My Bedroom project

This is the before (last week), well the before is actually nothing in the room but an air mattress if we are talking back in February-April.



I did our bedroom this week. I chose the colors of brown and blue back at Christmas time. I have been doing little projects for it and now its all put together (minus some more art work I need to put up). First I did this little table. Then I put this art work up over it. I did the random tea tray for some inspiration which is now Daniel's stuff I need for work thing. Next I found these lamps which were ugly once but I made them to our taste. Then I found these tables which I didn't blog.

One was $5 and the other $7 at a garage sale (The first one I bought for the projector but it is now safely on the sealing). They are similar styles so I figured a can of spray paint would work. Then I made the throw pillows. Then came the 'not a head board but acts like one' project. All over the land of blogs, I saw people make curtains, pieces of wood, doors, metal you name it they made it head boards so I figured I would try one. I had the back piece to my book case which I hated (I hate those fake cardboard things they have you put at the back of fake furniture) so I used it for my new head board experiment. I mixed two different blues of paint and used a roller. I wanted a silhouette of a tree on there in brown so I googled around and found the perfect little banzai tree (apparently its not perfect and after I hand painted it on Daniel used his expertise and advised me to prune it umm yeah too bad) Then I used my projector and some taped together wax paper and traced the tree.


Well I had a very difficult time getting it to trace back onto the board so it got quite a bit of free hand. I used expensive water color brushes from Daniel's college days that looked brand new (and not used) in acrylic (I know cringe) but I love using water color brushes with acrylic the paint just looks better. Then I let it dry and Daniel suggested a brown frame which I thought was a great idea so I got some 1 1/2 inch satin ribbon and stuck it on. Then we put it up and our room is complete (well sort of until I get motivated to do more) and there you have it.

Click the picture to see it larger
(its small because its a panoramic view
and blogger wont let me make it bigger)

Yes thats Eva on the bed. The kids love our bedroom, especially when its clean.

I am participating in




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Peeing Green

My friend Laura just posted this on her site and I figured you guys would get a kick out of it so go look at it. Its a very easy way of going green.

Peeing in the shower!!!

Its from Brazil so all you Brazilian's or missionaries that went there should check this out for sure.

Why do I forget to put the markers away at night?

This goes through my mind every time I wake up and find the markers everywhere. This was today's 7:30 am finding.

At least Eva was safe in her bed.

Pillows...I made some

I did it!


The two tones, I love pillows with texture



The Living Room Pillow
(The Giant one is bright red, not orange its from Ikea)



The Bedroom Pillows. I did some hand stitching
on the ribbon of this one



I love my sewing machine, who would have thought I would ever sew.
(either than Halloween costumes)

P.S this was all from material In my petite stash of material aren't those projects the most fun?

Happy Birthday Mamma

Happy Birthday Mum. I hope you have a great one!

We love you!

We made Brownies

Last night we made brownies and the kids licked the bowls. I made them without the oil and they actually turned out well. I guess its a good way to make it a little less fattening.

They loved it.

Daniel and comics

I just got back from the library and I borrowed A tree grows in Brooklyn, Captain Wentworth's Diary, Jane Eyre and put on hold : The Hunger games and Howl's moving Castle. Anyway I had previously put Jane Eyre on hold. I know I am lazy by putting all these books on hold but I like to be in the library for a short time so I put them on hold so I don't have to search for them, they are right there all next to each other waiting for me. Anyway I accidentally put Jane Eyre a graphic novel on hold. So I have the comic version (don't worry I got off my lazy butt and found the orignial version while I was there) It actually makes me really excited because Daniel will read anything in comic form. He even read Rapunzels revenge by Shannon Hale. SOOOO Daniel is going to read Jane Eyre. How cool is that! (sorry Daniel doesn't read much (well literature) so maybe he and I can have a book review together, hopefully we will make sense to each other)