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The piano room

Welcome to my piano room. This is where I teach all of my lessons. It is a real improvement over teaching in the living room (which is what I did in our apartment). I can’t express how much more enjoyable it is to have a room completely devoted to teaching.

When we first moved in, [...]

Closet transformation

So I finally finished the nursery closet transformation on Monday. It only took me FOREVER!

Here’s a before shot of the closet that I took while I was painting the stripes.

Then I decided to paint it Farrow & Ball’s Mahogany…

…and it remained only half painted like [...]

DIY Framed Bear Silhouette

Today I’m finally sharing the other little piece of artwork that I made for the nursery. It was very simple to make and quite honestly I love the way it looks more than I thought I would.

I found the bear silhouette here, printed the photo, and then cut it out. I had some [...]

DIY Nursery Artwork

I’ve never really been much of a crafty person, but in an effort to save some bucks, I’ve come up with a couple of different cheap and easy DIY projects for the nursery.

The first project was turning this $4.99 second-hand framed mirror…

…into this framed monogram.

I picked up this mirror several [...]

Another reason to love Costco

Progress in the nursery has slowed dramatically in the past few weeks because of budget cuts. Trying to cut monthly spending and tighten our belts really puts a damper on the extravagant spending lifestyle that I want! Haha! Since I’ll be leaving MCL, we’ve had to work out a new monthly budget and so far, [...]

New crib and closet color!

Besides laying ground cover, I’ve also been able to add a little more to the nursery during my weekend projects.

We decided to buy a crib for Bowen. For now, he’s only using it for nap times and is still sleeping with us in our bed at night. Neither Michael nor myself want him [...]

Ground cover is down

I actually put all this ground cover down a couple of weekends ago and we still haven’t gotten the bark yet! There’s been other stuff that’s come up (including me getting the flu today!) and we just haven’t had a chance to get it. Hopefully that will happen by the end of the week.

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Yard repair

We’ve spent the past few weekends cleaning up the side of our house. When we moved in, the entire north side of the yard was covered in knee-high weeds. We’ve successfully rid ourselves of most of those weeds and are now raking up all the old bark. I would really love to put grass in [...]

Nursery painting is almost complete!

It definitely took me longer than I thought it would, but the nursery stripes are finally almost finished! There are just a few spots that need touching up before I call the painting officially complete. The closet doors have been taken down and it makes the closet look much bigger: Here’s Bowen’s little toy box [...]

Progress in Bowen’s Nursery

Here’s what what we started with:

And here’s where we’re currently at:

The lighting is poor in these photos, but you get the idea. I’m hoping to finish up the rest of the painting over the weekend (if Bowen takes long enough naps!)

I color matched Farrow & Ball’s Dayroom Yellow [...]

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