Macsen & Baby Boy!

Well, I guess now is as good of time as any to tell you we found out we are having another BOY!  I am super excited, as I really wanted Macsen to have a little brother close to him and now they can share a room and make things easy for me! :)

I will leave most of the room the same, since it is already a boy's room.

I might add something like this faux throw (H&M) for some softness:

Patriotic Boy Room

When I found out we were going to be able to get into a house and Macsen would get his own room I immediately started planning how I wanted to do an "all-boy" room.  I loved so many that I had seen and was probably the most excited to do his room than any other room in the house!  You can see some of the ideas I had here.

When I told my mom what kind of theme I was going for she said she had the perfect thing for me. This antique American flag was my great-grandpa's who served as a chauffeur to generals in WWI.  How cool is that?  Even though it is a little overpowering in this little room, I still love it and love what it stands for and that it belonged to an ancestor.

Pretty Tuesday

Just wanted to share some pretty things I have stumbled upon recently...just because...

...pretty stacked books...

 ...this flower arrangement...

...and this one... photo by Nicole Hill...

...this table-scape...the brick with red, black & white...

...I want her haircut...

...blog header...

...j. crew tank...

...and lastly a pretty bed. via desire to inspire

Master Bedroom Before and After

Well, we are finally getting settled into our new apartment and I am just now realizing that I never posted pictures of the finished rooms in our old apartment.  

I did the master gradually but a few months after I finished it I made a couple little changes (you might notice some differences in the pics)

Before:

After:

The closet framed with curtains and behind-the-door purse storage:

You might remember these pictures from this post.  They are from this photo shoot.

I painted this Asian screen white and I have used it for a backdrop in this shoot and this one.

This was my favorite photo from the shoot.  Liz is seriously amazing.

We inherited this dresser.  I painted it white because I paint everything white. Obviously I hadn't finished it yet in these pics.

Fan from Walmart.  Love the dresser drawers.

Made these curtains for the slanted windows.  Ross $2 a panel, and the top is a sheet.

The window was Trey's "studying corner" with his desk and his beta. :)

The same curtain and rod that frames the closet also hides this door for a little more privacy.

My little letter desk from Jr. High that I have kept with me all these years.  I painted it black and spruced up the knobs a little bit.

Another one of my favorite photos from the shoot over the bed with those velvet pillows I fell in love with:

Love my zebra print bed sham.

I should maybe be embarrassed about this picture but it is one of my very favorite pictures...mostly because I took it on our belated honeymoon on the beach so its special :)

I love these side tables...tops covered with contact paper.

Make way for the pets:

Ahh my lovely pillows again...

...and drawers...

I am sharing this HERE

Just Add Lace

I'm CRAZY about lace right now. I am so happy it isn't too "grandma" anymore!  A while back I found a HUGE bag of lace at a thrift store for $3.  I added it to a few shirts to spruce them up a bit - you can see that post HERE.  I decided to pull out the ole' bag again...it never disappoints.

Fortunately I haven't even put a dent in the bag yet, so there will be many more lace posts to come.

I am posting this HERE.

Little White Dress Refashion

Lately I have been noticing a lot of pretty white dresses:

I particularly liked this one, although it is hard to see in this picture:

I decided that I wanted to make this one (from my sister's wedding) a little more fancy (its the one on my little sis at the far right):

See what I made with my turquoise skirt here.

First I wanted to make a pretty sash that would tie in a bow at the back.  I bought some ribbon at Walmart for $1.50 that was the exact color I wanted.  I decided to sew some lace on top of it.

I pinned the lace to the ribbon and just sewed 2 seams down each ribbon (I had to use 2 pieces of ribbon to make it wide enough)

I folded over and sewed the end of the ribbon/lace to finish off the ends.

Here is what the back looked like to get an idea of where I sewed along the lace.

I also attached lace just above where the sash was going to be.  Mainly to cover up the bigger eyelet pattern (which was also being covered by the sash)

Then I cut along the bottom of the dress (just the outer layer - not the lining) to make it a little shorter and to make the lining show at the bottom.  I attached the same lace along the bottom of the outer layer. (This outer layer is a Swiss Dot fabric and the lining is just a thin white cotton)

Then I attached the same lace along the inside of the neck (front and back) so that just the top of the lace would show when the dress was not inside-out.

That's all I really did, but it made SUCH a difference

The back:

Some jewelry options:

What do you think?  Which necklace do you like better with it?  I will post the pic of it on me on What I Wore Wednesday  in a week or two after I wear it :)

And, speaking on white dresses, check out the pictures I took over the weekend:

I am posting this HERE.