Projects You'll Want To Do TOO :)

#1  Halloween Wreath.

I vowed I would never decorate for any other holiday than Christmas....but it's all gone downhill since doing a little something for Valentine's Day this year...

I think it's pretty much the CUTEST Halloween wreath I've ever seen, if I do say so myself. It turned out even cooler than I expected!  I used some burlap-type material for the cream rosettes, black felt for the black ones, and regular cotton for the purple and orange rosettes.  Then I added some awesome sprays from Hobby Lobby, and ta da!  So fun.

#2 Good-Looking Booster

Then, on PINTEREST (my new favorite place to get awesome craft ideas) I saw a tutorial for this great idea for a cute-looking "booster seat!"  I have to say that some of these "it's so easy" type sewing tutorials lie.  This one doesn't! The hardest part was cutting out the fabric to the correct size.... and it only took me like 25 minutes (most of that cutting the fabric).

Anyway, you use a vinyl tablecloth, make a square cushion out of it, and fill it with polyfill.  The tablecloth was 3.50 at Ross, and the polyfill was 50 cents at a yard sale!  (and I only used half of that, and like 1/4 of the tablecloth).  Anyway, for the tutorial, you'll want to go HERE .  I know what you're thinking:  "Doesn't it slip off?" It doesn't...at least on my chairs it doesn't!  and it's the perfect height for my 2.5 yr. old.  But, seriously ladies, the best part it:  IT'S NOT UGLY LIKE A REAL BOOSTER SEAT!  You can leave it on your chair in the kitchen and it will fit right in with the decor (as long as you get a cute tablecloth :)

And here she is trying it out!

She's cute, but a very wiggly model.  This was the best shot I got haha :)

Anyway, more stuff to come.  I'm soon to be done with my bedroom revamp!

We Are Freaks.

Yep. Freaks. In a matter of 2 days, we redecorated the living room. The thing is, we were already planning on putting up a couple of galleries with our new family pictures. And for the last three years, I've been dying to paint the fireplace wall a gray blue color, and Jordan has resisted (since the wall is 18 feet HIGH! I mean, who wouldn't, right?).

Then, the navy blue curtains I made a while back, have gotten bleached in the sun, so I'd been meaning to change them (with something LINED this time!), but there was a problem... Even the 108" curtains are too short. SO, we had to make a cornice. Custom. Jordan is a saint. He did it all (well, I helped on the easy parts :)

First, here is a picture of the progress. The only one I have. Seriously. Sorry. We used the Valspar one-coat paint from Lowe's (Jordan said he'll NEVER go back to any other--we used less than a gallon of paint on this wall and ONLY ONE COAT.)

My honey doing the painting! NOW. The reason we are FREAKS, is because we decided to do this last Wednesday. We needed it done by Saturday morning because I had a baby shower here on Saturday at noon. SO, Jordan did all the painting on Thursday and then on Friday, we had to do the curtains. (and that was AFTER 10pm because we had my family's Christmas party that night!) That took a LONG time. In fact, for the 3rd time in my life (first since college!) I pulled an all-nighter!!! AH! It was crazy. We were rushing to get this done!!

And then once we got it done, we had to clean up. YOu should have seen the mess!! Our AWESOME friends, Rachel and Jonathan came over on Saturday morning and helped us clean up. Jonathan steams ALL of the curtains. He was awesome! Rachel helped clean up the tools and vacuum and mop! They are the BEST!!!!

Ok, and now here is the outcome:

Like how the stockings are hung on the piano? Haha...that's another project...we couldn't put them on the actual stocking hooks because Claire can pull them down :)

Here are the galleries:

And the curtains:

I'm going to make some pillows out of the same fabric I used for the cornice (the thingie on the top of the curtains) but ran out of time! (and my sewing machine is acting up)

And here is the crowning jewel of the room. Haha--actually I'm showing this because I was really impressed with my taping job! Pretty good huh?? *the key is to use your nail to press down the tape on the edge you'll be painting over so NO paint gets through! Then you'll never have the bleeding paint issue!