Ella's Room

I'm excited to show off Ella's room. Thanks to Pinterest and my sister, Morgan, her room is almost finished!

Above her bed is the letter "E" in a silver frame...

In one corner of her room is this corner shelf my Grandad built. The green vase came from a flower shop when I was in the hospital with Riley. I added the Gerber daisies from Hobby Lobby. I'm also using the shelf a a beginning book shelf. One the second to last shelf are embroidery hoops with fabric in them. The fabric matches all the bedding in the room.

Ella's first book: "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" by Kate Toms. This book is so cute!

This is Ella's bed. I made the fitted crib sheet from a vintage flat sheet of my Grandmom's. The dust ruffle was made out of vintage sheets as well. And the crib bumper I made out of assorted fabric and white minky.

Ella approves!

Also in the room is a twin bed. My Great-Grandmother purchased it in the 50's. The orange pillow case is an oldie from my Grandmom's house. I made the quilt using mostly half-square triangles.

On the wall above the twin bed is more embroidery hoops with fabric.

In the corner above Ella's bed I hung pom poms and lanterns. My sister, Morgan, helped me make the pom poms and did all the arranging because I am not that talented.

My husband also painted the walls. When we bought the house the entire room was the turquoise blue color.  I could handle the blue, but wanted to tame it just a little, so we painted the top half buttermilk cream and my Grandad and husband added the chair rail.

This is my favorite room in the house! And the bed is so comfortable! I have a few more things I want to add. Hopefully I'll get around to them this summer!

Jaycie

Mini Volcanoes!

I found this craft on my new love, Pinterest!

Supplies: food coloring, baking soda, vinegar, cookie sheet and medicine dropper.

Pour a little vinegar in a cup and add a color. Spread the baking soda on a cookie sheet, and using the medicine dropper drop drops of vinegar onto the baking soda. Little mini volcanoes will start popping up!

Riley loves to line things up and organize. She even organizes her volcanoes. I love this girl!

Fun little project and easy clean up!

What to make 2011

In order to clean out my bookmarks, the following is a list of things I want to make this year:

1. Ruffle pillow for Riley’s room.

2. T-shirt pillow.

3. This wall art or this wall art, both using toilet paper rolls.

4. Crayon and notepad holder for Riley.

5. Magazine holder for my kitchen.

6. Bottle caps pot holder.

7. Styrofoam ball for living room decoration.

8. Lunch sack.

9. Book page wreath.

10. Toolbelt for Braxton.

11. Alphabet cards for Riley.

12. Quilted dish mat.

13. Lunch box notes for Riley.

All I need to do is print these notes off and save them for Riley.

14. Fun wreath.

15. Fabric pumpkins.

16. Felt rug – zebra to match Riley’s room.

17. A cobblestone road quilt.

18. Bows!

19. Hexagon afghan.

20. Red, white, and blue garland.

21. Handmade coasters.

22. All this baby stuff.

23. Safety pin bracelet.

24. Montesorri-style crayon holder.

This will hopefully be the first thing I make! I love this so much!

25. Burp cloth.

26. This crocheted rug.

or maybe this braided rug.

27. Sock snowmen.

28. Sock wreath.

Hopefully subject to updates!

Look at what my Grandad made!

My Grandad, there isn’t anything he can’t build or fix! I really believe that! He restored an old trunk that looks so amazing (and I want it by the way!), and he also restored a cedar chest that was a wedding present to my Mother from my Dad. They weren’t married all that long, but I’m grateful to have that cedar chest. Really, I love that thing. Henry hates it, but it’s not going anywhere!

Anyway, Henry and I have been in the need for more storage space for our clothes. Henry has so many plain white t-shirts and I have a lot of what my family calls “everyday clothes”. One day this summer, I spotted a garage sale on the side of the road. Right in the middle of the sale was a good size chest of drawers. I coaxed my thrifty Aunt into going to check the garage sale out and find out exactly how much the chest was…. $20, I’ll take it.

The chest wasn’t in bad shape, but I knew no matter what shape it was in, my Grandad could fix it for me! And did he ever!

Even Riley approves!

I can’t tell you how nice it is not to have to cram all of our clothes into a tiny, Wal-Mart chest. However, that tiny, Wal-Mart chest found a new home in Riley’s room!

Recycled Diaper Box

I have TONS of empty diaper boxes. I have been keeping them for a while thinking I might use them for something great one day. Well, I finally recycled one of them and this is what I came  up with!

We also have TONS of books laying around. I try to pick them up every night, but then I have nowhere to store them. I knew I needed something that was easy for Riley to get to since she absolutely loves books.

I had some bluish fabric and got my Mod-Podge out and went to work. The fabric needs to be dark since the purple Luvs box is so… loud. You can still see it through this fabric, and other than black fabric, I don’t know if any would hide the purple.

Anyway, I just wrapped the box like you would a gift. I used an envelope for the “Books”, but I plan to get something a little prettier sometime soon. I recycled another diaper box here.

Very easy, free, and Riley loves her Books box! Yea!