- Cute Craftiness -

So I posted earlier this year how I was super excited to be moving into  my new apartment with 2 very good friends.  Well I had planned on making a few decorative things to bring to put in our apartment to add just a bit more touch of home to it, but of course the last 2 weeks of work just before I moved back down to school were crazy busy.  I barely had time to pack, let alone complete these fun crafty ideas I got from my sis-in-law. She was my inspiration for a lot of the crafts we did.  To see the before pictures of our apartment click here.

This is the aftermath of a very busy day of craftiness...

First we decided that we wanted some cute picture frames to hang  up, but we wanted something unique but very cute at the same time.  So I got this idea from my sis-in-law (who had gotten the idea from another blog she found) to mod podge pictures frames.  My roommate Alisa and I are obsessed with damask print right now so we thought this would be fun to do the picture frames in. So we went to Michaels, bought a pack of really cute paper we could mix and match with our picture frames.  This was our end result...

The smaller two we realized were barely too big to fit a regular 8 1/2 by 11 paper over, so we ended up just painting the edges black and it still turned out fine.  We added the cute little flowers in the corner to give it a little color to stand out.  We also made a couple of these picture frames as well...

This paper was really cute and had the largest print, so we decided to use it on frames with a lot of surface area to bring out the pretty design.  These picture frames were only $1 at Michaels... yes a dollar!  Can you think of a cheaper way to get such a cute picture frame than to just make it yourself with some paper and mod podge.  If you are interested in making some like these, here  is a website you can go to with step by step directions.

We love how we have a couple red accent walls in our apartment, but they were very bare when we moved in, so the one in the kitchen we got this really great idea...

Each of us had our aprons in the kitchen when we were moving in and arranging our kitchen supplies.  We were trying to decide what to do with the wall when we got this awesome idea to hang our aprons up.  It was a simple but very cute idea.  When we were at Michael's buying the picture frames, we came across these very cute letters that we decided would be fun to mod podge and hang over the aprons to stand for our first initial of our name, Amy - Kelsee - Alisa. Here is a little better picture of the letters and the mod podge that we did.  We just used a different design in the packet of paper we bought for the picture frames for our living room and they turned out very cute.

Above the cupboards in the kitchen we decided to add a sprig of greenery and added a little red star just above the sink...

For the living room, we were going to buy some very cute decorative throw pillows, but the crafty crazes took over and we just decided it would be a lot better if we just went to a fabric store and picked out our own fabric and made pillows.  So we picked out a lighter fabric with an antique damask looking print and then a darker red fabric.  We even had enough red fabric left over that we made a matching table runner for our coffee table.  The finished product of our apartment...

And yes we got so excited about our picture frames we decided to 

hang them even though we don't even have pictures in them yet.  

Hopefully soon we get some roommate pictures taken to put in them.

We still have a few things left we have planned to possibly do to the apartment, but I'd have to say I'm rather pleased with our end product and accomplishing all of our craft projects in just a couple of days.  There's nothing like coming back to your apartment after a long day of classes and actually having it feel like home, rather than just a place you just happen to be living at.  I think all of our little projects has definitely made our apartment feel more like a home away from home.