YOUNG WOMENS REMODEL

As some of you know, I'm working in the Young Women's in church now which of course I LOVE! And they decided that our room needed a little bit of an update, or in this case, it just needed anything. They put me in charge of all the decorating for this room, which I used alot of my vinyl to do and pictures. Here is a few before and after shots. I wish I could have gotten more, but I put alot of work into this and I think it turned out pretty good.

Side A of the room. As you can see, not one single picture hanging up, not even one!

Side B, once again... nothing!! Can you believe this place? Nothing!

On Side A of the room, I put the them for the year along with all of the Young Women values and their colors beneath it. Along the other wall which I did not take any pictures of, I made a frame for each of the 3 rooms labeled with Beehives, Mia Maids and Laurels. Which was so cute.

Here is Side B, we moved the piano to this side of the room. Notice that we also made curtains for the windows. This place really needed some work so we went all out. I made the quote, "We are Daughters of our Heavenly Father who loves us, and we love him." on this wall here, with the theme, and torch and the picture of Christ with the girl in the red dress. So when we come to YW now, we face our chairs to this wall so that we can see this beautiful arrangement. It makes the room so much more uplifting to be in now, and the girls really loved it. Anyways, just the latest of some of my creations.

THE ROOMS ARE COMPLETE!

Well I finally was able to finish my room projects. These rooms have been a work in progress for months now, and I am happy to say that they are pretty much done. After we found out we were having a boy, we basically had to redo 2 rooms instead of one since Brystal had to move to a big girl bed and everything. So let me walk you through our finished product. I only wish I had taken before shots. Oh well.

This is pretty much what you see when you walk into the baby room. Here is the crib and the changing table, which has to be there cause we are still keeping a queen size bed in this room until my mom leaves after the baby comes and we need to use the room more for the baby. So furniture is a little tight. This beautiful shelf that goes across the wall was hand built by my handy man husband. He cut the wood, and painted it and figured out how to get it onto the wall. I think it looks really great!

Here is the baby bedding. Last time my mom was here in April, she helped me make this. I can't take all the credit for making it because I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to sewing, but I did do a good chunk of this. So thanks to my mama for helping me with this, it goes so well with the room. We are going for a vintage look in here, with the vintage colors, old books and wagons and stuff like that.

This is hard to see, but I found some really cute animal alphabet cards with vintage looking animals on them, so I have them draped across the wall here.

Here is a close up of some of the cards.

And last but not least on the opposite wall from the crib where eventually the changing table will go is this adorable little quote. I hope we have a little pirate man who likes to dig for treasure.

Now onto Brystal's room. Across the hall from the baby room you walk in to see this. Once again my super handy man made this chair rail all around the room, and once again with the help of my mom when she was here, we painted this half pink and half brown. And though you can't see all around the room, I have made little flowers sprouting out of the floor with vinyl.

Here is Brystal's new bed, and dresser and bedding. She loves her new bed and loves to show it off to people and friends who come over.

I made this little sillouhette of Brystal at about 18 months.

And here is what hangs above her bed. The 2 canvas paintings I painted myself to match her bedding. I tried to save as much money as I could on decorations by trying to make things, but actually it makes me feel pretty good when I look at them and think that I made those myself, so I have a little pride in them, even if they don't look that professional. And this concludes the tour of the rooms!

SUZY HOMEMAKER

In my attempts to be a bit more crafty, I decided to start with something simple. So here is a little something that I coughed up a couple weeks ago that I am so proud of. I have really been wanting some coasters for our coffee table and end tables so that I could quit yelling at Nate for using our books and getting water rings on them. So I decided to make these. I found some cloth napkins on sale at Pier One, and slapped a small slice of batting in between and sewed them up. And now, I have coasters.