by Wendy Scheel | Mar 24, 2017 | DIY, Home Tour
Long before I knew how to sew, I would go over to my best friend Lizzy’s house and be in awe of the way she decorated her home.
Her Mom was an interior decorator and could put together fabrics, furniture and statement pieces that no one would ever guess would work together. Her Mom has since passed away, but she instilled a great sense of style in Liz.
I am still in awe when I visit her home.
Not only does Liz have a magnificent home but she has sewn many of the pieces.
One thing I will never forget is the day I visited her house and, well, needed to use her restroom.
In her downstairs guest bathroom, hanging from a heavy gold shower rod was a large white with green ivy shower curtain. (Ivy was all the rage back then. ) 🙂
It was perfect with the rest of the decor in her bathroom and I asked her where she had bought it.
She told me she had made it!!
What? Are you kidding me? Who does that!
I was amazed. You never would’ve guessed it was not store purchased.
I remember telling her that I would never be able to sew. I just didn’t have those kinds of skills.
She lovingly laughed at me.
So yesterday my Oprah “Ah-ha” moment happened and….you guessed it, I made my own shower curtain.
We, and by we I mean Wade, haven’t found the time to repaint the tub/shower/toliet room off of the bathroom.
So in the meantime, I made a shower curtain to pull everything together.
I bought these two fabrics from Walmart. I thought they looked kind of Pottery Barn-ish.
I measured out the fabric, sewed a two inch hem on the top and a one inch hem on the bottom, added 12 grommets for the curtain hooks and called it a day.
But then I had a problem.
You probably already noticed it.
Yep, the shower curtain did not play well with the window curtain.
Without a second of hesitation, I pulled that baby down and whipped up another curtain using the same fabric from the bottom section of the shower curtain.
Problem solved.
I apologize for not having a “full” picture of that room, but without busting out a wall or buying a new fancy dancy camera lens, this is as much view of the curtains as I could get.
I feel so accomplished now that I have made a custom curtain.
Thanks Lizzy for knowing that it was only a matter of time (or almost 20 years) before I would conquer “The Shower Curtain.”
~Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Mar 19, 2017 | DIY, Wedding
We had another Best Day Ever on Spring Break last week.
Sam spent her break with us and we checked a few more items off of the wedding To-Do list.
The reality that our little girl is all grown up and getting married is really starting to sink in.
I know, I know, she and Justin, her fiancé, have dated for over six years and have been engaged for almost a year already so I knew this was coming.
But when you are editing pictures and you notice in a close up shot, that she still holds her pencil the same way that she did when she was little, it becomes real.
Just a second, I have to go and blow my nose.
I am going to be such a mess on her wedding day. 🙂
Okay, let’s move on.
Besides visiting her wedding venue and playing with some different table arrangements, we worked on the photo booth background.
Sam found an app, DIY Booth Lite, that we put on an iPad. The iPad will be strategically placed and centered using this as our background.
From there anyone can make a fun photo strip of pictures using the app and send it to their phone. Even better, Sam and Justin will have a set for themselves on the iPad.
We used the black frame that I use to hold the backgrounds for photos. However a customized background was well over $50.
Not in Sam’s budget, so what does a crafty Mother and Daughter team do?
You guessed it. We made it ourselves.
We bought a 6’x9’ drop cloth from Walmart for $6.99 and I already had the paint, the fabric medium, the large letter stencils and a cheap craft paint brush.
If you did need to purchase all of those things, it would be about $10-$15.
The saying, Best Day Ever was laid out on the drop cloth and traced.
Then each letter was painted.
We wanted the effect to look like a huge old fashioned typewriter had imprinted the fabric.
Sam added her wedding date by freehand. (The girl has skills.)
Since Sam was little, when she is really happy about something, she does a little wiggle dance.
When we finished the backdrop, she wiggle danced.
Here’s wishing all of you a wiggly Best Day Ever Spring Break!
~Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Mar 12, 2017 | Home Tour
Did you remember to Spring your clock forward early on Sunday morning?
I didn’t.
But thankfully Wade did.
Keeper. 🙂
Wade and I went Estate Saling on Saturday and found a couple of treasures. We also stopped at IKEA and bought candles and sit-arounds to put in the living room. (You remember sit-arounds. Those pieces that add depth and dimension to your decorating but other than that….they just sit around.)
When I finally did shake the cobwebs from my sleepy eyes this morning, I got to work on redecorating with a Spring theme in mind although outside we were in the middle of a snowstorm.
You’ve already seen the pillows I made, but hey let’s take another gander.
I used the color scheme from these fabrics to create the rest of my Spring 2017 look.
Giving you the big picture first, this is the finished view from the staircase, looking down to the room.
I started decorating from the center of the room by keeping the wood tray on top of the nailhead ottoman. I grabbed a variety of candlesticks from various spots in the house and added the candles from IKEA. The anchoring piece is something my Mom gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago and the lightweight ornate balls, were also purchased from IKEA.
I wanted to keep things neutral and fresh – just how I imagine it will feel when I finally throw open my windows and welcome in the fresh spring air.
Using two more of the robin egg blue candles, I placed them on the mantel with a faux plant, wood sit-arounds my Dad made me, a plaster bunny and some of my other favorite items.
I’m working on other areas of the house also, but for now….
What do you think? Did I capture Spring?
~Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Mar 10, 2017 | Home Tour
Spring has sprung! Until it didn’t. 🙁
Remember the other day when I was all about the great 60 degree day we were having here in Minnesota?
Yea, it’s 2 degrees today.
We had two days of high winds out of the west, and with strong wind and temps in the upper 40’s, all of the ice melted off the lake. There were actually swans swimming near our little beach and the sun was a true, warm, early, Spring sun.
Now there is a thin layer of ice by said beach. But ironically, the swans still showed up to catch some breakfast.
By the way…don’t swans head south for the winter? That water has to be cold.
Anyway, I’ll google it. I am getting way off track on what I wanted to tell you.
Yesterday I spent the day with this little nugget.
She is the daughter of a friend of mine and her name is Piper. Her Mommy went back to work but her daycare provider isn’t available until the first of April.
My day to play with her is Thursday. Her Grandma and her Mommy’s cousin play with her the other days of the week.
Yesterday was my first Thursday with her and we had so much fun! Unfortunately for me, she took a looong nap, so I absorbed some major TLC cable channel viewing time.
There was an episode of Love It or List. It was the episode where the wife was a contractor. The couple bought a fixer upper, but she was so busy working on everyone else’s home, that she had a lot of projects yet to fix up in her own home.
And that got me thinking.
The recent bout of warm weather put me in the mood to “Springitize” my house. But then it got cold and I had a rush of Etsy orders for others that were “Springitizing” their homes.
So my house went on the back burner.
But today is a new day!
Today is the day, that I start with some fresh spring pillows.
I’ll give you a full room view after I complete the whole area, but for now here is a quick Winter to Spring before and after.
Let the Springitizing commence!
~Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Mar 7, 2017 | Life
Welcome to today’s edition of: A little of this and a little of that.
I have handcuffed myself to the desk until I am finished with my 2016 taxes.
This time of year is so “financial” that I haven’t done anything “big” that is blog worthy.
But I do have some little things to share.
First, let’s turn my frown upside down and find a bright spot about doing taxes.
Thinking….thinking…thinking…..
Oh wait, I got this.
This is my view as I sit upstairs in the loft hard at work.
And here is a picture of the lake. Melting snow and ice assures you that Spring is just around the corner.
It will still be another six weeks before the dock goes back into the water, but knowing that we are on the back end of winter makes me smile.
It’s not so bad being stuck in this spot. 🙂
In other news, I have been working on my photography and editing skills.
Not edited:
Edited:
In fact, next week I am going down to the cities to spend the day with Spencer. We are grabbing our cameras and walking around shooting a kind of “He Sees/She Sees” contest.
Also while I am with Spencer we are going to update the blog by moving some things around, maybe add a current photo of myself and tweaking the layout.
Stay tuned for that.
One last “little” that I can finally share with you.
I am going to WACO!
Waco as in the city of Magnolia Farms! My parents will be on their way home to Wisconsin from southern Texas and they are going to meet me for two days of adventure! I can’t even imagine how I will act if I actually see Chip and Joanna.
I have to wait for 26 more days. Waiting, not my strong suit. 🙂
~Wendy
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