DIY Marble Dollar Tree Pots for Succulents

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed another round of finals without dying. This means I am halfway there to my Bachelors Degree. (AHH)

I've been easing into summer, trying to recover and I did my first summer DIY the other day!
I picked up these succulents and a package of three mini terra-cotta pots from the Dollar Tree. I see this kind of stuff in stores, envision something adorable, do a scary evil laugh and toss them in my basket. Muahahahah

Okay but really, I just popped the succulents out of the cheapy plastic pots and gave the terra-cotta ones a quick coat of white spray paint.

I could tell you I tried what worked right away, but I feel it's my job to allow anyone and everyone to laugh at me and to also keep you from trying it these ways too. All I knew was that I wanted to marble them. (that's good grammar, right?)

I used the plastic pots the succulents originally came in to practice first, which was smart so I didn't ruin the other pots, but it also probably would have worked differently with plastic than with terra-cotta anyway. Oh well.

Initially I tried the tub of water thing. I've only ever seen it done that way with nail polish, but I figured I would try it anyway with the small samples of paint I have leftover from my craft shelf boxes.

FAIL

Then I found the one bottle of turquoisey-teal nail polish I had and tried that. 

Nope

I remembered seeing a tutorial for marbling nail polish with a plastic bag. They dotted a few drops of the leftover wall paint paint on the nail and used the plastic baggie to mix the colors.

I used the wall paint I orignally tried and painted a few spots randomly around the pot.

Then I used a piece of saran wrap (affiliate link) to mix the paint into a "marble" effect.

And I don't have a picture of this step, because I was covered in paint and didn't really feel like painting my camera.

But this is how they came out!

That's all! Show me pics of yours! #LittleBitsofLacey and I might just repost them :)

xoxo,
L

DIY Dollar Tree Mirrored Box

Sooo heyyy.

Dollar Tree sells these little square mirrors which are for candles and are also super cute for wedding decor, but I had something else in mind. I bought 6 of them.

Then using my trusty E6000
 I glued them together into a cute little box!

I think this is such a cute little jewelry box!

Bob's a fan!

Or hungry..it's hard to tell.


Super simple and a cute decoration for shelves that double as storage!

Hope you have a great weekend!
xoxo,
L

Gold Dipped Bowls for $0.25!

So I've been done with school for like a week now, and so far I've gotten a whole lot of nothing accomplished. I've been working like crazy still (hopefully this will change soon) and trying to catch up some sleep. To keep up to date follow me and Bob on Instagram. You could have seen that Bob got a little rude and decided to bite my face yesterday! This picture doesn't even show how bad it is, and it's especially swollen now! 

 

(I also don't have pink hair, so I have no idea why this picture made me have some. It's kinda cool though, do I see hair chalk in my future?)

ANYWHO I have another super easy dollar store craft today. I mean it's not like I ever do these  I do these for like every post but you still love them, right? I recently picked up this four-pack of little baby glass dishes at the Dollar Tree.

I traced them on a foam plate, then traced the line with gold paint*. Then I just dipped the edges of the bowls into the paint! (someone please teach me how to paint my nails)

I'm using these to store some of my jewelry, but they can be used for lots of things. Think bobby pins, hair elastics, change, craft supplies. The options are endless!

And that's all. I swear I'll post a complicated craft someday..maybe.. ;)

Hope you enjoyed and hope you have a GREAT weekend!

xoxo, Lacey

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DIY Dollar Tree Chalkboard Jar

Today's post is almost too simple.

All I did was buy a jar and some chalkboard labels both from Dollar Tree.
That's it guys. I stuck a label on a jar and I'm calling it a craft :)

It's a super cute way to hold Bob's treats though!

That's all y'all!

Hope you have a great day!

xoxo, Lacey & Bob

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