Rooster Towels

On Monday I stayed home.  We had a very busy weekend and I just couldn't pull myself together enough to get motivated for another long day at work.

It was wonderful!! It also amazed me how much I could get done if I stayed home all the time.  I guess it would probably get old after a while, but since that is not the case right now I really enjoy it.   I did some laundry, organized and began some new projects!! This just to add to my constantly growing WIP pile, but hey it was fun :)

I went to Hobby Lobby for a little inspiration and found these really neat stencil cutouts of ROOSTERS!   I've been having this rooster obsession for a while now... started last year when we got these glass roosters at an auction in Rosenberg. Then a while later, I went to the Houston Quilt Show with my mother-in-law and a friend where I found these super cute rooster fabric that I made into a hanging quilt. 

Unfotunately, this is the only picture I have of it. I took it with my phone so it's not the best quality but you get the idea. This sits over the fridge.

For Christmas, that same friend, bought me a rooster ornament and a rooster cutting board! She's the sweetest lady.  

I guess you could say our kitchen has a rooster theme to it now.

I digress... back to Hobby Lobby and the rooster stencils.  

I found this stencil and I thought it would just be perfect to go along in the kitchen. I got me some paint and brush and went home ready for some DIY craft!

I plan to cover-up the purple stripe with some super cute trim that will add more of a country theme to it.

I thought about getting new kitchen towels but then decided to go along with what I have. The kitchen towels we have now are at least an year old - they have stains and tears and wear to them. I convinced myself there was some charm to it. Jeremy is always telling me how things don't have to look perfect or look like a page out of a catalog - afterall this is our home and we live in it: kitchen towels will get used and will get dirty. It is OK and I will survive.  :)

 

Here's my assembly of towels. I have more towels to stencil but I think I will do them in a different color this time. Maybe a red, brown or green?  I can't decide.

The towels are drying - per the isntructions they have to dry 48 hrs.  I hate the wait!! I'm washing them tonight and hope to add the trim to them by the end of the week.  Can't wait to see what they will look like in the end!

Happy Hump Day everyone! :)



Bathroom Redo

WOW!  It's been almost a year since I last wrote a post.  How time flies... I can't say that much has happened during this time, other than work work work. 

It does seem though that during this time all creativity and desire to do anything around the house went away.  It is especially difficult to work on projects when you come home from work exhausted and just want to crawl into bed and rest.   Alas, it is the middle of a new year and I will have no more of it! :)

Few weeks ago, Jeremy and I decided to redo our bathroom. It just seemed that one day we looked around us and everything was BEIGE. How unispiring. 

The bathroom has always been a room that I struggled with figuring out what to do.  Motivated by the many epeisodes we watched on DIY and HGTV, especially Sarah Richardson's show, we decided to brighten the room significantly.

Here are some pictures of the before: boring beige galore!

Don't mind the mess... we had just begun to get our tools together to begin our mini renovation.

Beige walls, light beige cabinets doors and trim, and beige tile. I guess you could call the cabinets, trim and door colors a cream color, but that much of it all together just blends in and looks beige.

Jeremy and our assitant Pearl.  She's the sweetest puppy in this whole world (another post on her later) and of course she can't miss any of the action.  We had to put her up later so we could actually get some work done.

And more beige... you get the idea. It was preety miserable.

So in our efforts to brighten up the room and to keep a somewhat 'country' theme, we decided to add beadboards to the wall.

Here are some pictures of the process:



As you can see, we added new, thick baseboard which I love and we also have added a trim piece above the beadboard (I just don't have a picture of it).  It was amazing how much brighter and light the room felt after just adding the beadboard.  You can see on the first picture, our paint samples.   The room is now almost complete - minus a few decorations here and there, and towel hooks, etc. 

A post will follow with pictures of the finished product!