Wow, can you believe that it’s been 4 months since I last posted? Time sure does fly when you’re raising kids, helping your hubby finish school and running a business having fun! My husband has finally finished his 75 clinic hours to get his massage license, so things are calming down here a little bit. I have been keeping up crafting, so I thought I’d show you what I’ve been up to. I’ve been working on finally finishing Miss Ellie’s room. I still need to get some things done, like make curtains to put over her closet. I had the changing table in there and since it got broken, I took it out and replaced it with her dresser, so in order to easily get into the closet, the doors had to go. I found a cheap inexpensive white curtain rod at Ikea and put it up in preparation of the curtains getting done. I actually have 2 yards of brown and pink polka dot fabric that I got at Hobby Lobby a while ago, but it’s a little short and I’m undecided on my choice of coordinating fabric to lengthen it. I also found a little side table at goodwill for $8.00 that I painted to be completely white and store some of Ellie’s toys. The most difficult part of completing her room has got to be the fan redo. I have hated it since we moved in. The gold color was just awful and dated looking.
(After the fan blades and light covers were removed)
As I was blog hopping, I stumbled upon this post and thought hey I can do that! Unfortunately I don’t have a craft store near me and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so it’s been on hold until recently. While I was on a shopping trip to Wal-mart I wandered into the spray paint isle only to find out that it works on metal (duh right, I should read the labels more often) . I took down that fan, with some help from the hubby and slowly painted all of the metal white. I was going to paint the fan blades too, but when I removed them I found that they can be flipped over and have a dark brown finish. I was so excited to have save some time and I love the contrast that it gives.
Here are some pictures of what’s been going on around our house that aren’t crafting related...
Miss Ellie playing the piano with her cousin
Little Man swimming over Memorial Day Weekend
Miss Ellie asleep under her bed
