DIY – Elisabeth Johnson

Posted on February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 by BeautyBlondie

33 Date night ideas at home {That are cheap and fun}

When it comes to Valentine’s day, Brandon and I would much rather stay home than go out. Don’t get me wrong, we love going out on dates, just not on Valentine’s Day. The restaurants are always packed, usually extremely loud and you have to call ahead, way in advance, to book reservations.

It is so much more relaxing and fun to come up with something to do at home! That way we can go out another time where it will be a lot less busy.

So this year I wanted to come up with fun ideas that Brandon and I will be able to do at home after Baby Johnson arrives! So here they are, 33 date night ideas at home that are cheap and fun!
The first thing that you will need to do is pick out the paper patterns that you want to print your date night ideas on. Get your Free Printable for your Date Night Ideas here!

Play a Board Game
Together, Video Record the Story of How You Met & Fell in Love
Cook a Late Night Dinner Together
Rent a Red Box Movie
Write a Prayer List & Pray Together
Make Smoothies or Milkshakes
Share 5 Goals Over a Late Night Snack
Do a Puzzle Together
Play a Card Game
Have a Chip & Dip Night Add Conversation
Give Each Other a Foot Rub
Watch a Home Video Together
Write a Story Together – Mad Libs Style
Make a Dessert Together
Read Something Together
Write Your Bucket List and Share
Make Desert and Watch His Favorite Movie
Make Popcorn and Watch Her Favorite Movie
Watch Your Wedding Video Together
Try a New Martini Recipe
Invite Another Couple Over For a Double Date
Play a Game with High Stakes – Make a Bet!
Record Each Other Sharing a Recent Memory
Tackle a FUN Project
Write a Gratitude List Together
Have an Ice Cream Sundae Night
Play a Video Game Together
Search for Funny YouTube Videos
Grab Take Out & Eat By Candlelight
Give Each Other a Back Rub
Share Where You Want to be in 5 or 10 Years.
Play a Prank on Someone
Create Your Own Date

Once you have printed out your ideas, you will need to cut them on the black lines. Next you will need to put the glue on the wide wooden sticks, rub the glue all around and place it on the back of the paper strips.
Once the glue has dried, trim off any excess paper and smooth the edges down with a sanding block.
Continue to do the same for the rest of the wooden sticks. Place them in a jar and give it to the one you love! Then, when you can’t think of anything to do. You can always go your date night jar and get inspired with a fun date night in.
Personally I feel like this is the gift that keeps on giving! It is It gives Brandon and I the opportunity to have a date night in almost every week of the year! I love my husband so much that I never want to stop dating him. Even if it is a date night in while Baby Johnson is sound asleep.

I am sure there are many more date night in ideas that I have missed. So if you know of any just other great ideas, just let me know in the comments below and I would love to add them to my jar.

Posted on February 10, 2014February 10, 2014 by BeautyBlondie — 3 Comments

10 Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Gifts

I can’t believe that St. Valentines Day is already here! The time is flying by faster than I can even imagine. This is one of my favorite times of the year. The snow is starting to melt away (usually) and spring is just around the corner. With the sun shining, and happiness all around this is the perfect time to tell a special person just how much you love them.

Whether you are giving someone something big or just something to show your love and appreciation, now is the time to open your hart and just do something the ones you love.

I have found 10 different DIY gifts that you could give to anyone and everyone on your list of love ones.

These are such a cute way to upcycling paint swatches and a cute card for Valentines Day.

This is a cute idea for a spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend. Take a Mason jar and fill it with colored wooden sticks with different date night ideas. I am totally going to do this for Brandon.

These heart shaped muffins are such a fun way to get kids involved in helping out with Valentines Day gifts. Also it is way easier than you would think.

This muffin is also a great home made gift with a touch of red for a fun Valentines Day gift.

I love this idea for all of the tea drinkers, putting tea in a bag for you SweeTea!

I know that Brandon would personally love this idea! What guy wouldn’t like a bear bouquet?

A spoon full of kisses is great for everyone!

This is the perfect valentines day bouquet of suckers.

Totally corny but so cute!

This is a great for your outdoorsy friends, you are quite the catch, Swedish fish in a mason jar.

So there you have it. Those are my fast and easy Valentine gift ideas. With Valentines day less than a week away, all of these gifts are achievable between now and then.

Do you have any cute Valentine ideas that you would like to share? I am always looking for new and fun things to do.

Thank you for reading and following along.

Elisabeth Johnson

Posted on December 19, 2013 by BeautyBlondie

DIY Christmas Gift Tags

Christmas comes but once a year, which means it will come again next year.

Each and every year I get so many beautiful cards from all of my friends and family. I hate the thought of throwing them out after Christmas is over although I just can’t keep them all.

A few years ago I had the idea of reusing the cards by making them into gift tags. It worked out so nicely that I have been doing it ever since.

So naturally, I wanted to share my idea with you.

DIY Christmas Tags from old Christmas cards. Here are the some of the cards that I will use to turn into tags.

You will only need your old Christmas cards and a tag punch. (I got mine from Michael’s)

Make your own Christmas Tag from Last Years Cards
I love that you can use any card or color to get all different types of tags.

I love this idea of making your own Chrtisam Tags out of your old cards
First you will need to line up your card in the center of your tag punch.

When you have it lined up just the way you like it, press your fingers and thumb together.

The last thing you need to do is side the tag out of the punch.

It is as easy as 1, 2, 3. (Card, Cut, Tag.)

They turn out perfect every single time.

This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to make Christmas gift tags.

Does this seem like something that you would be able to do?

Now all I need to do is finish my wrapping!!

Posted on October 30, 2013November 4, 2013 by BeautyBlondie — 1 Comment

Our House Flooded!

First I would like to thank everyone for all of your support, comments and advice from my Johnson Home Tour.

What most of you don’t know is that 3 hours after signing the contract for our house, we walked into our new home full of water. Sometime in between our final walk through (which was a few days before. Keep in mind that this is just 6 days after our wedding and the night before our honeymoon) and us signing the contract a hose in the bathroom disconnected from the wall and was shooting out water like crazy.

Our plummer seems to think that the hose was shooting out water at about 3 gallons a minute for a solid day. Now get this, Brandon only took a long lunch to sign on the house and went right back to work. My Mother-in-law and I were the only 2 people present when arrived at the house and we had nothing to clean it up. So…. we had to call in some reserves: My family, Brandon’s family and our neighbors of about 3 hours to come and help us clean up our house. (Luckily we knew some of our neighbors prior to buying the place.)

Here come the ~~good~~ (bad) part. Do you remember when I washed my iPhone? Well all of the pictures from the flood were on there and I lost everything off of it. I hadn’t had the phone that long and I never set up my iCloud! So I only have 4 pictures from that day and that is only because I text them to my sister and she still had them.

So here they are: Our living room. We had to pull up the carpet that night.

Once it was all out we had to put fans on it. I think we ended up having 10 to 15 fans going in the house at one time and 5 in this room alone.

Our basement: The water was dripping from the ceiling for a couple of hours while we tried to clean it all up. You can also see the stairs going up had padding on it….

… and all of that had to come off because it was soaked. As well as the drywall.

After the water settled down a little, my neighbors helped me clean out the vents throughout the basement because they were full of water as well.

Need less to say, we didn’t get done cleaning the house until 11:30 and in bed until after midnight and we had to get up at 3 for our flight the next day. But that is a whole other story for a different day.

I just can’t get over the fact that hours after closing we walked into that… have you ever heard of such a thing? Did anything crazy like this happen to you or someone you know?