Category: Guest Room
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I cut my curtains in half //& learned about risk in the process//
Remember my guest room? And the curtains I made? You might remember that I bought less fabric than I should have because A) I wanted long curtains and B) I wanted to save $. 4 years later, the curtains were still too thin on the sides and were constantly taunting me with their thinness every time I…
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my new pallet shelf
I teased you in January that we had a bit of a DIY project in the works. Without further ado, meet my new pallet shelf: I was completely inspired by this picture from Ana White and thought I could make this with actual pallets because hello…free wood. When I mentioned the idea to Jonathan, he was somewhat…
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Nightstand Restyling
If you’ve seen my guest room re-do, this picture will probably look somewhat familiar: I’ve never been completely satisfied with the nightstand styling in there, so when Emily Henderson announced a nightstand styling contest, BOOM – I knew I was in. Besides, the prize is a … wait for it … nightstand! And seeing as…
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Guest Room :: Before & After
I promised on Monday that I would give you the whole shebang of guest room pics – beginning with the scary before picture. I love before & after pics, don’t you? Here’s what the room looked like when I started: I had so many ideas for colors to use in this room, but continually found…
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Personalized Wall Art
Hello & Happy Monday! It seems like the past few months have been a busy blogging time – starting with blogging every day during October, then sharing Thanksgiving, Christmas, & “end-of-the-year” posts. Finally, I have time to share some things that have been going on in my home the past few months! Today, I’m just…
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Sedum Rubrotinctum
Last week, I took my kids to Lowe’s. I must start early if I want home improvement stores to be one of their favorite places on earth. We picked up a few of these guys: These are my first succulents ever! Can you believe it? After Nester and Sherry posted about their succulents, I began…
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Me: 1 / Sewing Machine: 0
My sewing machine and I have a love/hate relationship. Sometimes I love it. Other times I hate it. Sorta like my relationship with my workout DVDs. Anyway, I’m currently on good terms with my sewing machine and that’s because of these puppies: Yep. Many moons ago I showed you the curtains I made for my…
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Guest Room Wall Art
Hello there and a happy Monday to you! Remember my guest room from many posts ago? The one I painted blue, sewed curtains for, and added my garden stool to? Yes. That one. It’s the only guest room in my house…so it’s pretty easy to keep track of which guest room I’m talking about. {teehee}…
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Schmurtains
I am rather excited to share this post with you. 🙂 if I could duplicate that smiley face a hundred times without being redundant, that would express my excitement quite well. 😉 So, what started as this: (sorry – ipod pic) gradually turned into this: (after a paint job) and while collecting inspiration pics, I…
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I Did It.
Yessirree…I certainly did. Would you like to know what I did? We will play a game…I will show you part of it and you can guess what I did. ok? here you go: hmmm…do you know what that is? well, I got a little head start on my halloween costume. this is my mask.…
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$3 Wall Art
Greetings and Salutations. 🙂 So I was in Hobby Lobby last month (looking for pin backs or some such nonsense) and cut through the wall art section to get to the jewelry section when I saw this: Wow. Big. Cool. And one other word popped into my head when I saw the price tag. I…
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Guest Room – Inspiration
Happy Monday! I promised I would share some of my ideas for the guest room and so today I will do just that. First of all, here are two pictures that completely inspired me to go for the dark blue paint color: Gotta admit – that color is gorgeous. I love the moody blue and…