Miss Kopy Kat

Balloons as party decorations has never been more popular due to all the creative ways that folks have found to use them. One of my favorite ways to use balloons that I have seen is  ...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2020/04/make-balloon-garland-for-about-10.html

This post is going to be short because actually I did not do much blogging in 2019. Amazingly, I did have two blog posts that each had well over 30,000 views so I think those deserve to be...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/12/most-viewed-posts-of-2019.html

For whatever reason you might want little paper houses, here is an easy way to make simple ones.  I wanted to make little paper houses initially as a cute way  to gift Christmas mo...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/12/make-little-paper-houses.html

Well I am very tardy in posting pictures of my Christmas decorating this year but I am going to do it anyway. It will allow me to be able to look back on the post in the future and maybe som...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/12/christmas-home-tour-2019.html

Here is a creative way to give Christmas cash that also doubles  as a mini decoration.  I was trying to think of a way to gift cash to my grown  children that did not involve a lot ...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/12/a-creative-way-to-give-christmas-cash.html

These are tips that I have gathered from other tutorials on making  moss balls at home (like here  and here ) and more ideas that I tried  while making them myself and want to share ...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/02/tips-for-making-inexpensive-moss-balls.html

Moss bowls are very popular in home decor these days.  They are quirky and beautiful at the same time. Live moss bowls are a good way to have greenery in your  room but be low mainte...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/02/how-to-make-inexpensive-moss-bowls.html

Using moss is an easy way to give color and life to your home decor.  Using live moss is low maintenance but using preserved  moss is NO maintenance. Preserved moss is readily available...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/02/using-moss-in-home-decorating.html

For a pretty display on my kitchen table, I decided to  "kopy kat" an idea I saw in the January issue of   "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine. The article explains how to put...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2019/01/orchids-under-glass.html

As 2018 comes to a close, here are the most viewed posts from the past year on the "Miss Kopy Kat" blog.  #5 Make a Fake Seltzer Bottle This post is a tutorial on how to use a bo...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/12/most-viewed-posts-of-2018.html

Thanks so much for coming by for a tour of my Christmas  decorating for 2018. We will start in the dining room since that is the first room that you see when you come in the front door....

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/12/christmas-home-tour-2018.html

For your Halloween viewing pleasure, here are photos of amazing pumpkin carvings done by the staff of the cruise ship I am on right now (which just happens to fall on Halloween). Thes...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/10/amazing-pumpkin-carvings-at-sea.html

My granddaughter, Lilly, taught this old dog (me) a new trick that  I think would be great in customizing serving dishes for holidays, parties, weddings. You can could co-ordinate your...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/10/make-custom-serving-dishes.html

My youngest granddaughters are going to be the sister combo  characters of "Little Red Riding Hood" and her  "Grandmother" this Halloween. I offered to make a yarn wig  for "Grann...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/10/how-to-make-curly-yarn-wig.html

Welcome to my home for a tour of my dining room and living room decorated for Fall. Those are really the main rooms I  change the decor out seasonally. I like to have a seasonal  vig...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/09/fall-home-tour-2018.html

Did you know that you can change the color of faux succulents? Succulents are so amazing that they look almost "other worldly" or even not real...but I touch them and discover, yes they...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/09/how-to-change-color-of-faux-succulents.html

Combining pumpkins and succulents is a very easy and trendy look for Autumn. Combining fake pumpkins and fake  succulents is even easier because you don't have to worry about  keepi...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/09/how-to-combine-faux-pumpkins-and-faux.html

Here is a very inexpensive item that was born out of necessity. Before you get too excited about the price of $5 for a large  cutting board, please notice the word "faux". "Faux" if a fancy...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/07/5-faux-wood-cutting-board.html

My kitchen backsplash was a pretty boring single-color tile.  After seeing the Moroccan-looking tiles being used by  designers on floors and backsplashes recently, I  decided th...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/07/stenciling-on-tile.html

In my last post I shared how I spray painted flowers to go in  my roadside rescue wheelbarrow to push in my neighborhood's Fourth of July parade. When it came time to actually get IN ...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/07/fourth-of-july-parade.html

Did you know that you can change the color of flowers, real or fake by using spray paint?  For real flowers, the product I like is Design Master Colortool. This is not an advertiseme...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/07/how-to-change-flowers-color.html

Some folks decorate with shells mainly in Summer and some folks like to have shells in their home all year. Here are three secrets to making the shells you have make the most impact. ...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/06/secrets-of-decorating-with-shells.html

Thanks for coming to tour my home with my Summer decorations (finally) displayed. I've made and painted many of the items so I will include highlighted text that takes you to the tutorials s...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/06/summer-home-tour-2018.html

Use Bottles As Vases If there are times that you need more vases than you have, use bottles as vases.  Bottles usually have thin necks and are easy to arrange flowers in.  The BIG p...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/04/use-bottles-as-vases.html

There are so many creative and decorative ways to upcycle bottles and jars . In most ways the bottles and jars would be used, the labels need to be removed. Here is a lazy way to remov...

https://www.misskopykat.com/2018/03/a-lazy-way-to-remove-bottle-and-jar.html