T's Room

It's done! Teagan's room inspired by Just a Girl's room (well, I still have curtains to add, but that's no biggy).
The bed is now under the tree and against the wall...not as convenient for our "guest room" but much better for our two-year old.


Here's the view from the door (she loves the birdies!)

And the finished dresser (now that the bed's not there, but butterflies seem a bit high, but they'll work for now)

And the nightstand

T wanted to sleep in there Sunday night, so we tried it out. I said good night, turned out the light, closed the door, & five minutes later she was knocking at the door, "I thirsty!" Hmm...not sure how she got out of the bed. A very high bed. With a bed rail up. In the dark. With no night light. That was the end of the butterfly room for now. She was asleep in her crib ten minutes later, and I'm okay with that. I'm not sure I'm ready for my baby to grow up anyway.

Dresser Refinished

So I bought a dresser, nightstand, bed, tall dresser and a mirror at a garage sale a few weeks ago. I paid $70 for the set. I really only wanted this dresser, but she didn't want to separate the set...so I bought it all...with the hopes that I'd be able to sell the rest on craigslist. And I did. But I only sold two pieces. The tall dresser and the bed. And I sold them for $60. So...in essence, I spent $10 on this dresser, the nightstand (previous post...you can see why I couldn't get rid of it!), and a mirror for above the dreser that I know I'll use someday.

And I transformed this:

into this:

Cute, huh? It wasn't all wood, so I decided to spray paint it using the suggestions from here.  Because spray paint is a bit more expensive, I ended up spending about $50 to refinish it all. Still, $60 for a dresser, nightstand & mirror? Not too shabby!  Completed room pics coming up next.

Nightstand part 2

Remember this? Well...it's now found a better home in my office (I always need more storage for my ever-increasing fabric stash). And this one is taking it's place. Hmm...I really want to spray paint that frame pink.

Pillow #3

Inspired by this. A simplified version, because Ryan likes simple (yes, he cares!).

Pillow #2

Inspired by this.

Pillow #1

Let me preface this post with the fact that I maybe spent 1 hour on projects last week.  Well, maybe 2, but it sure wasn't a lot.  So...now you really know my secret.  I don't craft every day.  In fact if I hadn't finished one of my pillows last week & touched up my newly refinished dresser, I wouldn't have crafted at all.  And I'm okay with that.

  I'm also okay with telling you that while May was awesome, I'm not sure I'll ever have such a productive month again!  I now have to work on some bigger projects--my brother's wedding invitations, a couple of quilts, & fully enjoying this summer with my kiddos.  For now, I have a weeks worth of posts waiting (yes, I could post 3 pillows at once, but what's the point?!).  And then it may be a drought for a while.  We'll see.

Here is pillow #1.  For Teagan's room.  Don't mind that the ruffles are crooked.  I didn't.

Inspired by this.

A Butterfly Pillow

I feel like this was meant for Teagan's room.  Maybe not in felt though.  Something is telling me that I should probably use washable fabric in her room...

The (too big) Lamp

We got this as a hand me down about 10 years ago, and we've never really used it. I wanted a lamp for T's nightstand. It's a bit big, but as the saying goes, "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." I made do.

Before

After

It's a bit busier than I envisioned, but I can hardly stand the ribbon on the top and needed to do something different on the bottom. So, little rosettes made of scraps worked perfectly to cover my less-than-perfect lampshade. If you want to recover your own lampshade, I followed this tutorial.

The Bow Board

I finished my bow holder for Teagan. And a slew of new flower clips too. I already have a great bow holder for T's nursery made by my crafty friends Amie & Lisa...but she needed one to match her new room. I did my bow holder a tad different and just covered the glass of the frame so that some day I can use the frame for its intended purpose.


With new clips, I was able to I channel my good friend Becky (check out Laynie's perfect hair), and today Teagan had matching flowers in her piggies.

Found it!

I found T's dresser today at a garage sale. Girly, yes? When we went to pick it up, Ryan looked at thier driveway and kept going, convinced that it wasn't that dresser that I had purchased...he just doesn't see the vision! So, now begins the process of refinishing...I orignally thought I would do this, but there aren't a lot of nooks and crannies. So maybe I'll just revert to my old ways and spray paint this one. We'll see.

Butterflies

A while back, I found this bow holder tutorial & thought, why on earth would that woman destroy those butterflies to make a bow holder!? In all fairness, her bow holder did turn out cute (and I may make one for T's room in the future), but I hated to see those butterflies go to waste. So, I made my own.

Cute, huh? But I can't put just one above Teagan's bed. So how about three? I love them, and so does she.
Teagan: "They pretty."
Seal of approval, yes?

Thanks Grandpa

Many years ago, Ryan's grandpa made him this nightstand. He died a while before Ryan and I met, but had I met him, I think I would have liked him. Hello...maybe he would have even taught me to woodwork! It's an awesome nightstand & we've always used it. Though, the finish was never really our style.


So...I finally confirmed (probably 3 times) with Ryan that he didn't care if I painted it. And then I painted it. It took quite a few coats & I'm not sure I did that great, but it looks fantastic in T's room. The Liberty of London box I picked up fits perfectly. If she's anything like her brother, she'll have her fair share of junk to hide away in that box. Which makes me love it (and the lid) even more.

And, I love the little milk glass candlestick that I got a CAM. I flipped it over & voila, what a fun vase! I do have a second (it came in a set) and now I need to find another spot for it.

Diana's Birds

I love good friends...I could not have done (should I say, would not have done?) nearly as much on my tree mural today if it not for the encouragement from my friend Diana. She is amazing. I would have fretted and contemplated and worried and wondered if every leaf looked perfect and if every branch reached the right location. She helped me to look at the overall picture, adjust things & gave me the confidence to just go for it. And go for it we did! No overhead projector either. We just opened up this page on Ryan's laptop & went to town (chalk first of course).

Diana added these little birds. Aren't they just adorable?!

I'm still going to do a little touch up because I have to get rid of the excess chalk marks, but imagine this with a little dresser (that I WILL soon find on craigslist) in front of it. Once I get that...and the nightstand painted...and the curtains up, I'll take a picture of the whole ensemble. Thank you Diana!

Time for Beds

Today was project day, in a big way. Teagan's room was pastel sage (think ugly mint) is now a pretty, icy blue (thanks in no part to our own efforts mind you...a big thanks to some lovely friends who auctioned off their services!). This bed was black this morning and is now white. Love spray paint. Don't love the cramp in your hand leftover from using six cans. On to the tree mural...and painting the nightstand...and finding a new dresser...and doing something cool with her lamp. I thought about painting it pink, but I might be too boring. I may just do something cool to the lampshade instead.

T's Big Girl Room

One step closer. We have a quilt (thank Jill!). I tried to pick out the accent fabrics today, but I think paint needs to come first (learned my lesson on T's nursery). I hope the final product will look something like this.