Thanksgiving Plaque for 50cents

I picked up 4 of these golden beauties at a garage sale awhile back for $2. They're kind of flimsy foil, but I bought them with an idea to make Holiday plaques out of them. I decided to make one for Thankgiving to go above my cabinets. This is what it looked like before......

I painted it cream color and then roughed it up a little with sand paper, wrote a fun little phrase on it, and voila'!

a SUPER cheap tray to decorate for the fall

Family Rules

One of the blogs that I like to follow, The Pleated Poppy, posted a few weeks ago on how to do this adorable family rules board. She did hers on canvas, but I put mine on a big square piece of MDF. I made it for my dear friend, Janda, to hang in her daughter's (soon to be daughters') bathroom! I just love how it turned out. I had fun making up the rules, and borrowed or rearranged a few of the ones she had posted on her blog entry. It was pretty easy to do....just need fun scrapbook paper, paint markers, something to put it all on, and some mod podge.

the finished product!
I hand wrote the rules, but you could print them out if you are printer savvy - which I am not! Especially since my printer has issues with thick paper. I used fun scissors or tore the edges so each piece would be unique.

A different view