Turn your curling iron into a wand!

So I found this tutorial here for how to turn your regular curling iron into a wand curling iron. In case you don't know what that is, it's when you basically have a normal curling iron just without the clamp part. You take your hair and wrap it around the curling iron instead of twisting the curling iron. It doesn't sound like it would make that big of a difference, but I'm here to tell you it does!

Here is the tutorial to turn your regular curling iron into a wand:

It's super easy.

Here is a picture of my hair when I used to curl it using my original curling iron. It was taken only a couple hours after I was done curling it.

It's not so great, huh?

Well, this is what my hair looked like this past weekend 12 hours after I curled it with my 'wand'.

It looks so much better, right? I hope this was helpful to you! If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below!

Striped Wall

I have another paint project for you guys! We painted our bedroom this time. We decided to go for stripes.

You should first paint your 'background color'. We used the color of our other 3 walls as the top, middle, and bottom stripes, making it our 'background color'. Then, we measured our wall, and drew out the lines. We then taped everything off.



We painted one color, waited for it to dry, taped off the other stripe, and then painted our third color.



Show me your paint projects in the comments! I need new ideas for the rest of my new home.

Mother's Day Gift Basket

Alright everyone, I know that Mother's Day is long over, but this can be used for any holiday or birthday. I have one of those mothers that has everything. She wants for nothing and is incredibly hard to buy for! So what did I do? I made a relaxing gift basket. I decided to just go to Target, find a basket, and go from there. This is what I came up with:





Basket $7
Food Network Magazine $4
Wine $7
Candle $5
Candy $4
Magnetic Note Pad $1
Total $28

I made this basket personalized to my mom. She loves finding new recipes. She loves drinking wine (I did have to call my sister to find out what kind she likes though). She loves sugar free candy. What are some things that you would put in your gift basket?

Argyle Bathroom

Alright guys! I'm super excited to finally show you something that we've done in our home. Today, we're going to start with the basement bathroom. We painted it when we painted the rest of the basement. Here's what the wall looked like before:



Before we bought our house, I found this on pinterest (of course). I NEEDED to put something similar in my house. At first, I didn't know where, but I eventually found a spot. The basement. Some people may think "really? the basement?" but you have to understand our basement. It is basically a HUGE living room with a half bath. This is the place that we're going to spend most of our time.

Ok, so the first thing I did was make a plan. You'll have to take measurements of your room and plan accordingly. My plan looked like this:



We painted the bathroom the same color as the rest of the basement. Then, we added the diamonds of the argyle. I would say the worst part of this whole thing is the taping. All of your measurements need to be exact! Here, I taped off the lines.



Once I painted those lines and took off the tape, we finally had our finished project! I love it!



Share your painting projects in the comments below! I want to see what you've done. I love seeing other people's ideas. Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for more projects!