Be Grateful...

I made this for a customer and I Loved it! I loved this quote so much that we decided to add it to our website.  It should be on the website by the weekend. Have a FABULOUS day!

M is for Mom

We had this graphic in a rectangle format, and now we are offering it in tile size. You can keep the Mom in the same color as the rest of the graphic, or you can change it to your favorite color.  I love red.  I don't know if you have noticed, but everything I do is in red.  It is just a bold fun color.

This graphic is already on our website  vinylgiftsandmore.com

XOXO

This is a fun graphic for Valentine's day.  This vinyl is made for a rectangle board.  My friend has this on her front door and it looks adorable!  We now have silver vinyl, and I wanted to show you how it can look. This vinyl will be up for sale by tomorrow. 

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Dining Room

I have lived in 7 homes in the last 10 years.  It takes me about a month to get everything organized and settled in.  I have been in my new home for over a month now, and I am still staring at blank walls.  My style seems to have changed and all my decorations just don't fit my new home.

I have a little secret, I have been so busy making vinyl for everyone else that I didn't make it for myself.  I have been often asked why I don't have vinyl in my home and I usually give this answer; plumbers have leaky pipes, builders homes are unfinished, and vinyl cutter people (what ever we are called) do not have vinyl in their homes.

Now that I have my own home, I am taking time to put vinyl in my home.  I want my house to look cute too. :)  The first project I have worked on is one wall in my dining room. 

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 Yes, my plates say EAT... STARVE   My first thoughts were Be Grateful, Be Thankful, and somwhere from these nice sweet words I went to Eat, Starve.  I must of just had dinner with my picky child, and this is where my thoughts went to and it stuck. 

 This is the close up.  I used beige vinyl on my red plate.  I got these fun square plates from Walmart for $2.00 apiece.  I purchased the plate holder at Michael's for about $8.00.

This is a fun idea, I purchased these 10x13 picture frames from Walmart for 5.00 each.  I took the back off of them and I glued the glass to the frame with silicone.  You can use any strong glue.  I don't think I would use hot glue just because it can get brittle and and glass can pop out and break. Then I put vinyl right on the outside of the glass and I really like the way these turned out.

If you would like vinyl that is similar to this, please contact us at vinylgiftsandmore@gmail.com .

Check out our Clearance

We now have a clearance section on our website VINYLGIFTSANDMORE.COM. Items were either overstock, had some imperfections, or special orders that did not sell. All are sold "as is" but all are useable. Imperfections will be identified. Quantity is limited on all clearance items.

We are OPEN

Vinyl gifts and more is now open. We will be coming up with some fun new ideas for super saturday.

My Daughter's Quilt

I LOVE quilting. I have not quilted in 8 years.  That is how old my oldest child is.  So when the kids came, the quilting went bye bye.  Laundry, dishes, diapers took its place.  My fabulous mom took my kids for 2 weeks this summer and the whole time they were gone I quilted.  It was like I was doing something for me again, even though the quilt was for my child.  I saw this amazing quilt on Piece n Quilt.  The link is here http://piecenquilt.blogspot.com/2010/04/vernas-quilt-tutorial.html I knew I had to make it. It was  really simple to make and I learned how to applique.  

This is the quilt I made for my 3 year old daughter.  It was quilted by my cousin at Quilts-n-More.He did an awesome job and he was really quick.  They also did my binding which I hate doing.  They are in Texas so I mailed it to them and they mailed it back.  I gave it to my little girl for Christmas.  If you like their quilting you can contact them at quilts-n-more@clearwire.net.



House Remodel "Living Room"

My husband and I have been married 10 years, and most of that time we were poor college students with young children.  We have lived in single wide trailers, apartments, home rentals... You got the idea. When I was a  little girl I dreamed of having my own home and making it mine.  I still remember my favorite thing was to go through the JC Penny and Pottery Barn catalogs and clip out house pictures and put them in my folder.   Well, I finally got my childhood dream and got my own home.  We ended up getting a forcloser because it was more affordable.  We have saved up so we could gut the whole house and make it ours.  Let me tell you it has been a long, tuff, worthwhile, crazy, fun, HARD journey.  Gutting a house is not easy work, and it takes a lot longer than you think.  It also cost a LOT more than you plan. Home Depot really is our home.  Everyone knows us there, and they even know our kids names. 

Our house was YELLOW inside.  I love yellow, but it was a bright yellow, and it was too overbearing. They also had carpet that pets lived on, and it smelled really bad so it had to go.  The ceiling fan was white with no light on it.  We wanted a fan with a light.  We also had popcorn ceilings in every room.  I was the lucky one to scrape it all.  White stuff came out of me for days. :)  



 We ripped out the carpet and the base boards.  We took off the face plates to the outlets. This is a picture of our wall half painted.  You can tell the yellow is still at the top.

 I painted the top of my room with a tanish yellow and the bottom 36 inches I painted with a creamy white.  I thought I wanted ultra pure white, but I was wrong.  I got a pretty white called Vermont Cream (Home Depot Color).  I painted my ceilings with it too.

 We put chair rail up 36-37 inches from the floor. I painted it the same color as my white wall.  Soon I will put more molding up, but I have other rooms to do first. We also turned all of our power off and then we changed the outlets to white.  This was actually really fun for me.  I learned how to change my outlets.  When everything was painted we put in our wood floors.  We actually used solid strandwoven bamboo.  We got them at Ifloors.com.  If you are interested in our floors contact me and I will let you know all about them.  We love them. 

This is the fun part.  We moved in our furniture.  I have not decorated the walls yet because everything is still in boxes, but I can't wait to do that.  We also have to put our baseboards in.  I am hoping to get those painted today and put in tonight.  One step at a time.  I found my curtains at walmart and hung them with a decorative rod.  The pillows on my couch I made when we were in college.  I am not in love with the new rug I got.  I think I will take it out and replace it with something else.  My ceiling fan is actually one of my favorite things in my new house.  My husband found them and ordered them from Lowes. 

This is my living room, and we gutted the whole house, so I will have lots of pictures to come.