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Stuffed Animal Storage

January 1, 2016 by Ashley Hackshaw

Happy New Year! Today is the first day of a new amazing year of creative projects with Michaels. January’s theme is organization…and the challenge was to organized a favorite space. We decided to tackle stuffed animal storage!

Boo loves her little stuffed animals, the only problem is they end up all over the place. I had to come up with a storage solution that kept them off the floor and (mostly) off the bed. I decided to do something similar to our snack storing solution we used back in the desert, the hanging of metal bins on the wall:

I love the result…especially that it’s a quick cleanup if you are a good shot from across the room:

They all look so cute peeking out don’t you think?

The zoo has finally been contained:

You can see the process I used here to hang the bins…when I used them in our pantry for snack organization:

The galvanized bins are from Michaels, usually found in the aisle with the unfinished wood projects and smaller galvanized metal buckets:

We tackled a few other areas of her room so stay tuned the next two days for more reveals! You can view all of the projects I’ve done for Michaels in the past by clicking here.

So are you inspired to organize your own space? Start the year off right! Michaels has tons of products and storage supplies that can be used to decorate and inspire creativity in any room of your house or office.

Michaels just launched a new line of storage and organization product called Cre8ted Spaces available in stores now and it has tons of different colors, bins and office supplies – with more than 300 new items in 4 coordinating colors, you have to check it out!

If you don’t know where to begin, you can always take a look at some of the fun storage projects on Michaels.com or the other 49 makers’ ideas on The Glue String for tips on designing, organizing and decorating their favorite places! All of this months projects are linked up below:

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Vintage Hiking and Rustic Trail Sign Ornaments

December 21, 2015 by Ashley Hackshaw

Click here to find all the ornaments and tutorials from this year’s tree! Thanks for following along this year!

How to make vintage hiking and rustic trail sign ornaments. This is the final post of the vintage hiking and camping ornament series this year. These easy DIY rustic trail signs and vintage-inspired hiking signs are so easy to make you could whip up dozens of them in time for Christmas still. All of these little sign ornaments were made from pre-cut pieces of wood found at Michaels. The rustic trail sign wood came in packs of six. First I painted these with a gray acrylic paint:

When the gray paint was dry I brushed on a diluted wash of brown acrylic paint to create the aging effect:

The letters were traced onto the wood using regular letter stencils and then carefully painted white:

For the vintage hiking signs I used these small pre-cut wood sign pieces also from Michaels:

I painted the brown base coat first and then used an image of an actual vintage sign to trace my image onto the wood. I kept the image and the chalk tracing paper in place using a rubber band to trace:

Using a small paintbrush I filled in the image. A damp cloth wipes away any of the tracing.

The image and tracing paper can be reused over and over again. These were so easy to make I just kept cranking them out:

The Appalachian Trail signs were made the exact same way just using different colors:

I love how all the signs look together:

And how they looked on the finished tree!

Outdoorsy with the skewers of marshmallows:

Click here to find all the ornaments and tutorials from this years tree! Thanks for following along this year!

Easy DIY Camping Ornaments

December 9, 2015 by Ashley Hackshaw

A few more easy DIY camping ornaments for the outdoor themed tree! I hadn’t shared these yet because there really wasn’t a tutorial needed for them. The little maps were just cut from large National Geographic maps I had laying around. I folded them up, used a black Sharpie to add the “Massimo Vignelli” modern touch, and then a little silver paper brad to hold the folds in place:

And then there are the little climbing ropes. I just used parachute cord (the kind used for bracelets now) and created the little bunches like you see below:

Speaking of climbing ropes…have you seen the documentary Meru yet? A must see:

And this is what all the ornaments look like together on the tree in cad you missed earlier posts:

Click here to scroll through all my Christmas related posts and see all the DIY camping ornaments in one place!