Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Crafting

I'm passing down my new love, knitting to Jayme and Brady.  They are catching on quite well!  And bonus for them they will get a badge from BG club for learning to knit!

So concentrated :)

Here are a couple things I have recently made... a cute hat for Colie 
And a crocheted baby blanket for a cute new baby,  Adam, son of  a couple from our small group.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Bedroom Before and After

Tada, the bedroom! The only thing left to do is paint the brown dresser black, and get some art up above the black dresser.  So what's new?  The bedding, and dresser, both from Jysk, the head and foot board were sort of my creation, I saw a homemade canopy bed on a blog and loved it, and decided to try and adapt it to our space.  I designed it and had my dad put it together.  I sanded, primed, painted and clear coated  it in our garage.  Learned a few things along the way.  What I thought would be a weekend project turned out to be a 2 week project, but I love the end result, and it was only 60$ worth of material, you can't beat that!  I bought a couple of pillows (the black ones) and sewed the teal ones (OK, my Mom helped, but I'm learning!)  I had envisioned a bench at the end of the bed, but I think that that may take up too much space, so I will leave it for now.  I'm going to paint over the canvases from our old room (in the before pic) and put them up over the dresser.  So once that's done, and the dresser refinished in black, with new hardware, we will have a winner :)






Saturday, October 2, 2010

Front Entrance

The colouring is better on the second photo, but we didn't actually paint or anything, we just put up a cute bench that I designed and upholstered (My Dad made the plans come to be) and Mark put up the mirror and I ordered the verse from a website called Lifewords.com.  It's a great site, you can order any wall decor words in any size, in any colour and in any font.  The flowers are from Urban Barn, so cute to add dimension to the wall :)  You will see them again in the bedroom... hopefully coming soon, just a couple more things to do until that room is finished.  
Tada... the after :)  Maybe a new rug would go better now, I'll keep my eyes open for something.  And of course normally there are a bunch of shoes that didn't quite make it into the closet, and usually a sweatshirt or two as well!