ABC Wall

I've been busy on Pinterest getting ideas for decorating my home. There have been lots of great ideas. The key is getting my husband to agree with me on style/colors/etc. The boys rooms are a little more up to me than, let's say the living room and kitchen.

One of my favorite findings for a child's room was an alphabet wall. I found a variety of wooden letter at Jo Ann Fabric and painted them with craft paint.

After we painted the light green walls brown we wanted to do something fun for the wall decor. I think this was a great colorful addition. My son loves to look at the letters.


I probably should change the color of the "z" to yellow or bright blue. It's a little dark on the lower right corner. I can easily fix that though. I could also add some polka dots or stripes to some random letters to spice things up a little more. I'm content with the finished product right now though.

This is the room I made curtains for during the summer. You can see the post HERE . You can kind of see the pale green walls. I have since changed out the curtain rods.

Yoga Mat Bags

Are you getting ready for spring? Ready to feel some warm sunshine? I've added a few more yoga mat bags to Etsy Shop . The colors are bright and have me thinking of spring and summer. I love doing yoga in a warm studio or the sunlight coming in my living room window.

Round bottom for a great fit to the mat.

Two straps that tighten the bag when pulled.

Fireplace makeover

Things have been a little crazy on this side of things for the past 6 months! We moved across the country just over 7 months ago and we're still trying to get settled. Life just doesn't slow down. I thought I'd share what we've been up to. Last week we did some updating to our living room.

Fireplace before: Old painted white brick with old wood mantle. There was a large mirror attached to the wall screaming 80's!

Fireplace After: We painted our whole room green with satin white trim/molding throughout. The fireplace is also brand new, thanks to my husband. We painted the little bit of brick still showing black to help it blend into the fireplace cover. I absolutely love it! It looks completely new and changes the feel of the room drastically - at least to me.

Etsy Shop Update

Despite my crazy Fall this year, I've still been trying to keep up with my Etsy Shop . Thanksgiving is right around the corner and then Christmas!! Since holiday shopping is the busiest time of year, I'm trying to get the shop stocked.

The bags are the same great design with more fabric choices.

I've also been adding more snack bags to match the lunch bags. More of these are to come.

Happy Fall and Thanksgiving next week! Where has the year gone?

Curtains - room #1

It has been somewhat of a whirlwind, these past 2 months, after moving into our new place. The first thing I wanted to take care of (Ha! I say that often, "the first thing") was the curtains. We have many outdated curtains.

In my oldest son's room the curtains weren't even dark enough for him to sleep - or block out the hot sun. This is a before shot. (If I were to have taken a picture of the whole room, you would see our tub, vanity and toilet that went into our "new" bathroom.)
The curtain rod really was fine to keep. The curtains needed to go. This window faces east and the first half of the day the sun cooks this room.
After:
I used a sheet! Honestly. It was cheaper to buy a set of twin sheets from Target and use for fabric than buy the yardage of fabric I needed for three windows in this room. I sewed blackout fabric behind the sheet. It's amazing what blackout fabric does. It really does live up to its name.

(This picture shows a little too much of the messy room)

A close up of the blackout fabric sewn into the curtain.

I used simple drapery hooks to attach to the wooden rings. this tutorial showed me exactly what I wanted to do.

A closer view of the fabric (i.e sheet ;)

These curtains cover 2 of the three windows in the room. I finished the third window's curtains last night, but need to buy a new matching curtain rod. They are hung on the old rod now, but can't open and close yet. The old rod is a pull cord and one panel can't exactly split in half to open.

I am also planning on making some pillows for my son's bed using some of the extra curtain fabric and a navy blue fabric to match his new bed spread and sheets. That will probably take me another 2 months the rate things are going over here. . .