Busy, busy, busy

I know that it has been over a week since I last posted - 

I haven't been sitting around on my hands though.

Actually, we have been very busy!

We have rearranged furniture in the family room and living room.

I am FINALLY getting a sofa for the living room.

I have been trying to talk the hubs into

buying a sofa every since we 

moved into the house.

It's being delivered on Thursday and I will be 

sure to post pictures.

Of course, I have a little project for the hubs to complete

BEFORE it comes - so he is at Lowe's this morning

buying the wood to get it done.

We (once again, I really mean the hubs) painted our

tiny master bathroom Sunday.  Yesterday was

spent putting everything back together

and getting things cleaned up.

I am working on a curtain

for the window.

I have come up with a 

temporary solution

that will work

through the holidays, 

then we will see what I want to do.

This week we are also

helping my youngest daughter and 

son-in-law 

  with the final touches on 

the new nursery 

and getting

big sister's room

finished.

We are also working on some

new landscaping for our front yard.

We have taken out everything 

in our two front beds 

and the one right under our

bedroom window.

The old landscaping was so overgrown

and really needed to be replaced.

While working on the flower beds

we discovered that we are having some issues 

with our irrigation system.

So, we have a call in to the

irrigation guy and

are waiting for him to come fix it

before we plant anything.

After all, we don't want to plant new

plants and then not be able to

water them!

We picked out the plants we want

at the nursery - so hopefully we

will be able to get all this done soon.

Maybe, before Christmas?

I know it's not happening

before Thanksgiving!

(Okay, I know that some of you might question

us planting in December, but remember

we live in South Florida.  If we are lucky

the temperatures will be in the 70's - 

which will actually make

it comfortable to do some yard work!)

We are also HOPING to get

the back yard fenced during

this time frame, but some things

might have to wait depending

on how much it costs to get

the irrigation fixed. 

Guess we'll just have to wait

and see.

So what else is going on?

Well, my oldest daughter is coming Friday

 for the weekend.

She lives in Nashville, and is going

 to be at a conference

in St. Pete 

Wednesday through Friday.

 We are going over and picking

her up Friday afternoon 

and she will stay with us for 

the weekend before we take her back

to Tampa on Sunday to catch her

flight back home.

Even though this will be

a quick visit, 

it will certainly be

good to see her!

While she won't be able to be here 

for the birth of the new baby

she will be back for Christmas and then

she will be able to

stay for a couple of weeks to help her

little sister with baby

and Little Miss.

With everything that is going on

during the next six weeks - 

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and

the birth of our second

grand baby-

I'm afraid that it

 will be the first of the year

before I have any of the tutorials ready

on the things that we did in the

guest room/nursery

(the rope boxes, subway art sign, and the headboard)

but I will get those done.

Well, I think you are

all caught up

with the goings on

here.  Hope you are having

a good November and I'll

talk to you 

later!

Hugs!

DONE!!!

This is week six, and the final week, of the One Room Challenge

over on Calling it Home.

Well, I will tell you now - there were times that I didn't think I would get the room finished - and while there are some things that I don't like and will probably change in the future - it is DONE!

First, I guess we should have a reminder of how the room looked

when we bought the house.

This is what the room looked like when we

first looked at the house.

Yikes!

So, shall we see what it looks like today?

I'm sorry about the quality of the pictures,
  they were taken at 6:30 this morning before Little Miss got here - 
so they are a little dark.

Let's take a little tour of the room first okay?
Then we will look at some of the projects.

You can see a couple of our DIY projects already.

I absolutely LOVE the headboard the hubs made!

I saw one similar to this on Pinterest

and when I showed it to him - 

well, he just did his own

thing with it.

(I'll put the links to all the inspirations at the end of the post.)

Love it!

I'll have a tutorial on how he did it on

a later post.

This was another idea that I saw on 

Pinterest.

I love the way it turned out too.

I don't know if you can tell but

we put clear glitter 

on the

"Twinkle Twinkle" 

and it just sparkles at night.

There is another little DIY project that I did that I just love.

I actually got the idea from another blogger

that is taking the challenge too.

She made a trash can using a cat litter tub, and I loved the way

looked.

 I needed some containers on the changing table

 for Little Miss and her new little sister.  

You know, places to put things like

shoes, socks, etc.

I had tried several different baskets,

but I just couldn't find the right size.

So, I did this instead.

I'll do a tutorial on this later also, but I'll give
you a hint, they are made with 
cardboard boxes.

Love the way they look!

This was another little DIY.
I've had these little plates
for several years.  
I'll tell you a little secret -
there're plastic!
I just hot glued the pop tops
off a soda can on the back and
voila
plate hangers!
They are just the right size to
fill in this little
space between the closet doors.

You can also see the beautiful
valances that the hubs
made.
Once again, Love, Love, LOVE!

Now, let's talk about some of the things
that I don't love and will
need some more
work.

First - the curtains!

I love the valances the hubs did, 
but the curtains are awful!
Once again, I saw this really nice idea on another blog.
I have to say that the curtains on the other blog
turned out really nice - mine, not so much!
 I thought I could make my curtains look as nice as the inspiration.
I ordered some ribbon online.
However, when it came in last week
 it was the wrong color -
way too orange. 
I didn't have time to order more. 
 I thought I could make it work.
Well, it just doesn't.
Not only is the ribbon the wrong color I just don't
like the "stripe".
It just looks like I put a piece of ribbon
on some white curtain panels.
YUCK!
This will be the first thing that will change
in the very near future.

The other thing that I didn't have time (or money) to 
do right now was to replace all the electrical plates.
The ones we currently have are an off white 
(okay, let's be honest - they are OLD)
and I want to have ones that are white.
This will be something else that will
be done in the future.

I also need to redo the bed skirt on the crib -
I was just in too much of a hurry (last night) to get it finished
for the reveal today and it just didn't turn out
 the way I wanted.
Another little thing to redo.

However, for the most part, I love the way the room turned out.
It is such an improvement from the before.

The main occupant of this room -

 likes all the changes we made.
Hope you do too!

Make sure you check out all the other
rooms final reveal
at
Call it Home
(http://www.callingithome.com/).

They are fabulous!

I might even be ready to do another room in April!
(I'm not sure about the hubs!)




Links to our inspiration:

http://emeraldcovejewelry.blogspot.com/2011/01/starfish-headboard-reveal.html
http://www.thekimsixfix.com/2013/10/nursery-progress-what-is-left-orc-week-4.html
http://thepinkclutch.blogspot.com/2013/10/one-room-challenge-week-5.html
http://www.etsy.com/listing/162673461/twinkle-twinkle-little-star-nursery?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=PageTools