Patches of Love and Bunt Cake Flowers

There have been a few projects I've been meaning to complete around the apartment for quite some time and I finally sat down to finish. Little things can make a day and small accomplishments can brighten a week.

Most of the time I don't mind apartment living but there are a few things could do without -- like sharing washers and dryers and needed quarters for laundry. So I am super thankful for have family that is willing to let us wash our clothes at their homes. But...as I was unloading some pillowcases full of jeans and sweatshirts, I ripped holes in both of my new pillowcases. Sad. Day. But a fabric disaster is really an opportunity for craftiness in disguise!!

This weekend I hand sewed red felt hearts -- patches of love -- onto my ripped pillowcases. Not only are they repaired, they are cuter than ever and I love them even more!!

It is these small projects that make a room more personal and fun...always something new to discover. An easy project to complete in under an hour....no holes or rips required!

Happy repairing and personalizing!

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I have also been trying to collect bundt cake pans for a couple of months. I've been finding them at garage sales and Goodwill -- wherever I can. And finally I have enough to mount on the wall in my kitchen.

I don't make bundt cakes but I love how they look -- much like flowers. And it is the perfectly cute and cheap addition to my kitchen decor!

I have discovered in the last few months and weeks that it is these simple, small changes that really make an impersonal apartment a home, and a bored homemaker happy! I love finding surprisingly fun uses for random things found at thrift stores and in the back of closets.

Happy re-purposing!