Living Room Projects

 So the living room has been my project room lately. A few weeks ago we put gates up around the fireplace as Hazel is getting closer and closer to crawling! 

I found these gates on Amazon and so far I am super happy with them!

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Over the last few months multiple people in our church have moved to different houses. When I have gone to visit I noticed how nice they had decorated their houses! I thought to myself that I didn't have very many nice decorations...so Nicole and I went through them the other day. We discovered that I have lots of nice decorations, but they have to sit on shelves....which I didn't have. So I started to plan some shelves!

I remembered a few minutes to late to take a before picture, so this one had one lonely bracket in it.

Shelf "1" done!

I remembered to take a picture before I started hanging brackets this time!

Shelf "2" done!

As you may have seen on previous pictures we got some new couch pillows. Mom and I found them on one of our Value Village runs when they came to visit. I am super happy with them, especially the shiny one! Jared has different opinions....

We were not able to find a little pillow case to fit on one of my smaller pillows so Mom found some fabric to match saying that I could just make a pillow case for it, but I couldn't just make a simple pillow case because that would be too boring....so a pleated pillow it was...

Nicole let me borrow her sewing machine for a few days which was VERY handy!

It looked a lot better after it got ironed!

I must say it turned out a lot better then I expected it to, especially since I just winged it...

This is a close up of the macramé pot holder that I made with Nicole. We followed a YouTube video and both did our own, it was actually a lot easier then it looked. 

The whole picture!

New shelves, new pillows, a home made craft, and it's actually tidy! Just in time to start decorating for Christmas!