make a hook out of it!!

my dear sister and brother-in-law had a great time making fun of my inadvertent decorating tendency during a recent visit by walking through the house declaring, "let's put a BIRD on it!" while picking up an item that did indeed have a bird on it.  turns out they were inspired themselves by an episode of 'portlandia':

either way, i had no idea there were so many bird things in our house.

on to other things redundant...coat hooks made from items found at your local home improvement store...we've all seen the ones made out of old doorknobs and hardware...but here's another one. it's a great way to make use of those paint brushes you left in the can of paint while you ran to stop the kids from fighting and one thing led to another and before you knew it, two hours had passed (and so had the brushes).....

ruined paintbrush hooks (the paintbrushes - not the hooks)

keeping the paint theme going - how about this idea:

it's a coat hook AND a cubbie

aren't you just inspired to do some painting this weekend now so you can have the stuff of which to make some of these for yourself?

not even kind of?