Happy Sunday friends! Welcome back to another week of The Creative Corner! So glad you stopped by!
This week I shared a Simple Farmhouse Burlap and Lace Banner that I hung in our Farmhouse Office! 
I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer! Hard to believe we are coming to the middle of July! I just want these holidays to go by super slow so we are trying hard to soak up all the sun and fun we can!!!
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A simple way to add farmhouse charm around your home!
It’s the second Wednesday of the month and that means it’s time for another Monthly DIY Challenge! 
Often we use the same item but other times we do themed challenges and see what we each can come up with! This month it’s all about burlap! We teamed up with a blogging friend, Kenarry |Ideas For The Home and we’re using the burlap she recently started selling on amazon. 
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As I was looking around our home I noticed a few things I’d made using burlap. Some of them are seasonal and then others I leave out year round. This Burlap Rose Garland is still one of my favorites. 
I’ve used it in many different places like this antique window! And then there’s this Burlap Photo Frame Display that still sits on the window sill of our kitchen sink.
It’s so easy to switch out pictures with the attached clip and I always have a photo in there that’s dear to me. Another way I used burlap is for one of my most popular DIYs and that’s my Burlap and Berry Wreath.
While we’re still enjoying summer to the fullest, I know this wreath will be making its appearance before too, too long! I was also noticing that I used burlap to hang our DIY Boxwood Wreath. 
Seriously friends, the ways you can use burlap are endless.
Burlap has been around for a few years now and I don’t think it’s going anywhere soon. Whenever I’d think of burlap I would think of farmhouse or country décor but I love that for our #monthlydiychallenge we’ve each come up with something that suits our different styles for our home!
I’m excited to show you how I made a Burlap and Lace Banner that’s the finishing touch on my new chalkboard by husband made for me in our new Farmhouse Office!
I first made a triangle template out of cardstock and cut out 7 burlap triangles. I then cut out smaller sized lace triangle because I wanted to alternate between lace fabric roses and triangles.
The fabric roses are quite fun to make and are such a cute addition to many projects. I used to make and sell little girl hair clips and they were some of my most popular style.
I used the same lace as I did for the triangles and using the fabric scissors (they are really a lifesaver when cutting fabric!!) I cut 4 strips that were 24″ long and about an inch wide. (Exact measurements aren’t a ‘must’ as you’ll find out when making these cute little things!) I knotted one end of the strip of lace and then twisting the lace around numerous times, I started coiling the strip of lace around then knotted end. About once every turn, using my glue gun, I dabbed a tiny piece of glue on to secure it. Keep coiling it around and gluing until your rose is complete. You can cut off the end or glue it to the back.
Using the glue gun I glued the lace triangles and roses to the burlap triangles.
To hang the burlap triangles, I cut of some edging from the roll of burlap to use as my “hanger”. Again, I used my glue gun to attach the triangles and was done! 
I love how it turned out and seems to be just what my chalkboard needed! I have lots of burlap left on my roll and look forward to using it many more times on simple DIYs around our home! With fall and then Christmas approaching, I know it’ll fit into my farmhouse décor so well!
Thanks so much for stopping by today friends and hope you enjoy checking out the rest of these burlap DIYs below!!
If you’ve been wanting some open shelves in your kitchen (or anywhere else in your home) , I’m here to encourage you to build your own! It’s simple and affordable!
Do you like love crossing things off your to do list? I think it’s one of my favoritest things ever. I even add stuff I’ve already done to my list just so I have the pleasure of crossing them off. And I love when I make my list of 15 things I need to do and I’ve actually done 6 of them. #crazylady
I’ve been dreaming about these shelves only since September. Back when life was chaos, we were living in a rental home, our entire house was a torn up construction zone, everything we owned was packed away… and I was trying to stay positive and look at paint colors, flooring samples, amongst all the other things that needed repaired and replaced. During our water damage, our kitchen ceiling fell through and when our cabinets had to be taken down I began to envision this wall without a bank of cabinets and just have some open shelves there.
I’m so glad we decided to go ahead and do this. I love, love our new open shelves and I can’t wait to share our new farmhouse inspired kitchen with you all very soon. We’re still waiting on a couple kitchen essentials and then I can hopefully share what we’ve done in here.
But for today, I’ll share how we built these shelves for less than $25. It’s our monthly themed challenge that a bunch of my blogging friends and I do and we’ve done so many different themes, from crates, stencils, pumpkins, dollar store items, paint sprayers, and upcyled material to name a few. February is all about what we could build with 1X2s. And I have to tell you, I have some seriously talented friends! Don’t forget to visit what they’ve created … I shared them all at the bottom of my post!
We had originally thought we’d buy some corbels as the anchors for this shelf. None of the stores had what we were looking for and then one local store had some but once we brought them home they looked so big and “overbearing” that we decided to build our one. Especially with this month’s theme 1X2s, it all worked out perfectly!
For these shelves you’ll need:
You’ll want to make very sure that that all of these pieces are screwed into a stud. You can see in the above picture that my husband screwed these into studs in three different places.
The bottom shelf is 18″ above our countertops. Using a leveler, mark where your bottom 40″ 1X2 piece will be screwed to the wall. Attach the shelf by screwing down into the shelving unit and into your 40″ piece of wood.
Next, we attached the angled brackets. Make sure your shelf is level and screw from the bottom up into the shelf and down into the vertical wall support. Make sure you pre-drill your holes so the wood doesn’t split.
For the top shelf, we screwed the vertical supports right above the bottom shelf so they are touching. Then we placed our 40″ piece above the vertical pieces and screwed them into studs again. We attached the shelf and angled brackets using the same method as the bottom shelf.
Using wood filler, we filled all of the screw holes, allowed drying time and then sanded them down. We then painted them with semi-gloss white paint and added our dishes as soon as they were dry!!
I was really amazed how quickly my husband was able to build and assemble these shelves! It really only took a couple of hours (including a break or two of course) and I’m so happy with the way they turned out!!
Now, let’s see what else we can create with 1X2s…
Welcome back to another edition of The Creative Corner!! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! We had company all weekend and it was just perfect… lots of wonderful visits and delicious food! I’m excited about the new ‘look’ of our party… new graphics and a new design!! What do you think?
You have to check out this Farmhouse Home Style Office from Worthing Court! This is one of my favorite blogs to read and her style is always top-notch! This farmhouse style office does not disappoint!
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I’m so excited to see what you’ve been up to… whether it’s winter décor, some Valentines Day DIYs or some tasty treat you’ve been baking!