Our January: In Pictures
January 31, 2012 in Announcements
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A Dorm Room Dresser: Before and After
January 30, 2012 in Made by Mom
I painted this dresser the summer before I started college to use in my dorm room, and used it through my senior year. It started out all dark brown…with a layer of wall paper stuff that pretends to look like wood. I am not sure where it came from. Here [...]
Personalized Baby Blanket Quilts
January 28, 2012 in Made by Mom, SnugasaBugBaby Products
This post has been featured! A couple hundred bucks and 4 days later, our computer is back from the Geek Squad and functioning again. Halleluyah. But there are still several files that need to be re-arranged and put in the appropriate places…and for some reason our bookmarks toolbar isn’t working [...]
Rosebud Topiary Tutorial
January 26, 2012 in Made by Mom
This post has been featured! Last week, I shared pictures from our Baby Dedication Backyard Party and promised a tutorial for how to make these rosebud topiaries.Here it is! What you’ll need: -Several rolls of crepe paper for the roses (I used pink…but I think white, red, or yellow rosebuds [...]
Repurposed Fence Post Wall Art
January 25, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Our computer crashed yesterday. SO FRUSTRATING!!! Really makes me wish I had stood in line for one of those $200 laptops on Black Friday. But I didn’t. So here I am, at the public library with a wiggling baby on my lap trying to stay [...]
Some Stuff I’m Loving: Pillow Tutorials
January 21, 2012 in Other People's Stuff I Like
There are several places in my home that are in need of an accent pillow or two. Some of those pillows will likely be made from this round-up of great pillow tutorials I’ve been swooning over. I love these pintuck pillows from Ashley, of Cherished Bliss. They won one of [...]
Dedicated to Christ
January 19, 2012 in Mommy Musings
On September 29th, 2011 our Selah Mae was dedicated to Christ. Because we have been involved with a church plant (The Embassy, Denver) that was not yet hosting regular worship services and did not have a permanent meeting location, we hosted a Baby Dedication Backyard Party. We invited family, friends, [...]
My Jewelry Board: Before and After
January 18, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! I have been using this bulletin board and random assortment of push pins for my necklaces for years now…but I decided it could use a bit of a makeover.So I stripped her down and took her outside.I primed and painted both the frame and the [...]
Under there and behind that…
January 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home
Last week, I shared before and after pictures of what is now our kids room slash guestroom. However, I didn’t share what was under the beds or behind those closet doors.The practical “usability” of the bedrooms in our home was what initiated our big bedroom swap around in the [...]
Pillowcase Style Dresses
January 16, 2012 in Made by Mom
These are the dresses I made for Selah and her cousins for Christmas:Though not made from pillowcases, they are fashioned after simple pillowcase dresses.I got four coordinating fabrics and made each of the four dresses with a different combination of three of them: one fabric for the main bodice, one [...]
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