crafty projects!

hello everyone! i can't believe it's been a month and a half since i've posted. well, looking back on the past month and a half, i guess i can believe it. the hubs and i have been super busy - one of my best friend's wedding, girls weekend with my sisters, the hubs' trips to mississippi (had to sing the little song to make sure i spelled that right!) and canada, and the hubs' brother's high school graduation in oklahoma (where the wind comes sweeping down the plains!). we have done a few random projects since the last time i posted, so i thought i would go ahead and update you on those since we are hoping to knock out some bigger projects this next weekend. (hey four day weekend!)

hmm, first off, we'll start with the guest bathroom. our guest bathroom is perfect for us - it's small, but we don't have kids who would be fighting over it. and we only have guests occasionally. however, when my mom stayed with us, she decided it was lacking some storage space. which i agreed with, i just hadn't spent much time trying to figure out how to fix that problem. mom (and sisters!) to the rescue! when my mom was visiting one of my sisters (L), she saw that L had done this (or something similar) in her guest bathroom, so mom took another sister (J) with her later to hobby lobby to help pick out some baskets. they did such a great job! i love them! :) mom brought the baskets to me when she came to help decorate above the cabinets, but we didn't have time to put them up that week.

here's our before picture:

the madre showing me just how she wanted the baskets:

and the final project! yay for towel storage! :)

for a few security projects (don't worry, i have more crafty projects!)...

the previous owners took the door that led from the garage into the house with them. why? who knows?!? so we bought a new door and ash installed it. we still need to install the molding around the door, which will probably happen this next weekend. look at him work!

we had been planning to put 2 inch blinds in our dining room and living room, but hadn't quite gotten to that yet. however, we had a creeper experience, so we quickly decided we needed something over our windows. we went ghetto for one night and threw up a sheet, but then bought and installed blinds the next day.

ghetto sheet...

finishing the installation...

back to crafts!

we have received a lot of housewarming cards, birthday cards, birthday party invitations, wedding invitations, etc. and we used to put them all on the refrigerator. there's just something about a stainless steel fridge that made me not want to put all of these invitations on there, so i wanted to come up with a cool alternative. i didn't realize this at the time, but i stole the idea from pinterest (i saw it on one of my boards after i purchased this).

easter weekend, ash and i went to the warrenton antique festival with my family, and the only thing i was looking for was a shutter. (and that's the only thing i left with too!) 

i tied some burlap-y ribbon to the shutter and have it hanging from the top of the cabinet. this cabinet is actually the pantry and you see this side as you walk into the kitchen. 

clothespins don't work so well, so i found some clips and attached them to the shutter.

and then i found all of the cards we had around the house and added them to the shutter!

there is one more crafty project that i've done, but i'm going to wait until they're actually being displayed in our house before i post about that one. (fingers crossed - this weekend!) keywords: framed napkins.

okay, well, i think you're pretty much up to date now! hopefully we'll have some new posts for you this weekend!