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Four ca-ute projects under $5!

And three were under TWO BUCKS!!
Awwwww yeah…
And yes, some involved spray paint, of course.
Remember the little tool box from the previous post? I got it for $3.99 at Goodwill and about peed. my. pants. when I saw it. I have been looking for one forever! (OK, just a few weeks, but…whatever.)
I printed out my stencil:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!After I spray painted the whole thing brown, I added the stencil to the front:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!(The blurriness is me, not the stencil.)

Then took another trip to Goodwill (good thing there are three within 1.5 mile radius of our house, right??) and found five little glass cups that fit in perfect:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!Totally and completely adorable, no?? I still have to find more art supplies that are scattered throughout the house, but I absolutely positively adore it:
 Four ca ute projects under $5!Total cost was $4 for the box and $2.50 for the cups. Uhhh…wait…that’s more than $5. OK, well…whatever.
The next two involved the following:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!Basically 60 cents of paper, $1 wood tags and $1.50 knob from Hob Lob — almost all half off!

I got this little container from my sweet stepmom last Christmas, (hello LA!) and loved it, but have been staring at it in my son’s toy room thinking I needed to jazz it up with some ca-uteness:
 Four ca ute projects under $5! Spray adhesive, scrapbook paper, spray paint and a knob later:
 Four ca ute projects under $5!He loves it! I love it! Ahhh! Feel the love!!

 Four ca ute projects under $5! More scrapbook paper and spray adhesive on the wood tags for this one. Add in some fun scissors (1.99 at Hob Lob — I have a few and love them!), $1 ribbon, the printer and you get this:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!
(Again…blurriness is me. I swear I wasn’t drunk.)
I drilled holes, ran the ribbon through and tied them to the baskets:
 Four ca ute projects under $5! This box was a $1.99 Goodwill find. It’s the perfect size for the itty bitty teeny tiny toys little boys love:

 Four ca ute projects under $5! Adorable!! Less than $2 bucks for all four people!

 Four ca ute projects under $5!And for my final trick of the evening, I give you 60 cent wood cuties you can find at any craft store:
 Four ca ute projects under $5!

 Four ca ute projects under $5!

Hot glued magnets to the back and you get new magnets for the Bub:

 Four ca ute projects under $5!

I did all of these in just a couple hours and they were F.U.N. I’ve got a couple more little projects to do to the toy room and then I can’t wait to show you!

The Spray Paint Party has seriously been the most fun I’ve had! Keep linking below ladies!!

An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)

 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)

So what if it’s supposed to be for the 24 days before Christmas? The Bub is two and he doesn’t really understand why there’s only been an advent box every few days or so, with the wrong days on them. (Yesterday was “22.” Yeah.)

But now, we’ll be good to go for the 12 days before Christmas. I get some credit for that, right? icon smile An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
I showed you the start of these here, but I just couldn’t get back to them, what with all the fluffing and glittering and greenery-puking and ten-foot trees falling…(no, the stain never came out, $100 later. Pout.)
I am IN. LOVE. with these little boxes of caa-uteness. I hope my son gets giddy at the sight of them for many years to come, just like I do right now when I look at them. Here they are all fresh and clean:

 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)

You all had GREAT ideas of going and using a die-cut machine (or whatever it’s called) to cut out the numbers. One of my girlfriends is a teacher and I almost went to her school to hold that thing hostage for an hour or so, but instead just bought regular foam and used my cardboard numbers as a template. I cut out around them with the x-acto knife and it was SO much easier than the glittery paper. Then I glittered up the numbers:
 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
This project really wouldn’t take so long if I didn’t bling these up (there I go again) so much. I put brads, stickers, little dots, foam stickers, all kinds of stuff on there:

 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
Sigh. I love these things. (You should be able to enlarge this one.)

 An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)
Check out Carrie’s version here — love how she hung them all together! I may have to do that next year. If you watch for these little boxes to go on sale, the price for all 24 is $12. The extras only cost me about six bucks. I think it’s worth the $18 considering we’ll use these for years.

Hope you enjoy it! Back with more soon!

**Edited to add: I’m going ahead with the Christmas tree party! Here’s the blinky:

otc An advent calendar done. (12 days late!)

I’ll kick this off on Monday. Have fun!!