Round or Square?

Easy question. I need your help. For the new entryway, round or square?!

What do you think?! :)

The Hallway

I realized recently you guys hadn't seen all of the transformations in our house. Some of them aren't big, and some of them you haven't seen because of aspects I don't like in the room....but I think that is ridiculous and you should see them anyway! I do have to keep telling myself I am 25 years old, I am not made of money and we are renting this place. (We are renting it from family, so we pretty much can do what we like to it as long as it's not too crazy!)

So here's the hallway!

This is what it looked like when we moved in. Lots of pattern going on with the carpet and the wallpaper!

We primed everything, and took out the carpet.

This is the only shot I have of the old front door, and you can't really see it with the pull down curtain. The front door was sealed shut, so we got a new door for safety reasons.

  Under the carpet there was painted wood, so we gave that a fresh coat of paint, picked the wall colour and got a runner for down the hall.

And voila.

That door goes to the basement. I have a curtain in that doorway because there was an old accordion door.

I have my old $5 coatrack right by the beautiful new front door.

We I decided to keep the coatrack going down the hallway. (Obviously not the same one, since there were hooks missing)

I just made a new one from a piece of wood and hooks from the dollarstore. We use it all the time so I am glad we decided to keep it.

I love how the hall turned out. The sign says it all!

I still have to show you the bathroom and the upstairs hallway. I think you have seen everything else!

My Summer To-Do List- Almost Done!

Hey! Well I told you last night I had been working on my summer to-do list. Here's a reminder of what I wanted to do here

The first thing I wanted to was to make this from pottery barn

 I ran out of time to put the wire handles on, but they still looked good

Next I wanted to make this bag

Here's my take on it

I fell in love with this bracelet

And made my own

( I don't like the size of the pearls. I will be making it again because it was so easy to do, and is so pretty)

And remember these

Well, I'm just going to have to buy those, because this is how mine turned out

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH Oh dear. It was the most frustrating thing to do. The feathers were getting stuck everywhere! I finally stopped trying. And this is what I ended up with. A furball. ew.

So I guess I have made (and attempted to make) almost everything on my list. I still need to make

The bleach shirt and

this foot jewellry.

I made something else today too. I bought simple barrett clips. and glued on 2 flowers.

So cute! You know how I love my flowers.

I have so much stuff to do in the next few weeks. I have definitely decided to paint my kitchen cupboards. It will be a lot of work, but it will be worth it! Also, I am going to recover my new kitchen chairs! Mini kitchen makeover in the works, can't wait! I will keep you posted!

Mike's Birthday and Organization time!

Saturday was my sexy boyfriend's 25th birthday. 

He is funny and doesn't want his picture ever shown on here. Silly boy. We had friends and family over for a bbq and bonfire. I made him a birthday banner with scrap material I had and vinyl sticky letters

We had burgers and hotdogs (veggie burger for me of course), smores

 (that were mostly eaten by strangers...hahah girls I had never met who went to town eating everything)

cupcakes (mario mushrooms and question mark boxes)

sparklers

even fireworks

I made cute candles holders with jars and sand (like I wanted to here )

I didn't put the wire on, but they were still cute! (p.s that's Michael)

and I had daisies from the garden in jars too

It was a great night, and hopefully one Michael will remember forever!

On another note, I needed to work some organization magic. I rip pages out of magazines that are inspirational to me. I bet you all do too. Well, this is what I had.

ridiculous!

They were just shoved in there, the cats knocked them out, they were all over the craft room! I decided to do something about it today. I got 4 binders

and organized them into categories. Seasonal (xmas, fall/halloween etc.), rooms (bedrooms, bathrooms etc.), accessories for home (candles, frames, pillows etc.) and Other (table setting, wedding ideas, kid ideas, food ideas etc.) I got some dividers, page protectors and tabs and got to it.

Now I have nice organized binders. They still need work, but all the pages are separated and ready to be put into page protectors.

love it!

and what would be a post without a picture of my handsome Nelson.

love this guy!

I am going to be working on my summer to-do list I posted above, since summer is almost over. *sigh*

I will of course let you know how that goes!!