My closet!!

Well gals here it is!

I know that all of you were just dying to see my closet!! hahaha

I have to say that blogging about something that you are getting ready to do helps hold you accountable to actually get it done!

Everything is so clean and organized in there right now.

I know it looks like chaos to you but you have to remember that I only have 2 closets in my whole house, this walk-in and one more smallllllllll bedroom closet that is actually in our office. The one in the office shares space with the heatpump cold air return so it's only a half closet.

This red chest holds my sheets and pillowcases. The mirror has been in the garage until I got the closet ready for it. I will be painting all the furniture white soon.

It will be really nice to finally have a full length mirror in my house!

(It is a LOT bigger than the picture makes it look)

Maybe I will look better when I leave home now?!?!?!

I did not get a really good picture of the closet from the bedroom because I would be showing in the mirror and you did NOT want to see me today! Me in sweats is not a pretty sight!!!!

These wire shelves work pretty good to hold accessories such as scarves and belts.

Look at all my jeans....I didn't know I had so many pair til I organized a little.

Can a girl ever really have too many handbags?
Of course not. I purged a few just in case!

This is my DRESSY corner of the closet, (other than Danny's robe that he wears out to the hot tub) you can tell that I don't get dressed up very much by the small amount of clothes there! The sweater organizer hanging here houses some sweaters and the rest are our swimsuits.

(jewelry, my socks are now in the hatbox, clever huh?)

Danny's clothes are in the dresser and about 6" of a closet rod is all I can share with him!

Not really, he has his suits stored in the office closet to keep them dust free. I did not want a door on this closet because most closet doors are either left open anyway or the closet is so messy that you don't want anyone to see in there and keep stuffing it full of more stuff.

I felt that this way I would keep it cleaner if anyone could see in there. Hahaha that didn't really work! Well the bedroom actually is messier than my closet!

After cleaning this I have some new found space for more shoes!!

Of course I have purged about 87 pair today!

I have a truck load of stuff for the Goodwill.

I can even add to my Dansko collection now!

Do you think he would notice a few more boxes?

Nah!

I still have a lot more to do such as cleaning out my dresser in the bedroom and purging more from there. I will move the bedroom around a little to fit the quilting frames in there. I guess I will go ahead and make a silk curtain for my closet door to keep some of the dust from the quilting....(from the batting)...from settling on my clothes.

After all every Princess should have a silk drape as her closet door! Right?

Whew.... I am tired now!!

I had a vision..........

I wish I could say that I feel better but I can't lie about that. I feel horrible today. We both have had our worse day yet. While my SIL Eric is out winning bike races, and I am sure he rode for about 8 gazillion miles too. Also my dear friend and neighbor Amanda of Lovin Country Livin ran her first 5K today!!! My hats off to both of you!!!! I have to say that I won the "Who can take the most cold medicine in 24 hours" and the "Who can take the most cat naps in 24 hours" contests!! Yep that's me number 1!!!!! There were some other things I was very very good at today but this is a semi not gross blog and so I'll leave those snotty things behind closed doors and off the world wide web. OK?

I did however get into enough state of confusion due to the hypoxia I am sure, to start yet another project! Hey don't start talking bad about me yet. I really got a lot of it done today!! You see I was hyped up on cold meds and I had a vision, an epiphany of sorts! As you know I have been wanting a king sized quilt for my bed.............well his bed, cause I have been in the guest bedroom for almost 2 weeks now cause I can't sleep with him snoring or coughing and he can't sleep with my coughing either...........so anyway for "That king size bed we own". I decided today that I would make a Crazy Quilt As You Go Quilt. I googled it and found out that I didn't come up with this idea first!!!! Imagine that.....someone else was high on her cough meds a few years back and came up with this idea and wrote a book about it and has a blog and has tutorials on youtube.......unless I dreamed all that up in my cat naps today that were medically induced!!

I checked out her style and decided it was close enough to what I was thinking about and got started. I knew it was a far fetched idea for me to get a king size quilt quilted in my frames and I sure wasn't going to attempt it by machine with out frames so a quilt as you go method was the only way to turn. I have quite a stash of fabric that I thought too lovely to cut for a long time now. If I love it enough to buy it without a project in mind to get started immediately on I tend to do that and never want to cut it. I bit the bullet and whacked right into some great fabrics today. I hope I remember what I was doing when I am out of my stupor!! I have used some Alexander Henry, Amy Butler, Moda and Heide Grace fabrics to name a few! They are all so summery too. It does my heart good to see these fabrics coming together.

I think I will need 81 blocks maybe more to cover my bed really good and hang down just right over my long white cotton dust ruffle. I made that ruffle last year and it has something like 36 yards of ruffle around only 3 sides of the bed! It sure does cost to have such a roomy bed .....for one little man to be sleeping in all by himself. I have 64 blocks done..tops only. I will have to cut a backing and batting and quilt them together before putting them together with the sashing that holds all the layers together. I also have a slew of shabby pink fabrics that are mostly rose patterns and I am contemplating backing the blocks with a variety of the rose fabric so the quilt will then be reversible. No harder to make 2 quilts than it is one!!!!! I can then have 2 very different looks out of one quilt! What ya think? Let me know soon cause I plan to still be on a roll tomorrow and get this baby finished in no time. I can't wait to see it on my big cherry 4 poster bed. I have had this bed for over 10 years now and planned to make a quilt for it as long. So I am pumped about this epiphany!!!!!!!! Good cold medicine huh?

Shabby Bedroom Makeover!

The big reveal!!

Not!

It's only the first stage in the makeover completed at this time and I was really bored today because of severe thunder storms so I thought I would give a sneak peak!!

I am not in love with the quilt but it will do until I can find one that I do love. The double wedding ring quilt came from a yardsale and the sham from a thrift store. Of course that is the bed ruffle that I made last week.

The white mirror was a thrift store find that I painted of course. I have a really big trifold mirror that I purchased at a yardsale to go on top of the dresser but it is too tall. I plan to paint the red vanity/dresser white and put the mirror on it. I will get it in this room somehow!!

We added this room on and moved in a year ago. I love having a door out of the bedroom onto the deck but....THERE IS NO DECK!!!! (maybe soon :))

Close up of some of my little what-nots.

I do love my bedroom. Thank you honey!! I really loooooove my big walkin closet too!!! No pics of the closet cause it is sorta trashed while doing all this makeover stuff. I'll clean it up and show it off soon. I have two dressers in there that need to be painted white too!! The closet is big enough for my Dansko collection. While nursing I collected 15 pair!! I dearly love Dansko's!! For some reason my honey doesn't understand that. Go figure!!!

Thank's for stopping by!!

Becky