Long time and Bippity Boppity Boo

When I asked A earlier in the month what she wanted to be for Halloween I wasn't surprised when she said a princess.  I WAS a little surprised when she said she wanted to be Cinderella.  Mostly because everyone knows her favorite princess is sleeping beauty.  ;)  So I thought for sure we were making a sleeping beauty costume.  But no, Cinderella.  Which was fine because I had seen THIS and knew i could do it. 

While the maker of this blog is amazing with her skills, where were some things about that dress I wasn't a fan of so we tweaked it a little.  I used the knit for the whole thing because I felt like it was warmer and cuter.  I also liked the white satin for the inset and made it a V.  AND, I made the hip poofy things come together in the middle.  All in all i LOVE it!  :)

So Here is our little Cinderella.  It really was too perfect for her with her long blonde hair and her great love of all things princess.  she has been WAITING to wear this.  She told everyone at the trunk or treat that she was "Cindalella."There was much twirling and prancing.  We even found some "Glass" slippers.

For anyone still reading this blog, sorry about the lack of posts. I have not been on a crafting hiatus, but I have not had as much time for blogging.  Couldn't let thins beauty go though!  :)

Laundry Room Remodel

Here is what our laundry room looked like pre-remodel... It was pretty crowded. Notice the laundry sorter crammed into that little space? I have been wanting to make it over for a while now but have lacked the motivation.

I found exactly what I wanted to make on
this awesome website!
But I had to tweak the plans to make it four baskets high and bigger to accommodate the larger baskets I wanted to use. I found this girls site a couple of years ago when it was knockonwood.com. But she has since moved on to better things! So I have had my eye on the sorter for a while and have had plenty of time to make it over in my head...

Long story short... We stacked our washer and dryer, moved the cabinet up against the ceiling... painted and distressed it... then built the sorter and painted and distressed that. And then we moved it all in again!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

I'm not usually a pastel person but this yellow is so sunny and bright! (its actually a lot lighter than it is showing up in the pictures.) I might actually do some laundry now! ;)


A shout out to Jess at
Whimsical Treasures
for finding me these sweet chalkboard frames! The are so perfect! They are having a show soon so you should check them out! I love their stuff! Can you tell by all the exclamation marks?!!!!

Rapunzel Dress

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair...
Our little princess with the long hair needed a Rapunzel dress to celebrate the release of tangled! So off to the machine I went!

First there was a trip to wal mart to get supplies. I needed a purple shirt and pink ribbon. Between that and the sweet purple fabric I picked up in LA a while ago we had the perfect dress. She loves it and has been princessing it up all day long!

Need an opinion...

So this is a sampling of what my colors are in my room. I was going for a lighter blue here and it didnt work out like I thought. Should I repaint in a lighter blue or just get rid of the light blue and gold accents... Im torn... But its driving me crazy...
HELP!

naughty me

Dear bloggers... I can not apologize for my absence because life happens and i am a self proclaimed lazy blogger. So you will have to forgive my absence. I have recovered my camera and hopefully in the next couple of days will have some goodness for you all! I was very busy before the holidays. Here is a hint about a couple of my projects...

The ghetto seamstresses bedskirt

I have been working on pulling together my bedroom on and off for a long time now. Here is the latest piece of the puzzle. I needed a bed-skirt that was longer than usual. We have our bed up on blocks so we can store stuff under it. I looked online and extra-long bed-skirts were crazy expensive! So I hit up the local Wal-mart and grabbed a white bed-skirt and 6 yards of sheer blue fabric off the sale pile and took her home!

Then I cut the 6 yards straight up the fold, gathered it all with my gathering foot and sewed it right over the top of the white bed-skirt. It pools on the ground and the edge was finished anyway so I didn't even have to hem it! I love it and someday when we build our head and foot board it will finish it off perfectly!

(best part? You cant see all the crap we have under there anymore!)

Boys Room Remodel

I have been wanting to finish Kadens room for months. We switched up his room and James office so that when the time comes we will have enough room to stick a baby in there... Someday... not soon. :) Anyway. I had a hard time getting motivated to to anything about it after the switch. I was working on redoing three rooms. A little too ambitious I think. But I finally did it! It has taken a while to get everything finished, but Its ready. So here is a look!

First... the PLAID WALL! I love how it turned out. I am going to do a tutorial on my craft blog. I learned a lot while doing this! It isnt perfect but just dont look too close. It was a lot of fun and I have my friend Jen to thank for all her help with this one! Kaden picked out the colors for the walls and while I was a little skeptical i like how it turned out.

My Uncle works for a city and I asked him to keep an eye out for old signs they didnt need anymore and he came though like a champ! This combined with some hooks for his stuff and a project display board and we were golden!

I got the idea for this from THIS BLOG and it was the perfect solution for our latest dilemma. Kaden always brings home papers from school that he wants to keep and they end up all over the house. So now we put them here and when we are tired of them we chuck them or save them in a more permanent place.

I got Kaden this chair from IKEA a while ago. It had a plain canvas cover on it and while it is a GREAT little chair, it was kind of ugly. So I took an extra pillowcase and some black binding and recovered it. Super easy and fast!

In his old room we had these framed pictures of cars in blue frames so they got a paint job and some new home made art.

I just loved these round rungs from IKEA... again. Love that place! They were only a couple bucks each too!

Heres how things look looking at his bed.

And heres the view of the other wall. These were some galvanized buckets from... IKEA... :) I punched holes in the buckets and screwed them into the wall with anchors. He stores all sorts of treasures in them.