Great Pillow Tutorials

So I am looking into making a few pillows... I am trying to bring a little more gray into my living room... and I found a few great tutorials so I thought I'd share them:

Hello Beautiful

Persia Lou

Persia Lou

Warmth in the North

Alisa Burke

Creative Little

V and Co.

Feature Wall Panels

I have had this idea in my head for a long time... then the other day I decided TODAY IS THE DAY! I got out the primer and primed three panels.

I mixed the first color with the green paint in the room already, a little bit of grey paint and white paint. The top color I used the same paint with more white and a little gloss paint. I stenciled the wall using a Martha Stewart stencil. The trim was 20$ on sale at Home Depot. On a personal note, I cut the trim by myself! Usually I would get my husband to do this part... but not this time! I took a picture to prove it! : )


I put my metal circle wall art in the middle square and I am planing on finding two candle sconces for the outer squares.

The Small Bathroom Reveal

I realized the other day that I never posted the final pictures of our little bathroom. I gave so much lead up... click here and here to see a few of these posts.

We added a sliding door, pot lights and a fan to this little bathroom. I kept the walls a bright white so make it feel airy. The wallpaper I found at a garage sale for 1$. It was just enough to do that one wall... I love it! Originally we were going to do tile behind the mirror. We were in home depot and had all of our tile, grout, tile glue, those little spacers, and tile trim picked out and then we realized this project would cost well over 100$ and take a lot of time, so we nixed the idea. Instead we bought a piece of plywood, stained it and varnished it many times. I still used the tile trim on the sides... It gave this project such a finished look. ... well, without further ado...

Painted Curtains!

It's time for my true heritage to shine through... guess how much these curtains cost me! Oh bah, my Mennonite family will be proud. Did you guess? ... and I don't Derek guess. (Side note= Derek is my brother, and whenever I think I found a good deal on something I would ask him to guess the price, he always guesses a ridiculously low price just to wipe the proud smile of my face) Answer: 4 dollars! All I had to buy was a 4$ flat sheet from the thrift store.


I first cut it in two then sewed it along the cut and a seem at the top for the curtain rod to fit through. Next I penciled on a stencil, then I painted it on. Super easy. My only regret is that I should have bought fabric medium to add to the latex paint I used. (I used the same paint as on the dresser) Honestly, I was too lazy to go to the store and too excited to start painting. ... yes, I was excited and lazy at the same time.... it happens. But all in all, totally pumped at how they turned out!

Give me an "M"

Give me an "M" .... give me an "A".... give me an "X"
Yeah Max!
Luckily Max has such a short name... it allowed me to frame each letter. I love how it turned out. Personally, I think it looks way better in real life.... so how ever much you like it, just know you would like it just a little bit more in real life : )
I had these frames in my dinningroom before, with different scrapbooking paper. But I am in the mood for a wall art shake up, so I am moving stuff around, modifying a few things. So when I decided to use these for Max's room I thought I would look for scrapbooking paper again... but whilest fabric shopping I found a print that I loved and matches his bedding... and way cheaper then buy the 6 pieces of paper I would have needed. The letters are cardstock cut outs that I painted with the same paint from the dresser.

Beautiful Blue

I finished Max's dresser... and I am so in love with the color. I think this is one of my favorite projects.

Sadly, this is the only before picture I have, I have almost finished sanding it here.


I bought this dresser of kijiji for 100$.... that plus 16$ worth of paint, 10$ shelf liner and lots of hours of love =

Grandma!

This post is for my Grandma T... but everyone else can read too : )

Grandma we are so excited for your visit. Here is a photo of Max and me to get you excited for your visit! Max can't wait to meet his great grandparents! See you soon

Max's Room... take 2

To theme or not to theme...
In the beginning of planing out Max's room I was trying to come up with a good theme. I had planed on doing Jip and Janneke. They are characters from popular children's books in the Netherlands. I used these books to try to learn the language when I lived in Holland and totally fell in love with the illustrations.
I had big plans for using these characters... including a painted mural, but in the end we only used a few photos of the characters here and there.So I guess I wouldn't call it a theme room.... because of this it leaves room for incorporating other things in the room. On the floating shelves is one of my husband favorite childhood books, Professor Wormbog... which has amazing illustrations as well.
Anyway... here are a few photos.

Max's Room ... take 1

I did the tree mural from my last post and I love it! I have been finding it a little challenging to decorate Max's room, but I feel that things are on a roll now. I am currently working on painting a dresser for his room and modifying a crib bedding set that I bought... hopefully pictures will be up soon.

One Sleepless Night

Last night i couldn't sleep... because of this I think it will lead to many more long nights. I spent my time looking at amazing projects... so now I have been inspired to do about 30 new projects. Check them out...

These three pieces of furniture are made from old doors and windows... of which I have an abundance of! I really want to do the red shelf project... but make two and paint them white. They are from http://www.myrepurposedlife.net/


I am thinking of doing this project for my bedroom.



I love love love this mirror... its made with paint stirring sticks. The wall stencils and the mirror are from http://www.centsationalgirl.com/


I have been struggling with what to to with Max's room... and then I saw this birch forest from http://prissthis.blogspot.com/