S'more Fun

Last weekend, my friend Allie had a bunch of people over for Fire Pit Friday. Every other Friday, we will have a get together and rotate houses. I decided to bring s'mores to the shindig because every good fire pit needs s'mores. Kyle and I went to CVS because it is super close to our house. Much to our dismay, they didn't have marshmallows. That's when I had a brillant idea. I was going to use peeps instead of marshmallows. I mean when you think about it, they are basically and upgraded version of a marshmallow. Here are my supplies:

After I had my hotdog with ketchup and siracha (yum), I got my s'more ready:

I roasted the peep like a marshmallow, just for a little shorter time. I was skeptical, but they were SO good! Here is a little fire fun:

Now you know what to do with all of those leftover peeps your grandma gave you for Easter :) Stay tuned for a house project!

Hypnotic Headboard

When we moved into our new house I knew there were some rooms I wanted to paint. One of those rooms was the bedroom. I kept seeing navy rooms on Pinterest and knew I wanted to go with navy for our master bedroom. Since our last bedroom was painted yellow, this was a drastic change for us. Therefore, we had to rethink some of our furniture choices for the bedroom. The headboard we have was given to me long ago and I felt it was time for a change. So I fired up Pinterest and went searching for DIY headboard projects. Here is the inspiration I found for my headboard:

Now that you've seen the inspiration, let's get started with the tutorial:

What You'll Need:
Headboard base
Batting (from the fabric store)
Fabric
Upholstery Tacks
Hammer
Staple Gun (from local hardware store)
Staples
Scissors

Directions:
1. Measure your headboard. I measured mine at two yards for width.
2. Go to the fabric store and pick out your fabric. Get batting and upholstery tacks. The best kind of tacks are the ones that are in a strip (more on that later).
3. Lay out your batting on the floor and lay your headboard on top:

4. Fold the batting over the headboard and start stapling. In some areas, you may have to cut the batting to help it fold over correctly depending upon the shape of your headboard.

5. Once you're done stapling all of the batting and cutting off excess, stand the headboard up again. Lay out your fabric as straight as possible on the floor (you may have to iron it before to get out all of the wrinkles). Lightly lay the headboard onto the fabric, making sure the fabric stays straight.

6. Start stapling the fabric to the batting and headboard. You  might have to cut the fabric, like you did the batting.

7. Once you are done stapling the fabric, stand it up and flip it over. Get ready to put in the upholstery tacks!

It is also really important to have a super cute helper :)

8. Get out your strip of upholstery tack fronts and your package of upholstery tacks. It is easiest to get this strip that is fake tack heads with a spot to hammer in a real upholstery tack about every fifth one. They usually come with upholstery tacks to hammer in as well! Put in one upholstery tack to start the strip.

9. Keep nailing in the upholstery tacks until you get to the where you want to stop and cut it. Then, go down the headboard with the strip of tacks.

10. Attach the headboard to the bedframe and enjoy! Here are my after pictures:

I love how it turned out and I think it is a wow-factor in the room! I was afraid that it would be difficult, but it was easier than I expected. The surprise from this post is that my next post will share the entire master bedroom, including wider shots of the headboard! Stay tuned for that post :)