let's save some money or something

I'm always looking for ways to save money. I'll try most anything once. I found a great tutorial for making your own baby wipes here. I couldn't figure out what to put them in since I hate to buy new things when I know darn good and well I can repurpose something else. I'm looking all around my house when, duh, it dawns on me. I have tons of these hanging around:

I break out the Modge Podge, some leftover fabric and ribbon from the nursery makeover and tada!

nursery makeover

Another late post...the nursery makeover. We were on the fence as to whether this house was for us....to buy or not to buy....that was the question. We had a nine month old baby boy, we were renting a duplex that we were quickly outgrowing, we were ready to spread our wings and fly. We saw tons of houses (pretty sure we toured Freddy Krueger's), nothing jumped at us (except that frog in the one with the wet basement). We found our home when we saw the 2nd bedroom had an airplane theme, it was a sign. Airplanes were the theme for our life (that's a story for another day). I knew before we even got pregnant the first time our nursery would be airplane themed. And so it was. Then we found the house with the airplane bedroom. SOLD.

Fast forward 5 years...two boys had been in that airplane nursery and we were expecting baby #3. I said from day one it would be a girl. No one believed me since I thought boy #2 was a girl too, heehee. But, our oldest son agreed with me from day one. We were right :). The second I found out we were having a girl I was decorating in my mind. I wanted super girly. I wanted frill and foo foo and lace. I wanted pink and fluff and tulle and roses. My poor husband.

So that wonderful airplane room had to be *gasp* painted. Pink. I made covers for the rocking chair, a cornice, tie backs for the curtains, a lampshade, a bolster pillow. My husband and our neighbor laid new carpet, painted the room pink and white, added a chair rail, replaced the closet doors and considered strangling a bossy pregnant lady (at least I'm pretty sure they wanted to by the look on their faces).

It turned out so beautiful. Here is the before with some spackle-

Here is the after in all its glorious pink-ness-

The canopy over the crib was a pottery barn knockoff made by a friend of mine, love it!!

it just needs a ruffle

This before and after is a bit behind. But hey, I just started this new DIY blog and you can forgive me, right? When we found out baby #3 was a girl, it was decorating time!!! The nursery had been an airplane theme for 2 boys, now I was planning a major overhaul into the land of pink, ruffles, and foo foo. I started with the rocking chair. Here is the airplane theme, very cute, but I couldn't just add a ruffle....
I left the fabric and pad as is and just covered it with the slipcover I made. I'm not the best seamstress ever, my apologies, but I try! And yes, I am aware that my photography skills need some work. Recognize the fabric from the toy box redo?

before & after

My baby is growing up, the older she gets the more stuff she has. Soooo, she needed a toy box. We had one collecting dust in the garage, I just hadn't gotten around to sprucing it up. It started out in an airplane themed room, red. It got shifted to a Nemo themed room, aqua. So there it was all ugly and lonesome in the dusty garage after the boys got stuffed into a room together with no theme (just yet, don't tell my husband). After sanding and multiple coats of bright white paint it looked pretty good but needed a lil something. I decided to add a padded top, so I cut up a perfectly good retired changing pad, covered it in fabric leftover from the girly room makeover, added a ruffle, aaaaaand....it still needed something. Sooooo, fabric rosettes c'mon down!!! What do you think???