Etsy Love - 5 Favorite Finds

While doing some internet window shopping, I thought I'd share some treasures I came across on Etsy. Can I have it all now, please?!

These little critters would fit in perfectly in my little guy's nursery! Get these soft, hand-stitched toys and other adorable creatures from Woodland Tale.

Perfect for your New Year's Eve gathering, get these fab letterpress coasters from Dinglewood Design & Press.

Who doesn't love playing with washi tape?? Angie Hearts Jared has this polka dot pattern tape and other cute party accessories and crafts!

This is perfection. It Must be Nice to be a Bird makes amazing necklaces and pins! I need all of them.

In the market for a new iphone case? It doesn't get much better than this handmade real natural pressed flower case made by Clear Glasss.

Style Your Candles

I still have tons of votive candles left over from my wedding that was almost two years ago. They've just been sitting in a big box, collecting dust, in the laundry room this whole time. So, the other day, I decided to take some of them out and actually use them! However, unless you have twenty or thirty of them lit and scattered around in a dimly lit room, they look kind of bland. This sparked a little idea... Washi tape, of course! As I'm sure most of you know, it's such a perfect and inexpensive way to stylize pretty much anything! 

For this little project, I used washi tape sheets and just cut them to size before wrapping them around the candles. The decorating possibilities are endless!

Have you decorated anything with washi tape lately?

DIY Cute Striped Vases

When I made these vases, I knew I should've used spray paint instead of acrylic paint, 

but I decided to go ahead and give acrylic a try anyway.... Mostly because it was 90+ 

degrees outside and I didn't want to sit out there and paint these things. So... My advice

is to use spray paint because it will be faster and it won't try to peel when you pull off the

tape like the acrylic tried to do. I used a razor to straighten up the edges though, so it was fine.

Trial and error, y'all.

What you'll need:

Sealant (matte or gloss)

Spray paint (or acrylic if it's a thousand degrees outside)

Painters tape

Cylinder vases