Master Plan

We are exactly 2 weeks away from closing on our very first house!  We are beyond excited (and a little nervous), happy (and a little scared) and ready to own instead of rent!  I've been playing around in photoshop dreaming up what our rooms will look like.  We currently have a black, white, gray and yellow color scheme in our bedroom.  Dan suggested adding another color besides yellow, so I whipped up an example for him in photoshop and he gave me two-thumbs-up!

Here is the room that will be our master bedroom (photo taken from the doorway):

And here is our plan (top portion is one side of the room, bottom portion is opposite side):

 

Our bed will go on the same wall as the current owners bed.  In the top photoshop image, the big white space to the left of the bed is the door to the bathroom.  In the bottom image, that is the door to the closet (walk in closet...yay!!). 

What do you think?  Do turquoise and yellow work?  I sure hope so, because we love it!

Quite a few DIY projects will go in to this room.  And a couple projects that have already been completed will leave the room.  But that is OK, they served their purpose while we lived in our apartment.  Part of the beauty of re-purposing items is that they are generally done on a low budget, so if they don't stick around all that long, I don't have to feel guilty about it! 

My first project is going to be painting and upholstering a wooden chest that I've had for years.  I got the chest as a Christmas gift when I was a little girl and it will work perfectly as a bench at the end of our bed.  It is currently honey oak, but I plan on painting it white & doing a tufted upholstered top to match our headboard.  

The 2nd project will be refinishing this dresser:

 

We picked this up at Savers for only $15, and it is sturdy!  So sturdy that it survived being dropped by the employees as they were bringing it out to our vehicle!  I debated if I wanted the dresser to be black or white and I ultimately decided on black.  I want the trim and the doors to (eventually) be white so the black will provide a bit more contrast on that side of the room.  This project will probably have to wait until Spring, when I can do the sanding and painting out in the garage.  

A couple weeks ago, Dan picked up the small side table (shown next to the chair) for me.  Any suggestions on what color to paint it?  I can't decide if it should be white, black, gray or even a fun color!  

And the last (at least planned as of now) project will be the wall art above the dresser.  I'm thinking I will get a big white frame, turquoise matting and simply frame some of the same fabric I used to make the bedskirt. What do you think?  Yay?  Nay?  

This post got long :) But so far, this is our plan for the master bedroom. If only we could move in today and get started!

Cork Board & Exciting News

I have been slacking in the blog posting department.  Mostly because I don't have anything exciting to blog about.  That will, hopefully, be changing very soon........we are buying a house!!  All the negotiations have been made, now it's just waiting for the bank to do their thing and then we will be closing on January 21st.  Once we move in, I will be in project mode!  We have started to plan out our rooms, we've done a little window shopping and picked up a few paint chips.  We can hardly contain our excitement and January can't come soon enough! 

I have done one project for the new house already.  I jazzed up our boaring cork board.  I didn't take a before picture, because I forgot, but you all know what a standard cork board looks like.  Here's what it looks like now:

I apologize for the poor picture quality, it is taken on my cell phone in bad lighting - the camera was dead. 

And here's a sneak-peak at what we are planning to do in our office:

Happy Halloween

I love Halloween and dressing up!  Even more so than that, I love creating my own costumes.  This year I sewed my cavewoman costume. 

And a close up of my attempt at making myself look dirty - excuse the facial expression, apparently I thought cavewomen can't possibly be happy and must be mad ;) 

Here's a group picture from the night out...I partied with Brett Farve, Winter, Spring, a bloody man, Fall, and a pimp!

Pumpkin Fun!

My painted pumpkin as part of our fall decor!

Bedskirt

After months of searching for the perfect fabric for a bedskirt, I finally settled on basic stripes.  They add enough interest without competing with pattern of the lamps and pillow.  I had one minor mishap when I sewed the foot of the bedskirt on backwards - oops - so I had to take the seam out and re-sew it the correct way.  Before, we had just a plain white bedskirt and now we have:

And because she is cute..and ALWAYS has to be on the bed when I try to make it....

Fall Decor



The temperature outside is telling me that it's Fall!  I love the crisp air of fall weather, I love waking up in the mornings and feeling the cool breeze blow through the window, I love being perfectly comfortable in jeans and sweaters, I love the changing trees - I love Fall!  Along with the change of seasons, comes some change in the decor.  Since we don't have a ton of space to decorate seasonly, change usually just means a different center piece on our dinning room table. 

A few months back, I bought some fabric to make some table runners.  I finally got around to making said table runners.  Instead of doing one runner of each fabric, I did 2 runners that were reversible.  Now, when we add the leaf in the table, if I want to use 2 runners, I can! 

So with the perfect Fall runner in place, I needed a new centerpiece.  And, as you guessed it, it had to be on a low budget.  After browsing a few blogs, I came across this idea and decided it would work perfect for our new centerpiece.  Off to Dollar Tree I went, to pick up 3 vases and 3 candle holders.  I forgot to take a before picture, but I ended up getting 2 different sized candle holders - one tall holder and 2 smaller holders. (The larger one is already attached)

With the help of a little glue, the vases were attached to the holders.  I decided to only attach 2 of the holders, so I could have 3 different height vases.  Once assembled, I filled the vases with Fall decor.  We have about 20 strands of leaves left over from our wedding decorations, so I cut leaves from one strand to fill one vase.  I also have plenty of candles sitting around, so that filled another vase.  The last vase had a little help from the clearance section at Target, where I picked up a pack of "fall like items".  I wasn't planning on using any pumpkins to decorate, but they came in the fall package and look nice in the arrangement...Here is the finished product, table runner and all. 

It's Been Awhile!

Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted.  I'm not very good at this blogging thing.  But, in my defense, I've been BUSY!  The summer came and went and I feel like I hardly had time to blink my eyes.  Here's a glimps of what we've been up to the past few months. 

Road Trip to Chicago to visit some good friends:

A couple Twins games at Target Field!

A Family Reunion

Many weekends at the lake

A Mom & Daughter vacation to Door County, WI

The Tour de Corn bike race with my mom and brother

And some time spent in Sioux Falls celebrating the upcoming arrivals of some sweet little babies

That was our summer in a nutshell, I can't believe it's nearly Fall!