Homemade Decor

I have had a little vision for these plain silver buckets that I got at a Garage Sale last summer for a dollar. Today, I just decided to bring them to life with creativity! Plus, anything with Burlap and fabric is cute right? I am loving using my sewing machine more lately. I made Jayna curtains for her room and they turned out so lovely, and I was proud of myself because I had never sewn anything bigger than hair bows since like grade 11! I was also stoked because I got to use my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine to cut out the layered flowers. I have been wanting to try that, and now I have! Btw, the Silhouette Cameo is so amazing, and I love it so much! I bought it with some of the money I made in my latest Craft Fair, which seemed very fitting to me! Today, I had a little helper. Jayna likes pins for some weird reason. Side story: When she was about 13 months old, she snuck into our room where I had a cowl I had knitted on the floor. I was "blocking" it and had pinned it to a towel to let it dry. We had some friends over and after a minute or two we were like " Where is Jayna?" Andrew opened our bedroom door to find her by the cowl with pins hanging out her mouth and holding some in her hands. His intense side came out full force, and I didn't hear the end of that for weeks! "How could you leave PINS on the floor!?" He swore that Jayna had swallowed one of them and it was lodged somewhere in her tiny body about to cause some major problem that we couldn't see from the outside. Personally, I knew she didn't swallow any, she just was curious to what they felt like. But needless to say, that was the last time I blocked a cowl with pins in it on the floor. (Blocking a knitted piece is when you soak it in this special liquid with water and then pin it to a towel in the way you want it to be, so it stretches it a bit and lets it dry into the shape you want.) Anyways, she still likes pins, and if she can get her hands on one from my etsy table she will. But today, she was my little helper! I got her to hand me the pins so I could stitch materials into place....

Then she took each pin out for me as I sewed along and put them to the side of the sewing machine...

She also helped me with the laundry today and putting the soap in the dish washer. I love including her, and I know she loves it too. Here are the finished products:

I had fun, and now I have crafty little bucket to store some of my etsy stuff. I actually like the simple one in the middle the best, but the others are fun too.