Ok, so I took a stab at dying my living room lamp shades and there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, the dip dye didn’t work well for me. I’m not certain why; maybe the fabric on my shades is synthetic and wouldn’t hold the dye or maybe the dye solution was...
LOL, please forgive my juvenile brain for that post title, but I couldn't resist. Anyway, if you follow my sporadic twitter feed, I posted this a few weeks back: "Behold! My new mantel!" My friend Bill (the handyman guy who hung my drywall), was desperately trying to find something for me via his Mennonite connections,...
I thought I’d share with you the “final” photographs of the Sprout’s room. It’s been in a state of 90% completion for the past few weeks, but I had a few DIY decor projects I wanted to complete before I made the big reveal. :) At this stage in the pregnancy game, we pretty much...
Mike and I never bought a proper set of bedroom furniture. Not that I mind, exactly, but we were just lucky enough that all our hand-me-downs happen to sort of match. Dresser/bedside table was from Mike’s parents as well as a nightstand that functions as an entryway catch-all. The highboy dresser at the other side...