CRAFTS | The JoifulLife

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I wanted to give mine a vintage feel. So I didn’t make everything super cut & dry precise. i also added some texturizing with the modge podge.

>>>So my little sis had a canvas of this sign (I first saw it in Gossip Girl and wanted one) that her friend made for her. I saw it & once again realized I had to have it! 😀

But her friend charges $90 dollars & online I couldn’t find one for less than $100! 😦 So I looked more closely at my sister’s and thought “how hard could this really be?” So I went to Michaels (who is having a huge sale by the way) picked up a canvas, a bottle of black & bottle of white acrylic paint-satin finish

1 small 1 large

(You will only need one bottle of each), two sponges and a bottle of modge podge. (Total of $24 with Michael’s sale).

I simply painted the entire canvas white. Traced the letters from my sister’s on printer paper. Penciled them onto the canvas. Painted in with black (3 coats) and coated over 3 times with modge podge. The great thing about acrylic is it dries really fast.

Here’s an article of the history of this sign. I was a little bumbed to learn that it wasn’t some incredible painting from Paris or some sort of fashion museum lol. But the real thing is still pretty interesting.

Hope you have a great day! Xoxo

While doing some deep house cleaning & organizing (bleh!) I was attempting to organize my cluttered hair & make-up area, and realized how nice it would be to have a cute way to display my lipstick. But I really need to stop spending money for a little while…we’ve all been there right 😉 Then I got the idea to make my own! And it literally took 30 minutes & I just used stuff that I already had laying around the house 😀 Here’s how you do it.

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>>>Take any cute box you have, AND a shoe box (really just any cardboard or thick thick card stock…you’re going to cut that one up)

2014-09-15 17.30.18 >>>Cut pieces of cardboard and hot glue them into the box making a checker board like pattern. Adjust sizes according to the sizes of your lipstick.

2014-09-16 15.09.25 >>>It should look something like this…You can make as many slots as you like
2014-09-15 17.40.17 >>>And then you’re done 😀

2014-09-16 14.55.42 Hope that this helps any of you other ladies on a budget out there…but still want to cute-i-fy your room 😀 If you’d rather purchase a lipstick holder, I love this one here, I might get it later on down the road as well…because let’s be hones I will ALWAYS be adding more lipstick to my collection…I have weakness for them.