Crafting

I love to craft, but it's hard to find the time and motivation with a toddler running around all day.  I finally got to making a hair bow holder for Molly's room and it turned out pretty darn cute!

A bought a frame at Goodwill, added some hooks at the bottom, painted the whole thing white with my favorite chalky paint, and hot glued on some ribbons.  As easy as that sounds, it took me like 2 weeks to actually finish.  Molly seems to like it though and liked helping me put the bows on it!

If you every attempt to make one of these here are some expert tips:

1. Don't spend hours in the craft store picking ribbons that go well together.. they are just going to be covered up!

2. Don't glue the ribbons to the very back, then there will be no room to hook the bows. Glue them to the inside ledge of the frame so there's space between them and the wall, or you'll have to rip them all off and do it all over again.

3. Use a leveler or you'll end up making four holes in your wall when you only needed two.

Painting Project

We have been working on lots of projects here and there at our house, and I finally got one finished. Yay!

I found this beauty in someone's yard with a free sign, painted it with some antique white paint and furniture sealant($13), and added some cute knobs from Hobby Lobby($6). I'd say not too bad for 19 bucks! It now sits in our dining room and holds all of our board games, and matches our curtains perfectly!

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

I seriously love these knobs!

I think I'm ready for something bigger now... Maybe a barn door for our bathroom. :)

First Room Remodel - Baby's Room!

We LOVE our new house... but much of the paint, fixtures, etc are super old so we will be slowly updating it room by room.  The first room we tackled of course was the baby's room! (Though I still need a little more decoration.. any ideas??)

Here is some "during" shots.. wish we would have got a good "before" shot.  The walls were blue and the light fixture was AWFUL!  So we painted the walls gray, put in a new ceiling fan, and filled it with lots of baby stuff.

And here's what is look like now....I can't wait for out little girl to come fill it!

Love my IKEA chair!

Yes, I did paint that dresser yellow!

New blinds and homemade valances

Too many clothes already!

New ceiling fan

I'm pretty excited to get to the other rooms.  I've never been much of a home project kinda girl, but it's growing on me. Right now though all I can think about is getting this baby out of me! :)

Tool Time

We have finally pretty-much finished unpacking into our new home! It's been a very busy and tiring month for us.  It was really hard to move during the last week of teaching, and with Matt still having to be at work everyday, and with me being pregnant, and with all these stairs!!

I won't post any pictures of the house yet since we are still in organizing mode, but boy can I tell you we are going to be best friends with the people at home depot for the next few years! I like that we were able to get a great older home, but it's going to be a lot of work to get it the way we want it.

What we've done so far:

• Bought a new washer - The old one left for us pooped out the third time I used it. May have been fixable, but a new one was probably the best idea.
• Cleared out the garage - This garage was filled with shelves.. I'm talking wall to wall on every side.  Matt loves being able to organize the garage and it looks much less cluttered already though still needs a lot a cleaning. 
• De-hooked - There were hooks on EVERY free space of wall. We (or should I say Matt) have taken at least 100 hooks off the walls, and there are still many more in the basement.  The previous owners probably left with 20 boxes of decorations from the walls. I think we'll be expert spacklers when were done!
• Cleaned - The walls, the floors, the doors, the toilets, the windows... you name it we've either deep cleaned it or it's on our list. We have used at least 5 tubs of those Clorox wipes (best invention ever!). 

We've got a long list of projects to tackle, and I think I'm enjoying this a lot more than I expected. Next on the list: Paint the baby's room!