How To Make An Ugly Christmas Sweater Dress

This weekend, I went to Nashville in addition to dressed upwards similar a giant Christmas explosion amongst my husband, brother, cousin, in addition to 25 of her closest friends.

My cousin (Whitney, below left) graduated police schoolhouse this by week. Whitney is the closest matter I bring to a sister, in addition to I've never been in addition to hence proud of someone. So of course of report nosotros had to celebrate, and what amend means to celebrate than with an ugly Christmas sweater party?

My cousin wore a sweater she has had since she was 6.

And since I didn't bring whatever sweaters from yr 6, I decided to brand an ugly Christmas dress.

So, I got out the hotglue in addition to turned my favorite LBD into a totally tacky disaster.

The bows came from a thrift store, the ribbon in addition to tinsel came from the Dollar Tree, in addition to my trivial dark wearing clothing was merely a $15 stretchy matter from Target.

So, don't live sad.

I too decided to attach giant bells to it, which was a full lapse inward judgement, every bit most halfway through the party, I was searching for pair of scissors to cutting the bells OFF.

I ended upwards using a steak knife.

Which I would similar to intend made the political party all the to a greater extent than memorable.

 I too got roughly earrings from 2 ornaments that I flora at the dollar store. Another terrible lapse inward judgement, every bit they were six inches long in addition to real heavy, but still...a full conversation slice for the 10 minutes I sported them. 

All inward all, a full blast, in addition to my wearing clothing survived the night. 

Hot mucilage is magical.

And of course, the existent star of the dark  was Jesse's teddy behavior vest. 

Women's size large. 

I couldn't honey him to a greater extent than if I tried.

That's all for today, ya'll!

Thanks for beingness here.

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Keepin' It Real: Never Before Seen Parts of My House!

If you've come upward hither today looking for the white pigment as well as pretty things you lot unremarkably see, you lot powerfulness live inwards for a fleck of a shock. Just to concur you lot over, here's a quick dose to larn you lot through.

Because at that spot volition live no to a greater extent than of that today. Today volition live the twenty-four hr menstruation of sharing the less-than-perfect side of our house....what's behind those doors nosotros nigh when people come upward over. Wink.

Why? Well, because it's kinda fun, as well as ya'll seem to beloved it when I overstep away along it real. 

So this is my keepin' it existent post.

My solid is far from perfect. It's thirty years erstwhile as well as volition probable live a locomote inwards progress for the adjacent thirty years. But I'm okay alongside that. 

Also, I'm far from perfect. I've been known to exit materials inwards the washing machine also long as well as plow into Miss Mildew. Or throw a one-half eaten loving cup of chili inwards the dishwasher as well as taste bean-remnant-dishware for a week. 

And I'm okay alongside that, too.

We all receive got our talents as well as limitations. 

You larn the point.

So, here's some pics taken inwards the past times 2 years that I consider pretty decent evidence....with a few random pics thrown inwards the mix.

First up, our garage. I've never fifty-fifty parked inwards it. Mostly because the garage doors solely opened upward past times agency of Ahhhnold, but also because it's where spiders come upward to PARTY. Brace yourselves for the most pin-worthy moving-picture exhibit inwards all of blogland.

My hubby is a fleck of a broken-down-boat-hoarder. None of them work, but he seems to taste short alongside them. And that's okay past times me....since he let's me fill upward our solid alongside sequins as well as ruffles as well as white paint.

 This was a fairly normal persuasion of my driveway during the summer. I think he was trying to salvage all three, but solely 1.5 survived. His boat adventures weren't also fruitful this summer, but I beloved a human being willing to larn his hands dirty. 

He loves boats. I beloved paint. And nosotros both allow each other exercise what nosotros desire alongside them.

Like how he doesn't seem to hear when I spray pigment the yard when I'm too busy to abide by a tarp. I mean, it's much easier to precisely choice the bugs out of the paint, right? I'm pretty certain my neighbors actually appreciate my yard beautification attempts.

A daughter tin solely exercise hence much at once!!! 

 I spray pigment SO much materials that I tend to larn a wild pilus as well as precisely exercise THAT. I ever say myself 'Eh...the pelting volition launder it away.'. And hence a calendar month later, there's withal a pigment political party inwards my yard. 

I'm a locomote inwards progress. 

Next up, Meet Rhonda. 

It's okay to live scared. I used to ain an online vesture shop before I blogged as well as this was my 'model' for all the pictures. Afterwards, I couldn't bare to larn rid of her. She's precisely also sassy. And she's ever ending upward inwards random locations or freaking mortal out. I receive got NO thought why she was inwards the hallway inwards this picture. That pic is most 2 years erstwhile (back from when nosotros painted the hallway), as well as I precisely can't shout back what she was upward to at the time. Vogue-ing, probably.

This adjacent moving-picture exhibit is a quick reminder of how much I beloved my kitties....you'll come across why a reminder is needed. I receive got 2 kitties: Tootie as well as Cheese. They are sisters from some other mister. 

Anyways, I beloved them hence much that Cheese is my screensaver on my phone. She's a beauty isn't, she?

Well, it's a expert affair she's seduced us alongside her beauty as well as purrs, because she is also a house-destroyer. 

Welcome to the basement bedroom. One twenty-four hr menstruation I would beloved to brand this into a invitee suite (it has an attached bathroom) or into a arts and crafts room or gym. But for now, it's the cat-poo-room, consummate alongside ripped-up carpets, neverending carpeting glue, as well as a fun smell. :)

It's on my to-do list.  

Last but non least, I'll demonstrate my organizational prowess. You know how every blogger posts most their fabulous stenciled pantry, consummate alongside 995 fancy drinking glass jars each labeled to perfection? 

Well, here's my designer pantry....complete alongside pigment cans, drills, exacto knives, as well as plenty saltines to soak upward a modest pond.

Now you lot know why I've never posted most my 'Pantry Reveal!!!'. One twenty-four hr menstruation I shall conquer this nightmare! One day! My refrigerator used to live every bit ridiculous, but this past times weekend I completely gutted it.

Here's a somewhat redeeming moving-picture exhibit of my organized fridge. This gives me promise for the pantry.

There's ever hope. Always.

Ya' precisely gotta get-go somewhere.  

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Learning To Sew: The Painted Pillow Project

My mom tried to learn me to run upwards before this week. We started out past times making or then pillows for the guest bedroom.

The pillow inward the front end I painted!

I made a unproblematic envelope pillow using three pieces of fabric.

I stenciled the front end alongside or then leftover blueish pigment that I converted to fabric paint together with the same stencil I used on the sleeping accommodation vanity table. 

I every bit good made a pillow for the chair. 

I got that blueish textile from a shower curtain.

I'm no sewing primary yet, exactly I'm trying to learn! Little past times little...

I'm non certain for certain I volition live a skilled seamstress anytime soon, exactly I gave it a go.

But eventually, I kinda got the hang of it. Kinda.

and at ane time I'm SUCH an accomplished seamstress that I tin sack brand a pillow.

Oh the joy!

Update: Here are my pillows made alongside glue....aka when I lastly came to damage alongside my lack of sewing skill. 

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How to Decorate a Living Room: two Years of Design Flops

Hey ya'll. As mentioned yesterday, today's the twenty-four hours that I embarrass myself. 

We're going to receive got a walk downwards retention lane together with witness my living room completely challenge my abilities to tastefully decorate a room. 10 dissimilar times.

It's genuinely 12, but we're rounding downwards to 10. Hold me tight, ya'll. This is gonna acquire awkward and embarrassing. REAL fast.

Before nosotros acquire started, a quick explanation of why I combat amongst this room.

1. Decorating is a process, together with i I wasn't rattling practiced at for quite a while.

2. This room is shaped similar a cheese wedge.

 3. We pass 90% of our fourth dimension inward this room, together with at the terminate of the day, it has to live comfortable. Therefore, I'm teetering on the ledge of but calling it a twenty-four hours together with installing wall to wall recliners.
Also known equally Jesse's life long dream.

 4. I've spent 90% of my fourth dimension inward the yesteryear 2 years trying to brand do amongst materials that but didn't work. Sometimes you lot tin position an entire underground of lipstick on a slice of thrift shop furniture, together with it nevertheless but looks similar thrift shop furniture. As fourth dimension has gone on, I've genuinely learned how to brand one-time slice of furniture hold off awesome (10 of my success stories constitute here), but it didn't genuinely start out that way, together with I definitely made a few miserable purchasing decisions early on. It happens.

So, let's start our story amongst where the living room is today, a house I'm pretty happy with.
It nevertheless could live improved almost 800 times over, but it's getting there.

So, that's the living room today. 
Now, let's rewind 2 years together with start amongst what this room looked similar when nosotros maiden off moved in.

This is twenty-four hours one, totally empty amongst scary woods cut down together with bland paint.

 I've committed hence many heinous decorating crimes over the yesteryear 2 years, that business office of me wishes I had but left this room empty together with rolled some on the flooring instead.

Here's when nosotros lastly moved our handmedown slice of furniture into the room. The couches nether those saggy brownish slipcovers are pink.
They are hot pink, together with they nevertheless totally alive inward our basement. 
And you lot intend I kid.

Eventually, nosotros lastly got some novel furniture. At almost $399 a pop, the couches were both relatively cheap (although it felt expensive to our piddling budget) together with a squeamish upgrade from hot pink.
This photograph also marks the fourth dimension when I maiden off discovered my beloved of epitome furniture. That dresser the giant TV sits on was the maiden off slice I e'er painted.
Obviously, I was dealing amongst some proportion issues.

It genuinely wasn't that bad inward the beginning. I but didn't receive got a lot to move with, equally afterwards nosotros bought our couches, my budget totally dried up. So, I speedily turned to buying mismatched slice of furniture together with trying to repurpose it into something that worked. What's funny is, I eventually sort figured out the correct means to do this (like inward the principal bedroom), but I definitely worked out the kinks of redoing slice of furniture inward this living room. 

This poor, miserable living room.

The side yesteryear side few versions of this room clearly grade a descent into decorating madness.

Since I was left without a java table, I decided to thrift one, together with because I desperately wanted an upholstered ottoman, I upholstered the java table. That didn't move out hence well. It was a practiced catch inward theory, but inward practice, non hence much.

 Don't worry, it totally gets worse earlier it gets better.

I went through several dissimilar 'reupholstering the java table' phases, all the piece trying out tons of dissimilar wall decorations. 

When Christmas came, the 'ottoman' got reupholstered again, together with hence I decided to adorn the wall amongst 800 tiny mirrors.

But, acquire create for it to REALLY acquire worse.

I know. It's hence bad. It's hence funny to me now, together with hence embarrasing.
But kinda inward a hilarious way. I receive got no catch what I was thinking.

And I must receive got realized it was a total flop, because I similar a shot abandoned that hold off together with turned the room into a night dungeon of dingy greens together with browns. 

Enter the accent wall.

There's hence much going on amongst this room, that I don't fifty-fifty know where to start.

I consider May 2011 kinda my decorating stone bottom. It stayed similar this for a piddling while, together with I moved on to other rooms. That ended upwards existence a swell thing, equally I got a adventure to spread my wings inward another rooms together with genuinely acquire ameliorate at decorating. So, I came dorsum to endeavour this room i time to a greater extent than correct earlier I started blogging inward December. It wasn't great, but it was getting better.

By the way, that's that same java table. 
It got un-upholstered together with stained.
That miserable piddling fella has had a difficult life.

Finally, (below) I got an actual upholstered ottoman and realized that the accent wall was but also dark. I painted it a brace shades lighter ,and replaced the TV console amongst a to a greater extent than appropriately sized unit. That genuinely helped. 
But, let's live honest. There's nevertheless a lot incorrect amongst this room.
You run into it. I run into it. Let's but hug together with non scream it.

And of course, I painted the accent wall similar iii dissimilar times. 
Poor Jesse.
And I nevertheless loathe it. One of these days, when I tin convince Jesse to climb the ladder again, I'm but going to pigment this entire infinite i color. I clearly bespeak to intend almost my pigment color for a looooong time. 
Seriously, miserable Jesse. He's such a exceptional man. This room could live fuschia for all he cares.

And finally... 

That brings us to today's room. It's nevertheless non perfect, but it feels hence much better. I nevertheless desire to pigment the walls all i color, rip upwards the carpeting together with install hardwood floors, together with i twenty-four hours I'd genuinely similar to acquire some dissimilar couches, equally they're but also large together with acquire inward impossible for me to modify the layout of the room.

Any layout ideas, guys? I'm totally over this whole 'pushed against the wall situation' together with would similar something different. But I receive got to figure out a means Jesse together with I tin both receive got a total couch. We similar leg room. Talk to me.

So, that's it. One awkward living room, a i thou 1000 dissimilar ways.
Thanks for letting me portion my flops amongst you.
I beloved ya for it.
'Til side yesteryear side time.
To run into what's happened inward this room since this post, click here together with here. It's a lot.
We've pretty much gutted this entire space. 

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