tree stump to the paperback in the tin.

I filled the base with some leftover ornaments that I had from decorating various other parts of the house.

I tied  bow around the tin (everything looks better with a bow, in my opinion !).

And voila ! The finished tree :)

Not bad for a start. I think I'm going to start a collection of these types of ornaments. I really love the way that they look.

The second project of the day was covering a lamp shade of a lamp that has been in my kitchen ever since we moved in. It was a nice lamp that worked just fine, but it was plain Jane! Beige base, beige lampshade . . . You all know the story. So I bought some ribbon at Michael's awhile back that I thought would look really nice on this lampshade. It's blue and white, which are some of the colors of my kitchen. Here's the lamp at the beginning:

Here's the after !

Aaaaaaaaaaaand a close-up of the ribbon:

The finished product in my kitchen !

I am really happy with the way that turned out. Total cost of the project = $0.99. The ribbon on the spool was some remnant in the $0.99 at Michaels! I just love a good bargain :) I already had the hot glue that I used to glue the ribbon down. Hopefully husband likes it too ! Have a wonderful Saturday !