Bathroom Update on the Cheap.

So , it remains in our plans to properly renovate our main bathroom - with a new vanity, flooring and mirror - but that's looking like a year away at this point, and I wasn't content looking at this....

It was one of the only rooms that hasn't been painted since we moved in and one of the two left with patchy canary yellow walls and door. - k, please don't paint your doors canary yellow.  ever.  it doesn't have the "sunshiney" effect you would think at seven in the morning.... 


So - some left over paint (FREE),  some new towels ($30), a toilet paper holder ($10), two small mirrors ($15 each) - and some moulding for around the mirror ($12) - a grand total of $82 and I I am MUCH calmer in the morning! :)  We did also replace the lighting fixture a few weeks after we moved in - although now I'm not sure why we EVER elected to get rid of the brass hollywood dazzle strip! :) I do have a new faucet that still needs to be installed, I'm going to paint out the vanity doors white, and I need some more artish filler for beside the big mirror (taking suggestions for that please!) - but it think it's largely improved.

So, please....help me fill the wall space??

Christmas LOVE!

DIY Belt

So - can I just say that I am SO continually impressed and amazed by all the ideas and designs that the seriously talented women in Blogland are continually inventing and re-inventing!  Blows my mind every day!!  And I am SOO inspired and blessed to umm....  steal those ideas!  :)  


Lil Blue Boo has a fabulous tutorial for all the little scraps of ribbon you have lying around to repurpose into a belt...  I made my first one last week and I'm going to use it as a stocking stuffer for my little girl.  She's been asking for a belt for a while - I know, I know,... poor poor sad little underprivileged four year old doesn't even have a belt... :(  But I think it turned out super cute and it only cost me like three dollars for the cotton webbing and the D rings!  Cheap like borscht.  


Check it out....

Thanks Lil Blue Boo! :)

Ana-White's Shout Out! :)

So - SUPER excited to get a little mention by the amazing Ana White on her post today! :)  Cannot say enough good things about her and her blog.  Total inspiration! Please, if you have not checked her out - do it now!  I can honestly say that were it not for her easy to follow plans and assurance that I too can build furniture (because yes, I believe that she was talking directly to me....!)  - umm....would still be relying on my husband to hang the pictures.  But as it stands - here are a few things I have built with my very own two hands....and a lot of my husband's tools that I previously loathed to pay for and have sitting around my quest for a clean house. :)

and FYI -  my sister is a huge superstar....  and she too has started building and built this entry bench (umm - FIRST projects?? AMAZING) and an beautiful headboard that I need to steal some pics of for y'all....  So good hey?  Love it!