Clocks From Vintage Old Antique and DIY

                                       Mosaic Instructable DIY Clock

                               Wall Clock Art From Paper Scraps

                              Photo Frame Full Wall Clock DIY

                                Pretty Decorative Roses Clock

                               Doily DIY Wall Clock Handmade

                               Dinner Plate DIY Wall Clock

Clocks From Vintage Old Antique and DIY

Clocks of all shapes, forms, sizes, colors, textures, materials, etc. How many does a person have of them? Do you have a clock for each room in the home. Is maybe your clock a vintage clock, antique clock, a family heirloom, or maybe it is a diy craft clock done by you or by someone else. 

I never really paid attention to how many kinds of clocks there actually are. All the colors, the shapes, the sizes, and how they are made. When you are lounging sometime check with Pinterest, Google, Bing, Yahoo, don't forget your handmade sites like Etsy, or however you wish to search. You will see all kinds of sizes, full wall sizes, mid sizes, desktop sizes, etc. You will see them made from all different materials that consist of wheel rims, buttons, picture frames, plastic spoons, wood, ceramic, plates, personal photos, mosaic, and there is sooo many ways to mention. It becomes an endless list. 

Have a look with some that were shared above, and if you want more ideas check with websites for stores, look at pinterest, and make sure to check with your search engines as well. When you get to most of the places in searches if you click on the images tab you will see from there the kinds that many others have shared. 

So, how many clocks do you have in your home? Do you have one in each room, in the hallways, on your stair landings, in the basement, and please know you are welcome to share with us here too. 

Thanks for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams today, and hope to see you again soon. Enjoy your new founded clocks, and happy searches for more. 

Patina Worn Aged Style Look Painted DIY

                       How to Give Aged Patina Look Style

                   
                       Worn Aged Patina Look Style

                
                        DIY Worn Aged Patina Style Look Painted

Patina Worn Aged Style Look Painted DIY

Patina is a very interesting look of being worn, of being aged, and comes on many kinds of surfaces with many techniques. Many times you will see it with a worn weathered look, maybe forms of metal that have that outdated worn look from time, colored and rusty patina, and most frequently just that old worn time look. This is a look that many of us like to incorporate into our homes with different pieces, and over time have found that there are techniques for us to achieve this same look ourselves. 

There are many times that we can achieve this look with a little bit of sanding, and adding some different techniques of painting. When you layer like 2 to 3 shades of color in similar shades you can create a depth, and wonderful character for the piece.  Maybe using a sponge, or a brush and some layering we can also create this same look with another twist to it. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of paint to get the look that you would like.

Who would have guessed that some of this old worn stuff would later be treasured! Items that have texture, patina, and vintage character is a look that many of us have added to our homes over time, and a look to this day that is still much sought after too.

I adore pieces from another time without the new shiny look. Who needs the new items from factory. It's about balancing, and paying respect to the old with maybe some uneven textures, interesting vintage antiques, collectibles, and some aged items over time.  

So, if you admire that old worn look think about using the look for patina. Thanks for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon. 

LilacsNDreams Blog and Website

Welcome to LilacsNDreams everyone! Glad you found me, and that you are back to visit too.

Had a great weekend with our son visiting. Before I took him back to base we were able to spend a couple of days with a dear friend of mine. Never enough time to do it all, right? Enjoyed it while we could.

Got home, and was ready to relax, and of course get on the computer. That's all the further I got. Computer having some issue, and once I feel better i will need to take it for some help. Nothing serious I am sure, but won't let me fix it. I think it's wanting attention from someone else....lol.

So, wish me luck, and bear with me. Just maybe I can get my son's laptop figured out, and use that while I am waiting. I am not a computer techie, and the laptop is foreign to me. Technology, right?

Thanks for sharing some time with LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon.

Fruit and Cinnamon Stick Candle Holders DIY

                                          Fruitful Candle Holders DIY

                                 Cinnamon Stick Candle Holders DIY

Fruit and Cinnamon Stick Candle Holders DIY

It's Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and soon Christmas. Many of us like to have fun with our home decors, and decorating during this time. Some of us will store buy things to fill our homes, and then there are many of us who wish to be crafty with do it yourself projects.

During this time of year, and with the season we see more emphasis with candle holders. Oh, don't take me wrong these are popular all year long with festivities, weddings, celebrations, and etc. During this time of year we just happen to see a few more of them with all the sweet, and yummy smells that we can get from them. 

Above I have shared a couple of pictures found to demonstrate a little bit of what I would like to share. These are sure to get some of them creative juices going with some wonderful ideas for our homes. If you like the smells of fruits, lemons, limes, artichokes, and etc this is a fun project to do. Really simple for any of us to do as well. Take your favorite fruit, or with Halloween use some small mini pumpkins and ghords. Make sure to get some tea light candles for this, or you could use a little bigger candle too. Cut a hole into the fruit, or vegetable the size of the tea light candle which is commonly used. You can cut a little bigger for just a little bit bigger candle, or maybe a hole the size to hold a taper candle too. Then put the candles in, and light them up! Neat, cute, and wonderfully smelling too. 

Another idea you will see from above is using some cinnamon sticks. Hmm...smell those already! Perfect for this time of year too. You can either glue the cinnamon sticks to the candle, add some twine, and other embellishments too. You could also glue the cinnamon sticks to a candle holder, and then insert a candle. An idea for those who like cinnamon and apples is to maybe glue the sticks to an apple that has had the center cut from it, and then add a tea light candle to that. 

Endless possibilities, inexpensive, and what fun this would be too! Hope this helps with some ideas for this upcoming season, and the holidays. 

Thanks for sharing some time with LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon. Have fun crafting, and decorating with your decor. Don't forget to share some ideas with us as well. 

Websites Blogs Venues Market Places For Online Sales

 Website, Blogs, Venues, Market Places For Online Sales

Hi! Welcome to LilacsNDreams Everyone! Ever get into one of those funks that you know you want to make a change, not sure how much change you want, and if you do change things what is maybe the best way for you to go? I, like many others, do Online Sales. Not only do I deal with different venues/platforms, but I also like some of the social networking with it too. 

I use Etsy, Ecrater, Artfire, and sometimes Ebay too. With changes that keep happening with different places, the rules, how they do things, the expenses, how visible you are in searches, and of course dealing with the search engine changes too I often wonder if I am better doing things on my own. If not completely on my own, what is it I should do? What is the equation so to speak that one should follow?

Like many others over time I have signed up with different platforms to sell with. Some have done well for me, and some is like you are non existing. Many of them take work with titles, descriptions, keywords, links, and working with SEO. Seems like you do what you know to do, what you are told to do, and then something changes. When those changes happen there go your views, the traffic gets lower, and along with that comes low sales also. So, how does one get through this?

Many of us do have, or wish to have our own websites. I know those take a lot of work, and can become spendy as well. You do more work with them with SEO, and trying to place in search engine searches than you do with some of the platforms already set up by different places. Then, if you use the free websites like weebly you can hear good, and bad about them as well. Some have websites with a blog included. There are some that use wordpress, and you often hear good about that too. For me wordpress is good I understand, but it is also kind of complicating to me. I have also seen some use blogger blog as their site, and do sales with them too.

Often people will use their blogs, show their merchandise they are offering with links back to where you can buy them. Doing this you avoid having to deal with a shopping cart on your site. At least for a little while till you build more, and move on. The same is with some of the social networks too. The popular one is Facebook of course. That is one place I have not been the most active with. Some of the social networks allow you to show your goods with the links back to the shops you have them in, or you can offer to sell right from there. One place that has been doing this, and is growing is The Vintage Village where they have also been working with another addition called Vintage Rising. Vintage Village is for those dealing with vintage, and antiques while Vintage Rising is for items that are not quite vintage, crafts, handmade, supplies, and things like that.

So, what do you think a person should do? If you deal with Online Sales what is it that you do for yourself, your business, your brand that you have found to work? I have come to kind of a stand still myself, and have been thinking things through more than I have working with my shops. I have more pieces to list, have taken pictures, have revised the pictures, etc, and etc....I have things sitting out to work on as well making some new pieces too. Unfortunately, I am being slow with it all lately. 

Would love to hear from others on what they are doing, what they have found to work for them, some ideas, some suggestions, and a lil bit of this and that. 

Thanks so much for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams. It is Wednesday, and a Happy Hump Day to all! Enjoy, and see you again soon. 

Fall Home Decor Done Simple Not Complicated

                         Easy Fall Decorations Ideas Inspiration

                      DIY Fall Home Decor

                     Fall Interior Decorating Made Simple

Fall Home Decor Done Simple Not Complicated

Yes, it's Fall Autumn time, and was curious is everyone is ready for it? Have you decorated for this changing season of leaves, pumpkins, halloween, and cooler weather? So, if you decorate for fall do you decorate a lot, do things outside, inside the home, or do you make it simple?

Fall decor, or any home decor really does not have to be complicated. You can create warm, and inspired items with just a few things really. A simple candle in a bowl surrounded with some chestnuts, and berries sometimes is enough. So lovely, and so adorable too. Perfect time to be thrift store shopping for some electic bowls, some fall colors, leaves, vines, and etc. 

I have not done much for fall myself, or for Halloween....which I generally do. I am thinking ahead for Christmas because that is the one time I decorate everywhere. In the home, the bedrooms, the bathrooms, and of course outside too. Not too much, but just a little bit here and there. I am wanting to change things a bit this year, do it simple, a little bit of old with some of the upcycled pieces that I have done too. What fun don't you think?

So, how have you decorated so far this season? Were you able to do anything, find some inspiring ideas, or maybe you are waiting for the next following season. Whatever you have decided I hope you are having fun with it, and finding some inspiring ways to help you with your decor.

Thanks so much for sharing your time at LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon. Have fun with your fall home decor, and may you enjoy all your decorating with your homes. Hey, it's always fun with help others who need it too. Till the next time everyone. Toodles . . . . . . 

Business Cards From Vistaprint, Moo, DIY

Business Cards From Vistaprint, Moo, DIY, and many more companies out there. 

Hope everyone has had a great week so far. A topic that is often brought up with many forums is the question Where do you get your business cards from. Everyone has different tastes, different views, different preferences, and places that they prefer to order from. 

There are many companies out there that you can use online, or maybe you have someone local you can give your business to as well. Some enjoy making their own business cards, the do it yourself creative person. A popular one to use is vistaprint, and they always seem to be running some sort of special to use as well. I know with Etsy there are some there who prefer moo.com. I have seen iPrint mentioned, zazzle, 123print, and there are truly many options out there to use. 

I generally use vistaprint.com. I use to make some of my own cards, and have tried a couple of others, but I have come back to vistaprint, and that is who I have used for quite some time now. With my cards I put my name on them, that I am the owner, I share my business email address, show my sites I like to direct everyone to, and I use a tag line as well. I also have something printed on the back saying thank you, and I repeat my tag line as well. On the back is where I will sign my name, and I share the online address of the shop they bought from as well. 

So, who do you use for your business cards? What do you have printed on them? Would be great to hear some ideas from others, and their experiences as well. 

Thanks for sharing your time with LilacsNDreams, and hope to see you again soon everyone. Have a wonderful day!