Well, I guess this should technically be day 11, since we did it yesterday... But anyway... :)
My next main goal has been to get our bedroom looking more livable. Big thanks to my mom for coming over and helping me with this corner yesterday!! Here's a before (well... Restaged before actually... We had started organizing before I remembered to take a picture! Oops!)
That sure doesn't look very cozy!!
Much better!!!! :) a little bare, maybe, but still a nice reprieve from all the clutter there was before! :)
It is very hard to believe, but one little sweetheart turned one a couple of weeks ago!! And believe it or not, I had a little time to sew something fun up! (I actually did most of the sewing while we were still staying with my parents. I had a lot more extra time then as well as crafty energy.)
What I didn't take the time for, unfortunately, was to get out my actual camera... You may have noticed that most of my blog posts recently have been with mobile pictures. It is just so much easier to post straight from my phone! (And I actually get blog posts up!). But I still have pictures!
Here's the super fun outfit! The whole thing was so easy and fast to put together! So fun! Just a quick basic bow with a flower button to match the skirt, and a "1" ironed on with Heat 'n Bond. I used this tutorial for the skirt.
Here are a few pictures from her birthday celebration showing the outfit in action:
First cupcake!!
Yep, that was pretty good alright!!
Opening presents:
Of course, the paper is the best part!
The skirt seems to look super long in these pictures, but it really isn't to her ankles. I did make it a tad long for her age so that she can hopefully wear it on into next spring. Here's a baby toes shot!!
Such a sweetie!!! I'll be back tomorrow with more settling in. My mom came over for a little while today and helped me. It's wonderful to have someone to help me get in there and get something done!
But now it's your turn to share what you have been up to!! :) Maybe you all have had more time than I have for fun fall projects.
Hmmm.... Maybe I should change the name of this little series of posts, since I'm obviously not going to get 31 posts done. I've been a little under the weather the past couple if days, but I'm feeling better now. So I'll try to get back on track.
One of the main rooms I focused on today was our bedroom, but the work I did get done (mainly putting away winter clothes) really has nothing to show for it.
However, I do have something to share! Due to a dire lack of cabinet space, we needed to improvise! Open shelving is so popular now days, so we came up with our own interpretation:
It is still a work in progress!! I want to put a basket with my table top potholders etc... Whenever I find them...
Progress feels frustratingly slow, but it seems we are moving in the right direction. Thank you all for your encouragement!!
Whew!!! What a busy and tiring day!! I do have a bit of progress to report this weekend!
Our master bath now has a pretty curtain to help finish it off:
So much better!!
And... We now have our dresser back!! We were rather tired of living out of laundry baskets!
(After evicting a little house gecko who had made herself quite at home in my drawer! Don't worry, she now happily resides in the ground cover outside our door with lots of new friends!!) ;)
But lest you think I've almost got us settled in here:
That's our guest bedroom!! (And YES, there is a bed under there!!) oh my... Now you know.... Sigh... Now to sort this mess and decide what I don't need often enough to rate keeping it here... But not tonight!!! :) I hope everyone has a blessed Sunday tomorrow!!
Another kitchen corner... And there just aren't too many of those in this tiny kitchen!! This section really needed some help:
Yipes!! What a mess! I spent a little while this morning straightening and rearranging. (I don't use my blender very often so it will be stored elsewhere - in a closet, most likely... I really don't have much room to store my kitchen gadgets!)
But you're waiting to see the after, right??
A bit better, right? My hubby was happy - it was the first thing he noticed when he came in! :)
Here's a shot of that side of the kitchen:
Funny thing, I really didn't think that my red accents would go to well in this brownish kitchen, but it seems to work somehow!
Thank you all for your encouragement! It really does help me to think, "What am I going to show for today?" :)
