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I recently received this bracelet and

I just love Love LOVE LOVE LOVE it-

I got it from Brag About It.

She is one of my Sponsors and I have to tell you, you would have thought she had known me for years.

She got every detail perfect.

She covered everything–it is just perfect. I could not have made it more perfect myself.

She did each of the kids names with their birth stone and then added another brag for their “nick name”–because all of our kiddos name start with G, we call them the G-Force and each one is G1, G2, G3,&  G4. So they each had G1,…etc by their name.  Love it

I just LOVE the chunky bracelet.  It is so perfect.

Not only does it have the Mother brag and the heart but a puffy heart too.

Then in the middle she has My hubby and my names together

with each of our birth stones

then a little P brag for our last name and

the G-Force brag.

I HIGHLY recommend working with Melissa from Brag About It.  She has an etsy store so go check it out.  My bracelet was a custom piece, so if you don’t see exactly what you want, she can custom make something PERFECT–

She was so wonderful to work with–Thanks a million Melissa-I huge Puffy heart love my bracelet.

NOW for my PB KNOCK OFF VASE

I am sure many of you have some of these ugly floral vases:

I took the ugly vase and some Mod Podge

And some tissue paper

I doesn’t matter what color.

I coated the glass with Mod Podge and covered it in tissue paper,

let it dry then add another layer.

Make sure you wrap around the top and down into the vase an inch or 2.

I did 4 or 5 layers.

Doesn’t it looked so lovely?

Now before you click off your screen and wonder WHY I was invited, please stay with me a few more minutes.

I promise you will not recognize this when we are done.

Once it was all dry I painted over the tissue paper with khaki craft paint.

Now we are getting somewhere.

I had seen some pieces at Pottery Barn that I really liked. My vase wasn’t shaped the same but I knew I could give it that over all look.

I love the white wash on these:

If you look closely at the one with the yellow flowers, it has that crackled texture.

So I began white washing it.

I then added some crackle to it

I am really loving how this is coming out

I went back in with a paper towel and some of the kahki paint and rubbed it in a few areas.

In other areas I dry brushed some on, in different areas –to give it some depth.

So what do you think?

I hope you love it as much as I do and rather than pitching that ugly vase, next time look at that vase and imagine what you could make it look like.

I don’t think it looks like glass at all.

I just love how it came out.

I think it would be perfect with some beautiful dried Hydrangeas.

I just have to find someone who will send me some. We don’t have Hydrangeas down here in Florida.

Here are some other fun projects I have done:

Here’s another PB knock off that I did-My PB lamp-I made this lampshade and then decided it wasn’t my style so now I want to do a knock off of a PB lampshade I found that I like so much better.

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