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Old 04-12-2010, 03:00 AM
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Default Imagination Creations

There are thousands of projects that you can do to decorate your home with out it breaking your bank.

Most shoestring decorations are a lot of fun to get the kids to help out with and they are also extremely creative in the things that they create as well.

Cardboard photo frames are great to make with the family, and each person can decorate their photo frame to match their rooms or you can ask each person to decorate a frame for a specific room of the house and see what they come up with.

Of course there are also decorations using grape vines to make swags, decorations made from pine cones. There is just so many things that a person can create with out the use of an entire bank account.

All it takes is a bit of an imagination, a few extra materials, and some time. That is all it really takes to make some great things for a home.

So take the time this summer to gather the family up and sit down to share a few laughs along with some great new decorations for the home.
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Old 04-12-2010, 03:46 PM
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I agree with you completely. And I also think that decorations made from nature are the prettiest anyhow.

You can take a walk along the river or through the woods and find enough stuff to do your whole house and it can be beautiful. Best of all-- it's free!
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Old 04-13-2010, 05:46 PM
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You can decorate your entire home with things from the beach and this is the time of year to go and get them.If you go right ofter a storm you can find all kinds of interesting and different things laying on the shore.

I added a box top to my end table and put a piece of glass in the top and filled it with sand and shells and bones that I found laying on the shore at the beach.I stenciled see shells and stuff on my bathroom walls along with painting the whole wall ocean blue.

Now my bathroom feels like you are under the ocean water and looking at the different things on the ocean floor.I have had a lot of compliments on my bathroom and that is where I go to relax and take a hot bubble bath.
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Old 04-14-2010, 01:59 AM
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I used to have my bathroom done in an ocean theme too. I had my walls painted an ocean blue with a darker blue trim color and I had ocean border with fish and stuff on it. I also had found these ocean themed vinyl stickers for the walls. They were really pretty. I even bought a blue trash can and painted fish, seaweed, sand dollars and a treasure's chest on it. It turned out really nice.

I also had real shells and driftwood and things too. The whole effect was really nice.
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