Oh, the plans I have!!

I have a few projects I'm planning to tackle in the next few weeks.  Most of them are small and are more decorative than big, furniture creations or redos.  Most are from blogs or sites I've seen elsewhere, or interesting pictures I've seen on Pinterest that I'm either gonna find the original post or try and do it all myself.

So what are these plans, you ask??  Well, I have sooo many.

The first one I plan to tackle is this DIY string heart I've found online at Green Wedding Shoes.  It's pretty simple, and can be done with a huge variety of pictures.  I'm torn between the heart or maybe a star.  Maybe both?? 

I'm also thinking of seeing if maybe I can write a few happy words or maybe a short poem using this technique and put it up.  I'm hoping to do that next week, so you'll see that up soon.

Another thing I want to get in my room, which is even simpler, is this necklace holder.  I'm currently using something that's meant to hold cutlery, and while it does its job, it suffered an unfixable break when I moved back home.  So I found this picture on Pinterest, which appears to come from a site called The Frisky, which apparently they got from a site called A Full Measure of Happiness.  It's basically a towel holder and some shower curtain hooks, and each necklace is put on each hook.  It's pretty ingenious!!  I'm excited for this one.  I hate it when necklaces get all twisty together.  HATE IT.  Hopefully this will work out nicely and I can sort them all out.  And then I'll just have to find something for all my bracelets!!

The big one I want to make is a fabric headboard for my bed.  I have a fairly boring Ikea bed, and while it serves its purpose, it's boring.  So I really, really, really want to make a headboard.  Really.  I'm hoping to make the one pictured here, which I found on Pinterest, and came from Better Homes and Gardens.

I'm not sure if I can stress just how much I want to make a headboard.  I love the one pictured here, mainly because I want to make it so if I want to change it, I can.  Also, currently my bed is under a window, but it may not be that way forever (since I plan to move before the end of the year).  So if I make this one, I can hopefully make the headboard a little taller once I move and it's against a wall somewhere.  I also want to add a bookshelf headboard around it once the window isn't in the way.  But I won't get into that for a while!!

I also really want to make my own duvet cover and maybe pillowcases or throw pillows.  I'm also hoping to organize my closet, which is currently a cluttered mess.  I'm thinking of making pretty boxes to sort everything that's on the closet shelf.  I also want to organize all my writing and other papers I've got laying around.  I'll come up with something for that.

Of course, I'd also love to organize the kitchen.  I want to make a nice shelf to organize all my cookbooks and some sort of box or filing system for all the random recipes I have.  I want to come up with some sort of system, kinda like a master index, so that I can look up in one book and find out exactly which book or file I can find the recipe in.

So those are the plans for now.  I'm also new at making my own stuff, so I'm learning as I go.  I'm not a stranger to tools or anything, but I wouldn't say I'm a pro.  So hopefully we can learn together!!