So it's been a very long time since my last post, but I have been super busy. I spent three days recently painting the girls' room pink. Yes, I said pink. I took my fabric swatch to Home Depot and found a green, a yellow, and a pink that matched it, then let Janeia decide what color she wanted, and she picked pink. Not my personal choice, but she loves it. Anyway, what's the point of having two girls if you can't paint their room pink, right? Just kidding. I love having my two girls.
Since my last post, I have also made blankets for both the girls' twin beds (even though Leslie is still in a crib), as well as dust ruffles for the twin beds.
To make the blanket fit on the crib, I just wrapped it around the crib mattress, because I wanted her bed to match her sister's. The dust ruffles are actually just panels of fabric that I attached to the actual beds. Because of the layout of their room, the twin beds will always be in the corners, the way the beds are now, so the head of the bed as well as one side won't be seen, so I didn't make panels for those sides.
On Janeia's bed, I simply stapled the panels in place on the backside of the bed rail and footboard,kind of gathering it as I went. On the crib, the panels are stapled to the crib mattress support. Since I made them big enough for her twin bed, I didn't gather it, and they actually wrap all the way around her crib.
Next to Leslie's crib is her dresser, with the changing pad on top, and some photos above it.
Leslie kept trying to mess with the pictures, so I put some sticky tack on the backside of each corner, and it keeps her from moving them.
Then there is a bookshelf that holds lots of pictures, as well as all the diaper stuff, and a laundry hamper that holds all the girls shoes. (Janeia likes picking out her own shoes, and since I also use their closet for storage, she's not allowed in there unsupervised.)
Then comes Janeia's dresser. It has a small lamp with a shade that I recovered to match her fabrics. I just used the shade that I had on it, which was given to me.
I carefully cut the beaded trim off, then pulled the pink trim off (it was just hot glued on, and I wanted to reuse it on the shade). I even more carefully cut the dragonfly fabric off, leaving the silk lining intact. Then I traced the dragonfly fabric shape onto my floral fabric, leaving a little extra. I hot glued it on, then put the pink trim back on to cover the unfinished edge. I think it came out pretty cute, don't you?
When I painted their walls, I also painted the MDF that is over the window, like I told you I would. I also made a curtain for the storage unit that I built with my mom, and painted the unit white.
Now it looks more like a piece of furniture. This thing seriously holds a TON of stuff! It reaches to the ceiling, is two feet deep, and 5 1/2 feet wide. It has two plywood shelves spaced two feet apart behind the curtain. The bottom has a 1x12 across the front, making it into a toybox for the girls' stuffed animals. (I know, they have WAAAAY too many stuffed animals!) Their costumes and dress-up clothes are just hung on the edge of the bottom shelf for now, but eventually I will install a closet rod down the middle across the width under the bottom shelf for them. And Steven is going to paint a giraffe on the exposed plywood side, and I will add a growth chart next to the giraffe. Oh, and he is going to paint a mural on the MDF over the window.
The entrance to their room is kinda like a hallway, because of the walk-in closet. So for toy storage, I scored these four bookshelves on craigslist for $40 total. They fit perfectly in the space, and hold all the little toys and books. I also picked up the buckets at Target for $2.50 each. They hold things like her magnetic dress-up dolls and toy cars. You know, things that can be grouped together.
Above the bookshelves are four photo collages I made myself by tracing the opening from a collage frame I bought for my sister-in-law years ago onto matboard that I got for free from a friend who worked in a frame shop. I have two more that are traced but need to be cut out, and I really need to get on that, because these four were done before Leslie was born, so she's not in any of them!
I still need to spray paint their chandelier yellow, as well as an ornate mirror that a friend of mine found on the curb and gave to me. Also, I need to paint Janeia's bed white, and make a rug for their floor. More on that after I make it. Trust me, you're gonna love it!
Well, gotta go, somebody's awake!
