CURTAINS! And a FAN!!

What more could a girl ask for on Valentine's Day, than a morning home alone.  Just me & my sewing machine.  I'm officially that person!

I'm working a lot of weekends right now & we have to pay to send the kids to daycare 2x a week regardless of how often they go (plus I didn't want them to miss their V-day party!.)  So they are at school, having their Valentine's Day Party & I'm at home!  Sewing.  And spray painting.  Gives me a glimpse into how much time I will have in a few {way to short} years when school starts.

This is what I did!  Stumbled upon this fabric at Hobby Lobby and its Liv's wall almost exactly!  I just need to paint her furniture.... I don't know why I just can't get it done...

 The butterflies from Liv's ceiling fan made me have to have....

 These curtain rods & clips!  Perfect!  The white curtain rod makes the walls look more grey & I like that!

 Kichen curtains.  These I did not sew.  They are from Lowes.

But I did cut & hem one make this valance.

 

Speaking of curtains.... blinds.  All of our blinds have a front "valance" piece.  And I'd say 1/2 of the little clips to hold them in place are gone.  So half of the time that piece is crooked on the windows.  I asked at Lowes if they sold those pieces, but she said I'd have to contact the specific blind company to get their specific piece  .... OR .... she said "velcro always works great."  VELCRO!!  Amazing.  I've gotten the "valance" piece velcroed on all the windows that are curtained.  What a great fix!

 

Random- Selling our trusty ole' stroller! Bittersweet. It was our lifeline for so long!

 

 

Oh and.... my fan project.

 

Ok Pinterest.  I spend a lot of time looking up decoration ideas & recipies on you.  But this time you have made me proud.  This fan I think might be my favorite Pinterest project to date.  I am so thrilled with my fan project!

 

I forgot to take a before picture.  These are a few pictures I found online to give you an idea where we started.  Our fan was exactly like this in color (only dirty!)

But the light kit was like this, with 5 lights. 

And now we have this!

 And all I spent was about $40!!  A new light kit for about $16.  And a shade.  And a few misc. pieces like longer pull chains & 2 pieces to adapt the kit to hold the shade.

Some ORB spray paint to all the pieces & the flip side of the white fan blades was this pale wood tone which worked out just great.

 The tutorial for this verision I found on THIS BLOG!!  She mentions a version to buy new similar to this for over $400!  I spent less than $40! 

 Now to paint....someday...

 

 

 And because the kids are more fun than my sewing & painting.... the park! (on a very attitude off day)  It was a little chilly Weds, but I needed to do something to try to end the crabby, fighting, attitude of a day.  And ended up leaving a short while after we got there, so Hayden could walk all the way home in his pooped & peed in pants.  Ugh...

 

And since the kids were at daycare, Jeff & I snuck out for an early dinner before picking them up.  Ok, ok, so the picture is taken at home, at least we got a picture!

 

Hope you had an amazing Valentine's Day!!