Sneak Peek at Logan's Nursery!

As you all know, I have yet to do my major blog post on Logan's nursery. I can assure you I am not just being lazy on my posting, the problem is that his nursery is still missing two key elements before I can post it! When you have a vision of how you want a room to look, its hard to post it when it is only partially completed. I am hopeful that in the next few weeks those last two projects will be finished!

To hold you over, here is a small sneak peek into his nursery! I saw this idea on Pinterest, (inspiration photo is on the left) and knew we have the perfect wall in Logan's bedroom to do it on! My friend Kate picked up these spice racks for me from Ikea. (Thank you Kate!) I think they were $3 dollars each? I like them in their natural color but decided they would match Logan's room better if I painted them black. So away spray painting I went! Some easy cheesy assembly was required and then they were ready to go!

I found these letters on sale at Michaels. Using a gift card and coupons, I was able to get them for super cheap! I came home and went digging through my painting cupboard and found the sample colos I used on Logan's accent wall. I decided it would look great if I painted these letters to match. Lola picked out which letter would be what color, I think she chose great!

Here they are all painted!

My trial run on the floor to see how I wanted to hang them.

Here it is! Thanks to my Husband for hanging them all for me! : ) They would be falling off the wall and completely crooked if I had tried to hang them myself!

Project 3 (Read) & 4 (Bookshelves) complete! Stay tuned for one more.... : )

Lola's Bow Organizer

All my life I have NEVER been a fan of thrift stores. Usually I think they stink, the stuff is dirty, and I always thought everything was just junk! Well, recently my opinions on thrift stores has drastically changed, I almost *gasp* think they are fun! My husband has taught me how to look past the junk and find potential in the items! All my projects these last few days have come from 2nd hand stores. I have really come to enjoy looking at old stinky dirty stuff and dreaming about what I could turn it into! And of course I love the next to nothing prices these projects are costing me!

So, here is project #2 for the week. I found this cheap and relatively unattractive painting and instantly knew that it would be perfect! I made Lola's headband holders, and now I just had to do something about organizing all her bows!

I brought it home and was so excited to get started! I pulled the picture apart, and went to town with my new found love of spray painting! The frame has potential don't you think?

Armed with my hot glue gun I began working with this polka dot fabric. (This was leftover from making Lola's bedroom curtains.) Once I had the fabric pulled tight and glued on, I simply glued on the two pink ribbons.



I thought the back looked rather atrocious, so I glued a nice piece of felt to the back to make it look more finished, you know for all those times people will look at the back. ;) My husband bought me some tiny nails to nail into the wooden frame and hold the picture portion in place.

Here is it! I love adding practical things to my home that aid in organization! Now hopefully I wont have to run around crazy looking for matching bows anymore! : )

And lastly, here it is in Lola's room!

Two projects down, three to go! Stay tuned! : )

Lola's Headband Holders

I dont know what has gotten in to me these last few days but I think I have officially been bit by the crafting bug! Let me start first by saying, I LOVE pinterest! I have pinned so many fun and practical ideas that I want to make for my home. So about a month ago I decided I was no longer going to go waste time pinning more stuff on pinterest until I started checking off the 5 or so projects I really wanted to make first. It has taken me a month, but boy am I going to town checking them off my list now! Feels so good!

So I saw this project and I knew would be so perfect for Lola's bedroom. My girl has more hair accessories than one would probably ever need! :) In case you are wondering, I am making two adorable headband holders!

I quickly gathered up a few supplies from around the house, talked my hubby into a quick Goodwill run and I was all set!

I went looking at Goodwill for two matching candle holders. I did not have any luck. I did however come across these two that I decided would look plenty similar once I painted them both pink!

This was my first time using spray paint, and it was fun! I think there will be many more spray painting projects in my future : )

So I know I am quite a rookie when it comes to spray painting, but I couldn't believe how fast these dried! It made it so easy to complete this project in one evening. Here they are all pretty in pink!

In between coats of paint, I hot glued fabric (which matches Lola's curtains I made for her room) to the two oatmeal cans. I decided to add some pink ribbon at the top to make it look a little more complete.

I then simply hot glued the oatmeal cans to the candle holders and they were done! *Tada!*

Here they are being used to hold all of Lola's headbands in her room! :)

One project down, four to go! Stay tuned! :)