BIG Teapot tutorial!

As promised, here is the tutorial for the large teapot seen at my daughter's 7th birthday party!

I bought one of these ugly plastic teapots (used to hold disney princess tea cups and plates, etc...) It was $1 at DI, it had no lid so I bought one at DI for 50 cents that fit on top! You could stop there with the lid.....but I couldn't! Next I spray painted my teapot pink, took the knob off the lid, and sprayed it as well. I had the ceiling pieces to the chandelier sitting in my garage, so I of course had to paint the gold metal part aqua, hooked it onto the pink lid with a bolt, gorilla glued the crystal dome on, and I had a percolator top for teapots that I bought at Smith and Edwards for a couple bucks that I gorilla glued to the dome! (I think it would be just as cute, and much easier to just to the pink part of the lid, and srew a hobby lobby crystal knob on in place of the one that came on it) ;) I also sanded all the raised area and edges, cut a paper to fit the opening, sprayed the back of the paper with spray adhesive, and stuck it on!

                                       There you have it! A large teapot for under $5!

Anthropologie "knock off" curtains from bed sheets!

 Start out by cutting your strips (mine are 5 inches wide) (I used a queen flat sheet, it's a great inexpensive way to get a large quantity of fabric) I just cut little inch long snips, and ripped the fabric into strips because I wanted that frayed edge!

 Here's what is looks like as you are ripping!

 You can either iron the pleats into the strips like this, then sew down the middle (takes forever) or you can use a pleater foot! I just took the guard off mine so I could pleat down the middle instead of just on the side.

 This is what the pleats look like out the back of my machine!

I used this walmart brand flat sheet (they are like $4) for the curtain itself, (and a queen flat sheet is what I used to cut the strips from to make the ruffles, same brand)

 

I used a seam ripper to open the end of the seam on the casing (at each end of the top of the sheet) to make a place for my curtain rod to go through

 I just leave it ripped open like this, and keep it folded in, once hung on the curtain rod it pulls straight and looks great!

 One more view of the casing for the rod

 This is the bottom of the sheet, I measured how long it was from my rod to the floor, then I added 4 inches for a seam allowance! 

 I ironed over 1 inch

 Then I ironed over 3 inches (remember the edges are already seamed)

 And sewed a seam at the top of my ironed fold!

 Bottom all done! I ironed my ruffles to make them look more ruffled and pleated!

see!

 Lay it out on your curtain (sheet) after the bottom is hemmed and pin your ruffles into place space evenly! I made 2 curtains, one is a twin sheet that I sewed 2 ruffles on, the other is a full with 3 ruffles)

 Just remember to stop your ruffles at the casing, if you sew through it you won't be able to slide your curtain rod through! ;) (don't ask how I know that!) LOL

 Sew your ruffles onto your curtain!

 I ironed over it again and kinda scrunched the ruffles a bit to make it look more anthro!

And...... here they are in my home! Sooooo cheap, and easy!!! They cost me less than $20, not bad for 2 curtains, especially considering the anthropologie ones are like $200 for one panel! ;)

Thrift store Mirrors + a chandelier= FUN!

 I bought 2 of these mirrors at a thrift store for $4 a piece!!!!

 Spray painted them.... (don't be alarmed when you spray a high gloss wood like this and you get these bubbles that won't take paint, when you distress it, it makes it look extra good!)

 sanded and distressed!

 (sorry about the crappy lighting)

Here they are in my daughter's room, I just need to update the picture in the middle of them, and make the photo a bit larger! Love the mirrors! (I also found this chandelier for $5 the same day, and refinished it with the same spray paint! (it was gold) then I hooked some of my left over chandelier crystals on it to add some bling, and hung it above her tea party table (which I also bought at a thrift store the next week, I will post it as soon as I get pics!)

More subway art!

 I layed out my chip board letters (don't mind that some of the letters are wrong, I only have one of each letter, so I just put another one in it's place to see my spacing!)

 Made this one for my Mamma for Mother's day!

 Made this one for my family room!

 And here's the one I made for my bedroom!

Sorry about the crappy picture, here's the one I made for Kennady's room, I just painted the letters with glue, and pressed it onto the canvas, then sprinkled glitter on! ;)