Category Archives: Sentimental

Creative Guest Book Alternative Turned Home Decor

25th March 2020

On my last post I showed you my retirement party for my OBGYN. For that party, I had everyone sign silhouettes of Kentucky with reasons why they loved her to put in a large glass jar that she could use later. I had a moment when I was laying it all out for the party that I thought to put all of those KYs in a double-sided floating frame as a gift so that she could have a sentimental decor piece and still be able to read both sides!

I found this killer Joanna Gaines frame on Target.com and it is only available on-line. It comes in three sizes and these frames are so great that you could put them anywhere with tons of things between the two glass panes. I love them big time.

Here is how it turned out!

This is great for a cool home decor piece in general, so much so that I made myself one with leftover Kentuckys. I think it is a great way to do a non-traditional guest book that you can multi-purpose into something they can use for their home! Raise the roof if you’re with me? I ended that as a question, but really, you need only raise the roof.

Customize this any way you want for any sentimental reason, event, or personal interest. States are a great idea, but you could do so many different things. If you don’t have a machine to cut shapes, you can always find just about anything or customize anything on Etsy.

Pin, share, enjoy! Love y’all!

Fun times! Am I right?!

Heirloom Vintage Jewelry Christmas Tree

10th December 2018


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If you don’t think this is beautiful, your eyeballs are broken. Do you know what this is??? My friend Emily’s husband has this from his grandmother and it’s made from all of her jewelry made by her! Oh my goodness! WHAT A KEEPSAKE/FAMILY HEIRLOOM! What an amazing way to pass on something personal and with so much character. This is so priceless! I wish I had one and now I plan to make them from my mom and mother in laws special things, fabrics and jewelry.  

You can make this easily by purchasing an unfinished Christmas tree wood piece from a craft store and painting the color of your choice. Then lay out your jewelry design and lift up edges and secure each piece by piece with hot glue or super glue. I prefer hot glue almost always for everything! Don’t feel crafty and don’t want to meet with painting a piece or finding an unfinished Christmas tree pattern? No problem! Buy a wooden Christmas tree from the home decor section at your store of choice and cover it in jewelry. Tis’ the season to find about a million tree options and hey, they are almost all about to be clearanced out! Another cute twist on this idea would be to get a large wood slice, wood wreath form or unfinished wood circle from your local craft store and make an ornate jewelry wreath!

Here are some options you could use to make a tree: 
unfinished one foot tall wooden tree
Above is available in larger sizes as well.  Just paint and remove star if desired.  Add wall hangers to make it wall decor!
unfinished wood tree in different style, available from 6 inches to 2 ft. tall
nested plank trees (Remove the stand if desired and paint.)
barnwood tree (Remove wreath and star)
large wood slice to make jewelry wreath 



Find someone who you know could start this project, whether it’s a parent, grandparent or a child who has old keepsake jewelry from a loved one.  What a gorgeous and special heirloom to pass on for generations of things your loved one once wore and loved! It beats sitting in a box! Thanks to my friend, Emily, for this beautiful picture and for letting me share this treasure!
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Sentimental Farmhouse Decor & Gift Idea

11th July 2018

 

Okay so, check it.  My sister made copies of handwritten recipes that my grandmother had written for me, my sisters and my mom for Christmas.  I’ve framed them for my kitchen and I LOVE it!

So this is a double whammy:  awesome gift idea AND crazy cheap and sentimental home decor!  I adore it!  What do you think?

 

Sarah’s Stitches: Custom Hand Embroidery You HAVE To See

23rd August 2017

 

Are you familiar with hand embroidery?  Girl, I wasn’t either and IT IS GLORIOUS and such a beautiful and intricate craft! The art below is the PERFECT, unique, and customizable gift that you can give, wear or decorate your home with!

Sarah from Sarah’s Stitches make the most INCREDIBLE custom and one-of-a-kind hand embroidery art pieces and jewelry.  It’s been a long time since something impressed me this much. She has raw talent and the detail makes me tired just looking at it.

It’s an old fashioned art, but with a modern and custom flare that makes me want to embroider my eye balls to a hoop of it so that I can never look away!

See the bottom of this post for a chance to win one of these pieces!

 

And now for your chance to win!

You know it is your heart’s desire to win this cactus necklace…

Win this 1.5″ wood mini embroidery hoop pendant on a 30″ brass chain and make your other jewelry necklace that they aren’t handmade.

To enter:

FOLLOW Sarah and her party pants on our Instagram accounts and COMMENT on the post with the Win Me image above.  Be sure to take note that Sarah’s Instagram has an “e” between Sarah and Stitches.  I made that mistake once before.  If you already follow us, GREAT! Just leave a comment as an entry ON OUR INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS and for good measure, give this post a share on Facebook.

Winner will be announced this Friday on our Instagram accounts!  Happy winning! Thanks to Sarah for letting me share her work and for giving the ole’ party pants a giveaway!

Unique & Sentimental Gift Idea

3rd December 2015

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Honk, honk…I’m about to toot my own horn so I went ahead and gave a honking before I began.

I have the most awesome gift idea lists on my blogs with lots of really creative, sentimental, and personal gift choices.  You can search gift ideas in the search box to find my 3 posts of gifts.

I came up with this  gift idea on one of my lists and decided to do it for my mom for Mother’s Day. All four of my siblings went in on it together.

I found a picture of my mother’s childhood home and had an artist, my friend Blake Parsons, to draw it for her.  This is an 8 x 10 inking on high quality paper.  He did all of this by making dots with the ink.  NO LINES, free hand dots to build each and every line and image.  UNBELIEVABLE!  It turned out perfect.

My mom adopted four children when we were all older so they never got to meet and spend time with my mom’s parent’s or have the memories from their home like we did.  This gift doubles as a house warming gift since they recently moved but even more so, it’s a little piece of her life that can be handed down to my youngest siblings so that they will have a piece of my mom’s childhood with them always.

You could have an artist copy a photo or image of ANY special person, pet, place, or object.   I’m in LOVE with all of the things that make a present like this special.  We are giving this to her this week (yes, really late) and she will be so surprised.  Who would expect a gift like this?

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Can you imagine how many dots this took?!!!!!

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He added the address to the bottom and the flowers on either side are significant.  They are tulip magnolias which are the blooms from the large tree in the front of the house.  It’s sort of an inseparable memory of that house and since the house was sold and her parents died, I’ve been back and cut blooms and surprised her with them.

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An up-close detail shot.  Did I say already that I can’t believe a human being can make this entirely with DOTS!!!!!!  So proud of my talented friend.  Click his name on the link above if you are interested in giving or receiving a one of kind gift done by an artist.