Two Tier Serving Tray

Present your sweets in Homespun style!It is nice to have options with your serving pieces when it comes to hosting a party or special event! For us, the more options the better! Having more options is easier to obtain when you can put these pieces together for yourself and save money. Once again we have taken some very simple items and put them together, resulting in a great, functional,

Pretty Dish Soap Bottle

Wash Your Dishes With Something Pretty!Not many of us love washing dishes, but it might make it a little more pleasant when your dish soap bottle sitting on your sink counter top is as pretty and cheerful as this one is! Roll up your sleeves and lets get to work!Read more »

Enchanting Party Butterflies

Welcome your guests with butterflies! Don't we all love butterflies whether in the garden or at a party! Invite these enchanting butterflies to your next party as party favors or  party decorations, or both! They are super easy to make and will fit into your party planning budget! Read more »

Glass Cupcake Pedestals

Think your cupcakes are pedestal worthy?! We do!!!We all have our baking "pride and joys", so why not put them up on a pedestal?! We just love everything about cupcakes here at Homespun With Love! So, you will see a lot of cupcake related posts. Honestly for me it is the eye appeal of the cupcake over the taste! Love a tasty cupcake, but I prefer the look first! We have been wanting to make some

Pail of Apples {Teacher Gift}

Give your child's teacher an A+! The end of another school year is upon us now and we wanted to give the teachers one last little token of gratitude and appreciation to show how much they mean to us! A Homespun, heartfelt gift from the heart is what we have come up with to gift our teachers with. We decided to go with an "apple" theme, since teachers and apples go so well together!This is how we

Moving On Up!

Have a little one moving up a grade?!Don't forget to celebrate the hard work and accomplishments of those younger children who are moving up a grade in school! My son is graduating from second grade into third grade on June 8 2011! He may not be asking for a graduation trip to Disneyland, ...yet, as a graduation present, but it still is thoughtful to acknowledge his hard work throughout the year

DIY Pedestal Jars {Pt.2}

A good marriage continues!If you recall yesterday's post, we showed you how to turn candle cups and candlesticks into beautiful pedestal jars and we showed you how to decorate with them using candles and seashells. Today we want to share with you a few other uses for these jars!Read more »

DIY Pedestal Jars {Pt.1}

A Good Marriage!We love it when we can use an item for more than what it was intended for! Case in point, our pedestal jars! Using Dollar Store candle cups in three different styles and sizes, and candle sticks we married the two and created a couple different looks, and so can you!Read more »

Just A Little Change

A little change for a lot of look!{this could be taken literally!}If you saw our earlier post, {which was part of Bloggers lost posts when they had their recent trouble},  you will recall we showed you our Pottery Barn knock off on soap dishes. It appears we really have embrased changing up our bath accessories, in small ways! We thought we would take it a little further and freshen up a few more

PB Soap Dish Knock Off

                      Bring a little sea~life into your bath! Who doesn't love spending time at the water!Be it the beach, ocean, shore.......bath tub...... whatever you want to call it!This craft project was something we really wanted to try after seeing the inspiration for it here!  We love the clean updated look, and for the price, well it goes without saying. Read more »

Dollar Store Mirror Revamp!

Mirrors Don't Have To Always Be On The Wall!{We hope you had a wonderful weekend celebrating Mother's Day with the women in your life!}Well, we have to say that we even surprised ourselves on this Dollar Store project! I have always loved the glamorous era of women sitting at a dressing table combing their hair in front of big mirror, only to be using a smaller more feminine one on the dressing

Sand & Seashells Knock Off!

Love the look but hate the price?!I think we all fall into that category!We thought we would see what we could come up with that was budget savvy, easy and delivered results! We took our inspiration from these lovely ideas from PB, here and here!So, what do you think?! Read more »

Keepsake Box

A special box for her special memories!Mother's Day Gift Idea # 6This is the perfect little box for mom to tuck away some of her special keepsakes! This box was fast, cheap and easy to make!                                     Here is what we didRead more »

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Garden of love, garden of flowers!Mother's Day Gift Idea # 5Mother's love beautiful bouquet's of flowers from the garden! With this frugal, easy and quick gift idea, mom can bring fresh cut flowers in from the garden anytime she likes!Read more »

The Gift of Giving

I believe there are no coincides in life, but that everything is divinely, beautifully orchestrated by a loving God. Sometimes God brings people into our lives not so we can be blessed, but so that we can be a blessing to others .That is what I believed happen to me recently.Read more »

Damask Candle Set

Black White, Damask & Sparkle!Mother's Day Gift Idea # 4    Timeless black, white and damask add a touch of class and sophistication to our budget savvy candle set!This gift idea is sure to please even the hardest to shop for!This is what you need for this project. Read more »

Vintage Tray & Sweets Cups

Something pretty for Mom!Mother's Day Gift Idea # 3If you read our previous post, you will recall our Dollar Store Happy Birthday Treat Tray project! Here is our second tray, perfect for your Mother's Day sweets! If you are hosting a little Mother's Day gathering for mom, serve her some sweet treats and then gift her the tray afterwards!Read more »

Decorative Hand Soap

Pretty up your liquid hand soap!Mother's Day Gift Idea #2We have a clever way of turning inexpensive liquid hand soap into a beautiful way of wasing your hands! This is not only a great Mother's Day gift idea, but nice to have at your own bath or kitchen sink! Want to learn how!!! Read more »

Teacher Appreciation Gift

Let's show our teachers we appreciate them!May 2 ~ May 6 is Teacher Appreciation week.If the teachers in your area have had it rough like they have here in the Bay Area of California, let's show them a little love!What teacher these days couldn't use, and wouldn't appreciate a small token of gratitude and appreciation from our children?!In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we put on our budget

Butterfly Gift Cone & Stationary

      Beautiful butterfly themed stationary gift set!                    Mother's Day Gift Idea #1We have Mother's Day covered! We put this thoughtful gift idea together so mom can always have a nice set of stationary to write her notes and lists on! Come see how we put it together..... Read more »