A Busy Bee

I have been project crazy lately. My White walls with nothing on them, my white curtains hanging there lacking color (or just horribly colored) having nothing in my house organized with everything we have having no real place to get put.

Can you see how this would be driving me insane? Ya....

So I am not even sure when, I think it was a little over a  week ago I started waking up and getting stuff done! The entire upstairs needed re-doing so before I even went downstairs to see my girls or eat or anything I started working on everything upstairs! I couldn't go downstairs because I KNEW that if I did the girls would see me I would start having fun with them, sit down to relax and never get up. Nothing would have gotten done!

So, first up was cleaning the bathrooms! My nose hairs are still burned from the bleach! (too much?) It might take another week to get my sense of smell back. But after I sanitized the bathroom I organized it. Then I organized the girls old clothes and found Riley's old clothes that now fit Mak (18 month clothes people!!!!!!) I am sure some of you are losing interest with all these details (if you hadn't already lost interest at the first sentence) so to shorten it up I ORGANIZED MY BUTT OF!!!

Upstairs was lookin' fantastic so i did the same to the downstairs bathroom! I felt so accomplished and that was just day one!

The next day I did the same thing! Wake up, don't let the girls see you and WORK! Dishes, laundry, vacuum....

It felt AWESOME!

My house would not be complete until I got something on my walls though.... My sister was going to help me with this since DECORATING is an area in which I LACK talent but I got a fire underneath me doing the rest and I just couldn't help myself! (Hey Jamie, feel free to critique this and come over and put it where it SHOULD go!) So I spent all yesterday afternoon in our HOT garage spray painting picture frames! This morning I actually got them up on the wall!!!!

It looks like this.....

and this....

So I starting looking at the horribly colored curtains in my family room. They were SUPPOSED to turn out dark grey but they turned out light gray with white spots. It wasn't the first time i had dyed something but it was the first time with my washer and it turned out horrible! I knew I couldn't use my washer for it again but I had another set of curtains I needed to get done for my bedroom so I spent SO much time in a hot nasty sticky kitchen boiling water to pour into a plastic bucket to dye my bedroom curtains THIS.......

GREEN!

I know its a horrible picture but I couldn't get the color to look even close to what they actually look like in a picture so I had to darken it up! yuck!

But you get the gist! Its really actually pretty in real life. Again, they didn't turn out perfect but they are a lot better than my grey ones! and they look cool with my bedding and green pillows!

That's what I have done so far! I have SO much more on my list to do but its gonna have to wait! I need to spend some more quality time with the girls and less time worrying about my projects!

But now I have enough stuff done that my house feels a little more like home and and I have less clutter in my life!

I have a "new" couch though that I need to clean and try to find (or make) a slip cover for and then I will be SO happy with my family room!! (anybody have an upholstery cleaner I could borrow? Also anyone have skills in making slip covers or re-upholstering???? I NEED YOU!)