A corner of our home

Here are some pictures of our playroom. Another wall was finished today. Frame group were made about a year ago. I got frames from Ikea, download some kids friendly pictures from screen saver website, made mats with bright color card stocks.
Here is a list of costs:
Frames: $8 each x6 = $48
Pictures: free download, prints for $1.2
Bright color card stocks: $2
ABC shelves: $20
Carebear toy: $4
Hello kitty backpack: $12
123 canvas bag: material $10 + mommy stayed up two nights to make it
Wooden bike: $40
Total = about $140


And the close up of newly made 123 bag, holds lots of puzzle bags.

A corner of our home

This is one wall of our playroom in the basement. Bookshelves were purchased at Target last year, toys and books are from everywhere, Target, Toys R Us, Walmart, Amazon, and yard sale. The artwork is homemade which takes forever. DH made the canvas with wood strips and white duck fabric and prime it last April, I just finished painting a few weeks ago. They were put up this morning. There are still 3 walls to finish, hopefully I can have them done this summer.



A picture of WIP


and my yummy paint

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This year we invested some money in garden, new fence, new door, new pavement. However the outcome is not as good as any year before. We had our first cucumber yesterday which is one month later than last year, pepper is still tiny, eggplant is still a sprout, not flowers at all, tomato overgrown, nothing too exited.

My favorite colors

I love bright colors Orange, yellow and red.
Here are what I spent a fortune on today, in my favorite colors.
And this is a sneak peek of what I made last night, in my favorite colors
This is a corner of our house this afternoon, which has many cheerful colors.

Now Play room

It's not done yet, I still need to add things on the wall, but it has been too long, almost half a year, so I'll just show what it looks like now.

Show and Tell

I was very productive last week, getting closer to finish my to do list.
Cleaned up basement and my work area, now it looks better than before.

Made a summer tote bag.

Did some shopping, got a dress for Sophia
and matching dress for her baby doll,
they're super cute, also bought a handbag for myself.

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Sophia's reading nook.

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This is our new find, a coffee table. Great size, nice looking legs (main reason that I bought it). It has been put to great use every night.

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This is the little world.

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This is a picture of my working in progress.

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Here is a corner of Sophia's playroom on Chinese new year's day morning.

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Something cute in kitchen

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Book shelves, homemade, almost exactly the same as those made by Ethan Allen. Ethan Allen must copied us because ours was finished one year before Ethan Allen starts to carry them.

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This is a messy one. Who can have a spotless house with a toddler living in it?

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The entry was very attractive to me when I first saw this house. It has beautiful hardwood floors, 9 feet ceiling. I still like it after living in the house for more than two years. But I had a hard time to choose artwork on the wall, first wall when you enter the house. I tried to use seasonal artworks, have used Christmas patchwork frame. Now I hang a wood frame that I got from Pottery Barn 3 years ago, insert some Asian style prints. It looks quite neutral and subtle, not very standout. I'm still searching.

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This picture is a corner of our formal dinning room. This room is the least used room but most with complete looking. The curtains of this room are just right color and style I wanted, it made the whole room warm, inviting yet elegant. Recently I added this cute snow man. I really love him because I got him from after Christmas sale but he can smile the whole winter. Sophia loves him because he is the same size as her and he never melts.

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This post is inspired by some craft bloggers.

I love our house more and more because we put efforts in every corner of our house. It reflects ourselves in some way.

This corner is a small wall of our newly finished basement - playroom. Since it's the smallest wall, I decided to handle it first as a test. I wanted to use those bright colors in the rug on the wall decor. I started with six simple white wood frames. I took out the mats inside the frame, used my bright color cardstock as mats. I printed out some cute computer wall paper on 6x4 photo paper, used them as art. My favorite picture is the super modern bridge, a bridge engineer's child's playroom decor! How cool is that?

Then wzg was not sure about hanging six frames perfectly. Our secret is the hook and loop. Yes we used that instead of nails and string to hang frames. It worked perfectly!