Wednesday DIY Inspiration

I am a magpie; I can't get enough of the rush that comes with finding some sparkly neglected perfect treasure in thrift stores or garage sales. This explains my penchant for hoarding knicknacks that don't have any particular use, and these treasures seem to find ways to simply clutter up my home. "Someday!," I think "Someday I'll have a way to display these lovelies!" or "Someday I'll do something crafty with these random things!" and I never ever do.

I'm hoping to change that in the near future. I'm hoping this blog keeps me on task with some DIY's so I don't get quite so scattered on my days off and try to do a million projects at once (which always results in me not actually finishing anything).

To elaborate on my predisposition to finding crafts and feeling the need to do them all at once, I give you the following inspirational things I found yesterday and felt I had to do immediately:

* Ombre bedding (Via Chevrons and Eclairs):

(side note: that one entry is FULL of gorgeous bedroom pieces, I highly suggest taking a look for further inspiration!)

BUT THEN I saw someone making curtains out of bedsheets on Pinterest and was all "perfect! sheets are what I really want! Less work!"

Ombre Curtain Panels (via Escape From BK)

* Nursery Name in woodblocks with comicbook decoupage (via Eclectic Momsense) for J.L.'s sister's baby shower.

which of COURSE makes me want to do this too:

Batman decoupaged heels

*A Makeup Board (via Laura Thoughts) for my bathroom makeup bag clutter
(and it's like functional art!)

* A lingering project that I have ALMOST all the pieces for: A crocheted doily lamp cover!

(via Zycierzeczy which I cannot read, but can follow image directions pretty well for!)

 I got the doilies made by my cousin for Christmas, and have had the glue and brushes lying around for months, but I can't seem to find a big circular balloon!!! Any suggestions?! A regular balloon creates a teardrop shape that I'm not in love with, so this project keeps stalling out. 

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Today, I am attempting homemade thank you cards, I've googled comic book shops in NYC, and have begun gathering the necessary pieces to create the makeup board. I also despereately need to clean the apartment, so perhaps just sharing inspiration is as far as I'll get with these DIY's today. 

But next week! Next week I will try again! I have a lot of random days off coming up, so I will try to buckle down and make some magic.

Do you find you put too much pressure on yourself to create? Did school and blogs and pinterest make us feel inadequate when our crafts/pictures/poems/homes don't turn out as planned, or that we aren't always picture ready & picture perfect? I know I do, and that's why things don't get finished. 

I'm done with all that pressure.

This blog is about sharing the creative force, not about making things perfectly non stop.

So relax. It's going to be beautiful. And if it isn't? That's still ok, too. Promise.

~ Shanna

[all images were borrowed from their respective blog / pinterest]