Without Further Ado...The Lil' man's Bedroom!

Man alive am I glad to be posting this...it means I am finished (for now anyway).  I have been a little side-tracked with wedding showers and family reunions, but here it is....The mini man cave!

First of all I have to let you in on the drama that got me to this point.  After I found the striped pillows, I was thinking nautical...so after purchasing and then returning 2 quilts, 2 comforters, 1 set of window treatments, 2 sheet sets, some nik-naks from Hobby Lobby and losing my wallet (which someone turned in YAY!), I finally found some sheets (above) and a comforter.  Wow that was exhausting to write and even more so to actually do!!!

After all that I didn't even use the pillows on the bed. Pitiful, I know.  But, I like them better here!

Before, I get ahead of myself,  I wanted to show you the before.  It did have a crib, which I sold recently and other nursery stuff...you get the picture.

and here is the bed that is technically mine, but has been at my mother's for a long time, like 12 years ;).  I thought it would fit nicely in E's bedroom, but as you can see, not so much. So, plan B or more like D or E kicked in and we pulled the old switcheroo with my daughter's bed because her bedroom is a little bit bigger (more on that later).  OK! Moving on...

And AFTER....

 I changed the "chalkboard wall" to this color blue, which wasn't smart on part because I didn't even have the bedding yet, but all worked out anyway.

I already had the stars, just painted them.  And as you can see, although I have been to Home Depot many times this week, I STILL have forgotten to get the plug cover that has been on the list...don't worry not a live wire!!

This little guy is here for sentimental reasons (sniff, sniff)

Found these little tags at HL for .99 cents ;) (i added the paint)

Also Hobby Lobby finds... I want some more of the wooden boat things (waiting for 50% off)

I was letting my husband know that I was trying to think of a way to cut out some oars for the wall, when he informed me that they had some "real" ones at Wal-Mart for 10$...shows you how much I hang out in the sporting goods section.  So, he picked these up for me...Thanks a million BABE!

And of course I had to sneak this little guy in, shhhhhh, our secret ;)  I LOVE SOCK MONKEYS!!

NEEDLESS TO SAY, there are a few finishing touches that need to be added.... on my wish list, is hardwood floors and a big navy and white striped rug, but for now its finished!!! Oh ya and a 4x6 picture of the little guy, hehe! OK I will leave you with one more picture!

And with this, I am off to get ready. Little E has a performance at church...should be interesting ;)

-K

New Pillows and an Update

After purchasing 2 TJ pillows I found this weekend.  I have completely changed my mind on the look I am going for in my sons room.  Shocking, I know. If you haven't noticed I can be very indecisive....nothing has just hit me except these pillows and the chalkboard wall, which will NOT be GREEN anymore!

I have rearranged his room a dozen times and made a ton of trips to the attic. I need to take a break and quit looking at these walls for at least 24 hours! My sister is always saying I over analyze everything (I am starting to see her point). I feel like I have lived in this room for 4 days and my husband would like some clean underwear LOL!

On a much HAPPIER note.  We have been diaper freeeeeeee and accident free (knock on wood) for 6 days!! Even made it through the past 2 classes at church without an accident.  YAY for you Lil' Man! 

P.S.  My husband had to take him to the bathroom at the restaurant last night...after having a girl first, I must say I have been looking forward to this moment (grin)

Thanks BABE for all your help with the potty training! LOVE YOU BUNCHES ;)  Looking forward to many more diaper free days to come!

The Lil' Man cave.....SNEAK PEAK

Now 2 days into my lil' man's cave and total makeover... I realize that I am indecisive to say the least.  I had all these plans and they went down the tubes.  When my husband who usually keeps his opinion to himself, decided to tell me the day we are going to pick up Eli's bed the he hates strongly dislikes the SOCK MONKEY idea.... to quote me...."GASP"!  I was shocked and disappointed, not to mention back to square one.  BUT his opinion matters to me! Apparently, the sock monkey idea did not ring the TESTOSTERONE bell .  So, I pulled the Potterybarn catalogues out of the bathroom, and inspiration STRUCK!

There it was in all it's glory...a GREEN chalkboard wall and I just so happened to have that exact paint in my garage ;) I also love that the room is not a theme and that it has NAVY! Seeing as how painting over his furniture is not my idea of FUN!

So here it is...I definitely suggest painting a small wall with this stuff...not fun to trim twice!

I chose the wall at the entry of his room just because it was little and I wanted too :)

My man loves the DRUMS and GUITAR !! I had taken this picture the day after Christmas.  I also have several of him with his GREEN TAR, as he calls it that will be added. Man, don't you love it when things just work out like that?

Eli and his Pa' Paw's guitar, making some music for me to paint by!

I must say, in all of this, I have realized that decorating a boys room can be challenging.  Especially, after decorating my little girls room first...so cute and GIRLY, IT'S JUST TOO EASY!

 After countless PB catalogues, I was inspired by CLASSIC...isn't this the reason we ALL HEART PB? But, hopefully I can pull this look off on a TARGET budget!!!

Fingers crossed, I will have more to show you by MONDAY, See ya soon ;)

My Drawers are Officially on the Ground!

I have had this dresser that my sister gave me while helping her move back in January... I have had the drawers out of it becasue they were all messed up.  Henceforth, the reason she didn't want the dresser anymore!

I had the drawers in a pile ready to be thrown away, when I walked by my sinks in my master bath one day and had a thought...

My sinks in my bathroom are free-standing and you can see the floor underneath, I had always thought of  putting baskets under there, but never got around to it, so...

I got my slave niece that I am home-schooling on it! It was 92 degrees today, so the paint was drying as she painted.  We considered this our Art class!

While the paint was drying I cut out some stencils that I traced onto parchment paper from my computer, like always!

After that I used some glaze paint stuff from HL to distress the drawers and started to stencil.  I did use some "stencil paint" that I already had from a project I never did... of course! I must say that stuff is a must if you use the parchment paper as your stencils because it does not bleed at all! Let's move on shall we?

Here it is still wet, I know because I picked it up right after this pic and smudged the "N", good thing I was going for that "not perfect" look!

And here they are in all there glory! I must say it is nice to have a place to put my towels in this bathroom since there is no linen closet in here!

I have 3 more of these drawers just sitting around, got any ideas?

Onward, to tackle the dresser!!!

Why didn't I think of that?

I can't leave well enough alone, with that said... I thought I had finished my window treatments in my kitchen nook area but...

Low and behold I was reading Centsational Girl and saw this in her kitchen...

And it got me thinking, that

1. I had the cornice board already

2. I had the fabric already            

3. I could do this right now           

Can't you tell I change things often! 

I didn't have any ribbon that matched my kitchen

So I cut some left over burlap into strips and frayed

The material was curtain panels that I had hanging here, but they looked to heavy for a breakfast nook

This is better, for now

I love people who blog!!!

Burlap Table Runner in under 10 minutes!

I have been looking for a table runner for a while now...with no luck! Nothing has caught my eye or been long enough to fit my table.

And with all the burlap going around Blogland I thought it would make a great table runner and best of all I knew I would NOT have to SEW it!

I had to buy 2 and half yards to fit my table length perfectly which cost me less than 7$ and I have half of it left over!

My table is black so while getting the material at HL I found these cute iron ons that match!

I just cut straight up the middle and started pulling the strings out the sides and bottom to give it a fringed edge, WARNING! This is messy!

And another reason I chose the burlap...it matched my rug and wall color! (insert tiny handclap)Yay me!

Now onto the window treatments...which I am pretty sure won't be Burlap but you never know.  I've seen some really cute ones out there!

And just FYI I found these cuties to hang on my wall behind the table at TJ's! 

Polka dot Monkey School-desk

My little baby boy is 2 and a half.  And I had mentioned a week or so ago that there was a HUGE consignment sale going on around these parts of which I put the baby crib in and SOLD! Its kinda sad but now we need a Big Boy bedroom, and some furniture!

I remembered I had an old school desk in my attic and thought it would make a cute nightstand. But it was kinda bland....

And numbers are so the hot thing right now that I thought it would be cute to put one on this school desk.  I didn't want to paint the whole thing and ruin its "old Charm". O and did I mention I don't have a printer, so I found a #3 on Google images and just blew up my screen page to the size I wanted and traced it on some parchment paper. 

Probably not the easiest way but I had looked for a stencil at HL and they came up short.  So I did what I had to do! And as you can see in the pic above it started curling up in the middle.  Luckily I had traced it on the wood first. After the first coat with the paper I took it off and just stayed in the lines.

I was pleased and at this point it had cost me nothing.  I used the red chalkboard paint I had left over from my kitchen.

My theme for his room is sock monkeys, but not over kill!  Just the colors mostly and a monkey here and there!  The socks you see above I found at Wal-Mart for 3.00 for 2 pair and they look just like a sock monkey, but I have no idea what to do with them.  So far I thought of cutting them up and making a pillow or my friend Sarah suggested hanging them on a clothes line on the wall (thats my fav so far!) Please leave me any suggestions you have! I would love your thoughts!

My inspiration for the theme was from The Shabby Nest, her first post from the So you think you can decorate series! I have thoroughly enjoyed that!

I am TRYING HARD to put my own twist on it! I saw this cute chalkboard at HL for 4$ I couldn't make it myself for that! And I already had the lamp which needs some ribbon on it!

The seat desperatly needed a cover on it and I do not sew anything more that a hem in something and I am lucky if that works out!! I was at Target yesterday and ran across this....

This adorable polka dot floor mat that was "squissshhhy" :)

So I just traced the back of it to fit the seat and cut! And badda bing instant seat cover.

Can't wait to put this beside his bed (that he doesn't have yet).

This was sitting by the door when we came home last night from church.  And my hubs always complains that every pic I post of him is in a white undershirt...I told him this was his opportunity for a decent pic on the blog, so he ceased the moment!

And he loved the desk too!