We have been working on Daughter #2’s teal peacock bedroom for a few weeks now. I’ve given you some teasers: “Restoring Stuff from the ReStore” “The First Step to a Teal Peacock Bedroom” “More of the Peacock Room” “A Shopping Spree” “It’s Curtains” “An Elegant Chandelier” “A Photo Gallery Wall” WOW!!! That’s a lot of […]
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MUSICAL BEDROOMS ~ a little bedroom redo
I’m going to share a little bit about my homies and some crazy emotions I’m going through today. So brace yourselves!! A parent child relationship goes through many stages in the 18 years or so they live together. The relationship goes from the child needing everything from his parents to the child wanting to be […]
A PRETTY PINK ROOM ~ finally!
After decorating boys’ rooms for so long (we have four boys), decorating a girl’s room was fun! We adopted our two daughters from Kazakhstan in 2005. Our first trip was for five weeks, where we met, fell in love with, and spent a lot of time with the girls. Then we came home…..without them 🙁 […]
BEFORE & AFTERS
We painted the staircase spindles a bright white and the railings black. Our next project….tear out the carpet and redo the stairs in a dark red chesnut stain. I painted the front door the same black as the staircase railings. Then I made the pretty wreath to break up the black. The LOML found the […]
ELF ON A SHELF
This is our very first year doing Elf on a Shelf with our girls. I’m always late to the party. And as you might know already, I can copy some of you creative wonders out there. I have found many great ideas on Pinterest. Very creative!! This is what our Elf “Elfie” was up to […]
DECKING THE HALLS ~ and the tree, and the kitchen….
Because we celebrate Christmas with my in-laws at Thanksgiving, we get to decorate the house pretty early in the season. Not as early as the stores do, but still way early in my mind! Here are some of the fun decorations in our home My Thrifty Decor Chick centerpiece filled with some pretty sparklies and […]