Finishing up the ol’ dresser today! Good progress on the apartment too.
YAY! 🙂
Come on over so you can SEEEEEEE!
Hugs, T
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Home Sweet Hub: Project Bathroom Vanity
I LOVE DIY projects! I cannot wait to show you a solid wood dresser I found that I am turning into the Bathroom vanity of the home sweet hub we are building right now.
Come SEEEEEE!
Hugs, T
The Everlasting Kitchen Project
As you all know, we were without a kitchen from July to end of October, and didn’t have a fully working one until this past month. Yikes….. I can tell you it was all worth it, but just barely. Haha, not … Continue reading
Master Bedroom Makeover
When we decorated our Master Suite, after we added on 7 years ago, it was with another home in mind, our “Dream Home”. Over the years, as we have sold off our dream land, and put aside the floor … Continue reading
Bye-bye, Kitchen Carpet!
I love our home, and I am so thankful for it, it suits our family well. HOWEVER, I have always hated having carpet in the kitchen. For 11 1/2 years I have rued it’s existance….. Yes, … Continue reading
T-shirt Scarves
I recently went to a fun Mom’s Breakfast and one of the gal’s there showed us how to make these fun T-shirt Scarves she saw off of Pinterest. Isn’t everything on Pinterest these days?! SO FUN!
Anyhow, I left before she was done, but was pretty sure I got the gist of it all. During naptime I promptly got my Mommy Chores done so I could get started making some. I went through our closets and found t-shirts nobody was wearing anymore and here is what I made:
This rosette is made out of the elastic cap sleeve from one of my t-shirts. I don’t sew, AT ALL, so I just hot glued it together.
I wore this one to church on Sunday with pink and brown plaid dress pants, but OF COURSE, forgot to have Dale snap a picture.
From 3 t-shirts I made 2 different scarves, one that is a yoke scarf, meaning it’s a continuous piece worn double looped around your neck, the other a traditional scarf with tasseled tails.
This last one I made as a gift for a friend who is helping me out this Spring, hope she loves it! {cause I sure do!!!! } 🙂
Destiny and her best friend made matching scarves, yes it’s that easy, and with their leftovers, I made Avery a yoke scarf.
She was SO proud!
Here’s how you do it:
Find an old t-shirt of hubby’s or yours that doesn’t have anything on the back, and not much on the front. You are wanting to get as many strips as you can before graphics start.
Lay it out flat on the floor or table:
Cut the bottom band off and then start cutting strips, about an inch in width. You can save the bottom band if you want and use it again as part of your scarf, but know it won’t roll up like the other strips will.
Be as straight as you can, but no need to measure, the raw edges won’t show.
Take the strip in your hand and stretch it. Move your hand and stretch it again and again, like you are pulling a rubber band in and out. Do this until your t-shirt rolls up like this, hiding raw edges:
Now, wrap it around your hand and set it down carefully in its ring shape:
Now cut the sleeve band off and discard. Then cut strips of the sleeve as well, this is how you will be tying your rings together.
Like this:
You will notice in the first scarf photos, that some of my scarves I trimmed the extra off, some I left floppy, this is totally up to you:
Keep going until you have done the whole t-shirt up to the arm pits or graphic. You can do the double looped yolk kind of scarf, which is one continuous strand, or the traditional scarf kind with tassel ends. You can also do half long strips, half rings as you will see featured in the first sage green and brown rosette scarf. The back of the scarf is the same tee shirt strips, just not in a ring shape.
For this brown and pink one, I did a braided back and attached some brown chains leftover from another shirt.
I attached them so they hung above the loops in more of a layered necklace form.
SKY’S THE LIMIT!!! Keep going, its tons of fun!
See those brown rings? They didn’t roll up like the others. Not sure why, it was a 100% cotton gap comfort t-shirt, but I just went with it and was still very happy with the end result.
To make the end tassel simply tie two loops to the last chain link then cut in half with your scissors!
I am working on some others that involve cutting circles from the t-shirt first, but we all got VERY sick this weekend, so I will share those later in another post after I have completed them!
Thanks to my friend, Keri Lee, for contacting me with a link for some more tutorials on this subject! They will do a MUCH better job explaining then I did!
My Blessed Life Scarf Tutorial
Now Go, get your Craft on! More 4 little Ferguson scarf ideas here.
~T
Pinterested
Did everyone have a Merry Christmas?!?!?! We are still recovering from fun-filled family function after family function, with more to come this week! Most years, by the time it’s all said and done, we have had 7 Christmas get-togethers! (And, no we do not do gift exchanges at every one, thank goodness!) I’ll tell you one thing, next week will be filled with naptimes and early bedtimes to get ready for school again!!! 🙂
So, I recently joined Pinterest. Oh my GOODNESS, there are so so many things on that I am interested in making, but let’s be honest, it’s just not going to happen until I have a bit more free time on my hands and some serious cash flow. But, away I pin: pinning it away for a future day with future extra time and future extra money, when my future kids are old enough to not need me to meet all their future basic needs. 🙂
However, balancing 3 different school schedules from 2 different school districts, has taken its toll on this ol’ brain, and when I forgot a school thing for the 2nd time, I knew it was time to up the Organization around here.
My calendar sits on my desk in the office/playroom at one end of the house:
My laundry room, where all the kids lockers and school notes live, is allllll the way at the other end of our very long, ranch-style house.
(Check out our laundry room makeover here.)
It is just not feasible to run to my office as they walk out the door, to make sure I didn’t forget “Bring a $1 day” or some other event written on my desk calendar.
So, as I was thinking about what to do, I remembered a pin I had re-pinned to my “Home Sweet Home” board, shared by Makes and Takes.
Here is what I did:
Bought a Poster frame at Wal-Mart for around $7.50, it was a nice big 18 x 24 one, but naturally I didn’t take a photo of it, so here is the crumbled paper from inside the poster frame that I pulled out of the trash can. Nice, right!?
The “glass” (plastic) on these kind of poster frames will be perfect for writing on with a dry erase marker! And they are much lighter than a regular frame for the hollow door I plan to hang this on.
Next, I went to Hobby Lobby and got scrapbook paper at 50% off, spent around $3. I picked brown, cream and deep red to match the laundry room colors.
I had Dale Spray paint the black metal frame a bronze color: this was free since we already had a can.
Then, I printed an empty Calendar page: found online for free.
Next, I started working on paper layouts until I figured out how I wanted them.
I decided to do a Calendar, Grocery list, To Do List and 4 Empty Squares: 1 for each kid. I am excited about being able to easily keep track of each child’s needs for school that week, as they empty backpacks at the end of a school day.
Here is the finished product:
(Yes, I am aware that I do not have pretty handwriting!) LOL 🙂
Here it is in the laundry room:
My new Organization Board aka “Brain Board” is on the door of the pantry, nice and accessible to me, but high enough to not get erased by little fingers. Plus, clever Dale found me a WET erase marker for calendar dates and the children’s names, so when I erase notes, the “basics” don’t erase too.
Cool, right?! I was pretty proud of it! {Pats self on back}
And all for around $10, too! 🙂
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~T
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The Start of a New Look!
A couple of summers ago, we got Destiny new “big girl” bedding from PB Teen for her birthday present.
She was using my day bed and dressers from when I was a kid, but once Avery was old enough to need her own bed, we decided to get the girls bunk beds.
We sold the day bed, and found the black bunks I wanted. Praise the Lord we were able to find them for the exact price we sold the day bed for!!
The top bunk still needs a comforter, but I am holding out for another sale someday down the road when cash is more readily available! There is a super cute paisley one Destiny picked out that is the exact swatch from this other comforter that now resides on Avery’s bed.
I thought it’d be fun to spray paint my old dresser and chest of drawers black to match the bunks. Well, what I WANT to do, and what I can actually accomplish these days, are two VERY different things. I was a bit scared of the paint not adhering properly to the fake finish on my 1980’s dresser, so I chickened out. (its particle board under fake cherry finish) Someday we will purchase black furniture for the girls, but for now, this will totally work!
I wanted to change the look of the dresser a bit, so tonight, we took a mirror we’ve had just lying around forever and put it above the dresser. (GRrrrr! The Before pics are NOT supposed to turn out nice than the After. Just trust me? It’s BETTER than the old way in real life!)
(See my sweet little Avery all ready for naps?)
You can’t tell it from the picture, but it totally opened the space up and actually makes that room feel bigger! Craziest thing!
Dale, being the crafty man he is, also built the girls cubbies for their Bible’s, journals, treasures and Destiny’s alarm clock. He cut old white shoe shelves and spray painted them black and attached them to the wall at the foot of each bed. So crafty I tell you!
They turned out GREAT!!!!
Destiny’s cubbie Avery’s cubbie (which is now full of stuffed animals)
To go with the new black theme, we also changed some of the white décor with the help of a can of black spray paint we found lying around the shed.
Before:
After:
I am very pleased that this room is starting to become what I’ve wanted it to be all along……..and with no money out of pocket! SCORE! 🙂
Except one thing. A BIG thing……
IT IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF PAINT!
This wallpaper has been in this room for 9 1/2 years now. It is well past time to get it out of there! Again, who has time for this nonsense though?! Not me! Not right now anyways. We do have colors picked out for our “someday” project: tangerine and hot pink.
The colors are so off in these shots, here are the paint samples in natural window light, they match her bedding perfectly.
LOVE IT!
I dream of Tangerine walls and hot pink walls with big circle decals. SOMEDAY.
Someday.
SOMEDAY! 🙂
~T
PS This is post 1 of 2 today, make sure you click over to read about some Simple Smothered Steaks! YUM!!!!
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