I HAVE SHELVES!!!

Can you hear the excitement? I only say it with caps and exclamation points because I'm THAT excited. Why you ask? Maybe because I've only bugged about them for ohhh sayyyy 1 year!! They are nothing fancy by no means... They are simple... They are dark... They are Martha Stewart and I love them!
You see... You may remember my closet, my under the stairs, should have been a coat closet, closet. I don't think I should have to waste an entire closet space just for closets. So it evolved, it was a Toy Closet/Room for about 4 years. My daughters loved it, it held all their favorite, most used and most loved toys.... until..... the toy closet ended up consuming my entire downstairs and I couldn't take it anymore. I moved the toys upstairs to another extra closet and claimed the stair closet as MINE!

I will have before and after pics for sure! I intend on using this closet as my "fabric" room! I can't stand the excitement really! I'm sooooo happy... So these were some of my manyyyy inspirations, and although I know I will not be able to turn my "closet" into one of these.. I can pretend, and oogle over these ones!

I love all the colors on both of these! Mine won't be nearly as colorful but I hope for it to be just as organized! Thanks to Patty Young over at ModKid for the above inspiration, she is awesome!
I want to color coordinate all the fabric folded in it's cubbies just like this. Thanks to Jenny from All Sorts for the above inspiration. She is amazing! I really can't wait!

I also want to look for a spool holder like the one above that was featured at Craftzine back in 2007. If I can't find one affordable I'm definately going to try to make one! Wish me luck!

Still making lists.. still not finishing them...

It's ridiculous all the lists I make and then remake and forget and rewrite and nothing seems to ever get done. I won't repost "the List" because frankly... I'm sick of the list and all the pressure! haha.. Okay. So I might go back and see what actually got done on the list and one thing I know is that the flowers on my daughters wall still are NOT done, I started, put some up, ran out of flowers and had to cut and curl more. I finally did that but they are going up tonight! No if, ands or buts about it, I will get them done after work today. Why? Because my sister is coming into town and I'd rather not let her see it half done! Pressure! I work well under pressure! :)

For now though.. here is s sneak peak of the Cherry Blossom Tree wall.

The picture isn't the brightest (from my phone) but the complete pictures will be better... The tree trunk park is all painted onto the wall, flowers are all paper (4 colors), curled the ends with a pencil so they were more 3-D and added the marbles for the centers, everything hot glued to the wall :)

I'm sure my husband will kill me if we have to redecorate this room and take the flowers off. Oh well!

Going to sew something....

I figure I will need more than a few hours to do the flowers on my little girls wall, so I'm going to wait to do that for the weekend. In the meantime, I have only a few hours at home that I'm not sleeping, because my schedule is TIGHT!
Wake up, shower, get ready, make lunches, go to work, work all day, pick up the girls, go home, make dinner, get them ready for swim class, go to swim class, get back, bathe the children, put them to bed..... thennnn this is the part where I decide if I want to flop on the couch and watch the TV, read, get on the computer or work out (work out never, ever, ever, ever wins - but I still contemplate it).
So this is the little bit of time I will take this week, today or maybe tomorrow to create some tutu's for my little one. You see, she's in ballet and she's almost the only one in class that doesn't have a flurry little tutu, so she asked me for one finally. I got the tulle on sale at Hobby Lobby for .77 cents a yard, got a yard of every color and we'll see what I make!

My inspiration for the ones I'm about to make are these from Tiara's Boutique

Progress.....

So I finally started decorating my girls' rooms. There are 3 of them so it takes me some time to figure out what I want to do and how I will do it.

My youngest is all about everything being PINK, she loves every shade of pink and she really doesn't care what it is, so long as it's pink. Needless to say her room is like Pink Heaven. Everything is PINK! So pink that it has pink on top of pink, but of course it's different she says because they're different shades....

So for her room I decided on this....

(image from google image: cherry blossom wall decal)

......as inspiration only.... I wasn't prepared to go out and buy the decal for this. I'm grateful that I can paint with some artistic ability so I started working on it in her room, free hand.

This is the progress from beginning to present, which is not yet complete, I will be working on it more throughout the week and through the weekend I'm sure.

This is the blank wall, I imagined it and started painting...

The tree trunk looks a little skinny/narrow I know, but really it wouldn't matter too much because I was planning on putting the nightstand back where it was, as you can see below.

As I went up I just randombly put branches how I thought they should flow. I had no reason to do what I did but I looked at the example decal picture and kept going.

This was still a semi-rough draft of the branches. I did them with paint but I did a lighter outline of them and went back and colored them in with the thickness and darkness that I liked.

This is the finished copy of the branches, all painted in and dark. It extends to the right of the bed and passes it by a couple of inches. I didn't want it to just end where the bed ended. I'll post new pics on how the flowers come along :)

A post on a Sunday!!!

Wowsa! I must be losing my mind! Just kidding, I thought I'd drop in and let you all know the progress of my list... you know... THE.. list... or maybe it's to remind myself that there is actual PROGRESS going on. Whatever the case I'm able to knock a few thinks off the list and it feels good!
1) Complete all processing of photos
a. family shoot -DONE!
b. sorority pics - DONE!
c. vacation - NEARING THE END!
d. wedding - DONE!
e. swimming pics - I CONSIDER THIS DONE SINCE I HAVE YET TO TAKE ANY! :)
f. lake pics - 4th of July - I know they're coming -DONE!
2) Plan our next cruise - ACTIVELY WORKING ON IT!
3) Start Christmas shopping - I know it's early but I plan to be done by Thanksgiving with EVERYONE!
4) Finish decorating the girls rooms -BEGAN PAINTING DESIGNS TODAY!
a. picture frames - need to sand and paint and add photos, hang
b. refurbish some free light fixtures we got
c. complete some wall art for all 3 rooms - WORK IN PROGRESS!
5) Clean out all the girls old clothes and hopefully have a yard sale - 1 DOWN 2 TO GO!
6) Get shelves in my craft/business closet done and organized

I know you're probably wondering what I'm talking about when I say painting designs in the girls room.... Here's what I'm thinking....

These designs (above) will be coming from my daughters window onto a large open wall space that has NOTHING on it.... I think it will be fab!

This cherry blossom tree is actually a decal that I fell in love with long ago and I've been tempted to buy it. However, I am fortunate enough that I can paint it myself and save the money, but it will take some time. I started it today and I will show you the progress. :)

*Photos courtesty of Google Images.

Speechless on the craftiness of this woman!

I, unfortunately, am not the woman I am talking about! However, I have had the time lately to jump around the blogsphere, which I really hadn't done in a while and I must say.... I am pleasantly suprised to have found some wonderful blogs! The one in particular that I have literally spent hours on, going back and looking through her archives is Jessica, she blogs over at Happy Together and boyyyyyy is she one amazing gal!

She does everything! Crafting, crocheting, sewing, painting, everything, literally.... She's like the MacGyver of crafting! I am jealous, I am green with envy that she can turn a paperclip into a swiss army knife, a piece of fabric into a car, and she can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Okay, well... maybe not, but seriously if you've never been to her blog you should be arrested. Go there... now.. and enjoy and take in all the craftiness and then go home and do something with it. Report back here with what you've created. I'm going to be doing some stuff this weekend and I really can't wait! I will be here to show you next week...

Imagine that!! I'll actually finally be posting something crafty! It's been like a year right??? Oh how I missed it and thanks to Jessica for kicking me out of my funk and getting the creative juices flowing!

July July... oh how you are about to pass me by...

Hey that rhymed... :)
Okay so I'm working on my list.. yeah you remember, the list... in case you forgot here it is:

1) Complete all processing of photos
a. family shoot
b. sorority pics
c. vacation
d. wedding
e. swimming pics
f. lake pics - 4th of July - I know they're coming
2) Plan our next cruise
3) Start Christmas shopping - I know it's early but I plan to be done by Thanksgiving with EVERYONE!
4) Finish decorating the girls rooms
a. picture frames - need to sand and paint and add photos, hang
b. refurbish some free light fixtures we got
c. complete some wall art for all 3 rooms
5) Clean out all the girls old clothes and hopefully have a yard sale
6) Get shelves in my craft/business closet done and organized
7) I think the list ends here but I'm not sure because my brain has stopped....

Sooooo let's see... have I got ANYTHING done??? that would be a negative... a... big... fat... NEGATIVE.
Wait! After going through the list again it seems as though I have one thing I can mark off! That would be 1d... Wow... But to sound a little better I'm working on 1a and 1b right now, well in between writing this post and transferring all my photos to a NEW external hard drive. Apparently the one I had went crazy because I failed to turn it off when I was done. So it ended up overheating and killing it. The diagnostics went all whacked and I was stressing out, but I was happy that I was able to retrieve all my 14,000 pictures that were on it. Otherwise someone may have died... yes... died...

Anywho... Looks like I better keep working on my list cause it looks like it's gonna be a slooooow success!