Really not not doing anything

I just haven't posted anything that I've been doing!

My house was in need of some serious decorations so I went to work. I love my cricut. Cricut + vinyl = cute stuff on my walls. I'm cheap and I don't have a bedroom set so instead of a headboard I came up with this. I think it's cute anyway, who needs a headboard? I got part of the idea from the Nester. I went and bought a sheet of foam which I cut into 12x12 squares and then painted the sides blackish brown. By the way this is a lot more work than I thought it would be. Paint doesn't slide easily onto foam. After that was dry I raided my stash of scrappy paper, which is sufficient, and found these papers that matched my wall. Then I modge podged them onto the foam. I have a love hate relationship with modge podge. I can never get the wrinkles all the way out. When it dries it is always warped in the end. But it works for me.

It took my a minute to figure out how I was going to get these cute squares to attach to my wall. What I decided was two nails per square. It doesn't matter if they're centered or anything as long as they're both where the square goes because the two nails combined will hold it any way you put it up. I put one approximately at the top and one approximately at the bottom (this is scientific). Then I eyeballed it and stuck the squares into the nails and wahlaw, they stuck. I do occasionally have one fall off but I just stick it back on.

Then I made the cute saying with the vinyl and stuck it across the top. and we're done!

Here's some more vinyl I did. I had this saying up in my old house and I loved it. So I made me anew one. And I love the bird by the way. If you're going to put something above your stove just make sure you clean all the grime off first so it'll stick good. Since my walls were newly painted I didn't have much grime at the moment to clean off!

I've done a few other projects I just need to take pictures of and post. My computer died so I only have one when Josh is home and lets me use his. So I'm getting behind :) The next one I'll post is this dresser. It's so much cuter now! And I got it for free.

Homemade bed skirt

The Nester is one of my favorite people to steal cute ideas from. I stalk her blog regularly. She has this great philosiphy that says "It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful" LOVE that. She does these window "mistreatments" that don't require any sewing...pretty much just hot glue and cute fabric and some upholstery tacks. This totally works for me because I hemmed my choir dress in high school with packing tape (sorry Aunt Gaye!).

I'm in the process of my mistreatments for my bedroom windows but since our poor little bed has been hiding in the basement of our house in Cedar she didn't see much improvements or love. So now that she's right off the kitchen in our Master bedroom (old house didn't have a master bedroom) I want her to look pretty :)

So I gave her a little lift (we would have totally hit our heads on the ceiling if we'd done this before). Now I can store stuff under my bed too.

I didn't want everyone to be able to see all the beautiful boxes under my bed and the books in holding up the middle (I forgot I needed two more lifts) So I decided to make the skirt. I had read all about gathering stitches and other nonsense on the internet for making my bedskirt. I decided I didn't have time for all of that so I took the Nester way out. I didn't sew. I was going to use my staple gun, but I lost her. So I went down to H&R (love that store) and bought me some quilting pins (the big push pins you use to hold a blanket onto quilting boards.

I ran into a problem though, the hard stuff on my box spring is just cardboard, doesn't hold pins well at all! No worries though I just pinned it every foot or so where a board did exist...looked a bit like this.

Oh look there are my raw edges...I hid them, doubled up the fabric by folding it long ways and pinned the raw edge to the bed, the edge on the ground looks great.

And then I just tucked it in: (Sorry my bed needs to go on a diet, the sheets don't cover the whole thing)

And now I have a pretty brown bedskirt. By the way it cost less than $20 with 10 yards of 1.50/yd fabric from Wally world and some push pins.