Julianna's Pink Shower

As you may know, one of my friends is getting married at the end of June.  This will be a very busy next couple of months with the shower, bachelorette and wedding to get involved in.  I am supposed to be making the wedding cake, the shower cupcakes and a banner all while also being a bridesmaid!
You know I love the girl to death when I agree to do all this at report card season as well!

Tonight, I decided to get what I could out of the way and so I came up with this Banner for her shower. Its simple but I love love the pink glittery letters which I found at Winners! My whole idea of scrapbooking had become a hoarding session of expensive and beautiful things.  I have since decided that I cannot buy any more items unless they are directly related to a project.  I was happy to use my pretty letters on this banner because I thought it would go perfectly with the pink theme!

 I didn't have anywhere to put it so I hung it up at my craft corner!

Please publish any comments if you either like or think I need to add something to it before it is hung in 2 weeks! Thanks for reading!

Roommates old room = new den and craft room

I am also not quite done this room as well because I don't have either work spaces in yet.  I will need to enlist the help of my step dad for the moving and he is currently in Florida.  Anyway I have the futon moved into this room ready to be slept on in case someone stays over before i settle the room.  Eventually, I think it will need to be moved to the basement because there isn't enough wall space for everything.  I think I will have my computer space to the left and the craft space on the right.

Here is what it looked like before I moved in (obviously for a little boy)

Currently it looks like this with a slight paint change to reflect my grey tones.  It's another Benjamin Moore colour but this time Winter Lake. I also had to take the fan partially down to repaint it white.  So that light isn't nicely reflected there.  A big thank you to my mom who helped to the edges and the trim!

After! Excuse the light, as it was taken with my phone.  I love how my diplomas are up and I have a fully functional craft room and work room all in one!

Kitchen remodel

It's march break! I finally get some time to do renos. First was my ex roommates room and now the kitchen. I have a bit more to do with the roommates room but I've painted and moved some furniture in there. More on that later. Right now as we speak, Home Depot is working on refacing the kitchen cabinets as well as creating a new bank of cupboards in my kitchen. I am sooo happy with the results thus far which have exceeded my expectations!

Ive realized that I haven't  really shown the progression over the last year that Ive had with the kitchen.  Not that I have done tons of work, there have been a few minor details changed like the paint colour which was the first thing to go.

 I HATED disliked the blood red/orange colour.  I went with a grey tone throughout the whole house so it makes sense that I stick to grey.  I chose Benjamin Moore's coventry grey for the kitchen.

Now for the other side of the kitchen.  There was an alcove which was advertised as an eat in kitchen but in my opinion, it was wasted space. What do you think? Sorry about the phone photo, i realize its a bit blurry!

I decided that since I was a huge baker, I would create a set of cupboards to host my supplies and cake decorating tools.  I call it my baking nook!

After! My baking nook was born!

Makes a huge difference huh?!