Does your home office need a makeover? Here are 10 DIY ideas that will help change the look of your space!
Gender Neutral Nursery Inspiration
February 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
We have rounded up some of our favorite gender neutral nurseries from around the web!
Click “continue reading” below to see the gallery and links:
The Office Makeover: Craft Storage (Free Vintage Label Download)
December 18, 2012 By 15 Comments
Martha eat your heart out. I labeled 70 boxes yesterday with vintage-inspired labels. It’s part of my big office makeover. I can’t show you the office yet because it’s a disaster. Anyway, it took almost all day to organize the boxes and create the labels but I feel really organized now:
The shelves were an early Christmas present from Mr. LBB. This area is a hallway behind my office….technically it’s a “butler’s pantry” for serving food and storage but it’s the perfect area to store supplies right off my work area. The wall space above the countertop was just empty space. The area used to be a huge sunken living room before we remodeled a few years ago. We added a wall at the end of the room to create the storage space.
Here’s what it looked like two weeks ago:
Michaels Dream Tree Challenge – The Sneak Peek
November 15, 2012 By 6 Comments
Aren’t these little guys cute? They are the inspiration behind my tree for the Michaels Dream Tree Challenge. (click here to see my inspiration board here!)
Michaels Stores sent me one of their pre-lit trees and I had one week to decorate it using supplies and decorations from their store. You know I love a challenge, so after I stocked up on the little woodland critters above I started browsing the store for more inspiration. A few things I’ve incorporated into my tree:
Holiday Potpourri:
Wood craft pieces:
Metallic garland:
Burlap and tiny wreaths:
Click here to see the final tree and the time lapse movie Boo and I made of the tree!
Office Panorama
September 26, 2012 By 5 Comments
Fun with the new iPhone panorama function last night:
The right side of my office:
A photo wall in my hall. I think I like the curved wall effect. Maybe I should remodel:
How did I manage that wall? It was pretty easy actually. I used my laser level run tape all the way down the hall for the top and bottom line. Then I made an identically spaced tape line on my guest room carpet. I arranged the photo frames on the floor first, then transferred them to the wall. As long as the top and bottom edges of the top and bottom frames line up the middle ones won’t matter as much!
DIY Reclaimed Wood American Flag
September 25, 2012 By 17 Comments
Here’s another painting I did last weekend from reclaimed wood….a rustic American Flag for our outdoor living area. It took under 45 minutes to paint:
The only labor intensive part was making the canvas from a reclaimed wood pallet. First, the pallet was dismantled and then the pieces were attached to two boards: CONTINUE READING
Carving Rocks with a Dremel
September 24, 2012 By 22 Comments
There is something very gratifying about carving into a rock. This project was kind of therapeutic. I was thinking I’d carve some words into rocks and maybe start leaving them around Palm Desert to see if people find them…. CONTINUE READING
Make A Chalkboard Inspiration Wall
July 31, 2012 By 33 Comments
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now…..paint an entire wall with chalkboard paint and let it be a collection place for quotes, memories and inspiration. This wall in our breakfast area was just the place to do it….right next to the magnetic chalkboard I did back in 2009. We are getting ready to repaint our interior wall and I wanted to find another way to preserve Boo’s growth chart too.
I used regular black chalkboard paint in the can:
I painted a few coats and let it sit for 3 days to cure:
This is my favorite part: Chalk Ink. These are chalk markers like the restaurants and coffee shops use to make their awesome signs. It creates a clean look without all the dust and mess and can be removed with windex. It won’t smear either. I used the Artista Pro Earthy Set for the wall:
I used the Chalk Ink to add a few of my favorite quotes:
I moved over Boo’s growth chart and made it a little more whimsical:
I added some artwork:
It’s going to be a work in progress for a while…..but it will look so cool once the entire wall is finished.
Source info: You can purchase Chalk Ink markers from Chalk Ink directly here.
Make Sure Your Heart Notifies Your Face
July 16, 2012 By 16 Comments
I’ve been wanting to repaint the main living area in our house for a while now. I distressed all the walls a few years ago and I’m kind of over the glazed look. I’ve been adding paint colors to a few walls and last week I picked out a new greyish-beige color I thought would be a great change…..only to discover….. as Boo painted it on the wall…… that it’s: almost. the. exact. same. color. as the original beige color. Basically I went from beige……to beige. Risky!
It was a very productive weekend. I narrowed down 3 shades of grey tones. I like a very neutral, monochromatic living space. Mr. LBB would love color….but he knows where to pick his battles. He’ll be happy if I just finally pick a color and stop painting patches randomly on walls around the house. He had to work again all weekend. Boo loves to go to work with him and he took her with him for a few hours on Saturday. Around lunchtime, I heard the truck drive up the driveway. I looked out the kitchen window and saw: Boo standing in her underwear, crying hysterically, and Mr. LBB frantically scooping strawberry milkshake out of the side of his truck in the 102 degree humidity. So what did I do? I kept eating my veggies and dip…..watching……with a tiny bit of amusement.
I’ve created a little mini me by the way. She is constantly working on projects…..and she leaves them everywhere.
Me: Why does she always have to start a new project right before bedtime?
Mr. LBB: Maybe because she’s your daughter…..look in the mirror.
Forget the tupperware box…..I started threatening to throw anything that was left on the floor away without warning.
Since last Thursday I’ve had a total of 4 doctor’s appointments. I’m doctored out…..but they were all just making sure things were okay. My new GynOnc Dr. H is monitoring my ovaries and making sure the cyst that was causing so much discomfort is just that…..a cyst. I had an ECHO today to make sure my heart is okay after all that chemo and because Dr. Y thought my heart murmur sounded more pronounced…..but everything looks totally normal. Despite 23 rounds of chemotherapy, my ticker is still going strong with no signs of muscle weakness. Maybe I’ll go run a marathon now. I also had a gazillion vials of blood drawn to check everything else since I “lost time” (that’s a Primal Fear movie reference in case you missed it). I guess I’m about the only person that thought randomly passing out didn’t seem like a big deal.
I spent some of the weekend working on a new Choose Joy necklace design. It’s my first real venture into jewelry. The reason I’m so excited about it? Because I’m taking a trip up to Northern California to document the process of it being made. I know you all love behind the scenes as much as I do……so I’m making kind of a mini-documentary of it…..a “How it’s Made.” I know it seems so far away……but they will be available around mid-August.
Oh, and speaking of joy…..I heard the following in church yesterday:
So true. Choose joy…..but make sure your heart and face are communicating. That’s the only way to spread it.
P.S. A few ways to keep that joy while cleaning up after your kid.
Cool Things Made From Recycled Toys
July 7, 2012 By 17 Comments
I’ve been saving up Boo’s old toys forever…..the ones that I’m sure would hit the landfill and not Sunnyside. I’m not sure what I’m going to make yet but here are some projects and art I’ve seen around that are pretty awesome:
