After leading you on for months I finally have my act together. Here is the final reveal of Eleanor's big girl room. We had so much fun making this special room for Eleanor. It was tough saying goodbye to her nursery. With baby #3 on the way, it was time. I was so nervous about her being upstairs and being in a big girl bed. It turns out all my worrying was for nothing. Isn't that how it goes for us moms? She loves her big girl room, spends hours destroying playing in it. We made ...
Big Girl Room
Dressing Up the Walls In the Big Girl Room
Now that tearing out the carpeting, painting trim, painting walls, and putting down new carpeting are done, we can get to the fun part: DECORATING! This is my favorite part of any project. Putting a room together. I just want to say I am a bit sad about moving Eleanor out of her room, the nursery. We worked pretty hard to make it special. We wanted to incorporate as much of her former room as we could, without being married to it. The mirrors and the picture frames above the chair made ...
Its All About the Windows & How a Room Is Inspired
I often get the question, Where do you get your inspiration from? And that is a hard question to answer. Inspiration is a combination of things for me. The space, my budget, what is available, how I want the space to function and what makes my heart sing. Sometimes I get stuck on an idea and the rest of the world isn't aware of my genius. I will run from store to store trying to find whatever it is I have envisioned, only to find out it doesn't exist. Sometimes you can fix that with a DIY and ...
Big Girl Room Reading Nook and Cutting Edge Stencil Giveaway
I am so flipping excited to show you Eleanor's reading nook. Last week I shared a mood board, AKA- my plan for her reading nook. The Cutting Edge Stencil- Herringbone Allover is the key piece to this reading nook. It defines the space and is that little extra something special. And because EVERYONE loves a good before. I absolutely love, love, love how it turned out. I cannot wait for little E to see it. She is going to love hiding away in there and looking at her ...
Pillow for E’s Room Using Mod Podge Photo Tranfer
Eleanor's room continues to progress. I shared my progress on Eleanor's big girl room along with a Mood Board for her reading nook last week. No reading nook is complete without pillows. Today I am going to share with you how I customized a pillow I already had using Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium. In case you didn't know, Eleanor knows ever letter of the alphabet. She can identify uppercase and lowercase in various fonts. Pointing to letters and naming them is one of her favorite things to ...
