Projects update!

Sorry for the long post, but we've been busy lately getting the house done and finishing up projects.  I think we are done! LOL

Kitchen Update:
Complete! And I am pleasantly surprised with how it came out.  When you paint cabinets, you never know! (not that I've ever painted them before, but well, I've heard horror stories).

 

Before

After

The process itself was pretty easy.  I used a liquid de-glosser to wipe down all the cabinets with, which removed the glossy finish.  Great thing about it is no sanding! Next we primed with a tinted color primer.  Finally painted with Behr Espresso paint, two coats. 

We found the hardware we liked at home depot, but being the savvy shopper he is, D.J. found the same ones online for about half the price! 

Laila's room is pretty much all done.  There are a few little things I still want to do, like find a mirror for over her dresser and hang a few things on that same wall, like the dragon flies I repainted.  But overall, my vision came to life and I love her pink pretty room.  Plus I love that she has much more space since the room is bigger.  She really likes it.  Her favorite color is pink so she was pretty excited to see it all done. 

Before

During: The stencil I used was from Cutting Edge Stencils.  This particular design is called Rabat (large).  Its about a 3X3 ft stencil which makes it easy when doing a whole wall.  They provide instructions on how to do it and even have a YouTube video, which I watched at least a dozen times.

She loves it and has slept in her new room just fine, no rolling out or anything!  It is a trundle bed, so when she has sleep overs we'll be ready! Ah, can't wait!

 

We started looking for a bedding set a couple months ago, mostly on Craig's List and woodlandsonline.com.  I found this set on woodlandsonline for a great price.

 

We talked about this being her new room for weeks in advance and now when we say "go put this in your room" or something like that, she knows which one we are talking about.  It took her a day or two to get it all sorted out, but so far so good!

 Still not sure if I want to put something on this wall...

 

 Still looking for a mirror to hang over the dresser

 I made most of these tissue balls for my sisters baby shower, saved them knowing I would be re-doing Laila's room soon and it makes a great filler for the corner.  Laila kept saying "OOH I like it"

I love this little nook.  I originally wanted D.J. to build some shelves there, but when we found her bedding set, we realized this hutch fit, with only centimeters to spare!  Couldn't have been a more perfect fit.  I told him, well you got lucky, now you don't have to build shelves ha ha!  It provides great storage for her puzzles, games, books etc. and she has much more floor space to play.

 

Baby boy's room is about done too! I love love this room!  3 more months until we get to meet him and hug him and kiss him! 

Tree wall decals from Skip Hop  

The striped wall is new (this was Laila's old room), just taped it off using a laser level and painted stripes, took about an hour, pretty easy. I like the look of it and the accent it provides to the rest of the room.

 

All the furniture is the same as what we used when Laila was a baby/toddler.  The crib is convertible.

His name is going to be Dane Jeffrey!  Jeffrey is my dad's name.  This will be his first boy!  I have 2 sisters, and myself and Suzanne have both had girls.  My step-sister has three girls, so needless to say he was pretty surprised, so was I!  He even got some tears in his eyes when I told him his middle name would be Jeffrey.  I wouldn't want it any other way, I love and respect my dad so so so much!

 

A little story behind Dane... when we were searching the Internet for names we came across a lot of "D" names we liked.  D.J. mentioned how cool it would be for them to have the same initials.  So it worked out perfect!

I bought these letters at Hobby Lobby (I want to say they were about $1.50).  I originally bought letters for the name Dylan, but we changed our minds after about a week so I went back and exchanged the "Y" and the "L".  I primed and painted them.  I bought some canvas, painted those red and hot glued the letters on.  I also bought the little wooden balls, painted them red and they cover the nails.  I did the same in Laila's room. 

 The owls are from Skip Hop.  The little D.J. sign is a drawing that hung in D.J.'s room as a baby.  I thought it was a neat thing to have in there, with some of D.J.'s model cars.

 

I actually want to get one of those pre-made shelves to hang and will probably put that little sign and other keepsakes up there.

 The pennant flag idea I got from Pinterest.  I have endless amounts of scrapbook paper, so I just found a bunch of colors to match the room, cut triangles, and stung together.

 I love this glider and spend countless hours in it when Laila was a baby. 

 The little shelf I was talking about would probably go to the right of the bed.  I had one there when this was Laila's room and it came in handy to hang a diaper holder, towels, etc...

 Dane's sign all done.  We can write in his stats after he is born.

Big sister Laila painted this for Dane when we went to the pottery painting place to make a Father's Day gift for D.J.  It says Love Laila on the back.  I thought it would be a cute keepsake.