Well I've been very busy getting my things back in order in my room this past week and it seems crazy to say that next week I will be back at work. The students don't come back until later in August but we teachers start August 1. I sometimes think our summers are on warp speed while the school year itself is on super slo-mo. Do you ever feel that way?
Today I'm linking up with Tara from Fourth Grade Frolics for Monday Made It! As you may remember I've been working on my sewing room for a while now. Although the walls and floor are finished, I haven't found the perfect affordable furniture for it yet.
First up, a look at the before......
I could not take that puke orange peachy orange any longer!!
And the after......so far......
Excuse the leg....my poor father in law was working so hard to get that floor in. I'm sure he cursed me for buying the cheapest floor possible!
I would really like to build something like this to go in there.
It's a bookshelf screwed to the top of a small table. I think I would like a wider table for my sewing machine but it looks neat. Still looking for the pieces....
I did find this tall drawer set at a local resale. I plan to refinish it pure white with no distressing to match my walls.
Enough of my sewing room and dreaming, so what did I make this week???
Well, I made one of these.....
It's an itty bitty baby onesie for a sweet preemie! Isn't it adorable?
We also made a tent for my youngest's bed. It was DH's idea and he built the setup but needed me to sew the fabric. I just used a queen sheet and made a new seam in it. Definitely NOT perfect but DS loves it and that's all that matters!!
This last one is my Pinterest FAIL of the week!! Ever try something that will be "soooo cute" and have it turn out awful?!?!?! lol....I had this "brilliant" idea that I would paint Mickey heads on the walls of my boys' bathroom since it's done in a Mickey theme. How hard can that be right?!?!? WRONG!!!
So after that failure, I ordered some wallpaper border and we are covering those little guys up!
My one school related made it is for my job board. Since my room is a circus theme, my job board is a clown juggling balls with the jobs written on them. The title is "Juggling Jobs". Well I made each of the balls this year all pretty and colored in but then I got to thinking about my current ink situation (Read that to mean little to no ink left) and I came up with a different idea.
I simply made a black circle outline with each job printed in black inside. This way you can put ANY kind of paper behind it to print out on and it doesn't use colored ink. If your room is chevron, print on chevron paper. If you want solids, print on solids. You can usually get the regular sized paper cheap at Michael's or Hobby Lobby or any local craft store.
Pick it up here in my TPT store!! Thanks for reading along!!
