Tie Dye Easter Eggs

I saw this way cute tutorial on Our Best Bites to dye Easter Eggs using silk ties! I told my friend Crystal about it and she totally went for it and boiled some eggs, got the ties and the white fabric. I wish I could take more credit but all I did was cut a couple ties up and tie a few of the strings on top. We found that when we tied strings on both ends rather than just the one, the pattern looked better on the sides. Also, the tutorial says to use raw eggs because you boil them anyways but we accidentally broke a few while we were wrapping them up and were glad they were boiled.

The favorite ended up being the red & blue paisley because it showed up the best. On some of the eggs, even though the fabric was right up against the egg, some of the ties had blurryish spots. The only thing we could thing of was they washed the ties with fabric softener or something.

Happy Easter!

Tin Foil Headboard / Sofa Table

I wanted a table underneath my Calendar to hold markers and to help it out a little visually. I looked around for something but it was either too expensive and/or hideous. So, off to the DI we go. My SIL Jen made did this technique to a bookshelf and it turned out A-Maze-Ing so I was looking for something to do. We got the idea from here and I have so many more ideas from that gold mine. $18 dollars later and this is what I ended up with.

Dallin was no too excited but I could see it had some potential.

Before, During & After

Pillows!

I got new couches and they are really dark so in order to lighten the room up, I decided I would just get new pillows. Here is the before with the old couches.

I love the gray pillows and the sofa table with the old couches (shown above), but with the new ones, it just was too dark and didn't go. We got the new couches for a good deal and these old ones are small and were getting kinda uncomfortable.

I saw these pillows from Target on a blog and fell in love but not with the price.

I looked around at the Wal-Mart, Tai Pan and TJ Maxx but a) they didn't have the right yellow or b) was over $20. Sooo, I was over at my cousin Chantelle's and she had just made these pillows for her bed and couch. I was like - Hey, those are so cute! Why don't you help me make some. We went to Joanns Fabric and bought everything we needed for oh about $12 bucks total. For 3 pillows!

Ta-Da!

To lighten it up even more, I got my piano from my parents house :) Bonus! I have even practiced 4-5 times since I got it. I def need some lessons though. Ha.