Target is calling!

Where did I go yesterday?  Say it with me..... TARGET.  How did you know?  Well, it was either there or TJMaxx or HomeGoods.    And well, I kinda went to TJMaxx too, but it is only for you guys that I jump into my car, drive all the way to the store, and walk down all those isles of pillows and rugs and accessories.  OH THE AGONY! 

Naaaahh.  It's really for me!  Sometimes I just love to go to a place where you don't have to hear, "MOM, did you sign my homework?"  "Mom, why is my smoothie so watery?"  "Mom, why did the dog just leave poop streaks on the side of the couch."

See what I mean, so Target just quietly calls to me, "Helen, come, relax and stroll around with some coffee."   OK Target if you insist.

So yesterday, I went with my dear friend, our coffee's in hand and found some new things that I really liked.

Disclaimer:  These shots were taken with my phone and the phone may or may not have had a coffee finger smudge across the lens.  

Curtains/Shower Curtains

 If I've said it once, I've at least said it twice.  Right?  Nate Berkus gets me, he just gets me!  Softness, color, and texture.  That's all I ask for Nate and you deliver.

This here is navy and white striped shower curtain that said, "take me home, I will look great in the kids bathroom."  Apparently a lot of decor and stores for that matter just seem to talk to me.  And yes I do answer back, cause that would be rude if I didn't.

So, I brought him home.  The first room in transition is the kids bathroom.  The walls are beige  the counters are cream, and the current shower curtain is white.  Blahh!  I am thinking this shower curtain, some board and batten, hooks for towels.  I think a design board is in order. 

These are not large, they are little clipboards that I think would go great at the bottom of your organizational command center.  You don't have an organizational command center?  What is wrong with you ;-)  I don't have one either, YET.  You could give each person their own. Use them for permission slips, things to be signed, lunch money, receipts, whatever.

I'm thinkin, kids art space to hang all of their masterpieces. Or maybe on the bottom of a cork board so kids can hang photos of them and friends.

 This is the mirror I want.  I can use two of them side by side in my master bath or the kids bath instead of the big huge rectangle plain mirror if the size is right.  They may be a smidge small.  Say that 5 times fast, Smidge small, smidge small... You know you're doing it!
 

My friend near took out a lady passing by just to get to this beauty.  Target is catchin on to all the DIY windows people have been creating.  I saw a repurposed one the other day full of mirrors.  It was so pretty.

This one would be great with a black and white pic in each window frame or one large black and white pic behind all four frames. 

Citron, Celadon, Celery stick, I don't know what you would call that color, but I like it.  It gives me the feeling of spring.

It's like someone walked around my house, picked out all of the colors and threw it on a shade.  Ok I love it!  It's springy, it's beachy, it's me.

I like all three of these pieces.  The one in the middle is a brighter yellow in person.  I think any of these would spruce up a place and look great on a shelf.  Don't you?

Particularly this one!  I would love this in my kitchen or on my reclaimed wood shelving in my morning room.  What shelving you say?  Exactly!  I still haven't gotten around to it, but I will very soon, hopefully ;-)

Let's head over to TJMaxx!  

 Horrible picture clarity I know, but look past that and see what this subway art said to me.  "Eat dessert first" and "Say yes to chocolate."  Is it sad that these are the first sayings that caught my eye and not "Take the High Road" or "Win with Grace."  If you have seen me play basketball and win against my neighbor, who always puts up a fight, well you would know why "Win with Grace" is not on the top for me.  I rub it in with that girl every chance I get.  And now thanks to my husband, who so kindly pointed out that her and I only call each other "girl", instead of our given names, we hear it every time we talk to each other.  Do you do that with your friends?  "Girl, check this out."  "Girl, what are you eating?"  "Girl, let me tell you."  If you don't you are missin out! Girl.

And here is the final item I found.  $8 bucks for each of these is a great deal.  Don't they look like the ones from Pottery Barn.  Maybe for the kids bathroom with extra towels in them for guests or for my son who takes showers without looking to see if there is a towel and then yells for you to bring one.  Now that I am typing this, I think I will have to swing back by and pick them up.

Thanks for going to Target and TJMaxx with me!  I had a great time!!!

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I've Been Shopping...

Did you guys have a nice weekend?  Ours was GREAT!  

 Friday, I had some down time relaxing with the kids and I met with my client, did the measuring, and went over the plans for her Master Bedroom.  Saturday,  consisted of a really fun trip to HomeGoods!  I know, I know, I always go to HomeGoods, but, it's AWESOME!!! :)  

I stole my mum for the day!  We got LOST, we had a rock CRACK the window of her truck, but have no fear, we stayed strong and kept our eyes on the decor ;-)

At HomeGoods, I found the curtains I wanted.   I needed 8 panels so we tossed these bad boys in the cart...

 

I would have liked them to have a silver grommet, but beggars can't be choosers.  In all the stores we went to, these where the only purple curtains I found and this deal was to good to pass up.  I may paint them with a little matte silver.  Decisions... Decisions...

Hello Beautiful!  What can I say about these pillows, well, I think they make the room!!  You know what I'm sayin' right?

We also found this hour glass for her desk area...

And this Corbel...

A little white spray paint and this guy will be good as new!

Here is the Design Board...

The mirror is to the left and the ceramic dish and vase, although small in this picture, are to the right on the dresser. 

 

Here is the ceramic dish I found...

 

And the lovely mirror...

And the purple and white swirled vases...

I was thrilled!!!  I use that word a lot, but I really was :)

After I dropped off my mum, I headed home with my goodies in tow, but my day did not end there. 

Wait, where are my kids you ask?  Well...

Since it is now summer time, we get to spend more time with the grandparents than when the kids are in school and always on the go.  Sooooo, since my mother in law took my kiddos for the night, I went all WILD and CRAZY and hit up our local TJMaxx with my friend! I came across this cute little pencil or pen holder for my client's desk. Why I get so excited when things spin, I will never know, but YAY, it spins!!!

And then I found a great comforter set...

 So, this morning before I picked up the kiddos, I headed to the TJMaxx by my mother in law's house and I found some night stands that I thought would go great in the room!

Has this ever happened to you, You are in a store and you eye something, let's just say a night stand for example.  Then you say to your husband, these would work great in the room if I could just find another one.  As you spot the matching table, you see a woman is eyeing the other table, but she has not claimed it yet, so you swoop in and grab it and say proudly to your husband, "Oh hear is the other one that matches it."  Like these tables where twins and you can't get one without the other.  NO, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO YOU?  Me either ;-) 

Then I just made him pretty much guard them, you know, like a "TJMaxx bouncer" while I went browsing for anything else and as I came to the end of every isle, I would look over at him, make sure the tables where there, and nod and he would nod back.  Why talk, when a nod says it all? 

Here are the night stands ...

Although they are a different shape than the ones in the design board, they will do the trick!

In my post tomorrow, I will be sharing the grays that I am debating on for the wall color in their Master Bedroom.  Do you have a go to gray that you love? 

Oh, and a bit of really GREAT news, today I took on another client who would like three rooms done in her house!  Sooo excited! 

Daughter's Parisian Room

     Today I wanted to share with you my daughter's bedroom makeover...

     Since my daughter is 8 years old, I wanted to give her something fun and funky, but I also wanted her room to transition with her as she grows up.  She loves fashion and design, (a girl after my own heart) so I knew I had to incorporate that somehow into the design.  When I showed her some ideas for a new bedroom theme, she really gravitated towards the colors and design of the Parisian style room I created!
      I don't have any before pics, but it was just an ugly blank cream slate until we got ahold of it.  My husband did the horizontal stripes for me, cause he is Awesome like that!  So, here is the finished product...

 Here is the shot of the room from the doorway.  It was a little hard to get the entire room in one shot since her room angles at the door.  The turquoise color is Belize by Sherwin Williams. 

Every girl needs a few model shots.  I got these pictures at Home Goods.  I just really like the sketched look of this artwork!

I wanted to give her a place in her room to do homework or draw, so I put together this desk area.  The desk and pink desk lamp are from Target.  The photobooks on her desk are from TJMaxx.  She loves having them there to look at all of the pictures she collects. 

This chair came with a really old desk at a yard sale and was in very poor shape!  It was a darker brown wood with some sort of 80's dingy fabric.  So I painted it white, padded the chair out and covered it with a piece of polka dot material that I purchased from fabric.com.  I added the piece of material on the top of the chair by hotgluing a piece of fabric around the chair.  Then I trimmed it out with some green ribbon using non other than my trusty hot glue gun. 

The shelves are from Ikea.  They were originally the light brown wood color that Ikea sells, but we needed to match the room, so we sanded them down a bit and sprayed them black.  The accessories on the shelves all came from TJMaxx.  The Dream sign was originally a weird blue color, so I sprayed it a deeper shade of green.

The lamp and jewelry holder are from TJMaxx.  I bought two of these lamps.  It's buddy is in my son's room. To add a bit of color to my daughter's lamp, I took the base, which was originally black, and painted it the same deep green color that I painted the Dream sign with.  

 I purchased the pedestal table at Target (the table is seen better in the whole room photo).  It was on clearance from $79 to $19 (since it was pretty banged up), so I used a black permanent marker on a few spots and the for the rest of the touch ups, I used a sponge brush and painted it black.   Good as new!

Here are some other accent areas...

I just took a mannequin stand, sprayed it black, and added a pink piece of material for the sash around the waist.

This is possibly my favorite part of the room!  I ordered this wall decal online from Etsy.com from a shop called Vinyl Lettering.  They were amazing with assisting me in getting the right size and look for the room!  I wanted something that screamed "PARIS" when you looked in the room, so I think this did the trick, he he, get it!

 These are hat boxes and a plant pot I got from Ross Dept. Store.  The great thing about this is that it adds extra storage and looks pretty all at the same time!  To add some detail, I hot glued some black and white polka dot ribbon around the tops of the hat boxes and then a smaller polka dot ribbon on the pot.  I added some moss I got from Michael's to the pot. I found some twigs in my woods out back, sprayed them white, and added them to the plant pot.

An accent lamp that my M.I.L. gave me.  It went Perfect with the room.

This is a picture of the inside of her cabinet.  You can see the outside of the cabinet in a later shot.  The cabinet is from Target as well as the pink bins.  All other accessories are from TJMaxx.  I wanted my daughter's room to stay organized, so on the top shelf, I put all of her earings and jewelry in one spot.  For her bedtime reading, she can just grab a book from her middle shelf and put it back without the books falling all over the place.  I wanted her to be able to reach her socks and undies, so I put her bins on the bottom shelf to keep things clean, yet still allow her to access them.

 

To organize the tubs, I just cut a piece of cardboard box into squares and painted them with chalkboard paint.  Then I wrote on them with a white chalkboard pen, poked a hole in the top, and attached them to the storage tubs with a piece of green ribbon.  Ta DA! 

To me, this kinda says "Having Fun in Paris."  The girl shopping and the Eiffel tower were from TJMaxx. Can you tell that I LOVE that place!  The stack of suitcases came from Land of Nod.  Even the stack of suitcases are for storage.  She keeps trinkets and other bits and bobs in them that she doesn't need to get to on a regular basis.

Here is a picture of the dresser unit that I purchased at Target.  It is a matching set with the desk.

Into the Closet We Go...

To keep her winter things out of the way and seperate from her summer stuff, I purchased two bins from Walmart, painted a square of chalkboard paint and then labeled them "Winter Clothes."

I wanted my daughter to be able to find clothing items easily and put them away where they go.  I know, that's asking a lot, lol.  So, I purchased this tub drawer set (that's the tecnical term for it) at Walmart.  Like the Winter storage tubs, I painted some more chalkboard squares and labeled them accordingly.

This was a more recent addition to the closet.  I added it after the first pic was taken.  I was so frustrated trying to find hair clip and headbands, so I made this hair organizer for her door. 

 I don't have any "how to" pics since I didn't know I was starting a blog when I did this project ;). 

But here's a few directions: 

To make it, I covered a canvas in black material.  I took my heavy duty staple gun and attached a piece of black material to the canvas, stapling on the back side.  Then , I adhered the  ribbons; 3 blue and 2 pink. I stapled the ribbon over the back also.  To add the headband holders, I measured three pieces of ribbon, put each into a loop shape and stapled each of them on the side of the canvas.  Once you hang the organizer up, you can't see the staples for the headband area. 

Here is a shot of her bed in all its glory!  The bedding is from Target.  The bed skirt is just a piece of leftover material I had leftover(same material I used on the chair).  The headboard is tufted, although it is hard to see in the pic.  The headboard is from JCPenney's. They have it in turquoise and I think white too. 

 All the pillows are from Target except the zebra print one, which is from Walmart.

  I hope you enjoyed your mini trip to Paris!

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