It's only the hallway

I have been working and working on repainting and redoing the inside of my house...this house is about 30 years old...and I swear hadn't been painted on the inside or the outside for that matter until we bought it 6 years ago...we immediately gave it a new coat of paint and new carpet before we moved in...okay now I think it's time for a new coat of paint and change things around....My kids know how I am about color in my house....NOT!!! I like white...white and more white...and I'll accent with color...well, it's time to move forward with color....I now like color on my walls....all the wood in this house has been the dark wood...and I am having a very hard time with that...I like white trim...and so it's taken a lot of work but I'm getting there....this week I tackled my hall way...a simple hall way...dark...and plain.....(Sorry I forgot to take before pictures...imagine the white walls and dark trim and doors.)
I painted the hall a sand white....which is really pretty (stole the color from my daughters house)...did the trim in white......and changed all the electrical outlets to white...what a difference that made...
Love...Love...Love my closet doors....
painted my brown frames to black....and added a saying....
And at the end of the hall I repainted my mirror black and added the table...my hallway is so pretty
now...I still have a couple of walls I need to add something to but don't know what just yet....so I'll ponder it for a few days....and let you see what I've done....this was my week long project...started on
Monday and finished on Friday....I still have 4 rooms left to update....so you can guess what my summer is going to be like...

Bedroom Make over Part 1

PART ONE: I look at my bedroom...and what do I see....dark colors that are getting the best of me...oh how could that be!!Okay, that's where my poem ends....Giving some though to what I really want...This room is full of sunshine (when the sun is shining) you would never know it by looking at the picture.. I love bright colors ~ creams, burgundy and green are my favorite....As I thought about these colors it came to me....when I lived in Iowa I visited a shop that sold pre-quilted fabric tops...remembering I had purchased some of this fabric ....I hurried to my sewing room and dug through my totes until I found what I was looking for....
I ran back upstairs and to my room and laid the material out on my bed...Oh, I loved the colors much more than the browns...it brighten up the room with color! Lets see now....I have enough to make a quilt and even some shams...What do I need to do? You guessed it!!

I now am in the middle of hand quilting my quilt for my bed....I quilt while watching my favorite TV programs....I quilt while doing laundry....I quilt while talking on the telephone....and I use my quiet time to quilt...hate to give up quilting time to fix our meals, but I do...My fingers are crippled up from so much quilting....but I'm in a hurry I have a deadline to meet...I want this project to be done before June....so I can display my work proudly when family comes to visit...So the point to this entry for this week is.... I'll not be able to be working on any other project or attending link parties until I get this quilt done...Just thought I'd give an update as to why I gone...I will of course update you from time to time...here's my project on my frame....It's nice to get another quilt top out of my tote....

Birthday Greetings

I love making cards and have some cute sizzix templates...like the one above which is of the flip flop...I use a pre-printed card and some hot pink scrapbook paper, some printed birthday scrapbook paper, big pink flowers, buttons, and fiber....out of all that I got these cute flip flops to add to my card....thought it turned out pretty cute....
I love using the pre-printed card I get at Michaels..using a 40% off coupon and they cost about $4.50 for 50 cards and envelopes. I add to that close to cocoa (Stampin-up paper) cut in a circle, added lavender ribbon at the top and lavender eyelets, sptamped "It's your special day" and added a strip of the close to cocoa paper, three more lavender eyelets and oh yes, 2 paper flowers one cream and the other brown and the lavender eyelet... another card ready to send out.
All these card are from the same box of cards I got at Michaels...I like variety and these card are great for the background card...I used the left over close to cocoa paper and added pink eyelets and two different pink flowers...simple and fast to make...I am linking up to bobbypinsboardwalk bragfest.