Master Bedroom Make Over

My name is Holly and I'm addicted to stripes.  I have stripes on my hallway ceiling, vertical stripes in my offices and now horizontal stripes in my master bedroom.  I got a wild hair idea to make over my bedroom while being 9 months pregnant.  I really hated my baby blue and gold theme.  It felt old and dated to me.  We have heavily textured walls and with a simple technique I still managed close to perfect lines.
I first painted my window accent wall in a deep apple red.  Not pink like the picture is showing.  My husband would have had a heart attack.  Then painted the other three walls white.  Measured, laser leveled and taped my lines I then took a cheapy foam brush and brushed the edges of the tape with the white so that any paint that seeps through is white not black.  Once that dried I painted the black.  The handy man at our local Ace told me that black is super hard to paint and that he didn't recommend it.  Honestly, I have no idea what he was talking about.  SOOOO easy.  Two coats and I was done.  However, tape HAS to be removed before paint fully dries otherwise you'll remove paint from the wall.

Tape removed and I did a happy dance!
(being 9 months VERY pregnant I'm
sure it was a sight to be hold!)

Now onto my bed!  In ten years of marriage we've never had a bedroom set.  Just hand me downs.  I saw a picture on Pinterest of a cubby pedestal bed and fell in love.  Turned the picture over to my handyman hubby and he built me the bed frame with six drawers on heavy duty rollers.  We have a California King bed-  so these drawers are massive which is perfect storage since we purchased an older fixer upper house that is lacking in the storage department.


 And here is the almost finished product.
See the bed frame, this is before the drawers
 were finished.  We were able to fit two
 Rubbermaid containers per slot.
Like I said, they are some pretty big
drawers.





I couldn't find black and white striped curtains for the price that I was willing to spend on curtains so I just got a set of black curtains, a set of white curtains cut them to 13" pieces and then sewed them together.  Super simple and about 1/4 of the cost to buy them like that.  Now I just need to find a fan that I like and my bedroom remodel will be complete.





I think it's safe to say that my handsome little B-man likes the room makeover too!

Quigley's Blessing

July 5, 2015 my baby Q was given a name and beautiful blessing by her daddy.  And whats a blessing without a luncheon? This go around I went with a burlap and lace theme to match her birth announcements. (check back for those....perhaps they are my favorite out of the four but that's between you and me!)

I saw a cookie type bar on pinterest- I have such a love/hate relationship with pinterest- back to the point!  I got 2 gallon glass jars from Wal-Mart and filled them with some of my favorite cookies.  (oatmeal raisin, strawberry white chocolate, gluten free chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, cowgirl cookies, peanut butter kisses, and lemon-lime swig cookies. My mother-in-law made the swig cookies and OH MY WORD! They were tasty.  I probably could have eaten my weight in them) Wrapped them with 4" cream lace ribbon, 2" burlap ribbon and tied a knot with 1/4" mauve satin ribbon.
I then ordered chalkboard table signs from Ebay.  They came from China so make sure to order well in advance of your par-tay.  Mine arrived within about 2 weeks.   With chalk markers I wrote what each individual jar contained.

I designed little sayings on each take home bag- they said her name, Sugar and Spice and Thank you.  Also super easy.  Just design it, change your printer to the size of bags and BAM! print it out, your done.  I found that I did have to feed the bags through the printer from the bottom of the bags.  Otherwise the page kept jamming on the uneven top.

As far as table decoration went, I kept it simple.  Chalk painted mason jars (one coat of chalk paint followed by three layers of paint- letting dry a full 24 hours in between.) 6 foot burlap runners and baby's breath.  12" doily place mats.











I just love this little family of mine!
(my outfit- DownEast, my daughters- Richie House, blessing dress from my favorite The Quilted Bear)











Questions.......shoot them my way!

Have Courage

I recently saw Cinderella and I've become OBSESSED!  Raising three daughters (and one handsome son) I feel a sense of responsibility to raise good kids.  I pray that my girls aren't the 'mean girls' and that they can 'have courage and be kind'.  There just isn't enough kindness in the world today.  With that being said, after seeing the movie I just had to make my girls a shirt, and me, and then my nieces, then my sisters and finally my mom. (I'm a little obsessed, remember!)  I designed this shirt using the trusty ol silhouette cameo- perhaps my FAVORITE crafting tool- and using cricut glitter iron-on vinyl....BAM! shirt is made!