Painted Growth Chart

My sister and I tried to make some growth charts with paint rather than stain and I think they turned out so cute! We were playing around and decided to put a cute picture on one of them and this is how it turned out:

Isn't the owl so cute? And it matches my dining room perfectly! Too bad I already have one.  Hopefully someone wants this one, because it needs a good home.


To view a tutorial on the growth charts click here

DIY Roman Shades

Again I have been inspired by Pinterest. I saw a picture of some DIY roman shades and knew that is exactly what i wanted to do in my living room.  I followed the link to the site 365 Days to Simplicityand realized that it would be SO easy to make them.  I was then on the search for fabric.  I live no where near a fabric store that carries home decorating fabric so i did much browsing online, with no luck.  I had to go to the Dr. in the "city", so I went to a Joann while I was there.  Again, no luck! I was getting a little frustrated! On my way home, I stopped at Walmart and decided that i might as well check there.  Can you believe they had the PERFECT fabric?! I was seriously AMAZED.  Not only did they have the perfect one for my shades, but they also had the one for my pillows!

But, back to the shades.  I pretty much followed the directions that 365 Days gives, however, I added a grommet to put the pull string through so i didn't have to reach around behind the shade each time I wanted to put them up or down.  I hope you can see that in the picture at the top of the string.

The best part was I didn't even have to lug my sewing machine out to make them.  All it took was a little "Heat n Bond" and fabric glue.  AMAZING, right? I know!  Here are some more pics to give you the full effect.

Aren't they awesome?  I seriously love them.  I often catch myself just looking at them and taking great pride in my gluing skills . . . .





Monster Beanie

I had been looking for a beanie that would fit my 1 year old for quite a while.  All I ever found were too big or too little.  They would either squeeze his head or fall over his eyes so he couldn't see.  Neither were very effective.  I was on Pinterest one day (can you believe that?) and I found a pattern for this monster beanie



I thought it was so cute! I whipped out the yarn that I had handy and made a couple for my little boys.  I had to modify it for the baby, as his head is much smaller, so I just did 50 stitches to the end instead of going up to 60. I also crocheted the teeth instead of using felt (partly because I didn't have any white felt and partly because I liked the look of it better)  It worked out pretty well. 

Here is a pic of the two monsters in the truck.

Superhero Capes

J and I made him some more superhero capes.  I found a font that is so Awesome! (Thank you Pinterest!) The font is called Hall of Heroes and it has pretty much any superhero emblem you can think of.  I downloaded the font, ordered some fabric from Joanns and got to work.  I found a couple tutorials online that helped me figure out how to make them.  The first one is on vanillajoy.com and it gave a great suggestion to use a skirt pattern to get the shape of the cape.  Genious! However, I found a pattern for the collar that I really liked on floatingworldviews.com.  I am not sure how the lady on vanillajoy created her collars, but I used the pattern from fwv and adjusted it to fit the shape of the cape that I created from my skirt pattern.  After I got the capes cut out, and the edged surged, I printed out the emblems; or "powers" as J calls them and cut them out in the different colors then sewed them on.  They turned out awesome and J LOVES them. 

 I even found an emblem with an R on it for the baby.  He looks pretty dang cute in it too.

Faucets

Well I ordered my faucets.  I got a pretty good deal off eBay, so I went for it.  I ended up going with the Brushed Nickel.  I think it will be a good contrast to the Oil Rubbed Bronze tub. 

Upcoming Bathroom Project

I just ordered the bead board wallpaper for my upstairs bathroom! Yay! I can't wait for this project to start to take shape.  I found this as I was browsing the web at freshhome.com and fell in love with pretty much everything about it. I hope I can make my little boys' bathroom look as cute.



I also found this faucet on eBay and I LOVE IT. Hopefully I can get me one.



I scored us a claw foot tub for $100 and my husband grinded off the outside then spray painted it the oil rubbed bronze color.  This faucet would look fantastic with it.  I will post more pics when we get this thing going.

Poster

I found this poster print on Allposters.com and I fell in love.

Of course I ordered it.  I thought I would try the same thing that I did with the prints of my babies.  I will build a frame and texture the print.  I am pretty excited!  It will look fantastic in my livingroom.