I made this fab wreath for my pal Gwenny Penny -she's having an awesome event called Haul out the Holly-with lots of guest bloggers and fun holiday decorating ideas. I have had my Christmas card wreath made since like October, I was so excited to make it. haha! Credit for this goes to my mom-I don't know where she made hers-but that's where I … [Read more...]
sprucing up
November 5, 2010 By 22 Comments
Our master room has been in desperate need of some sprucing up. It still needs some window treatments (and better furniture) but those will happen someday....In the mean time, I found this cute duvet cover at Home Goods and made some pillows and wall art to try and make it look like adults live here. I love the monograms I made for our "sides" … [Read more...]
paper pumpkin tutorial
October 25, 2010 By 32 Comments
I'm sure you've seen these around, right? An easy, cheap way to make some cute fall decor. gotta love that! PLus, Sadie helped me with these. Well, she handed me strips of paper until she got bored and wanted to use the hole punch by herself. "SADIE DO IT!". We here that a lot around here these days. That, and "me? mine?" Mostly when we go to … [Read more...]
fall wreaths
October 4, 2010 By 8 Comments
I'm not the best person at decorating my house for fall. I know this because Rory informed me of this fact the other week. He said we needed more fall decorations. Now, when your hubby brings that fact up...I knew that I was slacking. ;) So here are my fall wreath efforts... I took one of these: took apart some of these: added a lot of … [Read more...]
wall hanging
April 26, 2010 By 6 Comments
Another birthday present! This time for my sister Joanna. She's away at college, so I didn't want to give her anything useless, or that would take up a lot of space. Well, at least this doesn't take up a lot of space. ;) Hope she likes it. (edit: she did)I saw this print a long time ago at the Feed Your Soul website, and thought it would be perfect … [Read more...]
little shelves
April 22, 2010 By 6 Comments
Rory helped me make these shelves last weekend. (ok, I held them while he screwed them together and painted them....he did the rest) Thank hun! They're in the Sadester's big girl room, and I love how they turned out! I got the idea here. Check out that post for more details of how they're made. We followed the tutorial, but used screws instead of … [Read more...]
pillow love
April 12, 2010 By 10 Comments
You've probably seen the scrappy flower pillow from Anthropologie floating around the web, right? Anyways, if you haven't, mine looks exactly like it. har har. Well, it was a lot cheaper anyways. I hear the original pillow was like $88! YoWzAS!I made this one for my sister Janae's birthday. She's quite a vivacious girl, loves her color, and the … [Read more...]
55 cents
April 5, 2010 By 12 Comments
So, I told you I had plans for that alphabet book, right? I decided to make a little banner for the playroom out of the pages, since the binding was trashed.I ripped them out, hung up two nails, tied some twine to them, added some mini clothespins and the pages, and Tada! (or Duh-Dah! as Sadie says), I had a fun little decoration for the playroom!I … [Read more...]
Sadie’s big girl room
March 13, 2010 By 11 Comments
It's "done" at last! I say "done" cause I'm not in love with the rug but it works for now and was only $5, and I still haven't figured out what to put on the dresser, and her dollhouse isn't done...but it's basically, pretty much, done. So...here it is!This is the view from the doorway...it's hard to make that shot look good, but I tried. really! I … [Read more...]
evolution of a room
March 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
the evolution of the nursery was as follows: (prepare yourself) this is what the nursery looked like when we bought our house almost 2 years ago. yikes, right?!I was loving the palm tree border and lovely light switch...but they had to go.(go ahead, don't be scared...take a closer look)my favorite were the random cords sticking out of the … [Read more...]