Our spring/easter mantel

I put a picture up a few days ago of our mantel all decked out for Spring.. then I deleted it because started spring cleaning and just wanted to de clutter EVERYTHING!! I try to pace myself but I cant stop once I have started so I cleaned non stop for 2 days. I lived off coffee .. but guess what ??? I am finished- and it feels so good to sit in my nice clean house.. even if my back hates me!!
ANYWAYS.. are you wondering what this has to do with my spring mantel? Me too!! I think I was trying to tell you that it was to cluttered and crazy before and now I fixed it :)
Here it is..

My spring mantel.. ish

Here is my Spring mantel- not really a mantel but it works!!
I kept it pretty simple.. I didn't want to worry about taking it all down and starting over after Easter is over so I tried to stick with decor that could stay until Spring is over.


Here are my fav little jars.. they are so fun!! I love finding cute things to fill them with!! I just shoved some easter basket grass in the bottom and a beaded egg on top and it doesn't get much easier then that!!

Yes..more blocks, chicks and bunnies and a wedding gift

My SIL Chelsey came over to craft with me and we made these super cute Spring blocks - I am making mine to go on the backside of the Easter blocks. We are excited to get started on our next set. It is so much fun to have someone to craft with :) We made these blocks the same as my Easter blocks in the previous post - we used vinyl as a stencil and painted fun spring colors around all the edges.




I have seen these chicks on a couple of my favorite site and decided to give it a try. I cut them out all by myself - Chance is very impressed with my cutting skills but I think he is really just happy that he doesn't have to help me anymore!!!


And this is the super cute wedding gift that me and Chels came up with for a family friend. The frame is from Micheals -$4.00. We had so much fun with this - I think they could work for just about anything. I am thinking cute baby shower gifts? Once we were finished painting and adding vinyl we both thought it needed something else - so I made this cute little flower to match the colors in there new house. I hope they like it - if not I might just steal it back !!

Its an addiction .. but i don't want help for this one

So a couple of hours ago I was looking through one of my favorite craft sites Craftify It and she posted these to die for blocks that I was instantly in love with . I could not wait a single minute to make these - even though this will be the 4th set (yes 4 people) that I have made in the last week- I told you addiction. You will know why I had to have them when you check out this picture at Crafty Goodness. Did you look? Are they not the cutest thing - I know right?! Take a look at all her other crafting goodies- I am in craft love:) Mine are no where as good as hers - but I love them so much!!
I just used random peices of 2X4 and a small peice of 1x3 I did not have a color even close to that cute color they used - so I printed off the letters on my Cricut and used that as a stencil and painted the letters on with Turquoise paint. I dabbed the sides with pink,turquoise and black paint. I love that I did not have to sand or stain these ones. I am all sanded out right now. I painted the little block turquoise and dabbed the sides of that with the pink,white and black paint as well. Then printed out the letters on my Cricut in my fav font - Mandingo!!
These have already found a new home in my house. Now I have to get started on the million other projects I found on there blog!!!