Have a Yummy and Blessed Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Guest Bathroom

The latest project: fixing the guest (formerly my oldest son's) bathroom.
It just needed some good, old-fashioned sprucing-up.

The goal? Painting and decorating for under $200.

One of the first things--take down the cabinet over the toilet. It was huge and looming. Sorry that I didn't have a "Before" picture, but here's the "After" picture.

No more cabinet over the toilet! This one thing really opened up the bathroom. And I still have plenty of storage under the sink.

Next, painting.

And sewing a new shower curtain. Here's the fabric I purchased at Wal-Mart last year (yes, I've been planning this awhile) for $1.00 a yard!

I bought blue paint that matches the light blue in the fabric at Home Depot--I really enjoy painting with the Behr paint. One gallon of the Premium Plus (paint plus primer--it's low odor and covers well!) in semi-gloss (perfect for the bath) is $34.00.

Luckily, we've already put in a nice light fixture

and just last year, a new lavatory faucet.

A Not-So-Vintage Pattern

I started working on this, while we were still in the HOT days of autumn---but now, it's been raining for weeks!! (actually, about 3 weeks--you should see our lake, it came up so far the canoe was drowned. Don't worry, our house is up on a hill)--and gotten quite a bit cooler. So I'm going to put it away for now.

I've had this pattern a long time. It's a really cute wrap-style sundress. The material is a wonderful linen/cotton mix, great for our hot Dallas summer days. The blue stripe is the perfect foil for the taupe background.

Now to find something a bit warmer to sew up!

A Quick Project!

A tissue box
This was really fast and fun!

And modeled by our newest family member, Miss Cupcake!

I used a wooden tissue box (from the bargain bin at Jo-Ann's), several bits of various scrapbooking papers, aninexpensive doily (from somewhere out of my odd-n-ends stash), a few scraps of costume material, some beads, and ....... Mod-Podge!

You could make whatever colors/odd bits of material, lace, or whatever/almost anything you could get to stick on the box!

I haven't been lazy!

Just too busy with schoolwork!

And, my parents have moved here! It's been such a great event--maybe not for them in having to do all the moving--but hopefully they will be happy and contented once all the moving is done, and I am so happy to have them here! I love being able to go around and see them!

And I love to help them out. They are great parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law. My DH absolutely loves them. They are so much fun! My dad went with us to India several years ago, at age 75! And we really put him through the wringer--up to the nomads at 16,000 feet above sea level!Then, last year, both my parents went with me, DH and Son #3 to Italy. What a blast!

School Daze

Today was the second day of our homeschool co-op classes.

I teach a science class there.

It's wonderful to help kids learn; I love science and doing science experiments too!

Unfortunately, we don't get to blow anything up very often.

(Uh-oh, too many boys in this family, I think....)

Wow, I've been lazy...

or busy. So much homework! Plus I got behind with the Labor Day Weekend.
Sorry.
I'll get back to my sewing and let you know what I'm up to!
But I'm loving grad school. It's great! I'm learning so much already---and realizing how much I don't know!