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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Summer has started!

Today was the last day of school for Spencer and yesterday was Connor's last day. Next year Spencer will be a 4th grader and Connor will be in Kindergarten. Wow! The time sure has flown by. It seems just like yesterday that Spencer was starting Kindergarten and now it is Connor's turn.

I thought I would do a little comparison today of the boys from the first day of school until the last.

This is how they looked last July. Connor was going to Preschool and Spencer was entering the 3rd grade.


And here they are on the last day of school. I think they look like they have grown quite a bit.


Spencer had an excellent report card. We are so proud of him! And he was voted Class Comedian by his classmates. :-]

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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!!!

Coming Soon!

Pictures of Spencer's new room. I hope to get them taken later today and post them. Stay tuned....

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. :(

Our Holiday Weekend

Over the Memorial Day weekend we went to Ohio. We got to visit with family and friends, see a couple of movies and do a little shopping. Well actually we (that really should say me) did a lot of shopping! I thought I would share a few of my pictures that I took for my Project 365.

Here is my picture for Friday. Chris took this for me as we were entering Ohio.

This nest is in Chris' parents backyard. I had to take a lot of pictures before I finally got one of the mama bird and her babies. Every time I got the camera out, she would fly away.
Here I am after our big Ikea shopping trip. Can I just say that I love Ikea. I really, really love that place. I wish there was one closer. I got two of the Expedit shelves they had on sale for the Holiday weekend for my new scrap room. I also got Spencer a new desk chair and a long table to put in the basement for the boys to use for their drawing and coloring. I got a small chair for my scrap room and some curtains. This was on Sunday. After we got home that evening, I was wishing that I had got the cover that went with the chair. So on our way out of town Monday, we drove back to Ikea with the boys. We ate breakfast there and I got the chair cover. The boys loved it! Spencer said he thinks Ikea is his new favorite store. :-D
After our full day of Ikea shopping on Sunday, our friends Denise and Joey came over to Chris' parents house and had dinner with us. This is Joey, Spencer, Karen (Chris' sister) and Connor playing a game of washers in the backyard.
And this is of my picture of the day for yesterday. Driving back into Missouri.
We had a great weekend and now I have to get all of the things I bought at Ikea put together. Spencer's room is very close to being done. I have a few canvases left to paint and hang and then I think his room will be ready. His room is really coming together great! I can't wait to show it off. I'm hoping by the end of the week to have it done so I can take some pictures to post.

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