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PaInT sAmPlEs!

Lots of color in adorable little bottles!

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Family Home Evening Obsession

I love spending time with the hubby and the kiddos! I wanted to get that out there because we have a hard time getting our Family Home Evenings in. Don't get me wrong - we love the idea but sTiNk at the execution!

Years and years ago I bought help books and copied, colored, laminated them to my hearts desire. Then I placed them in file folders in my file cabinet.

Isn't that attractive? Yeah it is a mess and hasn't really been touched since we moved here. I am not sure if I can weed these out! It is an obsession and constituted a HuGe part of my life!

AaRrGgHh!

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The Boy's Room - The Paint

My handsome son, aged 9, has been in a blue funk since we moved into our new place. His old room was BLUE with very vivid accent colors. We used the Behr Disney Buzz Light Year colors and he loved it. When we moved he was pretty upset about leaving his space. Finally, we are at a point that we can work on making his room “COOL.” When asked what he wanted he thought about 2 seconds and responded that he wanted a Harry Potter room.

Now, on the web there are several examples of playrooms and bedrooms done in HP theme, but none really for an older boy. So, I put my designing hat on and thought. Then I surfed and then thought some more. We bought the vinyl wall art of the Hogwarts crest – which is huge. In the package was a huge version of the Gryffindor crest and the other crests were very small. 

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So I thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool to paint the wall to look like a castle and then have at least one, if not both, crests in a window like alcove?” But that would mean faux painting the whole wall – which I am not wild about. I called my Mommy who had the answer –paint only part of the wall and the alcove. So that is the plan. The alcoves will fade out to the wall color as if by magic. (I had to throw that in here somewhere!)

Currently on his wall is Behr Toasted Cashew, which isn’t too bad. My thoughts were to use the current paint as the grout and then faux with a darker Behr Classic Taupe and lighter color Behr Sand dollar.  Like they did here http://stores.renstore.com/-strse-template/0607a/Page.bok.

Won’t that be cool? I am still calculating the amount of paint needed but there is the plan. Wish me luck.

Let it begin...

I have got ideas. Ideas that need to be written down and examined and done. Here I will document ideas and accomplishments (and failures). I can’t wait!

First off, let me share what I have been working on within the last week. On one of my favorite blogs, The Idea Room, I found these adorable crepe paper balls. We love roses around this place so I thought it was a great way to start it off. In the pictures that were posted, off to the side was another ADORABLE ball. This one was felt and I fell in love. Off to JoAnn’s I went (with 2 kids who were bribed with McD’s for lunch) on Friday. (There was no school on Friday and Scott was off camping at the Klondike Derby.)

I found the felt right off at $4.99 per yard (1 yard was MORE than enough), then I went on to get all kinds of things like pins, an adorable heart shaped wreath for the kitchen and some really cool rolls of tulle for a dollar each ( I got 6). We also ran to WalMart for some craft projects for them - cool. After that we ran McD’s, along with everyone else on the planet. The kids were great and had loads of fun.

Once we got home, we cleared the table and started working. I decided to start with the crepe paper roses. What a joke. I have no idea how they did theirs and made them look good, but mine just didn’t. I tried and tried different twists and turns to make them look better, but to no avail. Oh well, I finished one in white. 

Then I started on the felt. 3" rounds - check. Lots of pins - check. More rounds - check. REPEAT! Lots and lots of rounds were cut out and pinned onto the little Styrofoam ball. Finished finally. This turned out FAB! LOVE IT!

I quickly arranged these with a couple of my Valentine's Day decorations and I was DONE! Wahoo for me!