Plank floors

 I wanted to show the floors we are installing in our house...

Our carpets out just gross! After 4 kids and 3 dogs they have seen better days. We were going to do the diy plank plywood wood floors that everyone is posting about on Pinterest. Which we have actually done in our bathroom and painted them white.

 But I really wanted real wide plank floors! We search everywhere for wood that was affordable. We found some at a near by lumber yard.. Old barn siding found 160+ boards 16 feet long and 11-12 inches wide. A amazing friend drove his semi truck to get it all with us. :) 

My husband is planing all of them cause even though they are great they need some work 


This project is going to be pretty time consuming but will be so beautiful ad can't wait till its done.
I'm working on stains now and trying, vinegar and steal wool, ashes, normal stain.... You name it I'm trying to get that perfect look. I will keep yall posted on the progress :)

Christmas wrapping

When it comes to christmas wrapping i look and try to think of a new creative way to do it for the year months before. this year pinterest gave me the idea of making wood buttons so my amazing helpful husband went out and found a branch cut it down and sliced them all to size then drilled holes in them. He made about 60 for me. 

I got my brown paper at home depot for like 11 dollars for a huge roll! also the brown twine there too. much cheaper than Michael. my favorite paper this year though has got to be my wood grain paper. I got it at tjmaxx and wish i would have bought every roll! 

I really like crinkling my brown paper for added texture i also did use white paper for a few presents and crinkled that too. 

Then i went to the craft store and got wood shaped cutouts and made them into little chalk boards for the tags. i just stacked them and then drilled a little hole for the string. super easy and really fun... (i also wrote there name on the side very small so if the kids eased it i would still know who's it was ;) )

so for those oddly shaped presents i decided to make pouches for them with my surger. super easy and i really like the feel they give. you could use your sewing machine to i imagine.

Hope you enjoy it :)