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Posted by Sarah on March 1st, 2010 I am excited to finally show off my room looking the way I’ve wanted it to all school year! You already saw the photo grouping last week and may have seen the room tour I wrote about when I first moved in last September. Trust me, it’s come a long way, but without spending a lot of money and by being creative and settling with what I can afford.
What really makes the room, in my opinion, are the little details that I made myself (which you will see further down). The ultimate project I couldn’t wait to finish was a pair of frames turned into chalkboards. I initially thought I was going to use this huge round mirror I posted about a while ago to paint and turn into a chalkboard while painting the wood it’s on a fun color. I quickly realized that it was too large to fit anywhere, the mirror was glued on and a pain to remove, and I then decided I wanted a magnetic chalkboard while refusing to use magnetic paint, which meant I had to buy metal to paint with chalkboard paint.
Luckily, I only paid a small amount for that mirror and was given
Continue reading From Rust to Chalk & Major Room Reveal
Posted by Sarah on February 22nd, 2010 Before I left to go back to school for spring semester, I thought up a new arrangement for the room I was coming back to in my apartment. I didn’t like the old arrangement with the bed against the window (it was cold during the winter) and wanted it against a wall so I could easily sit and watch TV from it. The walls were pretty bare as well, so I wanted to make it feel more like “me” with a picture grouping on the wall. Because it is hard for me to go shopping while I am at school due to the lack of a car, I bought the frames I was going to use while I was at home at Walmart and a dollar store and schemed up a picture grouping by laying everything on my bed. I ended up changing a lot once I got to school and came up with this:
 I liked the symmetry of this arrangement and the inclusion of the paper flower art I made a while back but didn’t have a good spot for at the time. The
Continue reading A Renter’s Guide to Photo Groupings
Posted by Sarah on December 28th, 2009 I had a very wonderful Christmas with my family, and I hope the rest of you did, too. It saddens me how fast Christmas comes and goes, but hopefully the happiness will last at least until New Year’s, if not longer.
I want to share what my incredible parents gave me for Christmas. I asked for a new sewing machine since the one I bought for two dollars, was missing a lot of parts. I wanted something I could grow with. Boy, was I surprised when I opened this:
 It’s another Brother sewing machine that also does embroidery! It came with a gorgeous case and a thing to wheel it around with. It is incredible! It is also computerized so I don’t have to fuss with a lot of mechanical buttons, and I can also download embroidery patterns online and put them on the sewing machine. I will definitely be able to use this machine for a long time. Thanks Mom and Dad! I also got an iron (can you believe I didn’t have one?) and an accessory for the sewing machine that allows me to transfer
Continue reading New Sewing Machine: Project Round-Up
Posted by Sarah on November 24th, 2009 After deciding to completely revamp my bulletin board, I quickly got started planning what I would do with it. I drew up a sketch, headed to a craft store, and got to work!
I started with some dark brown burlap, a spool of thick white ribbon, a spool of thin white ribbon, and some white thumb tacks to match the ribbon. That was basically all I needed to create a one-of-a-kind corkboard.
 I started by drying the burlap to get any wrinkles out of it. Then I covered the entire board with the burlap and tacked it to the back. You could use staples, too, but I already had plenty of tacks. Then I took the thin ribbon and tacked one end to the back and stretched it diagonally across the board and pinned it to the back on the the opposite side.
I then switched directions and weaved the ribbon under and over the previously laid ribbon. Note, this picture has an error, the ribbons going horizontally should be weaved in
Continue reading A Custom Way To Display Your Photos and Jewelry
Posted by Sarah on November 16th, 2009 I looked through my shoe wardrobe a few weeks ago only to find many very basic shoes, mostly black. While they are practical, sometimes I want something more to make an outfit more personal. Girls just wanna have fun, right? Well, shoes are fun to wear, but not if they are completely boring. I found a pair of black flats that I had bought at Payless a couple years ago. I had never worn them because they were shiny, which I tend to not like because sometimes it makes shoes look cheap (which they were). I think I bought them for under ten dollars, but I decided that my money isn’t to be thrown away. I was determined to make something of the black, boring shoes that had been sitting in my closet for way too long.
I came across this post at Make It and Love It and was hooked. I don’t have a lot of money to use to buy new fabric constantly, so I looked to my custom bulletin board for inspiration. Well, not even inspiration because I stole the fabric from the bulletin board to use on the shoes. I still love the green polka-dotted fabric, which
Continue reading DIY Custom Flats The Way You Like It
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