Recycling - Shop the house style.

I've been focusing on cleaning out our house lately in an effort to declutter and organize. It's amazing what I've found stuffed into drawers and under beds. Case in point, this little box.

It was under the guest bedroom bed in a plastic bin full of stuff. There's nothing special about the box. It's actually from 3 houses ago, and it's falling apart. Perfect project for a 2 year old. I mixed up a shade of blue and let him go to town.

When the paint dried I cut fabric from an old crib sheet that matches his twin bed set now and made an insert for the front. It's just hot glued to a piece of card stock cut to fit.

I hot glued another piece of card stock on the inside of the door to cover up the back of the opening and make it look a little nicer.

He uses it as a "treasure box" and he decided to put his shell collection and some coins, aka "monies" in it.

I also made a gift for my MIL's new beach house. Noah has his own room in the new house and my MIL has decided to decorate it in surfboards and woodies. Last summer when my in laws were visiting my MIL mentioned how much she loved a set of Noah's PJ's that were surfer themed. She wanted me to make pillows out of the little shirt and shorts, but they were badly stained. So I decided to do something else with them.

I started out with this PJ shirt and cut out the graphic part.

Then I shopped the house and found a picture frame that wasn't being used. I've seen the comforter set and I know that the walls are lime green and the ceiling is blue, so I mixed up a blue to match the palm trees in the shirt.

A little ribbon, a little trim, some buttons, and ta-da...

...it's ready to hang on the wall. Hope she likes it!