Look what I've been up to

Hello Friends,

I decided to try my hand at decoupage.  I wanted something over my bed for awhile now, but didn't want to spend a whole lot of money.  I thought I would print something and decoupage the image on to canvas so this is what I came up with.

Before

I'm calling it my Monet because up close it's a big ole mess.  This process was exhausting I rubbed my little fingers raw.  What did I do wrong?  I think I left to much of the paper on. 

Well anyways, here is what it looks like as long as you don't get up close it doesn't look to shabby.

Now I was on a crafting roll, I decided to try stenciling. I picked up this piece of wood for free at an estate sale, bought some stencils and painted the wood with vanilla and gray craft paint. When the wood was dry I started stenciling ughh!

 It took me a couple of hours and it was hard to keep the letters spaced properly because the stencil wasn't clear. So I had a hard time with that part, but I do like how it turned out.  Will I do it again? uhh I'm not sure.

Like most of you I'm getting ready for fall.  So I shopped my garage for stuff.

 I took out my grapevine wreath that had alot of stuff with the color orange and I  pulled it all out.  I want to go more neutral this year. 

 I'm keeping it simple, I just added a burlap bunting. 

I wanted a little color so I decoupaged my letter R.

Now it looks like this.  I got the subway art form Katie Browns' Blog

While I was at it I decopaged the little pumpkin.

The subway art was from The Frugal Home Maker

Well that's what I've been up to.  Stay tuned for more of my life in 1000sqft.

With all my heart,

Yolanda