The One with LOTS of Projects!

I have been pretty busy lately. 

(Reason for lack of INTERESTING blog posts...)

Like I said in my previous post we bought a King Size bed and I have

been decorating around that... mostly.

I knew we were buying a new bed, therefore we would need

a new comforter. I wanted the project in my head

to match whatever comforter we bought.

This is the reason for me NOT blogging sooner.

It's taken me 2 weeks just to pick the comforter and

complete said project.

I have been documenting ALL of it with my camera though. So Lots of pictures! :)

Okay, so first we bought the bed. 

Can I just say that having a king size bed is like sleeping

in a hotel bed every night?

(I LOVEhotel beds. They always seem more comfortable to me.)

It's HUGE, so much room! LOVE it!

So I needed a new comforter, but, we decided since we spent a lot

on the bed we would wait a week in between buying the comforter.

I made myself busy with a couple projects.

Project Numero uno:

Updating the pictures of the fam. We had family pictures taken

September of 2009 and those are pretty much the only

pictures I have hanging in my house.

( I never had time to print any and frame them)

I bought these frame templates at Michael's like a month

ago and finally put them to use!

Check them out:

d

I know the middle frame is empty. I didn't count right when I printed the pictures. 

I did recently take a picture to fill that frame.

This is it.

Uncle Steven and Matty

This is the day we bought the bed. We had some issues getting the 

frame put together before they delivered the bed.

The "old" Queen bed

When the bed arrived they put it down on the frame.

And I realized I needed to put the bedskirt on. So this is the face berto

gave me when I told him we needed to lift the mattress up to put it on.

Cute huh?

Project Numero Dos:

Finding the comforter.

I really wanted to brighten up my room. We had a dark

purple comforter before so I wanted something brighter.

I found this beauty at Target for $29.99!

Total steal! 

(Unfortunately, the shams were seperate and $10 a piece)

We still spent WAY less than if we had bought an entire set.

AND its reversible!

Project Numero Tres:

After buying the comforter I realized that my shower curtain

no longer matched. My shower curtain was identical to my purple

comforter. So I needed to find a shower curtain that worked with the new 

comforter.
I also decided that since our old bed went to the guest room

that all the bedding and shower stuff would go to the guest bathroom.

So here's my bathroom before:

And here's my bathroom AFTER!!

I LOVE it!! :)

Here's the guest Bathroom before:

Sorry for the toilet...

And here's the guest bathroom after:

I like it so much better!

And last but not least,

Project Numero Cuatro:

I had an idea in my head for the wall above

our bed. I've been thinking about it for awhile but
I didn't want to do it until we bought the new bed.

After getting the bed together I got to work.

I took scrapbook paper and glued it onto wood letters.

I then took an exacto knife and cut the paper to fit the letters.

This thing is dangerous!! It's so sharp!

After the paper...

This is the letter"E" not a 3 or a "W"

This is what the wood letters looked like before I did anything to them.

Roughly what the letters look like when they are done.

Getting ready to put them up.

The finished project!!

New bed and new wall! I Love it!

I chose to nail the letters up instead of using ribbon

(my original plan)

You can only see the nails up close. The ribbon seemed like

too much to me.

All in all I am really happy with how everything turned out!

So there you have it. I really have been busy!

Here's a pic that made me laugh!

I turned around and I couldn't help but

take a picture!

Haha

AND for those of you who are annoyed by my uneven living room...

I am in the middle of geting another bookshelf to match the other side.

Matty's slide was there before but I put it in his room.

Til next time!!