Annalia's room updates

Well since we are not moving anymore for at least two years i finally decided to make this our hem fro the time being and the owner give us thumbs up on the whole changing this up witch is great .. like the boys rom our little girls room is lacking on the wall department .. so i decided to do something about it last weekend .

She loves girly things and polka dots of course make that cut but i honestly didn't want to buy anything that i cant easily take off later so i went onto my craft closet looking for something to use and i found this wall stickers from target but well there were not exactly polka dots but i knew i could work with them ..

To be able to get a few polka dots i use this hole puncher/cuter thing that i found at Michael's fro less than 15.00 buckaroos a while back also i uses a coupon and i got it for about 8 dollars witch HELLO was a lot better than 15 bahha.

i opened the package and this is what they look like half a circle  and well i could of put two together and made a circle but they were way too big like that  so i stared cutting two circles per half a circle of the sheet .

 like this ..

Next step was o stick them to the wall witch was super easy ... {note : i only did it to one side of the wall as well as some surroundings since i have other plans for the other side of the room ..}

until next time ...

DIY : tassel garland

Ive been very behind posting projects that we have accomplish in our home so to that one of my new years resolution is (to find time 3 to 4 times a week to post one of our many projects that are always coming up or better say that i bring up in our home }.

a few months back i decided to start working on our kids room staring with our doughter Annaliah .. so far I've posted about ..her custom ombre drapes , tea/coloring table , new pillow , headband and bows organization , and even a new coset set up oh and what about her xmas presents from last year?

As anyone can see she is very girly more than me even ! ..she loves all pink and sparkle things  so i went with the flow of the room for the tassel .. i decided to go with ombre pink and added some sparkle with the gold.

Materials

• /2 sheet of tissue paper/mylar per tassel
• scissors
• ribbon/cord

Step 1: Gather materials.

Step 2: Fold a piece of tissue paper in half and in half the other way. Cut strips towards the fold to create the fringe, leaving about 1 to 2 inch uncut at the fold line. Once all strips are cut, unfold the tissue and cut in half so you have 2 sheets with fringe (to make 2 tassels).

Step 3: Unfold tissue paper.

Step 4: Begin rolling tightly down the middle crease.

Step 5: Continue rolling, fold in half and then twist to create a loop for hanging.

Step 6: Repeat to create additional tassels in various colors. Hang from thin cord or ribbon.

 Step 7: Step back and enjoy!!!...

Custom ombre drapes

It just seems like have been doing a lot of work on our daughters room lately but actually we have done bait of of work all trough the house yes i know we are moving {sad face} but we still want to live comfortable for the remaining 5 months of our lease as well as great our guest with a well organize and welcoming home .


Our daughter's room was lacking on the curtains department I've been putting it off  because i didn't know what she would like and went i mean her i also mean me  {she is very opinionated as her mama} so a year past and no luck on what to buy or even what fabric until one day i was reading the doctors closet blog and she put on the home tour of her office it was instantaneous connection to her drapes !! i want add that my office/is also very similar as her {home office tour very soon } i want to add that since i don't want any confusion of "oh she copied her " no!! i didn't !! i guess just great minds think alike . {back to the curtains}i get side track very easy so on this one i did copied her I've never seen such a beauty and for my luck i had the fabric in the same exact colors  witch it it was fantastic .


Materials:
*Fabric variation of pinks and whites
*thread
*fabric chalk
*measuring tape
*measuring ruler
*scissors
*pins
*sewing machine
*pomp pomp trim
*clip rings
*drape rod


Cost :
*free {since i had everything already }
*But i calculated and buying this fabric from joins or any fabric store will cost you about 8 to 12 dollars a yard{i used 8 yards of each fabric} {no i didn't buy it there i actually buy my fabric in rolls from a private seller} the pomp pomp trim as well but you can buy it at joins ,hobby lobby , Michael's  for about 4 to 6 dollars a yard. {i used 9 1/2 yards of the trim } not counting any discounts that they might have  . {the pomp pomps trimming as well as the fabric i get in in bulk from the same private seller in case y'all where wondering }


Time :
*5hrs
*4 hrs of cutting sewing and 1 hour of washing and drying the fabric.



Step 1: i needed to cut each pice of fabric into 8 yards then cut half to make each panel into 4 yards because thats what i need for each window .

Step 2: was to cut { I marked and cut 22 inch long on each fabric giving me a lot of extra fabric to cut and adjust later if i needed since each color had to be 18 inch long }

 Step 3 :after cutting i pined all the edges together so i could have the right notion of where to saw

Step 4:sawing time {i think this other than the cutting took about 2 hrs since i wanted everything to come out perfect store bought kind of drapes}

Step :5 i sew in the pomp pomps trimming witch to me was the icing on the cake and the most fun part of the project . {i added the pomp pomps because i wanted to give it a girly feeling not that the pink didn't but just the pink wasn't doing to for her until the pomp pomps came in to the picture } .

Step :5 {not showed} was to put this babies in the washing machine and then air dried {you can put it in the dryer but i decided not to since it was such a wonderful day out and i know i would take about 15 minutes to air dry why not right }?? going green !! \

Step:6 i used the clip rings i had and stared hanging it them onto the rod {this were left over from a clients project } the rod was from our previous home .

Step : 7 hang and enjoy the view 

She is in love and so am i ... {lets have a pink palooza kind of party .} you are invited 
Ps:her bedroom tour is coming up very soon as well so stay tune.

bring on the tea {DIY tea / coloring table }

Crazy crazy crazy weekend we have been having {excuse all the craziness }  from my parents and siblings coming over to my husband siblings and their kids I mean we had a full house for about 3 weeks but now things are getting back to normal {well as normal as they can get } .

About 4  weeks ago  since we new there where other kids coming  and our daughter was kind of begging for a tea table/ coloring table  it was the perfect opportunity so we decided to give it a go . of course I designed want I wanted in it . and my amazing do it all husband dint hesitate to make my design come true {I literary won the lottery with this man} {and well I hope he feels the same way about me wink wink * }

Well back to the tea table /coloring table my plans where  for a  very girly yet sophisticated kind of table since I believe that’s what she likes  {and oh I was right }!!..  I don’t know where the plans ended up to since at the moment we where working in 6 different wood projects and no im not over exaggerating  oh and two metal ones .  so because of our lack of organization in the garage {since also we are moving !! oh yeah that’s another biggie } now we have lost the plans  {I should of have made copies } !!..right? silly me !! 

Warning : I went a bit nuts with the pictures since i wanted to give a step by step "HOW TO" enjoy.....

We didn’t have a lot of wood left over from the other six projects we were doing at the time so we figure just to use the scraps we had hanging in our scrap bucket  this is what we used..

Materials 

3 : 20 in  6x ½  untreated wood  

1 :  12 in  2x2  untreated wood   

4 :10 in  4x ½  wood from a previous project

primer

paint   

finishing nails

wood glue 

thing rope

Cost

Free!! Oh I love that word !! since we are always working on something there is always scrap wood , nails ,screws , wood glue ,primer and paint of all colors hanging in our garage .

Tools

Table saw

Handsaw

Drill

Safety gaggles

Measuring tape

Ruler

Labeler

Right angle ruler

Router and its many attachments

Sanding paper

Electric Hand sander

Jig saw

Table sander

And of course my handy husband bahahaha..and a lot of math skills

Time

All the building was about 3 hours

4 more ours for the wood to dry in between building it

3 hours for the primer to dry and about 8 hours for the paint to cure witch it was over night so in general this was an 18 hour project just because of all the waiting we had to do between the glue , primer and paint 

After all the wood for the tabletop was cut with the table saw he made some very cool inserts inane on  the wood with his router that made all 3 pieces of wood fit together like a puzzle .

then after he applied a dab of glue to all pieces of the puzzle {that’s what I call the table top since at this time that’s what it looked like } ..

And everything fit very snug and tight just like we wanted .

then to calculate the table top to be equality round all around we put a nail right at the center of the top of the table and thigh up a string to that end of the nail and at the other end of the rope we tighten up a pencil witch helped us trace around the access wood we had to cut off ..

After we had a perfect circle we decided to go in and add up a bit of a design to it since it seem so plain and I wanted to give a little more of a girly feeling to it

We went back to one of our best friend Mr .Router sir ..and went all around the circular top shaving in this little itty bitty design that gave it a bit of a sophisticated and girly look to it .

How you like me now?

The top was done for now and he sent it to my side of the garage to sand down  as he was tracing the legs out of a model I design  {the wood that we used for the legs was left over from a  previous project we did for a client  } why not re use it right ??

Then I stepped in to cut the molding with the jig saw as he sanded around the legs with the table sander to give it a complete and round look to as well to sand down the previous stain {if y'all wondering what is the color of the stain is cherry}

With the legs all done for the time being we went onto the base for that we needed the 2x2 and the router.

He made this very awesome inserts about half a cm  in the wood all equal in all 4 parts of the 2x2  so the legs would fit in snug and thigh as well as he did for the table top .

 

 oh I forgot to mention that the length of the insert he made to the 2x2 was about 3 ½ inch  in to the wood well later we placed the legs in with also the help of the router

Then he attached the 2x2 to the center of the bottom of the table with the help of also some scrap wood that He cut down to about ½ by 2 in and cut into 45 degree angle where he attached the 2x2 into glued all around and finished it with finishing nails same process with the legs.

 And finally it was ready for priming and painting after about two hours of straight sanding first I didn’t it with a 90 grit then I gradually went up on the grits reaching the 250 grit  for that very smooth finish .

After everything was smooth and clean I primed it and waited a few hours to make sure everything was dry then painting was next it took me about 45 minutes to finish painting everything {since im such a control freak and have this OCD going on } I wanted everything to go very smooth and I wanted people to look at and be oh where did you bough that at ?} bahahaha

 I let it cure for the entire night  and in the morning we put it up in our daughters room before she woke up . she was so surprise everything that came out of her mouth was wow “wooooow woooow gice Kank yu i sooo Jappy “ {she is two} she was beyond surprise and we loved that reaction she ended up being in her bedroom the whole entire day between coloring and serving tea to her siblings and dolls and daddy she was a very happy little girl and that’s is our end result and we looooooved it nothing better than seeing your babies happy right?.

And well this is the final product of 18 hours of working and waiting {more waiting than working } and well i really hope y'all enjoyed this step by step direction of how make a tea/coloring table oh and of course the most important thing is how to surprise your two year old daughter with a gift she would enjoy for many years to come {and she has used everyday since }.