the REAL delineate

Copper Pipe Shelves: The pictures look so crisp, clean and white.  When I take a step back, you can see I’m crafting on a piece of cardboard on the floor with toys and kiddo #1 all around.

Bean Pumpkin: Light and airy photos… really taken with messes moved in the only spot I could find with some natural light.

Green Beaded Wreath: I made the entire wreath sitting on a chair surrounded by toys and random life.  It’s so so easy to create a clean white look, you never know whats sitting just outside the camera lens!

Fabric Painted Clutch: This was a project fail twice before I finally decided upon a less tacky look.

First, I painstakingly taped over three flowers in the pattern of the fabric, spray painted over it and removed the tape.  I thought it was going to be much more of a WOW factor, uh?  Then, I thought maybe adding a bold geometric pattern over top with just a little bit of the flowers showing would be a perfect soft and hard combination… ended up being a perfect combination of ugly.  #projectFAIL Thankfully, third times the charm, head over to see the end result!

Spritz Cookies, a Christmas Tradition: I am not a fancy baker and even more than not being a fancy baker, I am NOT a fancy baking decorator.  I can’t decorate a cake to save my life and clearly I can hardly handle frosting cookies either.   Eeks.  Somehow I thought “drizzling” the frosting would look much better than it turned out!

How to update a Glass Base Lamp: Oh my word, this was SUCH a simple and easy project but somehow I managed to create a lot of mess all around while doing it!  Maybe because halfway through it, I decided to clean out a kitchen cabinet.  Great thinking, huh.

Easy Art in 1.2.3 : Abstract Diamonds : Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but what about when the art goes terribly wrong… TWICE?  My first attempt of this month’s easy art was a BIG pinterest fail.  As in, it 100% didn’t work.  You were supposed to wet tissue paper and put in on a canvas.  After it was dry, I pulled up and there was nothing.  No color, no pattern.  Nothing!  My second attempt was a similar look but with random painted circles… it turned out pretty random alright!

How to Make Inexpensive CLAY KNOBS! : The sun was starting to set and I searched the house for the best natural light to stage and photograph my new Clay knobs.  And the best spot was on the trash can by our sliding glass door.  Sometimes, I can’t believe how easy it would be for you to think I’ve got it all together.  People.  I took these lovely photos sitting on top of a trash can!  Keeping it real.
How to Update an Old Tree Stump Table : I had the HARDEST time deciding what to paint this table.  I started off thinking gold all around.  Then, decided to try a white edge and natural legs and table top but didn’t like it.  Then, I thought this table would look so stunning with a gold edge and white legs, but the gold color seemed to really clash with the orangey top.  So, then I let it dry and then tried a black edge.  That was way way worse!  So then I had to do a primer spray paint over the intense black and then went back to the original white.  This simple little project turned into five different paint combinations before I was happy with it, oy.