A Sneak Peek

My new room is slowly coming together. And I do mean s l o w l y. I could never do interior design for a living because I take forever in deciding what I want to do. I need to stare at a particular space at least a hundred times before I will commit to hanging something or placing a piece of furniture. But I do have this little wall done in my new scrap space. I'm calling it my "vintage" area. :-D

I hope to get the rest of the room organized and placed how I "think" I want it by next week and finish it up!

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Operation Room Redo: Phase One Complete!

I am very happy to announce that Spencer's new room is complete! And it turned out exactly how I had envisioned it. I don't know about anyone else out there in blogland, but when I start projects they rarely turn out the way I had planned. But not this time. :-)

So here are quite a few pictures of his new room. This shot is taken from the door as you walk into his room.

This next one is taken from the other side of the room by the window. See that little white desk in the corner? I have been looking forever for a small writing desk for him. They are so hard to find because everything is computer desks now. Well last weekend I went to the Pottery Barn outlet while we were in Ohio and I found this desk there on super, super clearance. It had been $229 (I don't know who would pay that kind of money for that desk!) and was now marked down. I got it for $48! Score for Christie!!!! Then we found the desk chair and those shelves at Ikea the next day. How lucky were we that Ikea had exactly the colors we were looking for? I mean those items are perfect for this room!


And this one is taken looking out . You can see a little bit of his bathroom. I painted it the blue color from his comforter.
The following are the canvases I painted for his room. I bought all of the canvases at Michaels with my handy 40% off coupons, and I got all of the vinyl decals from Ebay. This one is 4 foot tall. I think it adds so much to the room. Makes it "pop", know what I mean?

I bought the skateboard (below) at the Pottery Barn outlet over 6 months ago when Spencer first told me wanted a skateboard themed room. It was red. So when we finally decided on a color scheme for his room, I painted it the same color as the bathroom and then the No Limits and Flames I cut with my Cricut. The images are from the Graphically Speaking cartridge. If you have a cricut, I highly recommend this cart. It has tons of cool things on it!
So that is part of what I have been working on for the last few months. I forgot to mention that I got all of his bedding and curtains at Walmart. I already talked about the headboard in this post if you are interested or you missed it.

So I leave you with one last picture of what I think turned out to be an awesomely cool boys room! Thanks again for visiting me!!!

Overwhelmed...

That is how I'm feeling about Operation Room Redo right now. My house is in disarray because I have bits and pieces of different rooms every where. Do you ever just feel like you have started a project that just keeps spiraling out of control and continues to get bigger and bigger. That is how I'm feeling right now. I am making progress, but it is creating a bigger mess the more I get done. How does that happen?

We are having the boys closets done tomorrow by a local closet company. Chris and I did ours last summer and it gave us so much more space than just that one rod and shelf we had. So we decided to go ahead and do the rest of the bedrooms this year. So now I'm cleaning out closets. Which is adding to the piles of stuff I have around here. I know that after we get the closets done tomorrow it will help with the piles.

And I 'm still working on the finishing touches for Spencer's room. This is one of the canvases I painting. That green paint is a pain to work with because it takes so many coats of it to get the right color. And you have to let it dry in between coats of paint. So once again it is taking a long time to get something (I thought would be quick) done.
I finally picked out a color to paint my new scrap room. You would not believe how long and how many trips to the store it took me to pick out a color. I seriously agonized over this choice for much longer than I should have. Yesterday I was in Home Depot looking at paint chips for the gazillionth time, when I finally told myself to just pick a color! So I went with this. I don't know why I have such a hard time picking out paint color. I do this every time I'm going to paint a room.

On a completely different subject, yesterday Connor had to go and get the rest of his shots so he can start Kindergarten. I couldn't actually get a picture of him getting the shot because I had to hold him while they were doing it. So this is of him getting ready for them. And why he is still smiling. Actually he was very brave and didn't cry at all. He got to pick out a football from the prize basket because he was so brave!!!
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And now I have to go back to cleaning out closets. :(

Operation Room Redo: Making Progress

I am almost through with Phase One of the Operation Room Redo. Today I spent painting Spencer's new bathroom (the blue paint shown below). We also moved over his bed and dresser today. I have a few finishing touches to make before I can show the complete room. That probably won't be until after Memorial Day weekend. I want to look for a couple of more things to finish it off. And we are going to Ohio to visit Chris' family on Memorial Day weekend and there just happens to be an Ikea close by. And a Pottery Barn outlet. :-D So I am hoping that I can find him a cheap desk for his room. He has been wanting one for a long time, but I just haven't found what we want.

I did get his new headboard finished. Yea! Because it was a major pain to paint. It took forever! But I must say I am very happy with how it turned out. I got it on clearance and this is what it originally looked like in the pictures below. (Sorry, but I forgot to take my own pictures of it before I painted it, so I had to get these off of the web.)

It was a headboard made for holding scrapbook pages. How cool is that? I thought it was really neat, but of course it won't work like this for Spencer's room. So I transformed it into.....

This!

I really, really like how it came out. Like I stated earlier, it was a complete pain to paint and took forever to get done. I hope to get it up into his room tomorrow and finish painting the bathroom. And then once I get his new room done, I can start on my new scraproom. Yippee!!!


I thought I would add a few pictures of Spencer's first baseball game of the year. This was last Thursday evening. This was suppose to be his third game, but the first two got postponed because of rain.
And I know this picture isn't completely in focus, but I love the look he gave me while he was playing catcher.
And I have to include a picture of Joe Cool here. Did you notice the blue lips? He got those from the lollipop he had during the game.
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Happy Cinco de Mayo!

I hope everyone gets to enjoy a little Mexican cuisine today. And maybe a Margarita. :-D
I, however, will not be able to fully enjoy this holiday because Connor has a T-ball game tonight. Plus we were informed at 8am this morning that we also have concession stand duty tonight right after his game. So I'm seeing a full evening of baseball tonight and not chips and salsa.

Our Operation Room Redo is going great. I have got Spencer's new room all painted. I started painting his new headboard too. It needs another coat of paint though. We also got the room emptied and let's just say moving that Queen bed down to the basement was an adventure. I'm not sure how we are going to get it back up if we ever need to.

Here is Chris installing the new ceiling fans in Connor's and Spencer's rooms.



And finally after weeks of bad weather and illness, the boys got to go to a golf lesson together last night. They really enjoyed it even though they both got blisters after the first 15 mins.

Operation Room Redo

We have begun the Operation Room Redo: Version 2009. These are the supplies to paint Spencer's new room. And yes, I said new room. See for the past year or so, every time I walk past the guest room I think how terrible it is for that nice room to go unused. We do get overnight visitors but only about 4 or 5 times a year. So for the most part that room doesn't get used.

So I talked Chris into moving Spencer to that room and moving me to Spencer's old room! Woo Hoo! I get my own scrap room with windows and a door. And I get to make it as girly as I want to. I'm thinking pink walls and flowers.

We are then going to make the part of the basement that I was using as my scrap area into an art area for the boys. Since they are older now, I'm not so worried about crayons on the walls. And then this will give me a closet back in my kitchen that is now the boy's art closet. And since I have limited cabinet space in my kitchen, more closet space is going to be awesome!

So I have a lot of work to do to get this all done. I got Spencer's new room taped off today and I hope to start painting tomorrow. Since the bedroom he is moving to has it's own bathroom, it will still serve as a guest room when we need it. That was the main reason I didn't take that room for my scrap room. I wanted to still have that as a bedroom for when we have overnight guests, (i.e. our parents).

As I get each room done, I will post pics. I won't be getting much scrapping done for the next month or so though.

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