Saturday, January 28, 2012

Treat {Shoe Clips}

Well as of yesterday afternoon I finished our taxes!! YIPPEEE! So, to treat myself for all that hard work and baby girl was still napping, I decided to make myself some shoe clips for my new sparkly shoes.

Have you ever heard of shoe clips? They are a fun accessory that clips onto your shoe, that is be a bow, flower, etc.

I made mine from left over fabric I had lying around and it turned out perfect!!!




Pretty cute right!!  I'll be making lots more these for my other shoes. Stay tuned for other ideas for shoe clips. Have a great Saturday!

carla.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Baby Room {refashion}

It's Wednesday!!! What a great feeling of another wonderful week with my sweet 1 year old. Well, the next project I needed to complete was done this weekend while I was completing my chalkboard painting project here. I love attending craft shows and I picked up this sweet little number at our local craft show, since this is the prayer we say to our daughter every night before we go to bed.


So as you can see this doesn't look very babyish, but the prayer is oh so important. So it needed a change up. I have it all taped ready to go for a {blue} makeover!



**************************After a couple hours of drying*****************************


{sorry about the blurred picture? Don't really know why that is happening?}


Ta Dahh!


Here is another picture to give you an idea of how it all fits together.


Hope this inspires you to change something with just a splash of color!

carla.








Monday, January 23, 2012

Chalkboard Paint {refashion}

I am finally getting around to accomplishing my little projects. The new thing is 'chalkboard paint in a can'. Love the look of it and the simplicity of it. So, I too had to hop on the bandwagon and make some chalkboard paint art.

As you see below I found these two small mirrors at the ol' Goodwill store for $.99 each. Had some white paint in a can from previous project, so I just had to purchase some chalkboard paint. ($4.98)





After some white paint and patience of drying, my project was complete and super simple.



End Result:

*side note: I purchased the stand from another thrift store for $.49 and I got two of them. So, grand total of $8.00 for redecorating my bathroom (as seen above) and kitchen (not pictured).


Have a Great Day!!

carla.


Friday, January 20, 2012

Sneek Peek {Playroom}

Another day and another refashion of this old farmhouse. I am finally getting around to decorating my playroom/craft room/office! It's quite the undertaking since all three area I feel need their own style, but thankfully for Pinterest I have been able to get some ideas of how I want to decorate.

Like I said I got the inspiration from Pinterest {see below}


                                         Pinned Image

                                                           Via {Pinterest}
So it got my wheels turning and since I have been obbessed with felt due to my Babers business with felt flowers and headbands, I have all the supplies right at my fingertips.


So here is a sneek peek of the play area.

What do you think?
Simple right? Cute, too! And it describes my daughter to a "T".

Here is a close up of one of the framed masterpieces.



carla.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

My {new} room: Bedroom

What an undertaking it was remodeling our WHOLE upper half of our house, but its not like we haven't remodeled before. (We have remodeled our whole house except our kitchen) So here is our bedroom to start off my simple but yet creative {babers blog}. Enjoy!


This of course is our bed.

The quilt is from West Elm. I made the headboards from a Goodwill find. (they are just two canvas's recovered with fabric.) Accent pillows from local store and the stumps are from our groove. Since I didn't feel the stumps would look appropriate with a lamp, I did some research and found these neat lights from Ikea. (Thank you best g'f for picking them up for me, since I never get to the Twin Cities!)

The dresser

This dresser my hubby got on an auction from the neighbor lady. So it was the typical walnutty color. The dresser was still in great condition, so I painted it a fun carhcoal/green/grey color. I kept the original knobs, just spray painted them a brushed bronze. (tut to follow on dresser makeover)


dresser #2

Dresser #2 is in a little nook of our room. The dresser itself is in orignal condition, but with updated hardware (since there was no hardware on it!) The lamp was part of our room before but revamped. (before and after coming soon). This dressers main job is to host all things that need to be charged, hence our charging station on the left of the dresser.


Close up of the nightstand/stump. (I put a rug under it just to make sure no messes would happen in the drying out period. I plan to take out rug after winter)

Well, this is my bedroom. Next, bathroom! That has a couple tweeks and that will be posted!

P.S. The walls are painted in SW: Balanced Beige