Air intake Make Over

I have never been a fan of this air intake register covers that the builder put on our house since day 1, and when Hudson slipped while turning the corner going into his room and put his whole foot through it I wanted to change them out more than ever. It took alot of searching, as apparently these were an odd size, but we finally found a maple cover online and ordered it up. Ahhhhh, now that's better!

I have a dream

I know I have mentioned this before, but I soooo badly want a mantle that I can change out seasonal decor on. I found something that would work a while ago on the Pottery Barn website but with the $400 price tag plus shipping I have been hesitant. With my addiction to Pinterest I keep scouring the site for ideas and have finally come across a tutorial to possibly attempt to make this little dream of mine a reality. Stay tuned! DIY is not something that I tackle generally but I am quite cofident that I can pull it off......we will see!

Here is a quick peek at what my I see in my dreams :)

Wall Art

Now that the room is coming together I need to do something about the one completely blank wall that we have going on here. I do not often find myself actually watching daytime television but tday when the Nate Berkus Show was on I found myself sitting down with my cup of tea taking some of the show in. And I am so glad I did. Today he featured another fellow blogger that does alot of fabulous stuff around her home. Destiny from A Place For Us Blog was on a segment of the show to demonstrate 3 of her favorite projects of 2011 and one of those projects was her Brown Paper Flowers and I though they were right up my alley. You can view her detailed tutorial here. Tonight I decided to try one and like how it turned out enough that I then thought I could incorporate it into our master retreat. I decided to try spray painting it in the same yellow color as our hamper and then mounting it on a blank white 12x12 canvas.

This is how it turned out:

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This canvas is again a 12x12 sprayed in the same yellow. I then made a template of this design on my SILHOUETTE and cut it out on white vinyl. I found that the vinyl wasn't sticking to the paint very well so once I carefully got it all laid out I then put a thin coat of Mod Podge on it and let it sit for the night to dry.

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And here they are hung up on the wall in a little grouping with a frame I had done up a couple f weeks ago when I was out picking up oaint chips to decide what color to go with on the walls. I chose all the ones I liked and brought them home to the room so I could test the color in the real light. Didn't see any reason for them to go to waste ;)

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Not so bad for cosing me nothing!

Clothes Hamper gets a facelift ;)

I am at it again. I cannot leave things alone..... today I decided to spray paint our clothes hamper to fit in with its new surroundings. I figured, if it didn't turn out then I could go hunting for a new option and if it did wrk all it cost me was a can of spray paint.

I am not sure yet if I love it yet or not. Ryan hates it! I think it looks too bright. The can sure looked alot more "mustard-like" compared to what it turned out like. We will live with it for a week or so and then I will decide what to do about it.

What do you think?

New life for an old table

I bought this table off of a Garage Sale site on Facebook for $20, went and picked it up and got to work remaking it into something we could have used years ago.

This is what I started with....

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I sanded it down and added a quarter round moulding to the edge to help stop trains from derailing ;)

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Then I painted the whole thing out.

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The boys are so thrilled with their new toy that we will often find them downstairs playing as soon as they get up in the morning. Now their trains and tracks do not have to be taken down and put away after each play, but are still contained and don't look messy. This makes us all happy ;)

New Toy Brings Great Joy

Our kids are not the only ones that get excited with a new purchase. While preparing to do my very first DIY project solo I found a new 'toy' at Home Hardware while picking up some other supplies. 

Ryan thought I had fallen and hit my head when I got home and he saw how giddy I was with my purchase. Now to put it to work!