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Flat Doors (Hallway) Makeover

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I don’t know why but for some reason, most of my DIY projects around the house were done during the time that I was pregnant with my girls, which makes bending, and climbing ladders or chairs, and painting, a little bit challenging. Nonetheless, my growing tummy never slowed me down. It’s actually the opposite! I guess you can say I was nesting!

One of the projects I did while I was pregnant with our second was brightening up our dark hallway by painting all 5 doors. The doors were all plain flat hollow doors too, which I wasn’t crazy about. But to replace all the doors would cost us an arm and a leg, so I thought I can probably just spruce it up for a couple of bucks!

Here’s the BEFORE and AFTER of this hallway makeover.

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Continue reading to find out how I tackled this project. Just a word of encouragement: If a pregnant momma like me can do it, you CAN too! Continue reading →

Dining Chairs Makeover

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I have been adoring our dining set for almost a year now. I do not regret painting the chairs at all even though it almost cost me my sanity when I was pregnant with our second. I blame it all to my surging pregnancy hormones! You can read my emotional breakdown over chairs here.

But just look at the difference a little paint (and a lot of elbow grease) can do to an outdated furniture! It made our dining room looks bigger, airy, and bright!

BEFORE

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AFTER

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Initially, I plan to paint the legs of the dining table as well, but I ran out of time when I first tackled this project. If you read my previous post about it you will know why. Continue reading →

My emotional journey painting chairs!

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Sometimes all we needed is just a good cry. Which is exactly what I did, and I feel so much better already. With it comes a big sigh of relief! A heavy burden lifted off my chest.

I know it seems to be silly to have an emotional breakdown over chairs. Who does that, right? Apparently I do.

When my husband left for his 9-day trip to the East Coast to windsurf with a friend, I decided to spruce up our dining set by repainting it. It’s something I have been thinking for a while, but I just never got around it. It was only after we recently bought our 2 white Ikea shelves that I was more convinced that its dark paint colour has to go. The dining set has 6 padded chairs (as you can see on the photo below) and a rectangular table with a nice detail on top. I spotted it at The Brick for less than C$500. A fantastic deal! This dining set was one of our first purchases after we got married 4 years ago, and surprisingly even though it’s not made of solid wood, it only has few minor dings and scratches.

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Our Baby’s 1st Birthday Party! (DIY Paper Medallion)

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Mira’s 1st birthday
Mira’s 1st Birthday

So after making the tissue pom poms, I started scouring the internet for some ideas. What I ended up making are paper medallions in different colors and sizes. I have all the materials I needed to make this colorful and easy DIY craft so that is a plus!

Materials you will need:  Continue reading →

Our Baby’s 1st Birthday Party! (DIY Tissue Pom Pom)

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Our sweet little Mira just turned one last month. I didn’t want to spend too much on decorations, so I made them myself, with the exception of some few things that I bought at the dollar store. We did buy a helium tank for $35 at Walmart. Our tank says it can blow up to 30-35 balloons. But we used ours to blow up about 40 and there’s still some left in the tank. I mean we can probably just get away with just blowing the balloons manually, which we did for some of them. But I just can’t resist the look of the balloons floating in the air with their ribbon tails dangling down. I don’t know about you, but for me there’s just something magical about it. So I’m quite happy with our $35 helium tank purchase.

I didn’t really have a specific theme in mind. I started making the tissue pom poms and then it just kind of went from there. I had bought a bunch of tissue papers for a previous project so I didn’t even have to buy them. I’ve looked at several instructions online on how to make these lovely pom poms, but here’s how I ended up making mine.  Continue reading →

Fall Theme Baby Announcement

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It was in the middle of October when we decided to publicly announce our pregnancy. Of course, our close friends and family members already knew about it a few months earlier. But the rest of the world had no clue this was happening. And what better way to publicly announce it, but through Facebook! (I was still very much active on Facebook at that time. I have been however taking a sabbatical for almost 5 months now. Perhaps I will come back to FB someday. I just don’t know when).  

And since pumpkins are in season in October, instead of carving a scary Halloween Jack-o-lantern, I thought it would be cool to carve something that will announce our pregnancy. I don’t know about you, but the more I think of something, the more determined I get to making it happen. And so I did! Continue reading →

DIY Angel’s Wings

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DIY Angel’s Wings made from toilet paper

We did a Christmas musical play in our church 2 years ago and I worked on some of the props. No point on buying something if you can make it, right? That’s my philosophy anyway.

Today, let me share with you how I made these angel’s wings. (I wish I have some pictures of the 2 lovely angels wearing these gorgeous wings, but I was in the play myself so I wasn’t able to carry my camera around). Continue reading →