Ribbit Ribbit

Do you ever have a week where EVERYTHING you pick up you mess up?  I did, and I ended up taking apart two knit projects!  Grrrr.  After ripping everything out I needed to rebuild my confidence.  I casted on a Christmas present.  I finished one fingerless glove without any issues.  Just one more to make and the person will be done!  Yea me!  Sometimes you have to go back to the 'comfortable' things in life.

I started and almost completed a tag quilt for the new grand baby for Christmas too.  I love my sewing room.  I am playing with the idea of putting up a design wall. I see the value in it - no more crawling around on the floor.   There are a lot of great ideas out there how to achieve it.  I am still playing around with which one I like.  would like to put a border around it but haven't figured that part out yet.

Last week was busy.  S had K camp.  I liked it and hated it at the same time.  My little one is growing up and starting school full time!  Where did the time go?  I sound like every mom out there! ha

I hope your week was fantastic!

It's Been too Long!

The Room of Dark Gloom

Setting up to scrape the popcorn off

Ahhh the completed room  

My daughters creative spot

The other side

This is the hutch orginally

THE FINAL  AHHH BEAUTIOUS!

My family and I are finally settling down in our new house.  We bought a great house on a lake that is so peaceful from the city (Chicago) that I had to put the television on for noise when we first moved in.

Our house will be a work in progress for a while. It was built in the 70's and that WAS the last time that it was updated.  I finished my daughter's room first. But today I am going to be selfish and claim its all about me!  

The extra room in the basement has turned into my craft, sewing, knitting room.  I LOVE how it turned out.  Our entire house has popcorn ceilings! Ewww!  Upon researching I found out that you can scrape the popcorn ceiling off IF it has not been painted.  Who knew?! 

I geared up for my task at hand, put up plastic and started the process. Three steps: wet -scrape, wet - wait scrape, then spackel your boo boos away.   It IS totally due-able!  Don't get me wrong, time consuming and messy are two words that absolutely go with this task.  But the end result?  A fan-tas-tic SMOOOTH as a baby's butt ceiling.  I just stare at it sometimes....

The one thing that this room does lack is storage.  I came upon a hutch through Craig's List.  I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.( http://www.anniesloan.com/acatalog/paints.html)  Can it be true?  YES! Just paint!  NO SANDING! AWESOME!  I love the way it turned out and I will be using her paint in the future again.  The hutch now displays my material and some of my yarn.  ( I have more of both hehe)  There IS nothing better then stepping into my room and start creating along with my daughter.  I hope that you have found your creative spot in your house!