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Farmhouse Style Projects With Cricut

Project Ideas For Making "Farmhouse Style" Projects With Cricut

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Farmhouse Style Project Ideas
If you want to create "farmhouse style" projects, I recommend you purchase four things right off the bat:
Then you will want to head to your local Dollar Tree, and your local thrift stores/yard sales, and look for things you can paint.  

Thrift Store Redos - 

Before and After
Find A Step By Step Here:

Another Before & After
Find The Step By Step Here:

And A Breakfast Tray Before & After
Unfortunately, this svg is no longer free.  :-(


Lampshades


These lampshades are one of my absolute favorite things to make.
The design is mirrored, and placed inside the shade.  You do not see the design until the light is turned on.

Here's One I Made For Christmas

And the one I made quick for the guest room - it's a touch lamp, so I made it specifically for my young grandson, who would be sleeping in this room.  The frame over the bed was a gaudy gold plastic thing with a print in it.. I painted over the print, and painted the frame, then added the design, which is a family joke.  

Because,  on a dairy, farm, the cows come home every day to be milked. Or because they know where there feed is.  Basically, I promise to love you until late this afternoon, is what this says, to most farm families.  :-)

Dollar Tree Projects

These are another one of my favorite things to make! 
Dollar Tree Chargers, Some Acrylic craft paint (or spray paint)
and some vinyl.  I have made them for jut about every holiday and occasion 
Here's a step by step:

The metal pizza pans also take spray paint well - although I have not yet applied vinyl to mine to show you can example.  I plan to use that as a drink tray on our porch.


These exact soap dispensers may not be at the Dollar Tree anymore - 
but they do seem to always have soap dispensers of some sort.
I successfully spray painted some of these, and they held up well!

These stacked pumpkins are the orange foam ones from the Dollar tree.  I removed the green stems, spray painted them, then used the toothpicks that held the stems on to stack them together.

Reverse Canvas
A Reverse Canvas is when you take a canvas from the craft store, remove the canvas from the frame, paint or stain the frame, and then staple the canvas to the back.  These are really popular because they are pretty cheap, and easy, to make.  Here's a step by step:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/09/reverse-canvas-step-by-step.html


Rolled Paper Flower Wreath
This is fairly easy, and cheap to make - just a little time consuming.  I kept a basket of the cut flowers beside my chair in the living room and worked on a tv tray to roll the flowers while watching tv in the evening.  These are glued onto a Dollar tree foam wreath form.
Step By Step:

Salt Dough Ornaments
I originally made these for Easter, for on a tree that is up year round in our hallway.  But think of the possibilities..  you can make them to hang off a cabinet knob, or to hang off the corner of a reverse canvas, or to tie around the neck of a stuffed bear... maybe even around a candle? You could even make them a wineglass charms.  They are super easy, and cheap, to make.

Step By Step How To Make Salt Dough Ornaments To Decorate With VInyl

Pillows, Pillows Everywhere
Envelope Pillow Cases are the best beginner sewing project.  Super easy - just a few straight seams.    Find a step by step here:

The Lets Stay Home Pillow

This svg is no longer free, but it's still one of my favorites

I seriously have a pillow problem.  :-)
The SVG for the America design was a temporary freebie - no longer free.
Find it here - https://bit.ly/44j417y


In The Kitchen
In the kitchen I deviate from the black and white color scheme...  and I hesitate to even call these "farmhouse style" - but this IS a farm house, and the kitchen is a really integral part of any farm house... so here they are.  :-) 

Dollar Tree Cake Carrier

Decorating the Keurig

There is no pattern or instructions for this, and I often think I should find a better face...  I whipped this up quick as one of my first cricut projects.  It holds plastic grocery bags, in the laundry room.

Find A List Of Free Kitchen SVGS Here:

This is probably not "Farmhouse style" at all - but it's still one of my favorite projects of all time: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/08/decorating-our-staircase-with-book.html

The Family trees were made with cricut too - 

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From thrift store painting to menu board


When I bought this painting at the thrift store, I actually intended for it to be a sign for my porch.  But then when I was spring cleaning my kitchen, I decided it would make a great menu board..  I had primed the entire thing off white when it was meant as a sign, but that just made it easier to make it a chalkboard.  I used raft paint on the frame, a deep dark red.  When I sprayed on the chalkboard paint some of the overspray got on the frame - I rubbed it on and added a bit more black craft paint giving it that sort of crafty antiqued look.

I'm really surprised by how much my family loves this.  They all really like knowing what is for dinner each night.  Especially my husband!


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Replacing The Broken Glass on Our Patio Table -



We have horrible winds here.  One storm picked up our large patio table & smashed it sideways against the deck railing, shattering the glass top.

After looking at a couple of options, I bought a piece of plywood (they cut it to size for me even) and a remnant of linoleum from our local flooring store.

We should have sealed the plywood with an all weather paint first. 

Then we attached the linoleum with contact glue.  The entire project cost me about $35 and took minutes to complete. :-)


-Update-
This held up great for us, for years.  I replaced the chair cushions two more times before we gave the table away and switched to a picnic table here - and that was just because I was tired of recovering the chair cushions.

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https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/p/diary-of-housewife.html

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Hiding The Electrical Box



My front porch drives me nuts.  It is always dirty and dusty, it's narrow, the cement is cracking, the dogs sleep on the chairs, and often bring dead things onto the porch.  

I can't change most of that.  But that electrical box?  That I could do something about.

(the cabinet there holds all the misc sports stuff - wiffle ball, volley balls, jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, croquet set, bocci ball...)

BEFORE:
AFTER:

To hang the curtain, we drilled into the siding and placed eye bolts in, then hung the curtain from a heavy dow rod run through the eye bolts.  We get heavy winds here, so I wanted something extra sturdy.


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