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Monday, October 29, 2012

Recovering a Lamp with Hemp Cord

So I was given some nursery items (Dust ruffle, mobile, quilt, etc.) that came with a matching lamp from one of my cousins. The lamp was covered in nautical animals which was cute but wasn't the direction I was going for Baby Liam's nursery. So then took the nautical animals off the lamp and did some creative thinking with some hemp cord I had laying around.


I started hot glueing the hemp cord to the base of the lamp and wrapped and glued and wrapped and glued.


Once I wrapped all the way to the top, I wrapped it one more time to build up a layer of hemp cord to be level with the surface of the top of the lamp.


Then I continued wrapping and glueing the hemp cord around the top of the lamp. I tried keep all sides even while glueing around the lamp.


Once I got close to the end I cut the hemp cord from the ball and glued the tail down before glueing down the rest of the hemp cord around the lamp post.


And VOILA! Beautiful, rustic lamp! This will go so nicely with my mobile I made last week. Stay tuned for pictures of it along with my bumper once I get it re-covered.









♥ Mrs. Suzie

Monday, October 22, 2012

Let the Nesting Begin!

Today I am currently 29 weeks pregnant and with the joy of knowing that Little Liam will be here in a little over 10 weeks so does the anxiety of knowing I have no where to put him. We are currently working on a house that will be our "forever" home and I'm starting to worry that it won't be finished in time (to see our progress go to my other blog here). So I decided to turn our current guest room (in the rental we are staying in) into a makeshift nursery.

My mother-in-law suggested that I leave the guest bed in the room so if I decided I wanted to still use it as a guest room (for grandmas coming to help out) I could. So as you can see below my guest bedroom is not very organized. With people giving me stuff and the recent baby shower, I have turned my guest bed into a throw pile.


Along with that throw pile, I have two dressers crammed into the corner. One (the smaller one) full of newborn to 3 month baby clothes. My bassinet (which you can't really see to the left) didn't really need to be in there so I moved it to my master bedroom.


As you can see this bedroom has become a catch-all room for random things like my husbands road bike.


After some strenuous use of muscle, I was able to move the guest bed into the far corner to give me more floor space and I finally put some linens on it to make it functional.


The bigger (empty) dresser was moved into the closet which I will show you in a second and the smaller dresser was moved over just a tad to make way for the crib. Currently the linens on the crib are ocean themed (given to me by my cousin) but once I get done recovering them, they will match my quilt that I made. I also left the highchair in their for the time being because there is no space in my dinning room for it. The black thing on the wall is part of a tv mount which I will take off later once I am able to borrow an impact drill from my husband. The black trashcan in between the crib and the dresser is going to be my diaper pail (as soon as I purchase a liner for it).


Since I moved the bed I had a small space where I could place my rocking chair and chunky nightstand. I think this is my favorite part of the room.


So I;m sure you are probably wondering where all of the baby stuff that was previously taking up my guest bed went. Well it got stuffed up to the ceiling in our small guest bedroom closet along with that large dresser. As of right now all of Liam's clothes that are hanging fit fine in there but once I do more reorganizing, specifically with the drawers of the two dressers, I'm not sure if that will change.


I know this isn't spectacular or anything but it is what I have to deal with right now. I'm not painting the room since we are renting and will hopefully be out soon. I might decide to hang some art work however once it gets closer to time. Even though I am happy with the work that I put into this nursery, I am hoping we will never have to use it and will be moved in to our new home soon :(.





♥ Mrs. Suzie

Monday, October 1, 2012

DIY Enzyme Cleaner Review



So after waiting a long two weeks for my Enzyme Cleaner to be ready, it's finally done! I was so excited the first thing I did this morning was prepare my Enzyme Cleaner in concentrate form. This basically consists of you straining the enzyme mixture through a thin cloth and storing it. That's it!

To make my All-Purpose Cleaner for around the house, I poured 1/2 cup of the liquid into a spray bottle and then filled the spray bottle the rest of the was up. I was using a 32 oz. spray bottle so my ratio was 1:7 (enzyme:water). You don't have to use that much enzyme, in fact on my last post on the enzyme cleaner I told you all you had to use was a 1:10 ratio. It's just whatever is your personal preference.

If you would like to see how the Enzyme cleaner did in my bathroom and in my kitchen you can watch my Youtube video below. Click here for the recipe for Enzyme Cleaner.






♥ Mrs. Suzie