DIY Home Made "Febreze"

This post will be short and sweet. I love me some Febreze. I would walk around "febrezing" my house

all day if I could. I love a fresh clean smell in my home. But have you seen febreze prices lately Everything is getting more expensive and I just cant justify the price for one bottle anymore. "I can make this myself" I thought one afternoon. Well I was right! You only need three ingredients, a spray bottle and a funnel to make your own batch at a fraction of the cost! Hallelujah!

• Insert a funnel into the top of a spray bottle.
• Pour 1/8 cup of your favorite fabric softener into your spray bottle. I prefer Downy Infusions. On sale it was $3 for a huge bottle. 
• Add 2 tablespoons of baking soda to the bottle.
• Fill the rest of the bottle with water. I use very warm water to help break up the baking soda.
• Replace the cap and shake the bottle well.

Success smells wonderful! =)

{QoK}

DIY Industrial Curtain Rods for the Home

With Summer fast approaching it was time to start thinking about some better options for my boys window treatments. We had a great set of silk striped curtains that go great in the their room, trouble is we only bought one set and they have since been decontinued by Target! Ahh!! I hate when that happens! The sun shines straight in to their room each morning and it is  SO BRIGHT! Light blocking curtains were defintely on my mind. I recently gave their room a mini makeover and decided that we would go with some navy light blocking curtains to go with the theme and colors in the room. They have two windows in the room, one large window and one smaller window.                

 Since we were changing curtains and I thought it would be a great time to change the curtain rods also. Their room has a vintage, fun, eccletic feel and I wanted the curtain rods to echo that. So I went the route of galvanized metal plumbing parts to assemble my rods. You can find everything you need at your local Lowe's or Home Depot.  Basically I just screwed the floor flange into the wall with four screws, attached the 90 degree elbow in to that and then used some liquid nails and inserted the metal conduit. Make sure you slide your curtain rings on before you secure both sides! 

 Here is what you will need:

• 1/2" Galvanized Floor Flanges
• 1/2" 90 Degree Galvanized Elbow
• 1/2" Metal Conduit
• Screws

Much Better!

Boys Room Tour

I had the most fun putting together my boys room when we moved in to our home a year and a half ago. I have made little tweaks here and there, over all I really love the feel of the room. It has a more vintage, fun, eclectic feel versus the other rooms in our home. Here is a little tour:

Wall color: Swan Sea from Behr.
Curtains from Target.
 Curtain rods DIY from plumbing parts at Lowes.
 Striped Navy duvet set from Target.com
Carousel sign under window from thrift store.

Bunk beds are from Walmart.com $149 on sale a couple years go. 

This industrial basket was $19.99 from Marshalls. It holds A LOT of toys!

My hubby and I made this sign for the empty space above their bed

Used a combination of spray paint, dired rice, stain and interior paint to give this arrow a vintage feel

Custom made this for the space above the window

Boys reading corner!

Lamp and metal bike from a thrift store.
Table from Target spray painted red.

Metal initials from Hobby Lobby attached to the foot of each bed

My Caleb is a DIE HARD Cars fan, his room had to have a Route 66 sign!

The dresser was as steal at $8 from Craigs list, I re-painted it to match the room.
Ignore the fan! Haha, we all need a fan to sleep in this house!

ABC from thrift store.
Classic Pooh Birthday figurine from my son's first birthday cake.
Other items from thrift stores.

Thrift store find last year! So cute!

Floating shelves are from target, lamp and shade from Target.
FAO wooden tool box from thrift store, books from birthdays/
Rabbit jacket holder from Ikea.

Elephant and duck were thrift store finds. Blocks from Target.
 Frame from Cars Land @ Disney's Ca. Adventure.

The blue chair was their great-grandfathers we inherited when he passed away.
The quilt was hand made by my great-grandmother for me when I was born. 

Thanks for stopping by!

{got talent?}

I apologize for my lack of posts lately, I have been consumed with getting things started and rolling for our etsy shop!!  My husband has told me for the past several months that I need to find a way to use my talents to bring glory to God and bring in some extra $$ for all my Hobby Lobby trips, ha! What women doesn't love her some HL?? In the last couple of months I have become increasisgnly intersted in woodworking, and making signs from salvaged wood. It started with making my iPad kitchen holder and from there I got the bug. My head is full of ideas, probably most of which are beyond my skills at this point, of wonderful things to make for my home. It may be just me, but I find the market for Christian home decor to be sorely lacking in style and color. 98% of what I find is in super dark colors with gold lettering. Bleh. Our home is on the lighter side with A LOT of white, greys and shades of turquoise blue. When I ran across some wood that was going to tossed out I thought I would give a try to putting together a wooden sign and painting them with inspiring quotes from Scripture and so forth. I did, and I'm hooked. I need a creative outlet so for me this has been a lot of fun. You can find my shop on etsy under the name: Lisset & Company. 

DIY Mason Jar Cup, Two Ways!

I love me some mason jars! So it seems fitting that I outfit myself with a mason jar turned cup for my iced coffee and sweet tea habit! I made two versions of the mason jar one using the standard metal pieces that came with the jar. And another version using a re-usable BPA free lid (Get 2 sample lids here for $2.50+free shipping) and rubber grommet for easier washing. I personally like the look of the metal version with the metal finishing washers as it has a old vintage look to it. I know that isn't for everyone, thus another version!
 Here is what you will need:

• Glass jars
• Drill with 5/16 drill bit 
• #14 Stainless steel finishing washers
• Super glue
• Reusable straw

Find the center of your lid and drill a hold through the middle with your drill bit. It should go through fairly easy. Apply super glue to the bottom of your washer and place over the hole ensuring any jagged edges are covered. Do the same for the inside of the lids. You may want to dry fit this to make sure your washer will cover up the jagged edges, a couple time I had to widen my hole a little to the left or right to make sure it was clean through the washer opening. To do this I stuck the drill bit back through the hole and leaned it in the direction that needed widening. Easy! After your glue is dry you are ready for business. I am a avid sweet tea drinker so more times than not you will see my jar full of a iced cold glass! 

BPA-Free Lid Version

You can order BPA free reusable lids at Reusablecanninglids.com/. You can get a sample of two sizes with free shipping for $2.50! Awesome deal. It looks like their lids comes in bulk, but you could try calling the company to see if you could place a smaller order. They are also available on Amazon.com

Here is what you will need:

• Glass jars
• BPA Free Re-Usable lids
• Drill but with 5/16 drill bit
• 9/16 black rubber grommets
• Reusable straw

Find the center of your lid and drill a hold through the middle with your drill bit. It should go through fairly easy. Insert your rubber grommet in the hole and pull out of the other side ensuring any jagged edges are covered.  Voila!

We will be adding mason jar cups with re-usable straws to the Etsy shop soon!

{QoK}

{Etsy Shop Opening}

We are proud to announce we have opened up shop @ Etsy!

"we create vintage, rustic pieces to add charm to your home decor"

Visit Lisset & Company's Etsy Shop~ CLICK HERE

Wooden Bunny Project

My hubby recently bought me a jigsaw! Hooray!! We had borrowed a friend's in the past to get little things done here or there but we decided we needed to take the plunge and start investing in good a tool collection. I have a lot of scrap wood in my garage, from who knows what project so I decided to make myself a little wooden bunny for my porch! First I went on google and found a bunny silhoutte I liked then I blew it up, printed it and cut it out. Then I traced it out on some scrap wood and cut it out with my jigsaw! Easy peasy! I also cut out a couple of wooden eggs for my porch as well. One egg has a very flat bottom, ha! He's special! After he was cut out I used some paints I had extra off, primarily Swan Sea by Behr which is the wall color in my boys room! I love that color, and I've been using it a lot around the house for little projects. 

Polyblend Grout Renew Review

Bleh, for yucky grout! Our kitchen counters are white tile with "white" grout. I say "white" because they are really just dirt color, haha. I have tried everything under the sun trying to get the grout clean and white again but only one item worked remotely. A couple months ago I did try a grout paint pen from Home Depot that worked pretty well. It would splatter and you had to keep shaking it and it covered a VERY small area for the $5.99 price tag. It did do the job pretty well, after all our grout is old so I can't expect it to return to it's glistening brand-new looking former glory.  But with that price tag I would be spending a good $36 in grout paint pens to finish the rest of the counters, no thank you! So I put that thought on the back burned until recently when my hubby told me that the rest of the counters looked pretty bad compared to the one I had used the grout pen on so he wanted to buy more and finish the job. My hubby is pretty laid back and doesn't really initiate any type of home improvement projects, so I was pretty surprised when he made this observation and wanted to finish it. I clean my kitchen on a daily basis but there is just no getting that darned grout clean! While at Home Depot I spotted a bottle that said GroutRenew! I was intrigued, and at $11.99 for a decent size bottle I knew it it worked I could do all my kitchen counters and have plenty left over.  GroutRenew is a all-in-one colorant and sealer. I choose bright white and couldn't wait to test it out at home. Read all instructions before beginning. I made sure to clean my counters and grout well with my handy dandy Krud Kutter and when it was dry it was time to roll out with the grout renew! I used a old toothbrush and just dipped it into the bottle, it was late and I was lazy! Make sure you are wearing a apron or clothes you don't mind it you mess up with paint, I was careful but I would lean over to get the corners and back areas and I would get paint on me. The bottle said not to let the paint dry on the tile. but because I have ceramic tiles I knew I could easily get it off later. I did keep a damp paper towel to wipe the excess paint off later on to make things easier on myself.  I used about 1/3 of the bottle to do all of my counters, so there is plenty left for touch-ups in the future. I am loving the end results! According to their website they have 48 colors available!Click here to read more about Polyblend GroutRenew.

Here are some pictures from my kitchen....

You can obviously see the HUGE difference in where I used the GroutRenew and didn't

Before Shot (Sorry, this was night time!)

After! Beautiful!

{QoK}