Monday, November 20, 2017

And a little while later....

Turns out, my trying to post once a week back in 2015 didn't go as planned.. Two years later and here we are, back at it again and what an amazing two years it has been. From moving into a beautiful home, starting a new career, getting married to the most incredible human, and continuing my DIY journey.
Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and I have been busy building and painting, which is why I have decided to continue with my blog and keep everyone updated on what I have been doing.


I have been rearranging my house, like always, and decided that I wanted to do something a little different with the décor. I have always had hand me down art and wall décor, so I decided that I needed my house to be more ME and my wife and less OTHER people, i.e my mother. Although my mom has some seriously great taste, and I have always loved what she has given me, I think what I decided to do is just a little more my style.

Feeling festive, I decided to make a pallet Gather sign to hang in my dining room, and I LOVE it! It looks so great on the wall, and I just feel like Thanksgiving should be all year long.  I would weigh 700 lbs, but it would totally be worth it.

Pallet Gather Sign

I showed a co-worker my gather sign, and she fell in love, so I made her one! She wanted it to be super “Fall-y” so I “Falled” it up with some pretty leaves I had from another project. I think it turned out pretty dang great!


Gather Sign for my co-worker
 

 Last but not least, to kick off my blog, I have decided to start doing a little weekly "giveaway" to my devoted followers. This week for Thanksgiving, I will be giving away this Thankful sign, along with a $10 giftcard to Starbucks to keep up the energy to cook all day on Thursday, and an Epsom salt and Essential Oils bath to relax after cooking all day! To enter to win, all you will need to do is like and share my page, Jenna's Gems on Facebook, and you will be entered. Simply type in @jennasgemz in the Facebook search bar, like, and share my page! I will be drawing a name on Wednesday morning, and will deliver to you if you are not too far.

 

 

 

I will be posting again this week! Thank you, all! I am excited for this new chapter in my life, and to get to share it with all of you!

xoxo
Jenna
 

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Just the Beginning




 MY FIRST PROJECT

               I went thrifting this past weekend and found so many amazing things! I was so excited to get home and figure out what to do with all of the shit I got!! For $15 I got 3 small wooden spice racks with hooks attached (see photo). I was most excited for the spice racks, as they will be going on the wall behind my stove, and that has been the plan for some time. See what I did with them...



These little beauties....


I had some leftover brown paint from a project I did. So I decided to just use that paint to cover the racks, and they looked GREAT! I got out my gold paint pen and I couldn't be more please with the outcome! Here they are! 

AREN'T THEY GORGEOUS?!
**The table the spice racks are sitting on was another project... I totally revamped our dining room table...but more on that later** 

Ok... so maybe gorgeous is too strong a word, but like I said, I am extremely pleased with these little guys. I have decided to get nice spice jars as well, since the majority of my spices are in plastic ugly containers, and I found some from Hobby Lobby that have corks as the tops... I'm seriously so stoked to hang them up! 

So that is it for this post... I will be trying (the optimal word being TRYING) to get a post done once a week.