Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 I hope you've had a fabulous green filled weekend and day today! We have had a blast all week focusing on it! Lots of green and fun! I will post a recap later this week! As well as a 16 month update!

We usually don't decorate for St. Patrick's Day but since we have the playroom, and Adalyn's Uncle is Irish I thought we should do a little bit at least! There isn't too much to choose from when it comes to decorating for St. Patrick's Day but we got what we could! Here are a few pictures of the playroom!

The updated cork board. I used some cool tape to give it a new look!  I moved a few things around in the playroom and got rid of the gallery wall full of frames. You will see why in in a second! :) This was later full with some of Adalyn's art! (I took these weeks ago and never posted!)

 

 

This is why I moved the pin board! I had this owl hanger for a while and hadn't put it anywhere! I decided to put it where the cork board was and I am glad I made that decision! I love it! I didn't think we needed a gallery wall  as well as this so I took it down and put the cork board over there! I also got this bar and buckets from Ikea to hold chalk, the chalk brush and magnets! I love it!

 

 We now have more a few more St. Patrick's Day books!

 I just placed some cut outs around too!

And that's it! I love decorating the play room and am looking forward to the next holiday, Easter! It's only a month away...I better get decorating! :)

Ashley

Valentine's Day Decor: Playroom Edition

Here are a few pictures of the Valentine's Day decor in the playroom!

 I got all of the decorations at the dollar store and Target!

 This little bag holds her pretty Valentine's Day bracelets and necklaces!

 Our gallery wall

 Have I showed you the tent my sister and her husband got Addy?! Cute right?!

 The love pillow and carpet were cute, I thought!

 Our Valentine's Day books...hardly any board books! She can only read these ones with Mama!

 So I took her year of friends down and am going to post her art on this board! I also painted the chalkboard with magnetic paint and still have yet to paint the chalkboard over top..she loves the magnets!

So there you go! She loves all the pretty decorations and I have fun decorating too! Holidays are so much more fun with kiddies!!

Ashley

Adalyn's Playroom : Christmas Edition

I finished decorating the playroom this weekend! Here is how it turned out:

   I covered the beanbag with a blanket to make it more festive!

I made a cute tree banner from foam trees from the dollarstore. They are sticky so I took the backing half off, stuck it on the ribbon and put the backing back on. Super easy!

Here is our Gallery wall. I hope it is full of Christmas art soon! I re-arranged it and added some clipboards. Most of the frames were horizontal before and I found it very hard to find free art. Most people make them the other way!

Here is our Christmas corner. I have our books on the shelf and some in the box. (And these are only the board books. The paper backs are on her shelves upstairs! I will have to show you her room soon!)

I just bought the deer book this week. It is called "Our Little Deer" and it is the sweetest book!

I added a "Make a Banner" to the other side of the wall and stuck some Christmas trees on there too. I think it looks pretty cute. The only thing that is bugging me is the random pink bin. I'm going back to the dollar store to get another red one before I go crazy!

The other side of the wall is pretty boring. I added some cute deer art on the wall and some garland around the door.

So there it is.

In my head I thought it would be more extravagant and busy, but I am happy with how it turned out. Just the right amount. Although I would secretly like a little tree in there for her and some lights too. Maybe I will be updating the post soon! :)

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Ashley

Adalyn's Playroom - Birthday Edition!

Since I decorated the play room for Halloween I had to decorate it for her birthday as well. I wanted it to be festive since we had a party for her too and had lots of people in the house. I love to decorate for all occasions! I can't wait for the Christmas decorating coming up. I think I might start this weekend, at least in the playroom! Here are a few pictures of the playroom!

 We had balloons of course! Addy loves them!

 New birthday art in the frames (sorry about the sun!)

 All of her birthday books

 I made a new colourful tissue paper banner

 What do you think?!

I can't believe my baby will be ONE tomorrow!!!

Ashley

The playroom: Halloween edition

I just realized I have not shown you the playroom! It is our favourite room in the house and also where we spend most of our time! I will dedicate an entire post to it after Halloween but thought I would show you the Halloween decor we have up so far!

We have our Halloween books out and a cute pumpkin garland up!

 Here is our gallery wall. I have printed off some free printable art to make it really say Halloween!

 Here is another pumpkin garland over the chalkboard

 Here are the lanterns I was telling you about in last weeks post. I would like to get at least two more...but probably more then that!

* Note - On Sunday when I went to Walmart I picked up 4 more...here is how it looks now:

 Much better!!

And here are Adalyn's pumpkin purse and Halloween bag hanging on our clipboards!

I don't know if I will add anymore or not. There really isn't much room for anymore...but if I see something I think will be cute in there I will get it for sure and add it there! I love Halloween! I will be showing you the house decor this week as well so stay tuned!

Ashley

Playroom Update

We have been busy over here working on this play room. I am pretty excited about how far we have come already! I did say I wanted it to be done quickly!!!!

I don't have a picture of the room before (when we used it as our "bedroom") but I did manage to find some older pictures!

Here is one from soon after we moved in...we called it the "junk room" for a reason! (How embarrassing!)

And here it is as my craft room (before we moved it to the other side!) So everything was the same as in this photo (paint, curtains, carpet) there was a just a bed against the wall next to the window, a dresser and play pen! Try to imagine it....

And here it is after the wallpaper and paint!!!!

Doesn't it look like a different room? I have to thank my amazing parents AGAIN for putting up wallpaper for me! They worked very hard and I really appreciate everything they did! We were planning on just wallpapering the one wall but we had enough paper to do the entire room. (There was still a little left over from Adalyn's room)  

Of course after I painted I had to move all her toys in there...so here it is now with the toys in there:

We have already played in there so much!! She loves it!

I can't wait to decorate and hang some shelves and art!!!

Here was the to-do list I posted last week

• wallpaper walls
•  paint ceiling, trim and walls
• build cube shelves
• build ABC foam mat
• buy, paint and hang shelves
• make chalkboard
• buy and hang window film 
  
• decorate

and here is our current list:

Our current to-do list:

• wallpaper walls
•  paint ceiling, trim and walls
• build cube shelves
• build ABC foam mat
• buy, paint and hang shelves
• make chalkboard
• buy and hang window film  (we aren't doing this anymore. I just picked up some blinds and cut the cord very short!!!)
  
• decorate 
• decide how to decorate/paint the curtain that separates the two rooms ( I added this because I forgot to before. I have a big paint cloth hanging between each room as a barrier. I want to either paint on it or decorate it somehow to make it look a little nicer!

Not too bad right!?! I thought I should post our cost every week too! So the current amount we have spent so far is

$138.90
and this is how we have spent it...

• 27.99 for the 9 cube storage x 2
• 17.98 for the roll of wallpaper x3
• 19.99 for the ABC 7x4 play mat
• 8.99 for the white blinds

I didn't need to spend any money on paint because I made my own colour from  left over paint and I have to say it is a very pretty colour!!!! I am absolutely loving how this is all turning out! I am sure we will decide on shelves and decor soon! I will keep you posted!! 

Ashley

Play Room Inspiration

Ok, so we ended up moving downstairs on the main floor for the winter to sleep because the wood stove is down there and it was much warmer! We were worried about Adalyn being too cold upstairs! At first we put our double bed in the living room, and Adalyn slept in her bassinet. We cleaned out the one room (we called it the junk room because we stored most of our stuff in there!) opposite the office and moved the bed in that room. We had the double bed, dresser with her change pad on top, a bookcase with all of Adalyn's recent clothes and her play pen where she slept! We have since moved back upstairs...thank goodness (I missed my bed!) and decided to make our old "bedroom" downstairs a play room! I am very excited for this  because:

A)  I get to redecorate and plan a new room!
B)  I can move all of Addy's stuff out of the living room!
C)  Addy will have an amazing place to play and learn.

As you all know already I am thrifty, and now on a maternity leave budget which means we can't put a lot of money into this room. It is fun to try and decorate a room for the least amount of money you can. I will be keeping a tally and add up the total money spent at the end! I know now there will be at least one wall papered wall (the same wall paper as in Adalyn's room...the wall is in bad shape), a chalkboard, possibly a magnet board and some cube shelves! I am also making my own paint colour with left over aqua paint from Addy's room, and leftover white paint! No reason to go out and by new paint!

Here is our current to-do list:

• wallpaper walls
•  paint ceiling, trim and walls
• build cube shelves
• build ABC foam mat
• buy, paint and hang shelves
• make chalkboard
• buy and hang window film 
• decorate!!!

That's all I can think of at the moment but I'm sure there are many other things! I will keep you posted each week. I have a feeling this is going to be a quick finish because I want her toys out of the living room real bad.....they are driving me nuts! hahah

Anyway, for now, here is some inspiration..the rooms I love, as well as certain aspects in them!
(Remember, these aren't my images I have found these through pinterest...so don't pin these items from my blog. Click the link underneath each picture to take you to the proper source! Thanks!)

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love the foam flooring and storage!

 
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I love the designated reading area, the spice rack bookshelves and the large letters!


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LOVE the teepee...I don't think we have enough room for one! I really want one though! And love the tall storage! We are planning on doing this to leave more room on the floor!

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love this! I love that you can take it with you when you go. My friend Sharon made one (that looks fabulous) and I have to have one too! hahahahah

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I need a chalkboard, obviously! hahaha

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I love the paper backing on the shelves...and what the shelves are sitting on! I would love to find those!

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maybe a felt board?

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It would be cool to have a confetti wall!

Gah so many pretty ideas...I know you are probably thinking "she is a baby, what do you need a chalkboard for" I know she is only a baby but I can't help but decorate this room the way I see it...for the future! It has to look pretty! hahahah

I can't wait to start decorating! Stay tuned for the room update next week!

Ashley