Mommy Makes Me

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

No Sew Bolster Pillow

Once again, I am bringing you a No Sew Project

You can check out my other no sew project Here

This is also a continuation of the Surprise {Room Makeover}

Which you can check out Here

I don't have a sewing machine and even if I did

I wouldn't know how to use it.

Therefore, I bring you, No Sew Bolster Pillow
It is super easy.

This is a picture of the way the bench started out.

(Not looking so hot)

These bolster pillow covers were super easy to remove.

They had a Zipper. Lol!

I was also very lucky that the pillow its self was a solid piece of foam.

If you don't have a pillow like I do,

You can use towels!

That's right, towels, isn't that cool.

Get the tutorial for that at The Red Chair Blog

So anyways, I started out by measuring how much

fabric I needed. I was short on fabric because I used

it for something else so mine was a tight squeeze.

Next I took both ends of the fabric and gathered them up with

the fabric inside out. I put a rubber band on both ends to make it

look like this:

Next, I placed my pillows inside my gathered material.

Then I just had to pull the fabric around the outside of the foam.

Then I tucked the rubber banded ends inside with the foam.

Viola! New Pillow!

As you can see below, the bench is a different color than the

picture at the top. I just spray painted it with an ivory color.

I did also recover the bench seat by using a staple gun

and my fabric. Super easy. I will show you that in another tutorial.

Happy No Sewing!

Friday, July 22, 2011

Photo Shoot {Not Professional}

So, I'm not sure if you know this or not
but I didn't grow up with boys
I only had a sister.
So trying to raise a boy has been a little hard for me.
When he was a newborn up till he was about 2 years old,
He needed me.
He wanted me.
Now, I'm not needed/ wanted nearly as much.
Hubby is the fun one for him.
They wrestle.
They play Lego's.
Basically do everything together.

Don't get me wrong,
I love that Boogs wants to be a Mini Me of Hubby.
He is an amazing man,
Mommy just feels a little left out.

So when I get a chance to have fun with him,
Boy oh boy do I take full advantage!

We have a wedding to go to this weekend
(more on that later)
and Boogs is going to be joining us.
First one that the whole family
will be attending together since last year.
It should be a blast!

Anyways, I needed to try some clothes on him.
He normally hates trying on clothes so I thought it
would be a complete NIGHTMARE.

Instead, he loved it!
He kept calling it his "Suit Costume"
He wanted to pretend he was a Business Man.

I wanted to take a picture for my mom and sister
and from there, it became a modeling session.

(Not sure what the pose was here but he still looks cute.)

His close up was next.

It wouldn't be a photo shoot without a little Monkey action!

{Sorry for the bad Picture quality,

How are you going to get a 3 year old to stand still}

Next, Was the Thinker!

It seems legit!

Of course we have to act shy.

Lastly....

My angel!

Isn't he just adorable. I am a little bias though.

Just remember, cherish every moment.

Large or Small!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Oh Organizing, How I love thee.....

...Let me count the ways.

More like the ways that I don't organize.

I consider myself a very organized person.
I like things so-so, in their place.
I like schedule and planning.

What I have come to realize over the years,
is that I am this way with work or other areas of my life.
Just not at Home.
So sad, I know.

I try.
I start out with the best intentions.
Get things in their place,
organize it in my head,
But never fails, less than 2 weeks later,
it like a tornado hit it and doesn't look like I ever touched it.

Well, inspite of my chaois,
I thought I would bring you some great blogs that have
Organizing down pat.

This first one is something that I would love to accomplish
but lets be real, I don't even take all the pics I need for the blog.

Summer Photo Checklist @ Tip Junkie

So many times I have wanted to get a meal plan together

for my family but our lives are so on the go.

Here is a woman that has her stuff put together!

Flip Meal Planner by Positively Splendid

Heck, I would LOVE to just be as organized as this next one

Recipe Index @ Seven Sisters

Ok so I have to admit something,
Part of the reason I am so dis-organized is because
I DON'T HAVE A CRAFT ROOM.
There, I said it.
I know, super depressing and hurts just to think about it
(Hint to my Hubby) ;-)
Anyways, but if I did, this is how I would Love for mine to look

Color Cordninated Paper @ I Love my Three Sons

Lastly, this Blog is the Queen of Organization.

I could literally post about 20 pictures from her blog.

She has so many great solutions to problems

and makes them look so easy.

Art Caddy

Cleaning Caddy

These were both from the wonderful Blog of IHeart Organizing

I hope all of this inspires you to be a bit more organized,

But I'm sure you are doing better than me.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

My First Painting

So let me start out by reminding you, in case you haven't been following for long, why I started writing this blog. I wanted to start this blog to encourage others to do projects and crafts that they wouldn't normally have the encouragement to do. I have been a little creative throughout my life but always very timid to try anything new, afraid that I might fail at it. Well, guess what, sometimes I do fail, and sometimes I am able to redeem myself. The final project may not have turned out the way that I had intended it to but I still love it and at least I know that I accomplished it. So back to the project:

For so many years I have had a strong desire to paint.

I have always wished I could be one of those people that could just pick up a paint brush at any time and just start painting. When they finally take a step back, it looks amazing.

As for me, I am not that kind of person. I took at few painting classes in College and trust me when I say, I did not want to save a single thing that I did. Part of it was because I would take to much time on things but still, they were never good.

Well, since I started this blog to try things I never had before whether I fail or not, I decided that I was going to take the plunge. Almost 3 years ago I saw a JcPenney ad with a piece of artwork designed with a tree that was cut between 2 separate wall hanging pieces (I hope that makes sense). Well, I had the intention of recreating that (from memory because there is no way I would keep something for 3 years).

I started out with 2 plain canvases from Michael's. I painted them the same color at my bedroom wall color because I wanted it to blend and just the tree part stand out.

I wanted to be creative with it and just started painting. I started by just drawing single lines to get an idea on where the branches would go. I thickened up the base of the tree and then tool a step back.

This is what I saw:

This looked NOTHING like the AD and I got really discouraged. I wanted to repaint the entire thing gray again and just start over. I decided to walk away for a few days. Just let it sit come back another day to see if I could fix it.

Well, I am so happy that I did. I changed what my original idea was (which was to have the whole tree top to bottom on these canvases but then realized [thanks to the help of my Hubby] that I made the trunk to big so that was not going to look proportional)

I abandoned that idea and just wanted to have branches coming off the tree and didn't care if was the top or bottom.

Again, I am not a professional painter. This was my first one, but I was very happy with it and again, felt very accomplished. Like I had conquered a fear of mine.

Here is the final result:

I even hung the canvas myself (which is probably why they look crooked) but non the less, I am very happy that I was able to do something like this myself.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Last Week Link Ups

Hey all!

I am going to be starting this thing where I show you all the link parties I joined from the week before. I am trying to figure out if I want to do it on Fridays (but those are a little hectic around here) or on Mondays. Let me know your opinion.