Faux Porcelain Birds

My daughter's room has a bird theme.  I made a quilt to mimic one from pottery barn kids, that I'll show you another time, and I painted 3 little canvases for wall, all with a bird theme.  I've been wanting to find fat little birds for a long time to accessorize but haven't had any luck.  Yesterday at dollar tree, what did I happen to see but fat little birds!  Yes they are ugly but not so bad that my favorite spray paint won't help!

 My spray painting technique is that I plant myself in the grass and just turn the cardboard they are on so I'm down low enough to get every side,.

 After one full rotation.

 I think I ended up giving them about 3-4 coats of spray paint to get the look I wanted. 

 It was a little tricky getting into all the little nooks and crannies, but I love how they turned out.

The best part is that they look like porcelain! 

(I'm also planning a baby shower in a few months and these will be PERFECT!!!)

"Spring"ing it up!

Feeling sad and blue?

 Add FLOWERS!!!

I was at Dollar Tree today getting birthday supplies for my son's party this weekend, when some other items caught my eye... (I already had the spray paint)

 I sprayed 5 pots white.

 Then used the overspray circles as a guide...

 ...and cut them out...

 ...to fit down on the inner lip of the pot.

 I went outside and scooped me up some dirt to cover the cardboard.  I started with the regular nozzle on my glue gun but switched to the wide flat nozzle instead and it worked SO much better!

 Just work in small sections so the glue doesn't dry before you can get it pressed in the dirt.

 I cut the foam blocks in half and put a piece in each pot.

 The flower bunches had 7 stems so I used a skewer to poke 7 holes through the back side of the cardboard.

 Now, put the cardboard in the pot and poke the stems through so it goes into the foam and voila! A super lightweight kinda real looking pot of flowers!

 Repeat 5 times and hang with super long twist ties.

I also hot glued a light green polka dot ribbon under the lip of the pot.  

Now that's my kind of makeover!

From drab to fab! Not bad for $11!  What do you think?  What projects are you working on to bring on the Spring?