Friday, November 21, 2008

Big Girl Bed!





Yes, Shanna isn't even 2 yet, but since I had the time this summer and the bed for when we moved into our house a few weeks ago, I decided to make a little quilt for her. The bed is actually part of a bunk bed but, since we only have Shanna we decided not to put it all together. So I went to JoAnn Fabrics and picked out 3 different materials. I had in mind the colors for her room: green, light pink, and red. When I spotted the strawberry shortcake fabric I just about died because it was so perfect. Then finding the other two materials was a breeze. Now, its not actually a quilt, per say, but I did cut out blocks and sewed them together like you would with a quilt. It actually has a comforter and the part I sewed actually is the cover that the comforter slips in to, like a duvet, for those of you who know that word (I didn't, I had to google it) :) And then because I had one too many rows on the quilt part, I used the remaining row to sew onto the end for the pillowcase. The pink material is actually the material I used for the underside of the blanket. It was very fun and I enjoyed learning how to use my machine (by myself). Of course you wouldn't want to look too close at the squares because the majority aren't lined up. But I really had fun, so thats all that matters right?! So for now it sits in Shanna's room unused, but there's no hurry in my opinion. Right now Shanna is semi contained and its working out marvelously! :)

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

And...the end result!!

And the reasons for the lack in blogging lately:




This is the outside of our house, obviously.


Front Room



Dining Room



Kitchen (Dinner was being made, and as you can see its not the cleanest :) but cut me some slack..I only just moved in last Saturday (the 1st).



Hall: door on right is the bathroom, there are 2 doors on the left, though you can't see the one kiddy corner to the end door. The door that you can see on the left is the office, then Shanna's room is the door that you can't see. The door straight ahead is the guest room.



Shanna's bathroom :) LOVE spongebob, for those of you who didn't already know.



Shanna's bedroom. The walls were already painted this lovely shade of green when I moved in, so I decided to work with it and I thought it turned out rather cute! I made the blanket and pillowcase on her bed and I will blog in more detail about that later.




And this is the guest bedroom.

Obviously, our bathroom and bedroom, and that part of the house (oh and the office) aren't shown and that's because well, they just need a bit more time for me to tackle the mess. We are so excited about this house! The loan took about 2 months to finally get and it sure was stressful during that time. But we recognize the Lord's hand in all, and realize that we are so blessed!