Looks Like Spring!

We love spring! Not only is this the time of year that you can find Cadbury Mini Eggs on store shelves, but it is also when you start seeing florals and pretty pastel colors popping up everywhere.  In fact, while perusing the aisles of Michael's craft store, we spotted these cute spring flowers that we thought would make fantastic magnets.  So, we picked up more .5 inch magnet buttons, a pack of sparkly flowers, and a pack of colorful clothespins and...voila! In our pastel-candy-coated-chocolate-egg-haze we created a set of spring magnets to spruce up our board.

The magnets, flowers, and clothespins were relatively inexpensive, plus we had a 40% off coupon.  If you have a Michael's nearby and don't receive Michael's coupons in the mail, there is an app with an assortment of coupons.  The app, Retail Me Not,  typically has a few coupons at a time to use within the store or online.   Grab your coupons and head on over to the scrapbooking section of your local Michael's or other craft store and pick-up some spring decor.  

Happy Spring!!

Fancy-Shmancy Wall Decor

A new school year has begun!  It seems like each year I return to my office, I look for new ways to get organized and make my place of labor a little more inviting.  During the year, I constantly scour the aisles of Target looking for something fun, cute, and practical to hang on the plain walls of my office.  Maybe I'm too picky, but it's rare I find something I want to look at every day for years to come.  

Luckily, there are stationary stores that sell fancy-shmancy sheets of hand-made, beautiful paper!  Near us, we have a Paper Source where you can buy individual sheets of paper in more colors and prints than imaginable.  Let these words just flow through you...chevron, damask, marble, peacock!  Are these just the finest sounding sheets of paper you have ever heard?!  Can you imagine creating wall art with a sheet of mustache paper or a vintage-inspired sheet of London paper?  Too cute!  

Get into a stationary store, invest $3-8 in a sheet of fancy-shmancy paper, pop it into a large frame, and voila! 

You can create hanging wall art that is chic and one-of-a-kind!  Get a water-based Sharpie pen to double your art as a dry erase board.  

Happy new school year!