Pregnancy Randomness...

When I'm pregnant I really, truly sometimes feel like I turn into a different person... Doesn't that make you feel for my poor family????:)

Actually what I'm referring to isn't negative, or at least, I don't think it is.

Let's just say that I get... motivated.

Things happen.

LOTS of things.

My brain kicks into serious overdrive.

My creative juices bubble over.

I really wish that I was like this all the time!

Projects pile up, and I can't wait to get my hands on them!

 

Evan's "big boy room" is in the finishing stages... That is SOOO fun for me!

The nursery is taking serious shape in my brain.

Can't wait to get that in motion too!

Ok, so an example of what happens when my brain operates like this...

I was taking a couple of trash bags full of clothes (yes, purging happens too when I'm pregnant :) ) out to the car to take to GW. Well, they didn't make it all the way out the door because the wheels started turning. As in, "Why am I getting rid of all this FABRIC????" Normally, I'm too lazy to try to come up with ideas of what to do with stuff. But in a matter of seconds I had THREE projects in mind with what I saw at the top of the pile. And as I was walking back to the bedroom to finish my cleaning, I absently stopped, because I really just thought of the coolest idea for a banner to make for Evan's room out of some old khaki's I spotted in there. Well, I turn around and my little shadow had been following me and stopped dead in his tracks right along with me and was totally just standing there staring at me like, man, my mom is weird... Ha!:) I had to laugh out loud and kiss his little cheeks:)

So the projects that just came to me were:

• Curtain embellishments for the nursery out of a flowy fun skirt. Oh and the curtain itself is going to made out of a pale pink sheet that I found in the 'as is' section at Ikea for a few bucks:)
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• Matching pillow out of the same skirt.
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• Fabric flowers to add to a cardigan in my closet that really needs a boost.
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• Fabric banner to hang over the window in Evan's room.

I'm so excited to add those to the list, and continue to work on the pile of things that I already have going:)

 

The 2 "new" bedrooms, Evan's "big boy" room, and transforming the nursery to all things girly, are mostly going to be decorated with handmade items and I am having SOOOO much FUN!!!!

 

I'll be posting pics. If not here then on facebook, so stay tuned :)

 

Oh, and a major thing that I am SOOO excited about?!?!? My family is coming tonight and staying for a week! And the best part? Mom and my sisters are going to spend the whole week helping me with these projects!:) Yay for me! Hello to painting 2 bedrooms in a flash!

Nonny, Nonny!!!

So Evan has this major hangup with anything electronic with buttons - as any active 16 month old would I'm sure. Well he is constantly going in his room and adjusting his electric heater, humidifier and cd player. SO annoying. Well I have spent quite a LOT of time trying to teach him that that is a no no. So this included alot of telling him that is Naughty-Naughty!!

The other day James went into Evan's room to fill the humidifier and adjust the setting and Evan follows him in there, finger just a waggin' as hard as he could and declaring "Nonny-Nonny!!!!"

We had a pretty good laugh at that one:)

Merry Christmas!!

I know, I know... Christmas is over now, but I wanted to share our card with you all.

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!!

Dresser Before & After

First of all let me say thank-you for all your ideas & opinions for the frame on my previous post. The frame is now white:) Can't wait to get it finished and show you!

And now...

Here is the dresser that I FINALLY have pictures for! As all my facebook friends know I've been busy painting this & that and now I have my first before & after ready to show you:)

Here is the beaut' before: Don't you just love laminate???

Oh yes, it was soooo pretty....

Tada!! Not too shabby, huh?

Here's the "new" hardware... Let me just say Oil Rubbed Bronze spray paint is my new bff!!! Love that stuff, it is so amazing the change it makes. Goodbye brass, hello gorgeous! Now I must say that this hardware is so not my pick but for now it will do just fine, I was trying to spend as little money as possible. A $5 dresser, $1 jar of mistint paint, and a teeny bit of spray paint, I think that's pretty good:) At least I'm happy:)

And one more parting shot...
I'm having so much fun with projects around the house right now, mainly wall decor for my living room, so stay tuned for some more pics to come... Hopefully soon!!:)

Please help...

I need opinions from all my crafty bloggy friends who have such good taste:)

Okay, so I have this frame...

I want to make either a chalkboard to put in it, or a sillouette of Evan.

It will hang on this wall above this couch.

My question is...

Should I paint it more white or leave it as it is?????

Tell me watcha think!:)

Oh and this is my inspiration photo for this wall, I'm going to try to do something similar to this.

Hmmm.... Now that I look at this again I'm leaning more towards painting it white... Ack! Help! I could sit here and go back & forth all day!

I like me some good CVS deals:)

So I think I finally have a blog-worthy CVS trip:)

Olay Cleansers: On sale for $5 x2      = $10

Gillette Razors: On sale for $5.97       = $5.97

Tide Detergent: On sale for $5.96 x2  = $11.92

Coupons used:
CVS $5 off $25 purchase            = -$5
CVS Happy Birthday coupon $3 = -$3
CVS ECB $2.50                         = -$2.50
CVS ECB $4.00                         = -$4

MFG coupons used:

$2 off Olay cleansers x2    = -$4
$2 off Gillette razors          = -$2
$2 off Tide detergent x2    = -$4

Total value of purchase: $27.89

Total CVS coupons used: $14.50

Total MFG coupons used: $10

Total out of pocket: $4.74!!!!!!!

Total ECBs received to use next time: $5!!!!!

Yippee!!:)

I was disappointed, my CVS was out of the Reach flossers so I missed out on a $2 money maker which would have sweetened my deal even more, but I'm still pretty happy:)

M.I.A.

Yeah, that's been me!!

But guess what?

I'm back!:)

Well, after about 3 crazy months we are finally in a place that we are calling "home". Sounds so weird because Rowan county NC has never been "home" ever before. But now. It is. (I will share pics, I promise:) )

After 2 moves in 2 months I am ready to just sit down, put my feet up, drink lemonade on my front porch, and watch life creep by. Ha. As if that's going to happen! And I really don't want it to:)

We bought a pretty little piece of land with a house on it that was built in 1907 but has been completely gutted down to the studs and brand new drywall, trim, etc. throughout in 1992, so not completely new, but new enough.

By "little" piece of land I mean 1.15 acres. Ok, not so little:) But again, we wanted room for our munchkin to RUN outside.

And what comes with all that house and land goodness? Why LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of projects!! Good for keeping me busy and also good for blogging:) Aren't y'all just so lucky??:)

Well, let's get started... Here is my first project. (Not the bed, the walls...:) But the bed did get put together, we are not sleeping on the floor...)

See all that stripy wallpapery goodness? *sarcastic snort* I know wallpaper is coming back in style but if I ever hop on the boat it will be a LONG time from now! And it really did look much worse in person than in these pictures. Very masculine and dark. Notice I'm using past tense when referring to it. Its gone. :) All gone. :) You know how when you buy a new house there is always the previous owner's "smell" left? (In our case greasy cooking smell stuck to all the wood in the house *gag*) Or else the house has been empty and there's just a weird smell? Well we have the privilege of both... The house had been empty for a few years except a few weekends here and there, kinda like a vacation house I guess, but when we put an offer on it and had the home inspection done there were a bunch of repairs that needed to be made so the guy moved in and fixed them all himself, he's a handy-man for a living so I guess it worked out for him. Anywho, so in hopes of getting rid of the weird smells I'm working on stripping all the wallpaper and repainting as quickly as possibly.

What? You didn't think the only room with wallpaper was the bedroom did you??? Oh. No. It's in lots of places, I will show you those rooms on a later post:) But I must say, this was BY FAR the easiest wallpaper removal I've ever had the privilege of taking on. And I've had wa-a-a-a-ayyyyy too many!

So that's a snippet of my real life right now! Stripping wallpaper. Cleaning. Deep cleaning. Oh. And of course can't forget the most important thing!

Taking care of this precious little stinker!:) When he's not following me around grabbing at my ankles and whining because of teething he's off finding SOMETHING to get into. After all, can't make mama's life too easy!:) But I love him to death, who couldn't love that huge smile, especially after he's been "caught" in the act!

And now it's time to go get him out of bed, he's in there practicing his favorite new word, "uh-oh". So cute I tell ya:)

And I'm so excited to be back blogging and showing you some of the changes being made in the house as we go. Toodles for now!