Framed Calendar Prints | DIY

This post is dedicated to and made possible by JoAnn Fabrics...may that lovely store rest in peace.  I was sad to see it go because it was my go-to store for random fabrics I needed for lampshades or costumes or anything like that, not to mention ribbon, trim, foam...so many, many crafting things that I could just run into a physical store and grab quick.

It's also a post about something I want to start doing more often - taking an old post I wrote way back when and bringing it to 2026.  This old post hearkens from way back in 2010 and is all about framed art - read it in its entirety here.  Long story short, I needed to fill some frames with something and so I filled them with pages from a calendar.  The photos in that old post need to stay in the past but the idea is still a goodie and so oops, I did it again - this time with pages from a 2025 calendar I snagged at JoAnn's during their last week open, when everything was super duper clearanced.  

It wasn't my intention to buy a calendar for $2 but when I spotted it, I knew the perfect place for some of the pretty prints inside - our newly dotted powder room.

Hand-Painted, Scattered Dot Walls | DIY

Our little half bath..it's come a long, long way.  

It's a tiny little thing so getting pictures isn't the easiest of things but all you need is a small slice of perspective to see how it's changed.

This is a blurry shot taken right after we moved in:

This room was low on the priority list but we did manage to get a few things done like rip the outdated wallpaper down and prime the walls quick.  I also painted the countertop to look like marble on a whim (see how here...it stayed looking like the day it was painted until the day it was replaced years later!)  Here's an old post with more deets.

One Year Later

I'm just going to slide right on in here like it hasn't been a whole year since I typed out some words in a post and hit publish...

Aaand so, I'll just cut to the chase.

We had another baby this past March.  Theo Francis - swallowing the family weight record by a whole pound and a half at 9 lbs. 3 oz.

Built-Ins Outta Built-Ins | DIY

Remember our twins?  I don't write too much about how our kids are aging but let me tell you, these twins of ours are aging.  They're TWEENS!  I know, right?!  Nuts.  Anyway, with growing up comes the accumulation of stuff - and I would argue that that is even more so the case with girls.  More clothes, crafts galore, collectibles, books, bags, jewelry, and most recently, make up (just mascara and blush on limited occasions but good grief time, slow down).  All of that is to say, these tween twins were running out of places to put their stuff.  Their room isn't huge though and their closet nothing to write home about but they did have an empty wall that had potential written all over it (and a mess all around it too).

(Painted arches tutorial here.)

So... 

We did NOT need another project this past summer but for several weeks, I kept a side eye out on Facebook Marketplace for a shelving unit/cabinets/whatever I could find that would hold all of their accumulating stuff.  

Then one day, this popped up:

It certainly looked like it fit the bill and it was listed by a good friend who only lived five minutes away.  Bingo.  

Kid Art That Doesn't Look Like Kid Art

I'm back with another painted glass project the kids tackled so long ago that I'm not even going to tell you how long ago because it involves years.  If you've been reading for long, you might've seen me paint glass a time or six.  Let's see, there's...

this coffee table

the "choose happy",