Funtastic Friday #232

Funtastic Friday #232

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Most Viewed

  June Tablescape from My Hubbard Home[/caption]  

Host Picks

Sherry's Pick-Peanut Butter Celebration Cake from Bird's Party Donna's Pick- Pineapple Raspberry Smoothie from Simply Blended Smoothies[/caption]

 

[caption id="attachment_8419" align="aligncenter" width="798"] Heidi's Pick- Llama Pillow from Kippi at Home Kristie's Pick- One Board Bench from Kippi at Home (Kippi was doubly featured this week!) Michele's Pick- Retro Camper Pixel Quilt from Flamingo Toes
 If you were featured, take a second and tweet. [bctt tweet=”I was featured at the #FuntasticFriday link party!” username=”olivesnokra”] If you’re linking up and joining the party, please grab a button or link back to “Olives & Okra” or one of the party hosts (copy and paste the code below the button onto your blog text tab or text widget):

If you’re a featured blogger, please grab a button to place on your blog (right click on the image and save the image to your computer):

All contributors who link up to the Funtastic Friday link party can join the Funtastic Fridaygroup board on Pinterest. Follow me on Pinterest and leave a comment below that you would like to be added. We will also share your post on social media if sharing buttons are readily available on your post. Help grow the Funtastic Friday Link Party. Tweet about the party, please! [bctt tweet=”Add your link! The #FuntasticFriday link party is live!” username=”olivesnokra”] Disclaimer: By submitting a link to this blog link party, you are giving me permission to share and/or feature your blog post and image on social media and on my blog, Olives & Okra. All links shared will either link back to the blog hop (linky party) or to your blog.

Funtastic Friday 231 Link Party Rules

1. 1. Post as many links as you like
   2. Family friendly posts only
   3. Old posts are welcome
   4. We greatly appreciate comments.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Dollar Store Challenge Featured Posts

We had a great Dollar Store challenge 2 weeks ago and with over 60 bloggers linking their Dollar Store crafts as well. I'd like to highlight a few here. 

First, I'd like to showcase Erlene's Patriotic Chair Covers . These are easy , inexpensive, hence the Dollar Store theme and a perfectly colorful way to celebrate Memorial Day , Flag Day, $4th of July or show your patriotic spirit. If you NEED to make them, make sure to click on over and pin the link.

https://mypinterventures.com/patriotic-flag-chair-covers/

I also adored these darling little Rustic Birdhouses made by Christina at The DIY Mommy. If you have a little bird thing going like me you can easily make these for your garden or maybe even a garden room.


Click for more from the Dollar Store Challenge and check out what else you can make with #Dollarstore deals.

Keep Makin'!!!!

With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

June Challenge - Fabric Bring on the Crafts Blog Hop

Bring on the Crafts — A Craft & DIY Blog Hop

On the first Friday through Sunday of each month, a group of DIY and crafty bloggers join forces to create a fun craft or DIY project to share that follows a monthly materials theme. Together, with hosts Marie from The Inspiration Vault and Habiba from Craftify My Love, they share the #BringontheCrafts blog hop with you. June's theme is Fabric! Each blogger chooses their own craft to make as long as they love it and it uses Fabric for the project.

Our May Co-hosts

Jenny at Cookies, Coffee and Crafts Erlene at My Pinterventures • Marie at DIY Adulation • Michele at Coastal Bohemian • Beverly at Across the Blvd • Gail at Purple Hues & Me

Join in on the fun! If you'd like to participate next month, you can request to join our Bring on the Crafts Facebook Group. Next month's theme is Beads & Buttons!

Not a blogger, but a creative mind none the less!? Don't worry, Share your awesome creations in our Craft Cult Facebook Group. This is also a great place to ask craft & DIY related questions and find inspiration for your next project.

Now let's see all of those amazing Craft and DIY Projects!

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With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Denim Runner

Here's the denim runner I made for our bedroom dresser. I added the pocket to hold the remotes. BTW, they still get lost.

I measured the length and width of my dresser and added extra for my hairy, bohemian fringe to hang down along the sides.

I sewed on a quick and simple pocket with some added burlap and a pretty little flower. 

This piece is so me. Denim and down to earth with a little girliness. It makes me happy to see it and tuck my remotes inside the pocket. We keep this at the rental condo on Okaloosa Island so it does double duty by helping to protect the furniture.

Beyond the basic sewing here is a little video that shows how to get your fray on . Don't forget to share and leave a comment.

With love and gratitude,

Michele















Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Funtastic Friday #231

FUNTASTIC FRIDAY #231 LINK PARTY

Interested in hosting a link party? We’re always looking for bloggers to join us as party hosts. If you’re interested, get in touch with me or one of the hosts. The party guidelines are super easy.

Meet the Funtastic Friday Party Hosts

We’d love it if you followed us on social media.

Sherry @ Olives & Okra | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Google+ | BL | SU |

Donna @ Two Chicks and A Mom | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | BL |

Heidi @ Building Our Hive | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram |

Michele @ Coastal Bohemian | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Google+ |

Kristie @ Love My Little Cottage | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Twitter |

MOST VIEWED (AND KRISTIE'S FAVORITE)

Double Chocolate Banana Bread @ Delightful E Made

HOST FAVORITES

Michele's favorite - Decoupaged Picture with Wrapping Paper @ My Hubbard Home

Heidi's favorite - Party Like It's 1776 - Free Silhouette Cut File @ The Scrap Shoppe Blog

Sherry's favorite - Healthy Breakfast Recipes To Make Ahead of Time @ Five Spot Green Living

Donna's favorite - DIY Easy Critter Corral @ TeeDiddlyDee

If you were featured, take a second and tweet.

[bctt tweet="I was featured at the #FuntasticFriday link party!" username="olivesnokra"]

If you’re linking up and joining the party, please grab a button or link back to “Olives & Okra” or one of the party hosts (copy and paste the code below the button onto your blog text tab or text widget):

If you’re a featured blogger, please grab a button to place on your blog (right click on the image and save the image to your computer):

All contributors who link up to the Funtastic Friday link party can join the Funtastic Friday group board on Pinterest. Follow me on Pinterest and leave a comment below that you would like to be added. We will also share your post on social media if sharing buttons are readily available on your post. Help grow the Funtastic Friday Link Party. Tweet about the party, please!

[bctt tweet="Add your link! The #FuntasticFriday link party is live!" username="olivesnokra"]

Disclaimer: By submitting a link to this blog link party, you are giving me permission to share and/or feature your blog post and image on social media and on my blog, Olives & Okra. All links shared will either link back to the blog hop (linky party) or to your blog.

Funtastic Friday 231 Link Party Rules

1. 1. Post as many links as you like
   2. Family friendly posts only
   3. Old posts are welcome
   4. We greatly appreciate comments.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Dollar Store Challenge Link Party Rusty Metal Art #Starfish

Welcome to Coastal Bohemian and to the Dollar Store Challenge. It's a Link Party where my crafty blogger friends and I challenge ourselves to be creative with things that we purchase from the #Dollarstore #DollarTree 

Pop on over and visit the other blogs to see what they made with a small investment.

If you love to shop for items you can use for crafts at the dollar store, then this Dollar Store Link Party is for you! Along with a group of bloggers, we're hosting a party for your dollar store craft creations. It's open for two weeks and we can't wait to see your creativity!

Meet the co-hosts of our Dollar Store Craft Link Party!

Across the Blvd | Purple Hues and Me

Coastal Bohemian | Sew Crafty Crochet

Intelligent Domestications | Cookies, Coffee, and Crafts

Using a $1.00 starfish piece I created this  piece of rusty metal art decor. Pop on over for the tutorial.

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Join the party along with the rest of us and show us  your Dollar Store ideas. Click the link below and add your post.

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With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .

Rusty Metal Art #Starfish #DollarTree

Patina Patina Patina. I love Rust. I love the rusty, old, vintage look of statues and crusty metal and if you like it too you'll be able to recreate a piece of rusty metal art. Just keep reading.

 I started with this starfish from the #dollartree and some junk and old jewelry and old metal odds and ends from around the studio. #destash 

Using a hot glue gun I get everything attached . This is really a very free style, of puzzling things      together, meaning there is no laying out of the goodies. It's glue and go and eventually everything pretty much works it's way into the art. Trust yourself to create this way. It's very freeing.

 Once everyone is stuck, I give the entire piece a coat of Gesso. This will act as a primer for my paints.

 Give the entire piece a coat of brown paint . After the piece is coated, create a little batch of brown paint mixed with some sawdust . 

Need sawdust you say? Home Depot and Lowes should have some laying around in their cutting area. Bring a container!

Use this textured paint to add a rusty faux finish to the metal in the artwork.

Next coat, is a drippy, bit of orange paint. Just add a few drops of water to create a free flowing version of your orange paint. We are wanting to create the look of how water would run down a piece and start to oxidize the metal. Now, you can get that paint on there using a a paint brush and then hit it with a spray of water to get it dripping down the starfish. 

Repeat this process with the black paint. 
Repeat the process with the verdigre aka know as aqua colored paint. 

Here's the video. 
And then it's complete. I think the #DollarTree has different shapes that you can choose from including a pineapple, so you can tweak this project to your own tastes. 


Thanks for reading along and stop by and visit more #dollarstore craft ideas by visiting 

Dollar Store Craft Link Party

With love and gratitude,

Michele

Find me partying here all week, at these link parties, with some great bloggers.

If you are in Myrtle Beach come on down and visit us at the Coastal Bohemian Studio or Follow us out on Facebook, Pinterest , Instagram, Linkedin, or Bloglovin .