DIY Weekend

So thanks to my friend Courtney who just moved into our ward, Pinterest, and my new fave DIY blog {house of smiths} I convinced myself and Regan that I had to redo the hallway, bathroom and laundrey room door this weekend! In the thick of the painting part, I was seriously asking myself WHY I do this to myself! WHY to I make myself paint while trying to be a mom of 4 children? But after everything was all cleaned up and I stood back to admire my awesome work, I was happy with my decision! Even Regan said that he liked it which is a major plus to me because usually when I get into these projects, he wants to know when I am going to be finished and do the touch up work! Anyway, these are the things I changed about my house this weekend:
1.The Red wall in the main bathroom had to go! I am over the color red, so I painted the whole bathroom GREY! Who would have thought that Grey is a cute color, but coupled with the right accent colors, it is actually a great color! I want to add a mustard yellow accent somewhere in the bathroom! Because grey does not match with tan, I had to paint the baseboards white and had to paint the door black! Once the door was painted black, it just didn't look right to me, so I got some sandpaper and went to town distressing the door so it looked weathered and old! I love the way everything turned out in this room!!!
2. I painted the hallway wall a sea blue and then stenciled damask in white and grey on top. The big stencil on the top will have a vinyl F for Fackrell in the middle once I find it! {Anyone have access to a vinyl F?}
The stenciling wasn't fun, but with patience, it came together! To tell you the truth, I am still not in LOVE with this wall, but I think it will come soon!
3. My favorite thing about this DIY weekend is the BLUE DOOR for my laundry room! I absolutely LOVE the way the distressing with black glaze turned out! It just looks like an old farm door right in our kitchen! I was nervous to use the black glaze since I have NEVER used it before, but it turned out just how it looked in my head!!!
The board you see in the hallway is my big purchase this year at Swiss Days! I saw this huge magnet board and instantly knew that I needed it in my house! It just looked like my style, plus, I have a ton of family pictures that I have needed to frame and hang up and this is such an easier way of doing that. When a picture is out of date, how easy will it be to just take it off of the board and rehang a new one instead of reframing it? When it came this weekend, I was happy and nervous at the same time! Happy because it finally came and I couldn't wait for it to be up in my house and nervous that Regan was going to have to hang it! Let's just say that even with Regan's positive outlook on everything in life, there are 2 things in life that are not so positive for him. 1.} taking family pictures and 2.} hanging pictures so you can see why I was so nervous! Let's just say that it wasn't horrible, but it wasn't too happy either. His stud finder was telling him where the stud was, and when he went to nail, he would go through dry wall!!! So he finally found the stud and mounted it and now it looks awesome! Love swiss days!
For those of you who don't know what DIY stands for {Do it yourself} and I highly recommend it because the satisfaction of standing back and looking what you have done once a project is finished is priceless!

DIY via Pinterest!

So I have found something that is good & bad all at the same time: PINTEREST! It is good in the fact that I have a way of finding a million ideas {hair, fashion, recipes, crafts, sewing, church ideas, school ideas etc.} and I have a way of storing all of these amazing ideas. The bad part of it is that after seeing all of these amazing ideas, I want to DO them! I don't mean just get them in my mind and dream of the day I will do them...I mean actually DO THEM! So--can you see how it is a good and bad thing now? Another bad thing is, going onto pinterest is super addicting! Once you go there, you want to keep looking to find cute ideas!
So with that said...here are some of the things pinterest has made me do:
1. Saw a buttercream merigne cake I had to make for Elle's birthday!
2. Rosette's & flowers for girls headbows
3. {in the next post} painting doors & walls

*The other items you see on this post are just my made up crafts! I have actually gotten back into the swing of things and gotten my inner crafty out! I love feeling like I can feel inspired and creative!!!
For our school fundraiser, I made this mail box with paper bucket so people can send love letters to family members-this was for an auction-hopefully it sold for a lot!!! The next one is just one of the MANY big letters I have made for people. I was thinking about it, and I figure I have made at least 20 letters for people whether they get married or have babies! I love making these because it is original and something that nobody else will have {except for the 20 other people I have made them for!}

The pictures of our basement is our labor day project! Since we moved in a year and a half ago to our beautiful house, we have not even touched the storage room in the basement! I'm talking you couldn't even step into the room! That's how bad it was. The toy room was a wreck and the outside back garage was disgusting thanks to a certain skunk who sprayed Regan in it when we first moved in! So with all of this craziness around me, I knew that we had to LABOR on Labor day!! Regan worked on the back garage, I worked on the storage room, and the kids worked on the toy room! We ended up being victorious by the end of the day!!!

I am in a scrapbook page kit club and we make 13 of the same layout every 3 months and keep 1, and give them to the other 12 members. That means that every 3 months, I get 13 scrapbook kits and it is amazing! I don't have time to scrapbook anymore, so this is a perfect solution!!! The scrapbook page you see on this post is my September kit!!! I think it ended up super cute!