Somewhat "After"

Remember when I posted here about what we were doing one Saturday??  Well I still haven't gotten pictures of the whole room put together.  We painted and then had family in town, then went out of town ourselves, then everyone got sick.  I have had tons of opportunities to take pictures, but then you would see the books and jackets on the back of the couch, all the toys that still haven't been put away, and all the junk piled on my table.  Lets be honest here, I am just too lazy to clean right now.  I will show you this pic of the top of my hutch.  I am trying to figure what I want up there.  All of these things are not up there right now, but I threw them up there to get a vision.  You can tell in this picture the color of the wall. 
If you see what I see, then you see a blue wall that looks like it belongs in a newborn baby boys room.  It actually is a little darker than the picture makes it out to be, but we would have liked a little darker.  When we went to Lowes to get the paint I was a little scared of making the room too dark.  So I found a color I really liked and then went a shade lighter, because in my experience paint drys darker in my house.  Well the first time I thought I made smart decision with paint, it actually wasn't so smart after all.  We only painted one wall for an accent wall thank goodness!

We still have more than half a gallon left.  It would be so nice if they would just give us another squirt of coloring in the can so we can repaint it!  Anyone know if they do things like that?  My guess is NO!  They are going to tell me to buy another gallon of paint. 

We are on spring break this week, so we don't have Jackson.  So maybe, just maybe I will get my house back in order.  Or maybe I will just be lazy because I only have one kid to chase after, better yet we may just go shopping!!  Have a great day!

Picture Plaques

I have wanted to show you all these picture plaques I made but kept forgetting to take pictures of them.  I finally took pictures of them this weekend.  I have no clue why I didn't get pictures of these when I was making them.

I found a picture from AC Moore that looked similar to the before pictures.  I also bought a package of small clothes pins. 

I spray painted all of them.  Then sanded the edges and put a touch a brown paint on the corners.  Then I used a glaze to make them a little antique looking.

I am definitely planning on making a few more.  The reason I used the clothes pin were so I could update the pictures when I wanted.


I am linking this up to a party this week.  If you want to check out more crafty projects click on the link below.




 Edit: Reinvented Link Party

The house decorated

Welcome to our house.  Just wanted to show you the finish touches to the house for Christmas.  Hope you Enjoy!  I am linking this up to Nesting Place.  She is having a Christmas tour of homes.  Click on her link and check out her house and then all the other houses linked up to the party. 

Notice there aren't many decorations towards the bottom.  That would be because Miss Bailey throws the bulbs.

Walking up the stairs to the living room.

Our hutch.

I rearranged somethings after I took some of the pictures.  Don't mind the comb sitting there haha!  I never notice things like that until I put pictures on the computer and I am too lazy to retake and upload pictures. 

One of the end tables in the living room.

Hope you enjoyed.  It is very simple only because I don't like taking it all down in the end.

Bathroom decorations

The ladies over at Shanty2Chic are having revamp party.  I decided I would link up after I made these decorations for my bathroom.



My mom and I were out shopping one day and went into the dollar store.  I had just made these cute canvas pictures you can check out right here.  I saw these pictures and thought hmm I could do something similar with these. Not sure at the time but something!! Plus they were only a dollar so I bought six. We have lived in our house for way too long and haven't put any decorations in the bathroom downstairs.  I got the idea the other day from some scrapbook paper I really like!! 

So first I spray painted them all Rust-Oleum American Accent in Heirloom White with a Smooth Satin finish.

and painted these as well.( the letters are for mine and Jasons names)

My Bathroom is done in mostly blue.  There is a small stripe of green in my shower curtain and thought I would bring more of it out.  I found this scrapbook paper at JoAnn's Fabrics. I liked the design but didnt want the same thing on all photos.   So I cut each of the shapes out in the design I wanted.  (I forgot to take pictures of the actually cut outs sorry)

I modge podged the cut-outs the way I wanted them on the pictures.

On the other two I used some of this DecoArt Metallic Glaze.  I watered it down with some water because it comes off easier and doesn't turn out as dark or thick.

Painted it on and then wiped it off.

Added the green paper and the letters.

**Update I am also linking this up to