March 29, 2012
Last year we transformed our spare room (i.e. junk closet!) into a colorful and personalized room for our daughter: I want to share with you two small, colorful additions to our daughter’s room, both projects from her birthday extravaganza in … Continue reading
November 2, 2011
After not having a bedskirt on the queen sized mattress in the house for eight years, we decided to shake things up and finally check this one off the to-do list! Our daughter’s bedroom before, without the bedskirt A friend … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
Our adventure began innocently enough, “Mama, I want pink sheets.” That sounds easy, right?! Evidently not so much. We found finding affordable, plain pink, organic sheets to be a challenge. So we reused some older white organic sheets that we … Continue reading
May 10, 2011
Remember our holiday wreath that we made using an embroidery hoop and clothespins? We decided to repurpose it for the rest of the year, until next December when we’ll fill it with holiday cards again down in our living room. … Continue reading
April 4, 2011
In an attempt to make our daughter’s new room more light and airy, we swapped out the dark brown, light-blocking curtain on the east facing window and replaced it with the same curtain material as her bed canopy. That simple … Continue reading
March 14, 2011
When I ordered this clever alphabet poster from Nerdy Babies I took a risk. The site didn’t list its dimensions and I rather foolishly thought, “how big can it be? I’ll just order it and it will be fine. I … Continue reading
March 11, 2011
David built this sturdy, double-sided bookcase for our daughter. For the past two years it’s been in our living room overflowing with books (the following photo might as well be the “before” shot from 2009 back when we had only … Continue reading
March 9, 2011
I wanted to embroider something special to hang with the “create” felt banner I made for above the desk in our daughter’s new big girl room (similar to the “sweet dreams” felt banner above her bed). I read about a … Continue reading
March 1, 2011
I wanted to personalize our daughter’s room with all different types of artwork, not strictly the photos and paintings typically found in bedrooms. From the beginning I knew that some sort of 3D felt embroidery projects would be involved, as … Continue reading
