Such a night owl...

it is terrible. I try and try to go to bed at night. I dutifully will lay my head down between 10pm and midnight. It doesn't matter what time I lay down I will always lay there for at least an hour thinking and thinking. It is during these late night thinking fests that my creativity kicks in and if it is a really great idea I will just get right out of bed and start on the valentine idea or window project or paint project. I turn around a couple of times and it is 2 AM.

Now, we are a home school family but we still have to get things going in the mornings and my creative fests do not lend themselves to getting things up and running smoothly in the mornings. I have tried everything from not sitting down all day to cutting out caffeine at 2pm to not drinking caffeine at all. I just can't sleep...I need to think. The only thing I haven't tried is setting up a TOTAL quiet hour in my house during the day so I can just lay on the bed and think, but I believe I would just take a nap.

All of that to say that last night as I was trying to doze off I was trying to find the inspiration for my oldest daughter's room. I just hadn't been able to visualize what I wanted...well after she and I chatted yesterday and she said that she really liked the little girls window treatment, this is what we came up with:

It was the same concept but yielded a totally different result. It is a little more chic and preteen friendly. I used her color concepts as a spring board and then gathered materials. We (11 yo dd and I) chose to work with tulle because it is flowy without being soft and it is super easy to work with.

Then for the edges we just plugged in the hot glue gun and added trim and faux yellow Gerber daisies (she argues they look more like china mums, but the tag said Gerber daisy - I just said pretty, oh and how much?) for the accents.



The middle is just tied up with a black and white polka dot ribbon.



So my think fest yielded a fun result and myself and I also had a long talk about things not getting done just by looking at them...so I started painting the little girls room pink...I better try to get some rest now there is thinking to be done!

What do you do...

with a bunch of wadded up fabric on the closet floor????


Well, if you need window treatments in say 90% of your house you find a way to use what was the window treatment in your living room in your very first apartment....see the sage green...late 90's!

It just so happened that my sweet dear daughters loved these little numbers that I picked up 50% off at Hobby Lobby (yeah me!)



It has become the inspiration for their room! So I thought hmmm...fabric, inspiration...inspiration...fabric...voila!

So I ran down to wally world and picked up 2 boxes of this....



and a box of this:



and came up with this:



Please excuse the blurry picture...I snapped it very quickly at bedtime and I wasn't going back in after I got them settled for the night!

The 2 middle ties were to be bows also, but dear sweet 4 year old thought that they were lovely little piggy tails and, well, how can you argue with that?

I like the way it turned out...not bad for sage green from 1998!

The kitchen and a few questions....

As promised to a certain someone who keeps asking so sweetly to see the kitchen, here it is. I have enjoyed it and have made lots of creations already in my own space! Those of you who know our story can realize how much we are thanking God for His blessings.

I'm enjoying my dishes that were in storage for such a long time! I love all white dishes!

Our cabinets are slightly distressed and I really have enjoyed them. Especially as we head into the fall and winter season. They go so well with the colors at that time of the year.

This little cabinet is one of my most favorite features in the kitchen! All of that stoneware has a nice home. Selling Pampered Chef was a great asset to my kitchen!

Now for the question portion of the post. What is this drawer for? It seems a little misplaced and misunderstood!

I'm thinking that this drawer is to house root vegetables. I think!

What would you put above the sink?

What about the stove?

Thanks for taking the time to read about our new kitchen and if you are able to weigh in on the questions that would be a big help. Have a wonderful weekend!