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Color Block Party Skirts for Girls: Holiday Edition

Get in the Christmas Spirit with Our Color Block Party Skirts for Girls

posted in color block party skirts, diy, holidays, shop by Hanna on December 3, 2014

Sara and I decided to try something new and try making some video’s to show off our Color Block Party skirts. We love the idea of you being able to see our skirts in action and getting to see and know us a little more too!

I love doing fun and creative projects with my girls that help inspire pretend play so for this first video I decided to share a fun idea that does just that while also helping get the kids in the Christmas spirit. Using things from our our house my girls and I made Santa’s sleigh with reindeer. It’s super easy and my girls had a fun time imagining that they were delivering presents to all the kids on Christmas.

Also featured in this holiday video are these beyond adorable, Rudolph masks from Opposite by Far. If you haven’t visited this shop yet its a must! Jessica, the creator of these cute masks, has a huge variety to choose from and they are a great gift for the kids! While your at it make sure to also check our shop! We’re going to be having some great sale’s on our skirts so now is your chance to get one!

What are some fun activities or projects you like to do with your kids during the holidays?

Custom Illustrated Holiday Cards | Preciously Paired

5 Steps to Getting Creative and Unique Holiday Cards

posted in holidays, shop by Hanna on November 10, 2014

Before blogs, Facebook. and Instagram, sending holidays cards was a way of updating all our distant friends and family about the past year. Now that it’s easy to stay in touch with those living far away online, we think that holiday cards can be a chance to wish those we care about a Merry Christmas in a creative and fun way.

So this year, chose to do something a little different and let Preciously Paired illustrate and design your holiday cards with these 5 easy steps!

If you’re interested in giving us the honor of illustrating and designing your holiday cards, head over to our shop and put in your order! The holiday’s are fast approaching so we would recommend getting your order in as soon as possible to allow us time to design your print, and for you to get them printed. We can’t wait to work with you!

DIY felt Halloween costumes | Preciously Paired

My DIY Halloween

posted in crafts, diy, fall, family, holidays, kids by Hanna on October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween! I think I’ve mentioned this before, but Sara and I didn’t grow up with Halloween being much of a big deal in our house. However, now that I’m a mother of young kids I’ve been trying to be more excited about it. To be honest though, I’m still not super into it to the point where I plan full family costumes, but I’m realizing that I do enjoy creating things for my girls to dress up in and doing Halloween activities that they would enjoy throughout the month.

This year I got really ambitious and decided to make both of the girl’s costumes from scratch! It took Mia forever to just decide on one thing she wanted to be, and she only finally chose a mermaid because that is what her cousin said she was going to be. Whatever the reason, I decided to roll with it. While recently organizing my craft space, I found some green felt and red yarn. I figured I would challenge myself to try and make Mia’s costume from what I had on hand. In the end, I ended up spending less then $5 on her entire costume! I got the pattern for her Arial hair/wig HERE. It totally made the outfit and was pretty easy to make.

Livy’s costume is a little bit of an inside joke. Growing up in Nevada we didn’t just celebrate Halloween but we celebrated Nevada Day as well; the day Nevada became a state. Since marrying my husband, October 31st has really been more about celebrating Nevada Day than Halloween. Before having kids we’d go to my parents house every year to celebrate. My husband is always teasing about our obsession with Nevada Day over Halloween so I thought it only fitting that one of my kids should represent a fun family tradition; not to mention it’s the 150th year of Nevada being a state!

After spending several nights making my girl’s their costumes, and as fate would have it, it just so happens that we all have been sick and Mia has had to miss most of her Halloween activities during the week. Luckily Mia is much better and Livy is almost there so we’re hoping to get out tonight for a little trick-or-treating, or at the very least sing a few rounds of “Home Means Nevada”.

Anyone else make their kid’s Halloween costumes or have any fun Halloween traditions? We’d love to hear about them!

New Halloween Print in Shop!

posted in fall, holidays, shop, Uncategorized by Hanna on October 2, 2014

We’re one month into our new school routine, the leaves are changing, my apple harvest scent is plugged in and I spent the day putting up my fall/Halloween decorations; life is very good! Mia has been loving school and her dance class. She is quite our little social bug. On the other hand Livy and I are loving the time we get to spend in the morning just the two of us and I have been having a blast planning with Sara the future shop additions and changes! Boy, are there changes coming!

The latest shop addition is this adorable Halloween print. We wanted to create something that was family friendly. With toddlers of our own who have already started the endless talk of what to be for Halloween this seemed to be the perfect fit.

To add this 8×10 print to your Halloween decor just go to our shop and since it’s our first print and officially Halloween season you can get this print for just $3 for the next week!

Now, for those of you who like to see things in an actual setting, take a look at what a great addition it made to my entryway table in my front room! Along with the Halloween print I decided to get a little crafty and do my own spider web canvas art and fabric garland. I am now officially ready to enjoy October!

Is anyone else on the ball and already have their Halloween decoration up?

Once again, thank you all for your support, comments, following and purchases! Sara and I are having so much fun with the new addition of custom illustrations to our shop and now for originally illustrated prints. We have so many ideas for future prints as well. We’d also love any ideas or requests for different kinds of prints from our lovely followers!

Linked to: http://www.thepinjunkie.com/2014/10/pin-junkie-pin-party-87.html, http://www.delineateyourdwelling.com/2014/10/link-it-or-lump-it-party-59.html

Outdoor Summer Dinner Party

posted in crafts, decor, diy, holidays, inspiration, party, thrifted, tutorial by Hanna on July 9, 2014

Besides blogging, one of our favorite things to do together is to host a great party full of delicious food, good company, and fun decorations. Since we bought our house last fall, I’ve been itching to throw an outdoor party on our spacious deck. With Sara and her family here visiting, and with it being our one year blog anniversary, we decided to throw a little outdoor summer party to celebrate. Usually we have things planned out several weeks in advanced, but besides our dinner menu everything else came together last minute.

You might be wondering how we managed to pull this off with such a limited budget in such little time? Honesty, we were quite amazed ourselves, but in the end we were very pleased with the turnout. It was the perfect combination of fun and classy. The key to throwing together a nice dinner table layout with limited time and money is being creative and resourceful. Everything you see on the table, besides the white flower centerpieces and the aqua colored plates, were things we already owned that we used or re-purposed.

I think what really made the table, were the fun ikat patterned chargers. And would you have guessed that we made them for under $2 a piece?! About a year ago Sara found a bunch of these gold charges at Goodwill for $1. They have truly been a great purchase as we have used them at several other occasions. For this outdoor summer party we wanted something a little more bright and playful, so we purchased some wrapping paper to cover them with. Below is a simple tutorial on how we did it.

First, trace around the charger on the back side of your wrapping paper, then cut it out. Make sure to cut the circle about 1/2 inch bigger than the actually size the of the plate. Since you only see the outside edge of the plate we decided to only cover the edges, in which case we measured and cut out the middle as well.

Second. use spray adhesive to bond the paper to the plate.

Flip the plate over and spray the excess paper with glue, then fold over to the underside of the plate.

Lastly, spray a clear acrylic coating or sealant over the top for added durability and protection from food and water.

Allow each plate to dry before using, then add these fun new chargers to your table setting for some added color and interest.

Linked To:

http://theblissfulbee.com/work-it-wednesday-no-55/

Share your Fun Creations – From Dream To Reality #125

http://www.bravenewhome.com/diyers-link-party-8/

http://www.gingersnapcrafts.com/2014/07/wow-me-wednesday-162.html

http://elizabethjoandesigns.com/2014/07/designs-time-no-18/

http://gracelangdon.blogspot.com/2014/07/making-monday-49.html

4th of July Clothespin Wreath

posted in crafts, diy, holidays by Hanna on July 2, 2014

I can already hear fireworks at night going off through the neighborhood, the colors red, white and blue are showing up everywhere and the planning of BBQ’s is in the air; this going to show that the 4th of July is right around the corner! Take if from me, it’s not too late or very hard to get festive.

It seems like the last few days I have either been preparing for Sara and her family to come stay with us (cleaning, shopping, etc.) or working on up coming things for this blog. This has left the 4th of July as a major after thought! However, after seeing this clothespin wreath floating around Pinterest I knew I wanted to at least do that.

I scoured Pinterest for the original link to the clothespin wreath and never found it so I decided to go ahead and make my own and share the exact “what ya need” and “how to” with all of you.

The supplies for this project are pretty basic and cheap; all of which I was able to get a the one-stop-shop of Walmart.

– 12 in wreath frame

– 2 packs of clothespins (This wreath takes 60 clothespins to make but there are only packs of 50 at Walmart which are $1 each.)

– Glitter Stars foam stickers

– red, white and blue paint (acrylic or spray)

– paint brush

Start by dividing out your 60 clothespins. For mine I painted 15 blue, 22 white and 23 red. Next step is to paint them. I did it the hard way and painted each one by hand using acrylic paint. Surprisingly and a little bit to my embarrassment I didn’t even think about spray painting them until afterwards. It would have been MUCH easier.

But if you are going to paint them by hand I’ll let you know what I did. I used the foam brush and painted everything but the back and part of the sides. Then I took a smaller brush to get the inside of the clothespin where it would show. In the picture above you can see kind of how I went about the “lazy” way of painting them.

Once all the clothespins are dry stagger them on the wreath frame doing all the blue clothespins together then 4 reds followed by 4 whites. Lastly, at the foam stars to the blue clothespins and hang!

To add a little more to my 4th of July decor I spray painted some stars on our front lawn using some white field spray paint and hung up our flag.

See! Three very simple and easy ways to get in the patriotic spirit; all which can be done in an afternoon for under $20!

Sara and I hope you all enjoy your 4th of July! We know we will be and are SO excited that we get to be spending it together!

~ Hanna

Linked To:
http://theblissfulbee.com/work-it-wednesday-no-54/
http://elizabethjoandesigns.com/2014/06/designs-time-no-16/
http://upcycledtreasures.com/2014/07/the-makers-link-party-24/
http://www.bravenewhome.com/diyers-link-party-7/

Find Finds #14: Red, White, and Blue

posted in Friday Finds, holidays, inspiration by Sara on June 29, 2014

July is an exciting month for us (my husband too). It’s our birthday month and there will be non-stop partying! First party… Independence Day! Our family leaves for our road trip on Wednesday just in time to being in Utah for the 4th of July!

Summer Outfit Inspiration | by Merrick’s Art

Red, White, and Blue Ice Pops | by M. Kat Safar

4th of July Ombre Wreath | by Tell Love and Chocolate

American Flag Mason Jars | by Maison de Pax

Stars and Stripes Forever Decor | by The Diary of Daves Wife

Patriotic Streamers | by Dana Made It

Fair-Style Berry Cones | by Better Homes and Gardens

Red, White, and Blue Flower Pots | by Better Homes and Gardens

Category: holidays