Easter Topiary

Hi Everyone!  Sorry we have been missing for awhile!  I was not feeling well and finally feel much better. We are still waiting for Spring!  I think it is going to be awhile before we start seeing the nice weather, so we are taking matters into our own hands and bringing spring into our houses!  Are you all waiting?  Doesn't this winter feel long?  Anyways today we wanted to share a fun cute Easter Topiary.  The first thing we did was glitter some Easter eggs.  

You can use any kind of eggs. The fine glitter works great.  When you putting the glitter on try to use the same colored egg as the glitter.  We used a tooth pic to glitter them and we kept the tooth pic in the egg when we secured them to the pot.

 

For the top of the topiary we used a berry spray.  It works perfect because the berries look like little eggs!  We spray painted a regular clay pot cream.  Then used a sponge to add some green. We used three different sizes of eggs.

This is a cute, easy, inexpensive way to make a Easter decoration!  You can decorate the pot in different ways.  We used just the eggs on one of the topiaries. On another we put greenery, flowers, eggs, and some berries.  These are just a couple different ways you can create a different look!  Hope you all have a wonderful week, thanks for stopping by!

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Liebster Award

Hi Everyone!  We were very honored when Melinda at The Refeathered Roost passed her Liebster Award along to Rusty Heart Designs.  Liebster, in German, means endearing, valued, and lovely. The award acknowledges up and coming bloggers for outstanding accomplishments within design that is presented on their blog.

Here are the rules for accepting the award:

1. Each blogger should post 11 random facts about
themselves.
2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you, and then
create 11 new questions for the chosen bloggers.
3. Choose 11 new bloggers (with less than 200 followers) to pass the award to and link them in your post.
4. Go back to their page and tell them about the award.
5. No tag backs.

Here are the questions that Melinda asked about us:

1. What is your favorite room in your home?

My mom and I both love her Sunroom. It is so bright with all the windows, and natural light just puts us in a good mood. 

2. If you could live in any home that is in a television program, movie or book, which house would you choose. We both love the house in The Notebook. The Home Alone house has always been a favorite too!

3. What is the item that you dream of bringing home but it's just too dad-gum expensive? Pottery barn furniture

4. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Both night owls! In fact, we can get online at night and surf the internet and read blogs. Then we email or message each other our finds!

5. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas! There is nothing like it for us. We wait for it every year!

6. Do you think I look fat in this? And if you do, why in the world wouldn't you just lie to me? JUST KIDDING!
6. One piece or two piece bathing suit? I'm not kidding. Right now neither! haha

7. What is the next project you are considering for your home? A Dining Room makover! My mom would love to refinish her furniture, change up the walls (that are now wallpapered) and put down wood floors instead of the teal green carpeting she's had to live with for too many years! haha!

8. Are you an extrovert or an introvert? (Sorry...I had to put one question in here concerning personality types.) Both haha! Of course everyone likes spending time by themselves but also we love meeting and talking with new people at our shop.

9. What feeling do you hope your home evokes when visitors enter? We always want our homes to be warm and inviting. We love the cozy feel!

10. Where is the most interesting place you have ever visited? Denise has been to Italy, and I would love to go one day.

11. What is the greatest joy you find in blogging? Meeting new people and getting inspiration for new projects in our houses!

We hope you will visit and check out the blogs we have chosen to pass The Liebster Award to...and here they are:

Nalle's House

Laurie's Little Bits of Creativity

Simply Me (Designs by Gee)

Gold Country Cottage

Cathy's Craft Corner

Brooks Blonde Reality

Made to Love

MT-Tails

Corner of Plaid and Paisleys

Lobster Meets Peach

Tartan Tastes in Texas

Congratulations to you all! We chose these blogs because we find inspiration in them, we enjoy visiting their pages, and we can't wait to see their next post.  Please email us if you have any questions: therustyheart@yahoo.com

Questions we have for you!

1. What do you do to get decorating inspiration?
2. What are your favorite decor magazines?
3. What are your favorite stores to buy pieces?
4. Do you like to cook? and if so, what's your favorite dish?
5. What seasons fall, spring, winter, or summer, do you enjoy decorating for?
6. Do you like outdoor decorating or gardening at all?
7. Is there a blog that you visit often that gives you inspiration?
8. Do you have a favorite color, and does it show in your home?
9. Do you have any pets?
10. Do you like to go out or stay in on a Friday night?
11. What room do you re-do the most often?

Thank you Melinda for considering us! :)

Burlap Tutorial

Hi Everyone, we hope you are all having a great weekend!  It is still snowing here!  Not too much but enough to make spring feel very far away.  We have received a couple emails from our last post, asking how we made covered soap bars in burlap and made bows for a rose topiary.  You can find the post for the Burlap soap here and the Rose Topiary here.  So today we wanted to do a tutorial on how to make them!

First the Burlap Soap Bars

You will need soap bars, scissors, your choice of ribbon, and burlap.  You don't need wire to make the burlap covered soap (it is for the next part).

Cut the burlap in a square to cover the soap, the burlap should be a couple inches larger than the soap bar on each side.

Next stand the soap up and pull all corners around the soap.

The take your hand around the top of the soap and squeeze so you can tie the ribbon on. Squeeze tight!

We used a burlap ribbon, jute rope would look nice with these too!

Tie your bow at the top and you are done!  You can display these in different ways. We showed it here on a kitchen counter with a soap dispenser, some greens, and artichokes.

Or the picture below we showed it in a metal box in the powder room. You can display them in a basket, bowl, or anything you can think of.  Be creative!

Making the Bows for the Rose Topiary(pictured above):

Any type of ribbon will work to make these, we used a thin burlap ribbon.  

First make a loop and pinch the middle.

Then make two more loop still pinching the middle.

Where you were pinching the middle take a piece of wire and tie around the bow.  Now you have a three loop bow!  Keep the bow tails a little longer so they can flow nice on the topiary.

Next take the bow and put all loops on one side along with the bow tails.

Then you can hot glue it as seen above at the bottom of the topiary near the stem.  I put three bows on the bottom of this topiary!

Don't forget everyone you can be so creative here!  This is a great way to add something different to an existing topiary too!  We hope this helps and have fun creating!

We also want to thank Melinda at The Refeathered Roost for passing on the Leibster Award which honors new bloggers.  We are so excited and are working on our post! Thanks so much Melinda! 

Powder Room Reveal

  Hi Everyone!  Well today I wanted to share my Powder Room remodel!  My husband and I just came the the end of a very large project.  We re-did our kitchen, family room, and powder room all at the same time.  We did all of the work ourselves.  It took about 10 months and there is a few things that still need done.  In the powder room I really wanted to do something different and put some color in the room.  I usually paint the walls neutral colors and I am glad I went with this color I love it!  Here are some before pictures.  

The wall paper was stuck on the walls so good.  It was torture taking it off!  I used a steamer and a paint scraper.

My whole house had honey oak trim around all doors, the windows, and the floor trim.  I changed all of it to an off white color.  We still have a few rooms to do upstairs, but we finally got the whole downstairs done!

We also ripped out the linoleum floors.  This was throughout the entire kitchen and bathroom, so glad to get rid of that!

I bought this shelf online a couple months ago. I still might add a picture to the wall but I haven't found anything I like yet.

I couldn't find a small picture with the right colors so I found this flower online and printed it out!  The frame is also from the Dollar store.

I got the blue washcloths at home goods, and just used them to add some color.  I also wrapped some soap in burlap to break up the colors.  The topiary I made from Dollar tree items!  You can find the post on how to make this rose topiary here.

I placed the soap petals from the dollar store around and filled some glass vases with bath salts.

I absolutely love this topiary!  I am going to try to make a couple more and see if I can find some different colors!  I think it is perfect for a bathroom.

Here are the before and after pics...

Thanks so much everyone for stopping by!  We have been busy at the shop trying to get new items made and to clean and organize everything there.  Have great week! :)

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Rose Topiary

Hi Everyone!  Hope you all had a great Monday.  We really enjoyed the weather the last couple days in the 50s! It really feel like spring is finally coming!  So the other day Denise and I were at the dollar store and saw these really cute roses.  They come in a pack of 9 and are soap petals.  I was excited because of the color, my husband and I recently re-did our powder room and I have been having a hard time finding items to decorate with.  So Denise suggested to try to make a topiary out of these roses. I said Ok!  It was really easy and I love the way it turned out! I used about 6 boxes. I was going to make two but ran out of roses!  I will have to get more.  

 Some spots will have holes where you can clearly see the styrofoam underneath.  What you can do is take a rose and open the pedals a little and the center will come out as a smaller rose.  You can use these to fill the holes.

 For the stem I used 3 shish kabob skewers!  You could always use a dowel rod I just didn't have any at home.  I wrapped them in a shinny white ribbon, but I changed my mind and changed it to a burlap ribbon.  The white was a little too dressy for me.

I also took the burlap ribbon and made a couple bows and glued them on the bottom of the topiary to finish it off!

I really was a very easy project and I love the way it turned out, and the bathroom smells great!  I will also be sharing the reveal of our powder room!  Stay tuned, thanks everyone for stopping by! :)

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