Hello Easter!

So the Easter Bunny struck a day early who cares?! I was done with St. Patricks Day and was ready to get in my Spring stuff! This might also have something to do with the arrival of my BRAND NEW SILHOUETTE! So this is what my overly shelves looked like this morning.

Here they are now!

I got this cute little tree at the Dollar Store and propped it up on a wood block so that it would show behind my 2x4 blocks. I just cut all of my letters out on the Silhoutte and Mod Podged it all together.

I got these babies in the dollar been at the "Red Walmart" and I had to put my cuties initals on them. I want to fill them with something but I'm not quite sure what yet.

I also made the penant with my new fun toy!

Hope you all have a great day :)



Living Room Makeover

Hello there! I know I haven't blogged in a while but we have been doing some renovations to the house and well I had baby #3 so I have been a little busy.

When we first bought our house this room was a big ole stinkin mess! I wish I had the pictures to show you, picture linoleum floors and awful dark paneling oh and the fact that there was once a kitchen in this room!

We ripped out the kitchen laid new floors and painted all the walls white.
(Yes that's big brother haha)

 It sat like that for a while and I got the bright idea that if I painted the walls YELLOW that it would tone down my red furniture, yeah right!

This is what it looked like after that. I loved my picture wall.

These next 2 pics came from Christmas morning but they were the only shots I could find of these 2 parts of the room, you can see we have this weird corner between the kitchen doorway and the hallway doorway.

 

Ahh Young and the Restless :)

Now after 4 years of all of this I couldn't stand it any longer. So my wonderful twin sis over at Semper Fi Life and my kids Nana came over to help me out with this huge project, seein as how I was 8 months pregnant and all. I needed all the help I could get!

Some paint, new furniture, blood, sweat, tears(children's tears b/c we wouldn't let them in the room), and a frazzled pregnant woman later and here she is in all her splendor!

  

Yes that's my Christmas tree under there ;)





Sis keeps making her way into my shots hehe :) I moved the Hubs recliner over to the weird corner, I'm still trying to figure out if I like that or not. Also I think it needs more color but for now I am thrilled with it!

I'm linking up here Between Naps On The Porch



Hairbow Holder

Well I have about 3 more crafts I need to post about but for now this is just a little gift I put together for a friend. The K is actually for our new addition but I haven't quite finished it yet.

I just picked up a couple of letters from HobLob for $1.99 apiece.

I used a couple of stencil brushes and a medicine cup to make my circles. Then I hot glued my ribbon on the back.

A cute little wood butterfly from HobLob to weigh it down and wah-lah!

There it is, I'm going to add a couple of homemade hair bows before I give it to her.



Silhouette Giveaway!

Tatertots & Jello has a great giveaway this week so link on over here and check it out!

$7 Crayon Wreath

Well we have had our craft on at the Hale house today so I will be posting all kinds of goodies over the next few days. So a few weeks back I saw this adorable idea for a wreath and thought that it would make a great gift idea for my sons preschool teacher. So I took myself down to HobLob and got my supplies.

I found this cute little apple over in the wood cutouts and I just took my Sharpie and wrote the preschool name on it.

Then I found some embroidery hoops and I only used the inside small hoop and the inside large hoop so I still have the outside hoops to use on another project.

 My advice is to paint your hoops before you start your project. I did not do this and I am having to go back with my sharpie and black out all the areas you can see. I only used about 50 crayons so you do not need to buy this box of crayons but I wasn't sure how many I would need and you can never have to many crayons at our house. I had this blue ribbon leftover from making hair bows.

 Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the process, I got into it and kept on going. I glues my ribbon on first and then my apple on top of that. Next I started gluing my crayons, it took me 50 thousand several attempts and a few crayons had to sacrifice their lives for me to figure out the correct spacing but once I got flowing it went pretty fast. All in all I only spent about 7 dollars for the whole thing.

I am linking it up here.

Trim For Lil Sis

So this weekend the hubby and I decided to be somewhat productive and get Lil Sis's chair rail put up. When we finally got started it only took about 30 minutes b/c the chair rail has been sitting painted in the building for months. Although it did not go off without a few hitches, like when the DVD player fell off the dresser and hit me in the back. Fun Fun. I still haven't filled in the nail holes but I am so excited to have a project done around here!

This is what happens when you can't find a stud and your husband is a perfectionist carpenter.

Take a look at how crooked the walls in our house are!

All finished!

After the trim was up I decided to be brave and clean out the closet, nothing in there actually belonged to Lil Sis so with the new baby coming I thought it was time to have a place for the toys. It only took 35 hours!

I CANNOT wait to get rid of this carpet but for now this is our big girl room.



Lil Sis's Room

When we first bought this house this was the only room that required no construction, but it was painted flat black with yellow trim....yuuucckk. Well my twin sissy was moving in with us so she picked a blue for the walls and we painted the trim cream. When baby sis was born I wasn't ready to lose my guest room ( twin sis got married and moved out) so I just stuck a crib in the corner and put a bedding set that matched the blue. Well finally this summer when Lil Sis was ready for a big girl bed I redid the room.

This is what her nursery looked like.

 This is what we did this summer, I went to Lowe's and bought a section of picket fence, I brought it home and hubby cut it down to size then I painted it white and instant headboard!

I made this hair bow holder for her, oh and I made the hair bows :)

And don't you love the football on the fan chain lol!

After 3 years in this house that carpet has got to go, so that is on the reno list.

Well like I said in Bubba's post, this room will eventually become his thanks to new baby sis so we will start the decor process all over again.