3 Ridiculously Easy Summertime DIY Projects

Well guys, this is going to be a ridiculously short post. Just sharing three easy Summertime DIY projects, I think you will love. The DIYs feature three of my favorite things; spray paint, sisal rope, and hot glue. I have a few photos and even fewer instructions. The video tells the whole story much better than I can explain it.

Summer décor should always include a few seashells or, in my case, seashells all over the house. The sisal rope pot took, oh…..about 2 minutes to make. Same goes for the lamp shade adorned with sisal rope. And the picture frame you’ll see in a bit took even less time.

Remember that most projects I post can be customized to your style, in place of sisal rope, substitute ribbon, yarn, lace,  jute rope, thin belts, etc. Maybe add a flower or a piece of bling to the lampshade. Just take my ideas as a starting point and run with them.

This is how the lamp looked before the spray paint treatment. I don’t remember where I bought the lamp or how much I paid for it.

This is the frame and ditto on the frame as far as cost and where I got it.

The pretty turquoise spray paint is Rustoleum, Seaside color, my new favorite. You can see I painted the backside as well as the front of the frame. I covered the cord and the bulb area of the lamp with painter’s tape.

The black and silver frame showcases a Pensacola postcard. On a whim, I added the black ribbon to the frame. I bought the framed postcard at Alyssa’s Antiques when we lived in Florida, and I had a booth at Alyssa’s.

When I opened my first booth at Alyssa’s in 2006, her shop was in an old building in Pace, Florida on the main highway. She opened a second location in Pace before I moved, and I also had a booth there. Now she has 50,000 square feet and a variety of stores in her “campus” in Pace. If you guys are ever in the Pensacola area, you have to visit Alyssa’s. It’s amazing.

I plan to sell all three projects in my booth and I didn’t have the perfect place to display the frame so I laid it on the bed in the Orange and Turquoise Bedroom. That bedding makes me smile.

It is so easy to take a frame from blah to ahhhhh.

I could have added more sisal to the lamp shade and I also could have wrapped a bit of sisal rope around the lamp. Didn’t want to overdo it.

I love those little starfish. I and other family members picked up the shells on beach vacations. The starfish are an eBay or Amazon purchase.

Time to see the video for no reason but to get a few laughs. A bit of the video is normal speed and a lot of it is 8x speed. It’s funny when the video goes fast, and then all of a sudden, I’m moving at normal speed. I speed them up to keep you from sitting through 3 or 4 minutes of me gluing sisal on everything. The whole video is less than 4 minutes for the 3 projects. Click below to view the video…..

Easy Sisal Rope Projects

Ridiculously Easy Summertime DIY Projects

That’s it. Do you guys like the videos? They are definitely not professionally done and I just go with it as I am…paint splattered work clothes, messy hair, whatever. What do you think of the Seaside color paint? I love it.

Leave a note and have a great day, Kathy