Our New Home

Well after the craziness of packing, moving, daughters wedding and other daughter being here from Wales for her sisters wedding, start of new school year and the unpacking and settling in, I finally got round to snapping pictures of our home.

There is still walls to have the accent paint painted and pieces of furniture to buy for our home as there's more space to fill but that will take time and money lol

But for now here's how it looks.

Front entry and living room that one day will hold a floor to ceiling book shelf and mudroom.

Family room.

All is missing is to mount the tv on the wall, hang drapes, window casings and crown molding - in time.

View from family room into kitchen/dining room, that we're still waiting for our table and chairs to be delivered.

Loving my huge kitchen! 

Girls Bedroom

I made a flag banner and the heart wall hanging. 

Added a few paper lanterns.

We're still waiting on the girls beds!

I made some heart canvas art work to match the heart wall hanging

Will post how I made that and the canvas art too.

You might notice the pink bench by the window. It now holds the girls dress up clothes

 Click  HERE to see how I made it.

In the playroom I used my art abilities, been a long time since I did this.

I used the extra flag banners I made, then painted a tree and two little girls

opposite side of the chalk board that I made when we lived in Madison, WI

Master Bedroom

I think this wall would look good with reclaimed wood feature wall too and drapes.

Master Bath

Still needs tile work and painting the naval color.

Spare room - waiting on the wrought iron queen bed.

Downstairs loo. 

This still needs a feature wall..maybe reclaimed wood, tile or paint

Watch this space.

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Superheroes To The Rescue

What do you do when your little girl loves Superheroes and Princesses.

Make a pink superhero cape... And that's what I did today.

I found a wonderful online site that had a free Cape pattern you can find it HERE

I will add I altered the cape a little, I didn't like how the ends of the Cape came to a point.

So, I rounded them off instead.

Here is Seren proudly showing off her Pink Superhero Cape!

Now Carys, not to leave her out, I used the left over bits of fabric and made

A Princess Cape. It is shorter and narrower than Seren's, but it does the job.

I had to join pieces of fabric together and we used an old T-shirt

Which we cut out the Belle.

Ready, Set, Fly!

A little fuzzy, but hey, Carys was flying!

Even sand doesn't deter our Superhero Girls :)

Seren

Ready, Set, Fly!

I Can Fly!

The capes have turned out to be a great and well worth my morning spent sewing them

Now, Seren is now asking for, a Batman one! 

Sheesh :)  I'd best get shopping for more fabric.

The total cost for the two capes was $17.

The Superman T-shirt costing the most at $10. 

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