If you don't care about crafts...

...read no further.
So I've made an early New Year's resolution this year. And that is to re-use and up-cycle anything and everything I can. I'm always wanting to start all these crafts but need to remember to watch the budget, so I'm trying to use just whatever I have around the house.
Take this wreath for example. I know it's not spectacular...but it was FREE! Yay! I just used the wire from an old laundry hamper and stuff from my Christmas stash and then and old sweater (which I also re-did for Tina's wedding and I'll post pictures of that later)


I had all these ugly dollar store frames just sitting around that I decided to paint. It wasn't enough. So I found some beads and painted them black so I could hang the picture by that...still not enough. SO...I took that same old laundry hamper from above and cut out little circles, burned the edges, and made little flowers! I really like how they turned out and hung them up in the bathroom so that Jim could see his boys every morning before work. Oh. These were free too.



Ok. Last. Our dining room walls (actually all the walls in the house) are still quite bare. I'm slowly getting things up, but again, it takes money. So we were at this second hand shop the other day and I found these really ugly mirrors for 10 dollars. I had to have them.
So I painted these ugly plastic mirrors, and then glazed them...



As you can see...the other walls are still bare. But, I'm getting there! :)

Ok. Enough of that. Here is a video of the boys. They have become the best of friends in the last couple months and I LOVE watching them. They have so much fun together.