Countdown to Christmas!

I have a confession to make. I never knew that you could use just plain glass as dry erase boards (ie: picture frames). I'm fairly certain just about everyone else on the face of the planet may have been aware of this, but I was not one of these people until just recently. With that being said, I thought it might be nice to make a dry erase countdown to Christmas board. Here's how it turned out, & my apologies for the terrible picture quality.

To make this, the only things you will need are scrapbook paper, Christmas stickers (optional), a dry erase marker & eraser, & a picture frame of course. 

The area where you write the number erases so you can put the new number in each day. Everything else like the scrapbook paper, the Christmas stickers, & the words are behind the glass so they don't get erased every time you erase the numbers. Thanks for reading!

A New Take on a Shadow Box

I was so excited when my mom brought over an extra shadow box for me to use! I knew I wanted to fill it with things from the boys, but I wasn't sure what at first. Eventually, I ended up with the obvious...baby shoes, hospital bracelets from the birth, their first baby hat etc.  Considering how excited I was, it was pretty sad how unexciting I just made it look. Not to mention that the boys' room is decorated with cars & trucks. The 'baby' shadow box just didn't seem to make sense their room, much less anywhere else in the house. I left it that way for a few months until I found some inspiration, & a lot of hot wheels & here was the finished product!

I think this is way more fitting! Plus it's something that both boys really love, which is exactly what should be in a shadow box. We filled with HotWheels from when I was little, & of course HotWheels that both of the boys picked out. Plus we all got to work on it together & it only took a few minutes!