{Mix & Match Bedding}

My girl's room is constantly a mess. So much so that I've given up all hope and usually just close the door.
It's exhausting. I'm wavin' the white flag.

But I have noticed one thing. The crazy mixing and matching of all their stuff is cute.

They're old enough to make their own beds now, and fix there room how ever they like.

Occasionally I'll get a made bed out of them, and I'll tell ya', they done their mama proud.

They even flip over the comforter at the top.

Even their hodge podge way of setting up the pillows rocks.

And what I've noticed, is that everything seems to go together. It all says "Camille" & "Lucy" so perfectly.
There's not less than 7 different patterns going on on their beds, all bought at different times, yet they all flow.

So, the moral of this story is buy what you love. Not what you think is trendy or hip at the time (unless of course that's what you love).
As long as you love it, it will "go".

Here's a little more of those sweet darlin's room...knicked up walls and all.

(Lucy's littlest pet shop collection in a glass OWL cookie jar that was left at our back door one day)

{Painted Brick Walkway}

A few years ago we lived in a teeny tiny house in Glenside, PA.

It was adorable! But, we needed some more room, so in the summer of 2010 we moved.

Even though my kids were only 1, 3 and 4 at the time, the older ones still talk about that house and how much they loved it.

I think what they really loved were the sidewalks, and that they could run up and down to friends house. 

I miss that too.

During the time that we lived there I did lot's of changes to the house.

This one is still one of my favorites.

The painted brick walkway.

Here's what is looked like before...

and after....

Was that the cutest house or what?

{ Lucy's Owl Birthday }

Lucy turned 7 yesterday. crazy for me.

We had a party last Friday night. We always have house parties  (except for Jonas, 'cause he's a summer baby, so we have his party at the local pool).

Lucy's a big owl lover. She has been for years. So, decorating for her is easy. Owls are everywhere.

For her birthday, we had a owl themed craft night. 'Cause Lucy's crafty too.

Lucy helped me set everything up and even drew the owl on the chalkboard below.

I set up a little "ode to Lucy" area.

We hung up the birthday banner.

and the torn t-shirt garland. (which I happen to love, but no one else seems to. and that cracks me up)

We set up craft supplies in the center of the table and all the kids started off coloring.

TG owls are in, so it wasn't hard to find these cupcake toppers.

The cupcakes needed a little lift, so I popped them on top of a birch log.

The cutest craft was the one I found on pinterest.

they turned out pretty darn awesome.

After the 17 girls arrived, I had no time for pictures. So these are all I have. Not a single one of Lucy.

Ahh, the calm afterwards is pretty nice.

{How to Embellished IKEA Curtain Panels}

If you follow me on facebook or instagram, you know that I've been in hot glue heaven.

I'm not much of a sewer, more of a hot gluer.

So here's a simple way you can embellish your curtain panels.

(ALERT: If you're the type to spend hundreds, even thousands on your window treatments, look away. This is not for you. You may have nightmares that someone would even put curtain panels up that do not move, block light, or even provide privacy.)

okay, you hackers still with me? here we go.
Wash & dry the curtain panels.
Take them our of the dryer immediately, or they will look all sloppy like the ones you see here.

I like to rely on gravity, humidity and any other excuse I can make up to assure you that these curtains will eventually loose there crinkles. And if they don't , I think I will somehow survive.

I'll also survive the blinding yellow tone on these photos. blahh. (the hazards of doing projects at night)

Roll out your burlap webbing so it is about 8" longer than your panel. 8" might seem excessive to you, but you can always cut. You can't add any once you've messed it up by cutting too short.

I laid my webbing down so it covered the threads on the hem. (both at the top near the grommet and the side hem) If your panels don't have grommets, then you're good to go all the way to the top of your panel.

Rock on with your bad self.

Line the back edges of your webbing with hot glue and work your way down to the bottom of the panel.

At the bottom of the panel fold your webbing over and hot glue the excess webbing to the back of the panel.

I like the weight it gives the panel.

Yes, there are safety pins holding up the hem of my panels.

Smoke and mirrors baby. Smoke and mirrors.

Here's what the panels looked like before being embellished.

And after.

It's just a touch of a difference. The perfect little accent to my brown panels.

I'll let you in on another little secret. I hide my shark vacuum behind one of the panels.

Wondering where I get all my stuff?

Wwell, some of the goods you've seen in this post can be found at...

The curtains are from IKEA, which in my opinion is the best place to by pre-made curtain panels. Perfectly ready to be embellished.

I get all my burlap fabric supplies from burlapfabric.com of course. The perfect name for a burlap fabric company.

*side note - I was not compensated by IKEA to write this post.

I was sent burlap wedding by BurlapFabric.com to come up with fun DIY projects to show off.

How'd I do?

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