More Crafts!! Winter Charger Plate - Mouse-trap Magnets - HorseShoe Necklace Holder

Don't you just love craft time? Here are a few ideas that are way easy to do!

Since it is still winter time and Christmas is over, here is a cute DIY home decor for the season! Winter time charger plate! I love making these plates cause they are so easy!!
 Michael's and Tai Pan Trading have way cute charger plates. Red/Gold/Blue/White/etc and you can do any theme. I wanted something that I can have all winter instead of just at Christmas time so I did a snow theme! Let It Snow sled and a snowman. I also found some snowflake jell stickers to add to make it a little more festive. Now I just put it on an easel and let it sit on my kitchen table until spring!



Need more magnets on your fridge to hold up those Christmas and New Years greeting cards from friends and family? How about mouse trap magnets? They can hold up your cards without having to cover them with a magnet. Just take off the trap and leave the spring. Paint, decorate and glue a magnet on the back. With my mouse trap magnets I had some lace ribbon and I cut and placed on top of them for a little extra cuteness! They sure have been handy to hold up those cards and pictures!




Ok so for quite some time now I have desperately needed a cute jewelry holder. I  am in still need of something for my earrings (which I have plans to complete in the near future) but I recently made such a cute necklace/bracelet holder. I love it and how cute it is especially for those cowgirls! I got a pallet board, cut it to the size I wanted and sanded. I then painted the board a turquoise color and for a more rustic look added a little stain here and there. A secret to the stain is rub most of it off of your brush with an old cloth and then just brush it along the board here and there. If you add too much just wipe some off or even add some paint back to it. Then I added 4 horseshoes. Each horse shoe has 8 nail spots and to keep the horse shoes on the board I nailed in 2 nails all the way through and left the other 6 half way out so I can hang the jewelery on them. Add a wire for the back to hang up and wa la - your cowgirl necklace holder! Cute!

Oh Christmas Tree

Well this post is a little late.... Christmas came and went quickly this year. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday season. It was our first Christmas as a married couple for Hutch and I. We had a great one! I think we even started our own Haslam Christmas tradition that everyone thought was way cool. A sagebrush Christmas tree! Sure the thought of it to people was thinking "cheap", "redneck", and "dumb" but once people saw what I had planned for it, the tree turned out way cool and beautiful!
Growing up I remember my aunt had a sagebrush tree one year and ever since then I thought it was cool and I wanted one. So our first year married I told Hutch and he thought it was a good idea too. At the time we were the only ones who thought it was a good idea. We went on a ride on our horses in search of the perfect sagebrush. It had to be big and full. It was an awesome ride, spotting tons and tons of deer and beautiful views. And then we found it and brought him home and got it decorated.We decorated it with lights, red ornaments, berries, bells, and Indian ornaments. Turned out better than I imagined!

Indian Ornaments

Berries

Rustic Bells

I absolutely love my sagebrush Christmas tree. In fact Its almost the middle of January and I still have it up! I think it definitely will be a tradition from now on :)

I also made a Christmas tree craft. I made it out of clay pots and buttons, ribbons and wooden stars. Simple & Easy! Just get your different sizes, paint, glue and then decorate! This would be such a fun craft for kids too!