I'm so tricky!

I had a little decorative breakthrough the other day, which I'm quite pleased with. Below, you see a picture of two glass containers with liquid in them. When I asked Dan what he thought was in them, he said oil and vinegar (note: the liquid in these look a little lighter than in real life). What's really in them? WATER! with dye! I'm so tricky! I bought the taller one from Joannes the other day. It's only a dollar, but I had a ton of half off coupons, so I got it for 50 cents. The other one I got in Italy. I wanted to put them on the counter, but they look pretty plain just empty. I didn't want to put oil or vinegar in them, because it would just go bad, being in the sunlight all day. So, I was thinking about it and it just came to me to put dyed water. I know I'm probably not the first person to think about this, but I was pretty proud of my own personal ingenuity here. :) I just had to play around a bit with drops and I think I got pretty close. I want the red to be darker, but I didn't want to keep wasting water (we are in a drought and all). I'm thinking of maybe putting stuff in them, like spice leaves or stuff like that, but I don't know if I can make it look good. I know it's silly, but every time I see them, I smile and kind of pat myself on the back for thinking of this. Oh, I get too excited about decorating sometimes.

My next find at Joannes are these little wooden things. They are super cheap and aren't the best quality, but if you don't look too close, they look good! I'm going to put them in this frame and hang it in my kitchen. I'm going to paint the frame either black, wine red or olive green, I haven't decided yet. I'll probably put black paper for the background. I was so excited when I found these. They were 59 cents each, but they had a buy 2 get one free. I bought the frame for 25 cents at a garage sale a few months ago.

I'm going to put it here.

I also wanted to share probably the most awesome decorating blog I've ever seen!!!! This lady is SO incredibly talented. I spent so much time just pouring over her posts. I love her style, it's exactly what I'm going for. There are a few other decorating blogs I follow, but sometimes they're not quite my style. Here is her blog. I just found it yesterday and I'm already so in awe of her. thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com She has awesome ideas of how to decorate for cheap or do it yourself projects. Plus, she's funny. Just reading her posts makes me want to decorate my house even more and get things the way I want them. I know it will still be a while, but now I'm feeling more antsy about it. :) I hope you all enjoy it!