Tuesday, March 29, 2011

the Mr and the Mrs.

I've really been working on our bedroom lately and this is one of my latest projects. I love them!! perfect for a master bedroom and in my favorite color combo:)

I used a high quality gray felt to re-cover the pillow and yellow flannel for the letters.

I fused medium weight interfacing to give them some structure and then machine sewed them on! It took me 3 days- well- because I have a 3 year old to play with and a house to clean! Oh for the days of uninterrupted crafting! My entire wedding scrapbook? Done months after the wedding. Gwens? Not even started 3 YEARS LATER!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Two new restyles!

We painted my vanity and re-upholstered a chair to use in our new bedroom!

BEFORE:




AFTER!!


I'm very excited to move all of my makeup in here-I used scrapbooking paper and spray adhesive to stick it down and then modge podged over it...it was smooth when I finished but the humidity outside made it wrinkle when I left it to dry:( oh well its going to be covered up by makeup anyway...
plus i've been waiting to decorate the walls until this piece was in its new home! I really love it white-especially with the contrast of the blue-so pretty!

Monday, March 14, 2011

old obsession renewed!

Remember when I told you about Benetint? how I loved the product but not the packaging?
Well the last time I was at the mall
(which is rare in itself-I usually avoid the time vortex they call the mall in favor of smaller more affordable stores cough*cough* Target)

I stopped at Sephora
(also rare-100 bucks for a lip gloss?! no thanks)


and found this:

the pocket pal! much smaller than the full size-but I can actually put this in my purse without fear of staining its entire contents red...even if it is an oh so pretty red! Yay Benefit!

Friday, March 11, 2011

A little freshening up

my outfit is super boring today...so here are pictures of my bathroom instead! haha

I changed out what was in the picture frames in my bathroom-and it feels so much brighter and more 'me' in there!

Before:

booorrrringggg



After:
(pay no attention to those little holes...)

Funny what you can do with scrap-booking paper!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

shame on me!

We're almost finished with Gwen's room and I haven't even mentioned it!!

Maybe because it makes it go faster if I don't think about it...at any rate all we have left is the trim! I'm in love with the wall color-its so cheerful!! Its called 'Grand Hotel Mackinac Blue.' quite a mouthful for a little girls room...
but its perfect!

While I'm waiting for her room to be ready I've been repainting furniture ( a pink nightstand per her request) and re purposing a TV amoire into a clothing amoire. We also still need to buy a twin mattress for her new bed...

I can't wait for it to be done! This is the hardest part-when its allllmost done and you can really start to see what it will look like...