House Changes

Where is everyone?! Not that I have been a devout blogger myself, but it seems like blogging is becoming... I don't know... I have a few friends who are devout bloggers, almost on a daily basis. I struggle with 1- time, like everyone I'm sure, and 2- I just don't think I'm witty enough to blog sometimes. It's not that I think I need to have pictures all of the time or something SPECTACULAR to blog about or anything like that, but I want people to enjoy reading my blog. And I just haven't felt like I've done anything blog worthy these days. If you ask me whats up I couldn't tell you, however, I know I'm busy, it just seems like every day is the same as the previous day. Is this how anyone else's life is? Does it make me boring? Cuz I feel like I am L-A-M-E-OH!

When I actually started thinking about some of the things we've been doing I realized I do have a few things I could share...

First, my living room... I repainted the living room earlier in the summer. We've just had the walls the original color they were painted when the house was built. Just a light greyish plain color. So this summer I decided to paint some walls. I did most of the living room a light tanish beige kind of color and then did a DARK Chocolate Brown Wall. Which I loved. I took the lighter color and pretty much repainted the whole downstairs. Kitchen, hallways, dining room, etc. Well, then I went looking for drapes. Not easy when walls are already painted. I've always had drapes first, I LOVE drapes, and then do everything else around my drapes. So I ran into some drape dilemas... I finally found some fabric that I liked OK. So I made drapes and matching pillows.

Then I put my pictures up... I made these two frames, they started out as a piece of 4x8 plywood, we REALLY made them, put some pictures in them, repaited this window frame and threw pictures in that... and heres what I ended up with....

I put up these pics....


and then I moved on to my bedroom... did the same colors in here, found bedding that I liked. I needed drapes to match, again... GOOD LUCK! I could not match the blue/grey/metallic color in the bedding. I ended up finding the same bedding set and decided I could make my own drapes. I cut up the comforter and sewed drapes to hang and ended up with a complete bedroom. It worked out well because if you can tell the pattern on the drapes is reversed. When I cut up the comforter I realized one side was the same as the comforter I have on the bed and the other side was exactly the same but reversed. I thought that was awesome.
Here's how that ended up...


Then I moved onto the bathroom. I decided to do a RED wall. I repainted the rest of the walls the same beigey color and then did the big wall behind the mirror and tub in a dark red! I put it up and loved it. I'd thought about doing my room red but then found the other bed set that was pretty and affordable. I'm not good at waiting and shopping around. I will probably end up changing it out sooner, because I don't TOTALLY love it, but for now it works. So I finish painting the bathrooms, and I'm looking at the red thinking to my self... "Hmmmmm, self, this red would TOTALLY match my drapes in my living room!" So.... yep you guessed it...


I wish I would've done a before, before-before, and now an after! Now I have a red wall, a repainted fireplace mantel and the archway going into the dining room is now the really dark brown too. I like it all so much better.

I moved the shelf we'd made with the pictures, that used to be in the living room, into the office. I love this shelf and these pictures so much!


So you'd think that'd be it, right? Nope! I redid a bed for Kennedy... It was pretty cute before... I think its funny... I bought a head board, ok, actually my friend Kareen gave it to me! TOTAL SCORE! I Love it! Anyway, so I get a head board and footboard that are a little worn, so I repaint it white, and then I scuff it all up and sand it to make it look distressed. Couldn't I have just left it the way it was??? What's up with that? Kind of funny! Then I put these little sticker embellishements on it... Aren't they so cute? I LOVE the way it turned out!



Sooo... I get this totally cute bed all done, I know I still need bedding, just haven't wanted to spend the money yet, she hasn't noticed!, and she starts climbing into bed with Landon every night. We decide that we ought to just put her bed in the boys room if she's going to do that every night. We put the boys in bunk beds, I forgot how much I hate bunkbeds... changing sheets, making the bed, trying to give Loves to the kid in the top bed.... anyway, they are in bunkbeds, and her bed is now in there. We put all of the dressers in her room, which is all cute by the way... Oh well. She's happy in there and they like having her in there. I figure we should enjoy it while we can, that they want to all be in the same room.

Now we are thinking about moving all of them with beds and dressers into the toy room so they would acually have some room. But then we would have 3 spare bedrooms so I don't really know what the point of that would be. Any thoughts for me? How long do kids like to share? Are they going to grow out of it soon do you think? I have to redo everything and then have to change it all back, ya know?

This has turned into the LONGEST POST EVER! SORRY!!! I hope you've enjoyed seeing what I've done. I've been crafting like crazy too. Next post will be pictures of some of the cute things we've done.