A Shout Out to Mad Skills Monday!

Hey! You may notice a new button on the side of my blog! The creators over at SuperStinkyBoys host a Mad Skills Monday, this is a great place to post the projects you’ve been working hard on all week and meet other crafty women such as yourself!

SuperStinkyBoys states that it is “a Support Blog for Mom’s of Boys”, but it is so much more! I have a little girl and follow this blog, so don’t let the title fool you!

Even if you don’t have any little ones their crafts and creations will inspire you to create something for family or friends!

So pop on over and check them out! Tell them InnovativeMom sent you!!!

Chandelier Complete (light bulbs and all ;^)

Alright! Well today I went and purchased the CORRECT size light bulbs, so here is a final view of the chandelier…

I have to say I am totally in love, and it looks 100x better in person! I wasn’t sure at first, normally change doesn’t bother me, I welcome it, but going from a huge box light to this was a big change. But while sitting at the dinning room table coloring with my daughter and looking into the kitchen we fell in love 100% ;^)

You can see a sneak peak of my window treatments I am working on in the background. The valence I did a while back (I will have to post about it) but the kitchen looked naked and needed something extra…. So I stole some sheers off of another window and was playing around.

Now this is just a ROUGH idea, but I was playing with shapes, I like the right much better… SO tonight I will be busy working on that until the wee hours!!! Can’t wait until it is done it will make such a difference! You all will be the first to see!!!

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Chandelier Reveal, (Almost There)

Remember this?

Well he has been brought back to his former glory, (with a little extra flair ;^).

(Do you see what I ran out of? Besides Patience LIGHTBULBS! Hello, I of course bought the wrong size;^). This reveal brought on another surprise, can you see it? Look hard, a HUGE splotch on my ceiling where my fluorescent light box was, one project always reveals at least two more!

I first primed it with rustoleum, and this time used a colored primer, and now am IN LOVE with that product! It COVERED AMAZINGLY! I then sprayed it with the Anodized Bronze, but it looked very gray, so for the final touch I lightly swept on gold spray paint and then wiped it with a wet cloth. I <3 it!!!

I tried to wash up the white cylindrical thingies that go under the bulb, but they were yellowed from age, so I figured I would have to get more and just for the heck of it I sprayed them gold. What do you think? To much gold? I thought so at first but it’s kinda growing on me? I need a second opinion.

And of course I am the MESSIEST spray painter in the world…..

This will not come off… I could have worn gloves but this is my badge of honor, my “I am a DIY girl hand” or at least that’s what I am telling myself when people at the grocery store give me an odd look ;^).

So what do you think of the transformation? And the color on the cylindrical thingies (I should really find out their real name). I will post more pics when I have day light (and more light bulbs) but I literally just finished and wanted to show you!

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(oh and everyone say a prayer that this thing will STAY UP! you never know…. *fingers crossed*).

Kitchen Chandelier *Sneak Peak*

As a much needed break from reviewing journal articles and writing lesson plans (ah the joys of earning a bachelors degree) I am going to let you in on my current project!!!

 

You see that beauty? Okay, well maybe diamond in the rough would be a better term ;^) My mom had him just hanging out in her garage, and didn’t even tell me! Tisk tisk mom…

I am going to put him in my kitchen over my island! Want to see what he is replacing? Are you sure you can take it?

 

I know I know, it’s okay you can stop screaming now. It’s what I so lovingly refer to as our department store lighting ;^) lol. Hideous and although it is bright it gives everything a slightly yellow tint *gag* sorry, got a little choked up there.

Well if you can see that little flush mount ceiling light in the background of the above picture, I am painting this new chandelier that same color.

And guess what? Mom had this in her garage to… She’s been holding out on me! Normally I would have had this project done by now, but can you guess? RAIN RAIN RAIN… And spray painting in the house is not a good idea, yes I will admit to trying it once upon a time :^)…

 

QUESTION FOR YOU, take a look at the chandelier again in the first picture please, would you paint the white cylindrical things that go under the light bulb? The sleeves I guess you could call them? I don’t think I want them to be white? Help please :^) And hopefully in a couple days this beast will be a beauty! <3

Quick and Easy Headboard

A quick intro for you, my mind is bouncing all over the place lately filled with project ideas… But you remember, I am on a budget, $15.00 a week! And with landscaping devouring that $15.00 my projects will not be getting done this week :^( We are re-doing the flower beds, can I just say yuck! I hate digging beds, but I hate the way our yard looks in it’s present state more, so the bed digging wins… But just so you know, my soon to be projects include: refinishing an antique rocking horse for my daughters 2nd B-day, refinishing an old chandelier for my kitchen, turning a door into 3 tables (well an entrance table and two big shelves, you’ll see ;^) and of course an old window as wall art! SO hang in there if you are following! But to fill the time I will show you my house and projects that are already done!

 

In the master bedroom I have already shown my awesome $25.00 dresser. So next is the headboard!

For supplies there were not many, I headed to Home Depot and got a piece of half inch ply wood (cheap and sturdy) I also had them cut 3 pieces out of quarter inch ply. I picked up some decorative molding, this looks like the type that you frame a door with, but they have an entire section of decorative molding and for small projects it’s not very costly!

I first primed and painted the molding and the base piece of wood (in case any showed through). I did a black paint and rubbed on the silver, just like with my dresser).

The next step was to pick up some batting and fabric. Now many people put a bit of foam down and then batting, but myself being cheap thrifty, just doubled up the batting, (this actually saved a ton, foam is expensive) Found some fabric that was on clearance, and after stapling the batting did the same with the fabric, just wrap it tight like a present! I flipped it over here and there to check my progress.

The molding went on first with some wood glue and nails (fill the holes in with wood fill if they bother you, you can’t see them with this paint treatment though).

Then with screws and the help of my hubby, we screwed the three quarter inch upholstered boards into place from behind. And Viola’!

As you can see we added a vinyl wall decal above. (Please excuse the horrid picture, my hubby is asleep I didn’t get in there to snap a new pic quick enough).

This can be done with any fabric and any molding color to match your bedroom! And for an extra punch you could add covered buttons tufted in!

(If you have any questions about attaching it or if something isn’t clear let me know;^).

Office/Play Room Makeover Reveal!

 

Alright! It’s what I’ve been blogging about the most and it is finally done! Here are the final pictures of the office/play room/ scrap booking room extravaganza!

 

Remember learning how to paint the fun crazy accent wall?

(I think the futon needs some more funky pillows in the future)

 

 

How about making the $12.00 Window Treatments? You see that clean desk? All thanks to the Medicine Cabinet turned office storage

 

And the scrapbooking area is super functional with the upside down CD storage, and cute thanks to the curtain that hides the junk stuff.

Can’t forget our snazzy butterfly art work!

 

 

 

 

Housing all of the toys we made that storage furniture functional.

The adorable embroidery hoop art brings a big punch of color to this wall!

 

 

 

 

 

And lastly I wanted to show you a little picture collage. The biggest problem I see when people decorate is a big wall space with a tiny frame. The wall eats the frame. So make a collage! Here I have 2 10x13” frames I got on clearance at Target, and the words Family and Friends which I bought at Michael’s for next to nothing. The frames are proportionate to the wall space and therefore stand out more! (And look I could totally put more toy storage under those pics!!!).

Hope you enjoyed the transformation! <3 What was your favorite part?

$12.00 Window Treatments!

So here it is! One of the last projects in my office/play room/scrap booking room make over!

I had to cover the windows in here, but in every other room I normally do something with long sheers that touch the ground. Well knowing my daughter the bottom of those sheers would be filthy from her sitting on them with the dogs and pulling on them.

I originally wanted to do tie up shades, but the top part

always looks so boring to me? And unfinished. (Thank you Wal-Mart for letting my knock your shades ;^) But I love the idea of the tie up shades, they don’t cover up to much natural light, and also do not touch the floor!

So I was in one of my fav stores, Big Lots, when I came across a valence in a paisley pattern for 3 BUX!!! And they were beautiful thick fabric, and the bag said JC Penny on it! So you know these puppies originally were not cheap! I grabbed two because my windows are large.

And I also snagged up a sheer that had cool stripes embroidered throughout. I hung the first valence in the middle of the window, and then cut the second valence into 2 pieces, these two pieces I slid under the first valence, one on each side, and used the iron on tape to tack it down (see, still not sewing ;^)…

It still needed something, so I took out the sheer I found and cut it to the width of my window (I added 3” to each side so that when bunched it didn’t look to short).

I then pined it to the valence to see if I liked it, and did a mock tie-up shade with ribbon I had.

After falling in love, I made a pocket at the top for the rod (with the no sew tape).

 

I really LOVE the end result, LOVE the paisley fabric, and most of all I LOVE  the fact that it totaled $12.00!!!! Perfect Playroom/Office Window Treatment!

I am wondering though if the ribbon that is holding the sheer is to dinky looking? What do you guys think? Should I use thicker ribbon or perhaps fabric? Let me know, and thanks for reading <3