Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone for entering my Thank You Follower Giveaway!   I hope to have another giveaway next month to welcome Fall.

The winner of this giveaway, via random.org, is

Teresa from A Magical Whimsy

CONGRATULATIONS, Teresa!  I will need your shipping address to get this out to you {in case you see this first}.

Because I couldn’t let such a great turn out from my followers go without giving more thanks, I chose two surprise winners for a couple of little gifts!

Congratulations to Betsy at Coastal-Colors and Chris at Doll Quilters Monthly!  I’ll be in touch with you, too, for your mailing address, but feel free to email me if you see this first.

Again, thank you to everyone who entered! Your reading and commenting on my blog is appreciated much more than you know!

Last Day To Enter Giveaway

I totally forgot to put a giveaway reminder at the end of my last post, so here is a reminder that this is the last day of my Summer giveaway.

Ends tonight at midnight EST.  I’m hoping to announce the winner tomorrow, but if not tomorrow, Monday for sure! 

Fabric Door Inserts

So, apparently, I lied. I wasn’t done with the guest bedroom as I told you here.  I forgot I wanted to add something to one of the side tables that has two cabinet doors that are recessed.

I decided to go with one of my favorite fabrics and I had enough left over for this project.  I cut my fabric just a little bigger than the inserts.  I covered the back side of the fabric with Mod Podge and put some on the insert, too. 

You can see some of the overlap here.

I came back in once it dried and used an exacto knife and a straight edge to cut off the extra fabric.

Carol from The Polka Dot Closet recently did the backs for bookcases with liquid starch, if you’d like to try that method of attaching fabric. 

Okay. Now I’m done! 

Living Room Floor

The wood floor saga continues with the wood flooring now completed into the living room.  If you recall, our story left off with the dining room and how it is open to the living room.  There was wall to wall carpet throughout much of the condo {except for the bathrooms, kitchen and laundry/garage entrance/craft room}.

While I am fine with no area rug in the dining area, I told my hubby we will need one in the living room.  With the high ceilings you get an echo.  I put my foot down on that one {and it sounded much more forceful on a wood floor than the previous  carpeting}. 

I would tell you that this is the end of the flooring posts, but we are not sure if we are going to do wood or carpet in the sunroom.  My concern is it might be too cold in the Winter months in the sunroom, what with all those windows.  

So we are going to take an area rug I have rolled up at the moment as a “practice” rug, lay it down in the living room and see what that does to the acoustics.

If it works out to cut down on the echoing, we will do wood flooring in the sunroom, too.  If not, we will probably go with carpet.  I don’t care too much either way, I just want that room to be comfortable since we spend a lot of time in there. 

We are both really happy with the look of the wood flooring.  My husband said to me, “I would have been just as happy with carpeting”, which causes me to look at him with an I-can’t-believe-you-just-said-that look.  

He loves wood floors! When we went for a walk one night in our condo community he kept stopping to look in the windows of the new ones that were still for sale.  They all had wood floors.   His words, “that looks sharp” and “that looks really good”.   He must forget that I’ve known him for almost 30 years ~ “I would have been just as happy with carpeting”.  Who does he think he’s kidding?

He also “doesn’t want area rugs all over the place”; like I’ve got a stash in the hall closet waiting to come out!   Fingers crossed the area rug in the living room works out well.  I’m hitting Home Goods first, since I’ve had luck with them in the past for clients.

My current giveaway runs through August 4th! You can click here to get to that post.

 

Copycat Challenge ~ Blogger Edition

I was thrilled when Debbie decided to do a Copycat Challenge linky party highlighting projects we find inspiration from that other bloggers provide!  I find them often!  I do try to add my own twist to them, though, rather than doing exact copies. I have a couple I just did recently that I thought I would share for the party.

Apron.   I found this one months ago at Miss Flibbertigibbit and have had it saved to make.  Lorraine made this cool apron as a copycat from a magazine.  I liked it so much, I wished it was a skirt {and I did wind up upcycling some Goodwill skirts I found into a ruffled denim skirt}! 

This was an easy and quick project that didn’t cost me anything! Everything I used I already had at home.  That post is here.

Silverware Holder.  The next project was inspired by Debbie at Confessions of a Plate Addict.  I get a lot of inspiration from Debbie’s projects.  This one was an image she got from The Graphics Fairy and added the text. 

Debbie made tea towels with hers {and in a separate post made a really great silverware holder with a different graphic}.  I kind of combined two of her ideas into this one.  You can find the full post here.

There are others, but these two are the most recent.  I get so much inspiration from all the talented bloggers out there and here’s a big Thank You to these two! 

Don’t forget to enter my Summer Giveaway running on my blog here, that runs through August 4th!

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