Wow time flies doesn't it? I was all like, "I'm really gonna be good at this blogging thing again. For reals y'all!" Not so much for reals.
BUT I do have a sort of excuse. After I re-covered my lampshades I was just waiting for my husband to upload the pictures from the camera. Yes, I could have done it but it's his camera and well, I just didn't feel like it. He doesn't do the laundry even though he's the one who wore the underwear and that's pretty much the same thing... Well, the photos have been uploaded and here they are:
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| The old toile lampshade |
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| Seriously, this had to go... |
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| Lampshade with fabric removed. This part was harder than I thought it would be. |
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| I took the lamp and traced the top and bottom with a pencil while rolling it on the new fabric |
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| I used spray adhesive on the back of the new fabric to lay it over the shade. |
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| I used my hot glue gun to glue the edges to the inside rims of the shade. Then I trimmed the excess fabric so that you can't see it when the light is on. |
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| I added two strips of dark blue braided cord to the lamp to hide the seam. |
Then I tackled the space on our kitchen counters that was really annoying me. We have more phones that need to be charged than we have people in our home. Why? Because Mini Mange has three of his own phones that he plays with. Yes, three. They don't have service but he likes to take pictures of himself and pretend that he's talking to daddy and grandpa. So, with all of those cords and keys and other things, well, you can imagine the visual clutter can get pretty out of control. And Mini Mange kept getting a hold of the keys and pushing the panic button on the key fob. We needed a new system.
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| Charging station: $4 at Goodwill. The white parts are where pictures are supposed to go. I can't decide between pictures, cute quotes or scriptures. |
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| Paper towel roll $13-ish at Bed Bath and Beyond. I really like it. |
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| This mess is called "The Cage" (you know, like from that Will Smith movie, Enemy of the State) and it needs to change. I'm putting it here because I want to humiliate myself. But toddler-proofing this part of the house in a budget friendly manner is proving to be impossible. |
So, Matt's side of the bed was pretty miserable. He has a side table but there wasn't much room for anything on it once you put a box of Kleenex and the alarm clock there. He also didn't have a reading lamp because we were using it for the living room (it was one of the lamps I re-covered). So my solution (and I don't even know how I came up with it) was to take two book ends that Matt made in junior high shop class, turn them on their sides and plop a leftover glass shelf from Ikea on top of it. It's raised up enough so that he can put the super thick book he's reading underneath the glass.
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| Yes, that is dust and a price sticker that I didn't bother to remove before I took the picture. I don't want to hear it. |
It's not Pottery Barn, but it
was free and I used items that we can't use for their intended purposes right now thus freeing up storage space and emptying yet another moving box that hadn't been unpacked. So I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.
Now, the other eyesore that I'd like to change is the Rubbermaid Office Supply drawer that we've shoved under the table but there's really no where to put them where Mini Mange can't get to them. Just today, I moved the larger white plastic drawers that you can see on the left into our closet. This nesting thing has been awesome. I have a LIST of stuff I want to do before the baby gets here in about four weeks and I think I just might do it.
