Working Hard
Still working away. We worked steadily from 7AM until 5:30 PM and then took a break to have dinner with friends. The kids room is probably 70% done and our room is almost all painted but not ready for the big reveal yet. Hopefully…
Underway – Project Bedrooms
I feel like I’m in the midst of a ‘While You Were Out’ episode and my kids are the clients. We’ve gotten the loft bed assembled and we’re bringing toys and furniture back in. Tomorrow we start on our room.
Ruffled Bed Coverlet – Again?!
Sewing . . . sewing . . . sewing . . . Man this is turning out to be a boring project – I sure hope it turns out well. It would actually be a great project for a beginning seamstress since it’s just…
Ruffled Bed Coverlet – Part 2
It turns out that we’ll be doing the bedroom redo this weekend, rather unexpectedly, so I’ll be working frantically to get my projects done before then. The headboard is actually more of a priority but it didn’t get above 50 degrees today so I…
Ruffled Bed Coverlet
On to the next project for the bedroom; I’m starting on this one because it’s too cold to paint the headboard tonight. I’m making a ruffled coverlet for our bed. Tonight I’ve cut the base fabric and all the strips for the ruffles (which…
Crib to Headboard Transformation: Part 1
When my daughter transitioned into her ‘big girl’ bed we were left with a white crib to store in the garage, and it turned out to have been a recalled crib, so we couldn’t sell it. To complete the recall we had to send…
Using Beach Pebbles to Create a DIY Decorative Mirror
Last summer we spent a wonderful week on a family vacation at the Oregon Coast. The house we rented was right on the ocean, on a great beach with only one slight drawback – the 20 yards of rocks and beach pebbles between the…
Bedroom Gallery Wall
Tonight I’m working on the gallery wall for our bedroom redesign. I’m using a variety of frame shapes and sizes, but all the frames are black and the images are in sepia or black and white. Once I have all the frames ready with…
Photo Editing from Color to Black and White
Part of my upcoming bedroom transformation will be a gallery style photo wall to display some of our family pictures. I’d like to use all black and white photos for the wall, so that means I need to edit some of our existing images…
Soneto XVII
Today’s project was another pillow for our bedroom redecoration. I used the same fabric as the paella pillow and sewed a simple square cover with an opening for the pillow (I might sew the opening closed later since the pillow insert is washable). For…
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