Hockey Room

Hockey rooms are few and far between, especially in California! I had a hard time figuring out what exactly to do in my son's room. Luckily I found an awesome quilt set from Pottery Barn Teen that I was able to convince my husband we needed.

I found an etsy supplier, Ally's Custom Art to do Ben's name with King's logos for a great price. And please don't judge the million Beanie Boos scattered everywhere! But you do have to love the King's Build-A-Bear!

 And we were lucky in the fact that my husband has been a King's fan for forever so we had a ton of stuff in storage from when he was growing up through just recently when we went to a couple playoff games.

With all of this, I am still not done. I  have grand plans for these little guys that I did up in photoshop, so stay tuned!

Fancy Nancy/Paris Room

My oldest daughter loves Fancy Nancy and as she is getting older she is starting to enjoy the Nancy Clancy chapter books as well. It is really difficult to find Fancy Nancy decor that looks elegant though! Instead of having characters all over the place, I elected to do a Paris theme as everyone who knows Fancy Nancy knows she is in love with Paris!

I am lucky enough to have an amazingly talented friend who runs her own business, Rosey Posey, doing furniture painting and restoration. If  you are in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend talking to her about any projects. She has done most of my house and I would have her do more of it if I had anymore pieces she has not painted already!

Anyway, I sent her about trying to find a dresser and nighstand that would fit in with a little girl's room and could be modified to fit the Paris theme. I added a few extra touches such as the gallery wall above her bed but the furniture is definitely what makes the room!

Burlap Fall Heaven

I am a little obsessed with burlap lately, I can't help it! Fall decorating was no exception!

Using some frames that I had up on the mantle for summer, adding some fall leaves, pumpkins, and making some burlap friends pulled this mantle together!

I found the cute little burlap owl at Michael's craft store and the pinecones were free from the ground outside!

One of my favorite parts of the mantle is the bouquet of flowers off on the left. I found fall-like daisies from a local craft store but it just was not cutting it for me. I pulled about half of the flowers off and replaced with burlap flowers made by a local crafter out here. It gives it that extra country feel.

I then topped it off with the burlap pumpkin! This was not as easy as I thought it would be to make but it did not turn out too shabby. I cut burlap in a circle, stuffed with cotton, pulled the top together with string and topped off with a cork (hot glued in) and leaves/flowers. With some more practice or a better seamstress, I am sure this would be fantastic.

Halloween!

Halloween was a great chance to pull out the decorations and do some new crafts! I wanted a witch themed mantle this year but needed some more decor to make it work. I searched around and found awesome witch brew bottles at a local craft store but for $5.99 each. I loved them but did not want to spend over $20 on glass jars. Instead I wandered over to the glass jar aisle and found these!

What's even better was the price! $1 each... sold!

I took the bottles home and found a free download of Harry Potter potions, bought those and went straight to printing them out on normal paper.

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In the meantime, I mixed mod podge and water on a crafting sponge and made the glasses look dirty and used. It gives it that little extra!

The final step was to mod podge the labels to the bottles. Viola! Potion bottles. I got them up on the mantle and realized it needed one more thing... potions!

This was the fun part! Mix food colorings with water and the potions take on a realistic look, just keep the kiddos from knocking them over ;)

Command center

Command center between the family room and dining room. Perfect place to hang backpacks and check the schedule! Canvas' are 8x8. The home plaque was from walmart.

Cozy Modern Cottage Family Room

When I had a chance to decorate the family room, we began with a color scheme. It was decided that teal/blue, brown, yellow, and white would be the main colors to circle around. I typically work within a budget and figure out how to stretch money to the max. Finding things on clearance or being willing to paint items to fit in with your decor are important to accomplishing this task. I also tend to move things around or place things in different rooms to get a whole new feel. Below I will describe where I found the items and how I made them fit in.

Mantle: Target clearance vase with stems from Michael's, clearanced Michael's white and striped frames (both missing glass so marked down to $5 each), Target teal frame, Homegoods candle stands, candles, and mirror. The family name was ordered through Etsy.

Couches are Pottery Barn, Ottoman was from a local furniture store as part of a set (set is in the living room), pillows are from Ikea and Target, rug from Amazon (I took a chance and it is awesome!), curtains from pottery barn.

These are all handmade decorations other than the white and yellow frames. Yellow frame was clearance at Bed Bath and Beyond, everything else is from Michael's. The shadow frame was painted yellow, the inner frame painted blue, and the love was bought white. The W was bought white and glued on a painted yellow wood flower. Both canvases were bought clearanced with designs that would not work with this room. The quote was made by placing scrapbooking letters directly on the canvas and painting over it all with blue. Once it dried, the letters were carefully pealed off and the burlap flower was added. The Dream canvas was made by modpodging scrapbook paper on a canvas and adding a painted wood dream word directly on the canvas.