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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Cheery Mother's Day Card

Mother's Day is just around the corner... are you prepared or do you still need to rush to the store?

I'm a little of both, this year. My cards are done, but the gifts have yet to be purchased.

(Mom, if you're seeing this, you can just pretend to be surprised on Sunday.) :)

Am I the only one who wants to spruce things up in their home in Spring time? Rearranging furniture, bookshelves, pictures on the walls... Spring is a time of CHANGE. Last week, I showed you my family room & a list of small things I wanted to tackle to spruce it up a bit. Here is my first completed project from that list.

The art in our family room was feeling kind of tired to me {Yawn}. Definitely time for a change. Something fresh & springy.

I had these 9 canvases that I got at the dollar store several years ago & I covered them with patterned paper to make my own "art". After changing them a couple of times, I was ready for something new again.

BEFORE

I started thinking chevron... something in chevron. But what colour? How about a few colours? My idea was born: take the existing canvases, take off the paper & paint a chevron print onto them with craft paint. Three rows of canvases, three different colours. Yellow, grey, & aqua.

I found a chevron template printable here & got all my supplies together.

After tracing & cutting two stencils out of cardboard, I started painting. Let me tell you from experience that you should first paint your whole canvas your background colour first. It would have made touch ups go much faster. Alas, hindsight is 20/20. :)

Here is the finished product:

I also moved them to the other side of the room over the couch. Please forgive the poor photos as there is no natural light in this room.

The total cost of this artwork was very small. I had the canvases already so there was no cost there. The only thing I had to buy was the yellow & aqua paint - a cost of under $5.

I love being able to cross things off of my to do list!

~~New artwork above the couch~~
New artwork for T.V. wall
Makeover the little table my map lamp sits on
Paint the dress-up box (to the right of the couch)

Now on to the other projects!

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Friday, May 04, 2012

Home Tour (Part 7) : The Family Room

Wow, it's been several months since I shared the next instalment in my Home Tour. It's about time I showed you another room!

I must admit to you that the reason I haven't showed you this room is because I'm not in love with some of the furniture. We are hoping to be able to replace some of it soon, but for now it is what it is.

So here's the family room as of last week...

Sorry about the bad lighting. This room is hard to photograph since it's in our basement & there's no natural light.

Here's what this room looked like when we bought the house.

Pretty much a blank, boring, & somewhat dirty slate.

(And look how little my daughter is! That was almost 5 years ago now...)

So, as you can see, we ripped up the old, dirty carpet & laid laminate flooring. We painted the walls & trim (No more periwinkle door!) and we updated the lighting.