Fabric

Easter Burlaps and Giveaway!

March 12, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 63 Comments

Happy Monday! I LOVE starting off the week with a giveaway. This weekend I created 2 new burlap signs for Easter.

I made an Easter subway style sign…

and

an Easter defined sign.

And the exciting part… I’m giving away 2 burlap signs!!! I will be randomly picking 2 winners who will get their choice of any of my 8.5” x 11” burlap signs! You can pick one of my newest Easter burlap signs or you can pick any of my other 8.5”x 11” burlap signs from my Burlap Beauties.

Giveaway Rules: You must leave a comment on my blog on this post entry to count. Each entry must be a separate comment. You must live within the USA (sorry all my international friends… I wish shipping was cheaper!)

#1… Leave a comment on which burlap sign you would pick.

#2… Be a follower! Leave a comment if you follow me… tell me how (rss feed, email, etc.)

#3… Tweet about this giveaway. Leave a comment when you have.

#4… Facebook about this giveaway. Leave a comment when you have.

#5… Share about my new sister site, Power of Paint, on either twitter, facebook or your blog. It’s a site for all the paint lovers out there. You can submit your paint projects to be featured, plus great painting tips and tricks from hot paint bloggers. Leave me a comment when you have.

This giveaway will end Friday, March 16th @ 9pm (PST)

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63 Comments Filed Under: burlap, Fabric, giveaway, Spring Tagged With: burlap signs, Easter, easter defined sign, subway sign

Countdown to Spring Party… Spring Subway

February 26, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 6 Comments

After being on vacation this last week and the fact that we had gorgeous Spring weather while on vacation… I now totally have Spring fever! I’ve been working on my Spring/Easter mantel and needed a new burlap sign. So I created a Spring Subway Art Burlap Sign…

The words that come to mind when I think about Spring…

As always my burlap signs are for sale up there in the menu bar under Burlap Beauties or there’s a link on my sidebar too.

Now I just need to finish my mantel…

So how are you getting ready for Spring? This is an easy-link party… no button or link-back is needed (but of course I’d love for you to do so).

The only rule… it MUST BE Spring related! Share your Spring décor, crafts, recipes, traditions… anything Spring related.

I can’t wait to see what you’re up to… Inspire Us!

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6 Comments Filed Under: burlap, decorating, Fabric, Spring Tagged With: countdown to spring, mantel, PARTY

Friend Burlap

February 16, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 10 Comments

I’ve been brainstorming on some new burlap signs… and here’s my latest creation…

Friend Defined Burlap Sign

If you are interested in purchasing one of my new “Friend Defined” burlap signs you can find them in the menu bar’s “Burlap Beauties”.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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10 Comments Filed Under: art, burlap, decorating, Fabric Tagged With: burlap sign, friend sign

Kitchen Nook

January 27, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 12 Comments

Happy Friday Folks! I’m so happy that we’re at the edge of the weekend. It’s been one of those weeks… anyone else have one of those too? I’m just thankful we have a weekend with no sporting events, birthday parties, etc.

I realized I never showed you guys my new-to-me (once again) kitchen table and chairs all together. So I wanted to share them with you guys today…

If you missed the how-to’s here are the links…

chalk painted chairs (with recipe)

removing white paint top

dark dreamy stain

Next goal… finishing window treatments. I had some dark espresso brown panels hanging there, but I’ve got some leftover drop cloth from covering the chairs that I want to use. Not sure what I’m going to do with them yet though. Smile

Thanks for stopping by & have a fabulous weekend!

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12 Comments Filed Under: diy, Fabric, furniture, HOW TO, kitchen, paint Tagged With: chairs, dining room, kitchen set, table

Valentine’s Day Mantel

January 23, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 17 Comments

Happy Monday!

This last weekend the older 2 kiddos were busy finishing up their science fair projects, so the littlest princess and I put the final tweaks on our Valentine’s mantel.

I kept it on the simple side this year.

With my lovey lanterns…

Doilies used to stencil on the mirrors…

my burlap hearts

Some Epsom salt snow…

Heart doilies strung on twine by my youngest…

and my burlap Valentine’s Day sign.

Hoping you have a fabulous week….

17 Comments Filed Under: burlap, craft, decorating, Fabric, kids, paint, twine Tagged With: hearts, mantel, valetine's day

Adding a little Ruffle

January 20, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 5 Comments

Back in October I started working on updating our family room curtains. I started by adding a 15” burlap stripe to the base of our espresso brown curtains. You can read all about it here.

I liked it, but didn’t love it. It looked too harsh and simple and needed a little softness… like a little ruffle.

I used some white double ruffled ribbon and just hot glued it where the two fabrics met.

A quick update… less than 5 minutes per curtain.

Now they pop and I love the softness the ruffled ribbon brings to the burlap.

Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful weekend!

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Burlap Hearts

January 16, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 7 Comments

Happy Monday!

This weekend while the games were on I decided to play around with some red burlap. Of course with red burlap and Valentine’s Day just a few weeks away my girls and I created some adorable burlap hearts for our Winter/Valentine’s day mantel ( reveal later this week).

Aren’t they sweet.

We created a heart template with some cardstock and traced the shape onto the red burlap.

I thought some jute twine would fix perfectly with the rustic burlap.

With a wide-eyed needle we stitched about the heart.

You know what I stuffed it with… cotton balls! I didn’t have any pillow stuffing… but cotton balls worked great & I had a bunch in the linen closet!

Tomorrow night at the Power of Paint Party I’ll be sharing another part of this mantel.

Thanks for stopping by!

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7 Comments Filed Under: burlap, craft, decorating, Fabric, HOW TO, kids, sewing, twine Tagged With: heart, red burlap, Valentine's Day

108th Power of Paint Party: Anatomy of my Chairs

January 10, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 8 Comments

Welcome Paint Lovers!!!

My goal for last week was to get our kitchen table and chairs functional before the kiddos went back to school. Weeks ago I started by removing the white paint from my table top and staining it a deep espresso brown and then moved onto painting our chairs.

You can read about the homemade chalk paint recipe I used on the chairs here.

To finish them off I used some wax, but I couldn’t decide if I wanted to give them a light sanding. I’m sure I’ll distress them and beat my kiddos to it.

I recovered the chair seats with a canvas drop cloth (cheap, durable and neutral).

I’m working on a little window makeover in the space & then I’ll show it to you all together.

When I originally scored them FREE on Craigslist years ago they were a light honey-stained wood…

then they went through a black phase…

and now they’re feeling a little blue…

Who knows how they’ll feel in another 2 years.

So what have you been painting??? Anything in these shades?

Power of Paint Party Rules:

#1… This is a PAINT party… so pretty please, link-up only paint related projects. IHATE deleting!

#2… Please put my nifty POPP button (you can find it up in my menu bar’s BUTTONS) in your blog post or a link back to this party somewhere on your blog… that way others from your blog can check out all the paint projects too.

#3… Share the Love… visit the other paint pals.

8 Comments Filed Under: decorating, Fabric, furniture, kitchen, paint Tagged With: chair painting, chalk paint, power of paint party

Valentine’s Day Burlap

January 9, 2012 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 17 Comments

Happy Monday! Are you ready for this new week. My kiddos are back to school today after 3 weeks off and I’ve got a list of projects that are calling my name that I can’t wait to get to.

With all the Christmas goodies packed away my mind has turned to winter and Valentine décor. I hadn’t created a new burlap sign in a while so I thought I’d create a V-Day burlap sign.

Have you used Wordle before? It is an oh-so-cool website where you can create subway style word art. You plug in the words you want and then you can change the colors, font and the layout. You can read more about it in the post I wrote here.

I’m selling Valentine’s Day burlap signs for $5 off now through February 5th. If you are interested in ordering one you can email me at domesticallyspeaking (at) yahoo (dot) com.

If you haven’t already, you can check out the rest of the burlap signs here.

I hope you have a fabulous week & thanks for stopping by!