t-minus 9 days!

So since I am so completely running out of time to update you all on what we have been doing around this place for the last CRAZY months. I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures of what we've been re-doing, re-making, re-decorating!
Lets just say Keith has been painting just about every room in the house and anything of fabric material has been run through my sewing machine to make something *new* for us, or Noel, or baby #2.
AND since it's WAY easier to post a bunch of pics to facebook that's what I'm going to do. I'll add descriptions there.
So to leave you with a few final thoughts before checking out those pics.
We are only 9 days away from bringing home our 2nd baby girl and we're trying to get ourselves ready and also some time to relax and enjoy some fun and special times with Noel.
If you would like to know more details about how we made anything please ask and I'll do my best to get you an answer!
Have fun!

DIY toddler room!

Noel's new room is FINALLY done & she is sleeping in her new "big girl" room :)
We are transitioning her by still sleeping in her crib for a few months and then hopefully going to get her in her new toddler bed.
We scored an adorable toddler bed on a HUGE markdown @ the Pottery Barn outlet in the early spring. It was marked down because it was missing some lock-nuts..and to my rescue...my handy hubby saved the day! After a few runs to different hardware stores he found the solution with some new thingy-majigs (if you want the full scoop you'll have to talk to him).
We made/refinished/reused nearly everything in her new room.
Being that I feel like I barely have time to breathe, I'm going to break up her room into a few posts, so I can get some things posted in spurts.

Lets start with the paint job conversation
Me: Lets do STRIPES!!! it will be so much less work because we can do them so we don't have to do the trim & cutting in around the ceiling and floor boards!!! (thinking I'm so clever)
Keith: but that's going to be a lot of laser leveling, chalk lining, and taping
Me: ahh it won't be that bad!
Keith: (keep in mind he loves me) ok

Here is  part of the tape job up. We did 2 walls of stripes and 2 walls of solid...this took quite a few hours and some sore forearms from Keith balancing the laser level over and over and over again!

and now all the tape was up and ready to paint!

So I don't have any pics of just the painted room..oops! But here are some sneak peaks of the new bed and the finished stripes

Noel checking out the new bed (prior to mattress)..and a sneak peak at the duvet cover I made

helping Daddy put the new screws in 

Hopefully you can catch a feel of the stripes from these shots.  

So since it is actually making its debut in this post, I'll tell you about the comforter I made too. Since we spent a good buck on Noel's nursery bedding, which included a comforter (which is silly because you don't put blankets on babies to sleep). I decided to recover her existing bunny comforter with some fun graphics.
First I did this...

I took my new tree/fuscia fabric and made 4 panel front (with lots of help from my momma, since I am such a novice sewer)

so then the front looks something like this (note my model of Keith's legs underneath)

Then I took some brown jersey knit fabric (which is HORRIBLE to work with..mental note) and hemmed it up all around, folded it over the edges to make a border leaving lots of fabric for the opening at the bottom to make it a duvet cover that can be removed for washing. I then added buttons (and button holes..oy!)

Here you can see the "pocket" at the bottom with the buttons and Noel and I  (and baby b) enjoying  the finished product

I got all the fabric at JoAnn's and with a 20% off coupon spent a grand total of $20..yah!! reused/recycled the old comforter and put some green in our pockets!

More of the room to come soon!