I JuJu Do You?

After my first Fall Pinterest Challenge project did a bellyflop in the deep end, I scoured Pinterest for a new idea and the house to see what supplies I had available.  One project immediately jumped to mind. Yesterday I teased you with a couple of images of rooms with Juju hats.  I know I'm a little late to this bandwagon, but I think the feather hats add such texture to the room.  {images via apartment therapy}

When I was making my wedding centerpieces 3 years ago, I had ordered a box of wine colored ostrich feathers off of ebay.  The feathers didn't end up in the centerpieces and have been waiting for a purpose in life ever since.

After 3 years of collecting dust, my feather friends have a new lease on life in the form of a DIY Juju hat.

In addition to the ostrich feathers, all I used was foam core and hot glue.  The project couldn't have been much simpler.  (It could have been cleaner though- those feather pieces got absolutely EVERYWHERE)

First, I cut a circle out of foam core using a lamp shade as a circle template.

Then started layering on the feathers

I worked my way outside in and just kept layering until I saw no more foam core.  I kept playing with the feathers and filling in areas until my fingers were covered in feather and hot glue and I was pleased with the shape of my Juju hat.

Within about an hour, the pretty gal was ready to strut her stuff.

Not totally sure where it's ultimate home will be- my soon to be office, perhaps?

Check out some of the other Pinterest Challenge projects from the Challenge hostesses (and link up yours while you're there):

Sherry @ Young House Love's Chunky Chalkboard

Katie @ Bower Power Blog's Succulent Terrarium

Carmel @ Our Fifth House's DIY Dollhouse

Sarah @ The Ugly Duckling House's Wood Ampersand

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Falling for it Again

It's officially Fall.  That doesn't just mean a new season and falling leaves and pumpkins, though.  It also means it's time for this season's Pinterest Challenge!

This time Sherry @ Young House Love and Katie @ Bower Power Blog partnered up with Sarah @ The Ugly Duckling House and Carmel @ Our Fifth House to get us to stop "pinning" and start doing.  I can't wait to see what all of them do!  You guys too!  I love checking out everyones projects when the challenges come along.

I'm struggling with what I should do for my own Pinterest Challenge Fall project, though.  My design brain is a little all over the place right now- working on and planning too many projects at once, so I haven't yet decided which project to tackle.  My options include, but aren't limited to:

• Art for my dining room (you might recognize this one- I showed it as a potential for the spring pinterest challenge as well- obviously I didn't end up getting to it then)

• A wall-mounted wine rack- also for the dining room

• Custom lamp shades for the bedroom

What are your votes?  At this moment, I'm leaning toward the lamp shades.... and the wine rack.... (see my problem??)

Succulent Terrarium

Thanks to the kick in the butt that is the Pinterest Challenge, I finally put together a succulent terrarium. I had purchased the container months ago at HomeGoods and it was just waiting for the right thing to go inside.  I kept being drawn to the collections of succulents plastering Pinterest and I got sucked in.  I'm a sucker for succulents.

I purchased the succulents for $3 a piece at the hardware store.  My mom had river rocks (small and large) left over from past plants and willingly passed them on to me.  Since I already had the container, the actual plants were the only cost.

First, I used layer of both small and large rocks to cover the bottom for drainage.  One issue that I didn't anticipate is the small opening of the container.  I could barely get the succulents in the opening, so maneuvering them into the right positions was a challenge.  Once I placed them where I thought would look nice, I covered the entire surface in more of the small pebbles and strategically placed a couple large stones on top.

What was an empty vessel a few days ago is now a warm addition to any room.

I just hope my black thumb for houseplants can manage to keep them alive!

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Did you do a project for the Pinterest Challenge: Summer Edition?  Post your links in the comments, I'd love to check them out!!