Repurposed Clothing

Apparently I am on a sewing kick, and I have tons of clothes in my closet that I never wear!!

Excuse the terrible Iphone pictures and that I forgot to take before pictures!!

This shirt was a plain long sleeve shirt

The bow is removable.

This was a plain red t-shirt. I love it now!!

Next time I'll try to use my real camera!

Heathrow

DIY Clothing

Inspiration:

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After:

Shirt was a sister hand-me-down so this cost me $0

I saved $47.99 + Shipping

This dress was super short!!!! This is about the only time I wore it

So I made it a shirt!!

I'm now addicted to Pinterest, thanks sister!! Check mine out....

http://pinterest.com/Heathrow/

Heathrow

Transformations

Take a look at this beautiful molding my dad did!!!

It's so pretty it makes my heart melt and now it's even prettier because the in-laws came this weekend and helped us paint!! After we were done JRP and I just stood in our bedroom, in awe of how this once ugly, ugly, ugly room is now one of our favorites!

We also painted the kitchen!!! I wanted just a hint of color, so I picked out this color that I thought it would be just the hint we needed, but it was more like a shock of color!!!! It looked like a teenage girl's room! It was BRIGHT!!!!

So I took the trim paint (white) and mixed it to tone it down!

And it turned into this....

It was worth painting it 4 times I love it!!

We also picked out all the walls and ceiling colors!!!

And we are going with stripes in the living room!!!! I can't wait!

Heathrow

White, Striped, Zig-Zagged, or Yellow?

JRP and I have been discussing our ceiling colors for our living room for weeks!!

We need some advice! PLEASE HELP!!!

I hate white ceilings! I think they are boring, boring, boring!!!

So I thought yellow might be pretty, but JRP thinks its overwhelmingly bright!

Keep in mind our decor:

Here are some examples of yellow ceilings:

Tell me what you think we should do!

I LOVE the stripes or zig-zags, but it would be sooooooo much work and JRP said I have to do it by myself!!!

These are the colors that we are going with in our house!

What should we do?

Heathrow

Love/Hate Relationship

The house and I have a love/hate relationship big time.

When we bought the house I LOVED it.

I loved the fireplace, the 80 year old molding, the original hard wood floors, and the original hardware on most of the door.

Then I hated the house when we started doing demo.

I hated the dust. I hated the plaster. I hated the bathroom tile. I hated the 1920's electricity. I especially hated the duct taped together plumbing. I hated that every choice I made I felt like was the wrong choice, like the outside color of paint. I hated dealing with the historical district. I even started hating the molding and the original hardware on the doors because what was missing couldn't be replaced!

Now I have started to fall in love again. I'm in love with the new molding that my dad put up to match the 80 year old ones in the living room. I love the paint that we are putting on the cabinets. I love how we demoed the house now that the dust is gone and so are the walls. I love the new drywall everywhere. I love the wood floor we discovered under the tile in the kitchen. I especially love that it is almost done!!!!! Pictures to come soon!!

Heathrow