Going Away Party DIY Decorations

My best friend and roommate is relocating to San Francisco, so I wanted to have a going away party for her.  I also did not want to spend a lot of money so I decided to make decorations with quotes about San Fran using different colored paper and some hemp string. I formatted them in Word to look like bag tags (for the going away theme), hole punched them, and hung them all around the apartment.  Took quite a bit of time but well worth it!

  

Baby's Breath Ball - DIY

The making of a baby's breath ball for Spring:

I tied some mesh hemp around the styrofoam to allow for easy hanging.  After that, I used wire cutters to cut some fake white flowers and place them pretty close to the styrofoam (to cover up the ugly green color of the styrofoam).  I then cut up the baby's breath and delicately poked the stems into the styrofoam... it now feels like Spring in our apartment.

Bar Cart Makeover

My grandmother was downsizing her home and I was able to get away with taking an old bar cart, which happened to be an apartment saver as the corner was becoming a pile of coats! I went thrift store to thrift store to find unique pieces to add to the bar cart.  At each store I took photos of pieces that I liked. The last store I went into was the West Elm near my apartment where I looked back at all my pictures and decided what items I was going to go back and buy. I ended up buying: dollar whiskey and wine glasses, dollar mini ceramic plates, a three dollar gold container, two plants from TJ Maxx, discounted towels, and added a lamp, carafe, book, and some wine bottles I had in my room.  Nook transformed!

Christmas Tree DIY

With little money in our pockets, Lindsay and I picked out a beautiful (but neglected) short plump tree.  It wasn't very pretty but after some reused tissue paper, tinfoil, tape, string, a needle, some twinkle lights, and a few hour's past my bedtime...  we soon had a beautiful tree! Merry Christmas!

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Bed Frame Turned Into Wall Hooks DIY

I found these old wooden bed frames in the garage and thought they would make great wall decor.  I then went to Home Depot and found beautiful curved hooks to screw into the wood. I love the organic feel of the wood planks combined with the industrial metals of the hooks.

Cleaned off the cobwebs...

Functional wall decor

Refabric Old Chairs DIY

I took these old chairs that my mom salvaged from Rye Bar and Grill before it's makeover in 2009 and put neutral fabric over the black leather to give it a more feminine look.