You might know that we turned our Dining Room into my Craft Room/Office, And I LOVE it.

It was one of the best decisions that we ever made.

In doing it, we filled in a big arch with drywall and installed big french doors. I love the french doors because they let in the light from both directions.

The drawback is having your craft room visible from the front door -- eeeeek!

{Dining Room Before}

{let me tell you -- it is never this clean LOL}

And I don't know about you, but my craft room is messy almost 100% of the time!

I have been trying to figure out what to do about this dilemma for awhile now. And then I found out about Silhouette's Frosted Vinyl.

So I thought I'd share my little project with you, in case you have your own little mess that needs a solution like me - lol. I downloaded a circle background from the Silhouette online store -- .99. And then I measured my space and made the image fit in that space. Super easy.

I was originally thinking that I would use contact paper for this solution, but the Frosted Vinyl is thicker than contact paper and that made it easier to install plus there weren't as many air bubbles. I think it will hold up better than the contact paper would have.

I only have one panel done so far, but I can already tell that this is going to be a great solution to my messy problem.

Plus -- they are polka dots. So cute!!!!

And I have had a lot of readers email me wondering if Silhouette was going to have another awesome sale.

So I thought I would pass along this information.

Today, through the 28th of February, Silhouette is offering this great deal --

You get:

Silhouette SD Machine

1 Roll of Black Premium Vinyl

1 Roll of Premium Frosted Vinyl

1 Roll of Premium Transfer Paper

Home Decor CD

Normally $400, but this week,
for only $225!

That's almost half off!!

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And also their premium vinyl is on sale -- 25% off.

{I have to say that I love the premium vinyl so much more than their regular vinyl}

Just use the code -- TATER

There are more Silhouette giveaways happening around blogland this week too -- check them out!

The DIY Showoff

Sugar Pop Ribbons

Vintage Revivals

Creating Really Awesome Free Things

Happy Money Saver

Lee Lou Blogs

My Sweet Savannah

The Bragging Mommy

The Domestic Diva

xoxo

PS -- I'll be on Studio 5 tomorrow morning sharing my gazillion sweater refashions if you want to tune in! And I will announce the winners of all of the sidebar giveaways on my TT&J facebook page tonight :)

Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week or so.

I’m so excited to show it to you!

It started off as a board that’s been sitting in my garage.

I used a smaller board in the Fall for my Halloween Subway Art,

but decided to go even bigger for Valentine’s Day.

Then last week I went out to lunch with one of my BFF’s Shelley from House of Smiths. We had such a great time. Eating, then shopping. We even ran into another blogging friend - Kirsten!

We found a beautiful rug for her living room and I told Shelley about my subway art project. She invited me to come over and design it in her super fabulous vinyl program and helped me print it out! Shelley designed this awesome background and I did the lettering. It was a fun collaboration.

And then at the end of the night we rocked out in her car to this song.

So much fun!!!

{me with her rug}

The next day I painted the board gray and then applied the background vinyl.

I also had some left over molding in my garage, so I cut it to size and glued it onto the board.

Then I painted over the vinyl with a metallic paint.

Once that was dry, I peeled off the design and was left with this gorgeous pattern!! Love it!!

I had to bring it over to Shelley’s so she could see it before I put the vinyl on! And we hung it up over at her house – we were so excited to see it all done!!!

Then I applied the vinyl. And painted the middle board with the “love” on it. I love how it stands out!! I applied the “love” board with 3M removeable adhesive strips.

I love it so much that I think I’m going to make another that I can keep out all year.

You can make one for yourself using your Silhouette, or if you want to save some time and frustration, Shelley is going to be selling the vinyl for this project in her Wonderfully Wordy shop. And all you would need to do is paint your board and put the vinyl on.