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Mudroom Artwork

March 26, 2011 By Shan 41 Comments

Keeping Calm in my Mudroom

The Keep Calm and Carry on Artwork has become very popular. I used to teach Sunday School at church. {I miss it.} One Sunday I was highlighting some Hymns that went along with the lesson. I came across this awesome website and decided to make posters with the name of the Hymns for the lesson. Afterward, I decided {I liked them so much} I wanted to use them as decor in my home.

Used wall velcro stickers to hang

I needed something in my mudroom

and realized I had the perfect number to fill the space on the wall.

{sorry for glare}

Every day as we come & go from this room we are reminded of these calming Hymns.

Sometimes seeing one automatically makes me begin to sing.

Close up

By the way, I bought the 8 1/2 x 11 frames at the dollar store.

I took my sanding block and sanded the edges a little to give it that rustic look.

Opposite wall with our lockers

I love being able to not spend a lot of money to decorate.

WIN/WIN Talk about bringing JOY! 😉

Full view

Again, the website is called keepcalm-o-matic

Mudrooms & Laundry Rooms are being featured today at The Mustard Ceiling for Roomspiration Blog Hop & Link Party.

Disclosure: I was in no way compensated for sharing this information.

{I wish…I have a feeling they might be inundated with visitors real soon BTW, if you decide to do a similar post, please give me credit by linking back to my post. THANK YOU}

Linking Up:

I’m adding this post to The Inspired Room’s Gallery Wall Party!

Keep Calm and Carry On,

Silhouette – The Crafter’s JOY

February 24, 2011 By Shan 2 Comments

Boy am I glad I visited my fellow blogger Roeshel’s blog, The DIY Show Off today!
She’s giving away one of the coolest crafting tools ever, the Silhouette!

(contest ends on February 27th)

Head on over to her blog and check out all the amazing things you can do with it.
Pssssssst…

I’ll be showcasing
my first GIVEAWAY very soon.
You will LOVE it!

Come back and see.

Thanks so much for visiting Family Brings Joy,

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Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2011 By Shan Leave a Comment

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We are ready for some LOVE!

February 11, 2011 By Shan 1 Comment

“Our Family’s Love Boxes“

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We had so much fun making our love note boxes!

This is the follow up to my post entitled : The POWER of a Note

We hope you took the challenge to make your own love note boxes.

My kids are excited to see yours. {Me too!}

If not, it’s not too late.

Remember, use what you have around the house.

No need to buy anything, shop at home.

Be creative and have FUN together!

Link up here {scroll to end of post}

to add your love note box photos.

Happy Weekend,

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The POWER of a Note

February 7, 2011 By Shan 5 Comments

Ok, I love technology and all, but

there’s nothing like a handwritten note.

I love giving notes as well as receiving them. It is amazing how something so easy to do, such a small gesture, can

make a difference in the lives around you.

The photo above is just one of the thousands of little post-it notes my youngest leaves me all around the house. They always make me smile.

Right before I left to go to my blog conference in Nashville, I ran around the house with a dry erase marker and left messages (notes) for each of my children & husband on their bathroom mirrors. It only took maybe 5 minutes. I have been back from my trip for over a week and they still have the messages (notes) on their mirrors. {Sorry, honey (my husband) I cleaned the bathroom today so I ended up washing your mirror.}

Above is the little note I left on my daughter’s book.

I left this one (above) on my hubby’s closet.

I wrote the above message on my daughter’s dry erase board. She told me she will never erase it. I kindly told her she could if she wanted.

Are you beginning to see the power of a note?

I wrote the above on my Son’s mirror.

This (above) is on my Son’s bedroom dry erase board.

My 7 year old likes to “borrow” my 15 year old’s cell phone and send me text messages. I ALWAYS know it is from my youngest and not my oldest, mainly because my oldest has grown out of doing things like this. She used to make me cards and tell me she loved me when she was younger, too. Well, now she’s a teen and it’s not cool. {boo hoo!}

I believe it is important to leave notes to your family members. And not just for special occasions. Sometimes, I think it means more to them when it is “just because.” It shows them you care. It’s a small act of kindness that brings a whole lot of JOY.

Challenge:

Make a Love Note box.
It doesn’t have to be fancy. Make it into a fun craft time & decorate an old shoe box, wooden box, etc. Don’t make it difficult. Use the tools you already have at home.
After you make yours, post a photo of them on your blog & come post your link at the end of this post via inlinkz. Just click on the add your link button. {I’m excited to be hosting my first link party!} If you don’t have a blog, you can post a link to the photo through your favorite photo sharing website.

I will be doing this challenge with my children as well. I have been meaning to do this for a long time now. Since it is ‘LOVE’ season, I thought it would especially be an appropriate and fun craft time activity for our family to do together. I will post photos of our love note boxes. So come back and see how ours turned out.

The love notes box will be the ‘home’ for all the notes and cards you receive. Then you can open it up, on any given day…maybe especially on a bad day, and read all the precious words.

Write a note today,

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Art for my Craft Room

January 11, 2011 By Shan Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon a wonderful blog named Not JUST A Housewife. The blog’s name is genius! 😉 Not only does she have all the stuff I love like Printables, Tutorials, Crafts, Decorating, Furniture and Kid Activities, she has a beautiful blog! She has the perfect subway art for my craft room. I have been working steadily in my craft room at getting it organized and user friendly (I’ll post before and after photos later.) This will look just right in there! I just had to share the art and her blog. It has made for a smile on my face on this Tuesday morning. Thank you Stacy!