Monday, February 28, 2011

Just a lil chair make over


I bought these chairs the summer we moved into our house (approx 8 yrs ago) The sun had faded them so much they were headed to the dump. They looked pretty pitiful, not bright red anymore but a faded pinkish color....nothing a little pray paint can't cure! I love them again and it cost me less than $5 to bring them back to life! So glad I didn't throw them out.

Family fun day



Nanny wanted to go to Morganton for her birthday....it was the perfect day. The weather was awesome, good food, good times!








Going for a hike








On the way home we saw this - perfect day!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

My terrific kid







Layton received the "terrific kid" award again for the 2nd 9 weeks. He got it the first semester too....he's our little all star, couldn't be prouder of him!

A few more bedroom re-dos


I think this was a candle holder.


Now it's a ball holder.
Candle holder $.50
Wicker ball $1.50 @ Hobby Lobby


Ugly vase from the dollar store


I'm still not in love with it....it may have to go soon!
 

Goodwill frame transformation



I took it apart, added a red frame for a punch of color, re painted the black and the frame then put it all back together again. Now it's in our bedroom.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Ky's room make-over

Ok so a couple days before Christmas I'm in Hobby Lobby looking at fabric. I find some really awesome fabric on the clearance rack for less than $2 a yard. (that's a steal, wait til ya see it, pretty awesome!) I'm thinking "hey this would make a really awesome skirt for Ky for Christmas" Well, first of all I don't sew and second it was DAYS before Christmas like I had time to learn or have my grandmother help me make it....anyway, not sure what I was thinking! On the way home I had the brilliant idea to re-do Ky's room using this fabric as my inspiration. So in a matter of about an hour I went from making Kylin a skirt to re-doing her whole room!!

Her closet.
These curtains were the only "new" thing I bought for her room. I actually thought about making them too but I found them for $15. I couldn't buy enough fabric to make them for that price.


She already had all this hanging up I just "tweaked" it a little. Changed the paper in the frames from "little girl" to "wild child" I distressed the frames, just sanded them a little, and changed the ribbon holding the pics around the frames. And just a side note I don't know why frames always look like they are hanging crooked....they look fine in person!


Again her name was already there, just a little tweaking.

I wish I had a before pic. These were just pink flowers so instead of buying something new I just glued little pieces of ribbon all around them. I also switched the old ribbon holding the letters to black.

Words above her attic door


So here it is....here's the fabric that started it all!! I still have yet to get the curtains made....I'm waiting on inspiration to hit me, I wanna do something funky.

All these (except the big black one) were already in her room I just recovered them.

This was pretty much the "theme" of her old bedroom.

Just added a little funky flower in the corner

The best part - this whole room make-over cost me less than $60.

Tray for Ky's room


I got this at a thrift store for 50 cents....didn't really know what I was gonna do with it but how could I not buy it for that cheap!


I decided to take it apart to paint it so I could really get it good. Took all of 30 seconds to take it apart and paint it. EASY!


Covered the bottom in paper then mod-podged it


Final product - I likey!