Wall Displays in Our Home

master bedroom collage and shelf placement

I have been inspired by the cold weather to stay inside and decorate my bare walls.  I have had ideas and just got up the motivation this past week.  Our one year anniversary week in our home.

the original picture in the frame

chalk board paint and the initials of streets we lived on

"frame a frame" concept with inspirational words suspended within them connecting the middle art with ribbon coordinating with sofas

This is the third attempt at making the large living room frames more pleasing.  So far I like it the best, but can not guarantee it will stay this way.  I average on changing displays and rooms every three to four months.

I created a framed display in the living room on the back wall as well.  I incorporated my black and white them.  I love the contrast.

Hooded Beach Towel

So we have all seen the super cute hooded towels in magazines.  I think that they are so cute that I had one ordered for my first daughter.  We even had her name embroidered on back-love it!  Then, when it was time for my second daughter to have a hooded beach towel, I decided to create it myself.  I bought a $6.99 beach towel from a nearby box store and some 40% off ribbon from the fabric store and began cutting and sewing.  The towel and ribbon are all put together, but it still needs her name.  Since I do not have an embroidery machine, I will have to have a local boutique do that part of the project.  Since we are celebrating her 2nd birthday on a lake with the theme of sailboats, I thought her own personalized hooded beach towel would be a great gift!

I cut the towel and created a hood and attached it to the center of the towel, then added ribbon to the side edges of the towel and around the hood.

My first daughter saw what I was doing for her sister and requested that her towel also have ribbon put on it.  This is the project I am working on now.

Cheap Mini-Bedroom Makeover

So our bedroom design has nearly made me gag since we moved into our new house.  This is now the 5th bedroom I have had to decorate in our 8 years of marriage.  Each room always looks different according to the lighting, the shape, the color on the walls.  So I have had to adjust things along the way.  We had no money left to add to our room the other home purchases so I left it "as is", uninspiring and discouraging.  Hello 4th of July weekend sale at the fabric store!  I found fabric to revitalize our room totaling less than thirty dollars!  I sewed all week and this is what I came up with.  A bed skirt, four decorative pillows for the bed and two chair pillows for the Goodwill chairs I re-upholstered a couple years back.  Next stop...redoing the two side tables. 

Easter 2011

Although some strange allergy/cold sickness thing has taken residence in my sinus cavity, we still enjoyed our Easter weekend.  We celebrated secular style with our neighborhood the weekend before Easter weekend with and egg hunt on "the avenue" with some of our friends.  We prepared our house the following week.   I was able to decorate the girls new Easter baskets this year with ribbon, tulle, and flowers and beads and added fresh spring/summer flowers throughout the front and back our our home.  We even got to hang window boxes!  A super fun east coast row house tradition.  Our color theme for the flowers so far this year are red, purple, and white.   We enjoyed a Easter sunrise service with our church that was held outside downtown Old Town.  The weather was perfect.  The girls and I wore sundresses with sandals and no tights.  That is always a sign of summer in my eyes.  We gathered with the church for Easter breakfast and then we hosted Easter lunch for our friends.  Seven kids 3 and under and eleven adults.  We followed our meal with and egg hunt around our home then some egg coloring on the deck.  The temperature during our hunt was 87 degrees.  Super hot.  Foxy loved it!

Time at home

Now that yoga training is done I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.  We have enjoyed being together on weekends and working on our new home.  We have been in our home for about three months.  It feels so good here.  It is a perfect home for the four and 1/2 (Foxy) of us.  We are getting the inside around because when warmer weather comes, we will have the outside to tend to.   I finally got a run in today and also did another painting project.  While I painted the kitchen table the girls painted paper and themselves!  Needless to say, bath-time immediately followed craft/creative time.  So far with the new year themed "peace", it has gone well.  M.'s birthday and spring are just around the corner which already brings happiness and peace to my mind.  I absolutely loathe winter-I decided that February 1st this year.  Yay for painting and yay for almost-might-as-well-just-call it... Spring!!