My Painted Office/Craft Room

We finally got around to painting our office. We didn't do it originally because we didn't want to have to move all the books out. The creation of new bookcases made the decision to paint easier. :) We decided that the new bookcases are going to go into our bedroom so that left a bunch of room open for furniture rearrangement. I decided to use the same color in the office that we did in the living room for a cohesive look. I put the idea out there for painting the ceiling in the office too, and I was shot down. I think it looks nice and now there are only 3 rooms left to be painted in our house: the laundry room, the master bedroom and master bathroom. Our house was in disarray for a few days while we painted but thankfully the office only required two coats of paint. Not all of the furniture made it back into the office: the large bookcase, the colorful drawer cart, and the dark wood desk all found new homes. The dark desk now lives in our bedroom and the other two storage items don't get to come back into my house. :) The only thing that has made it back onto the wall is my white shelf, everything else I haven't decided where/how I want it to go and to look. I'm going to have Andrew make a new frame for my white board since it's very broken and then I'm going to take of the flowers and I think paint the frames brown for the cork board and white board. I think on the wall that you can see from the living room I will do a picture collage with family pictures and such. We'll see. Here are more pictures than you ever thought you wanted of my new office: 

The closest thing I have to a before picture

*Update*

I found this in the Photo Booth pictures on the Mac. Not sure why but it's inverted. It's another almost before picture. :)

It was like the office threw up furniture in our living room

At least we could still see the TV

All the books and other stuff took up residence in my bedroom

Craft/office supplies taking up space in my room

Putting things back together

The new location for two of the desks

Final furniture placement 

The work area

The wall with stuff on it

Inside looking out

Check Me Out

Check out my crafty blog and see all the stuff that I've been doing... Well there hasn't been that much this year but I've got plans to do a lot more. So watch for more posts in the future. :)

"Wonderful Wednesday" Craft Night

My friend Amanda and I are putting together a Super Saturday style craft night at her house. It should be a lot of fun! Here's a link to her blog with all the details.

We/she made my FHE board to be the example for the night and it turned out AWESOME!!!. I chose the green because one of these days I am going to paint my kitchen that color.

Check Out The Curtains I Made

http://morganmadestuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/curtains.html

Writing on the Wall

I got these super fun foam letters at Joann's. They're crooked but I'm told that gives them character. This picture helps make the green look not so bright. :) After I put these up Andrew said, "I didn't realize we name our son after this room." Goof ball! :)

We've Gone Green!!!

I finally decided on a paint color for one room! :) Peter's plain white room is now a vibrant green. I've been wanting to paint for a while now and was indecisive on a color. I don't really remember what made me choose green... perhaps it was the Lowes commercial where the mom & dad are looking at colors chips at the store and the lady suggests green because it is calming, then they switch to them painting the room green and the kids are being loud and they get quiet when they enter the room and when the parents turn around they're reading (apparently the boy is reading War & Peace and the girl is reading Sense and Sensibility). Either way I like the green that I chose.

I think we matched the color pretty well.

The room/wall after the 2nd coat of paint (it looked really streaky and ugly after the primer and only one coat of paint).

The curtain fabric next to the wall. I think it's going to look awesome!

Everything all back in the room (minus the futon).

I wasn't sure how the wall hangings were going to look but I really like how it turned out.

Temporary curtains. Even though this window faces north there's still too much light during the day for Peter's naps.

I Love My Baby Swing!!!

Baby swings are the greatest invention ever! Peter naps in his during the day and sometimes at night it helps him go back to sleep so I can go back to sleep. Most swings are battery powered and if you want a non-battery powered swing you have to pay more money. Andrew figured out a way to bypass spending the extra money. We got a battery powered swing and Andrew gerryrigged it to use wall power. It's awesome!!! I love my engineer husband!!!

What on earth is this?

A close up of the swing controls with the converter attached.

The swing all rigged up with power.

Peter sleeping in the swing. His arms are sticking straight out; it reminded me of Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Again he's sleeping in the swing this time only one arm sticking out. Andrew said I should caption this picture with "zig heil" (sp)

My Baby Burrito sleeping in the swing. It has white noise to help him sleep.

Yarn

Andrew got me a yarn ball winder for Christmas (I asked for it) and had a lot of fun winding my old balls of yarn into new balls of yarn. It sounds like such a silly thing to get excited about, but I was really excited. :) You may ask why do you need an apparatus to wind your yarn when you were perfectly capable of winding balls of yarn on your own. The answer to that question is tension. You get a more even tension with the winder than with your own two hands. I've actually had some yarn that was wound too tight and when I went to use it on a new project there was a distinct difference between the old and new yarn. The yarn ball winder is the solution to that problem.

These are my yarn balls before.

This is the yarn ball winder finishing up a ball of yarn.

These are my yarn balls after.

It's silly but the new yarn balls make me happy. :) Just look how nice they are and they're not going to roll away and the tension when you use them is so much more even than using a regular yarn ball.