An Extra Day Of (Pinte)Rest...

Pinterest.

You know the site, right?

It's become the biggest time suck of my nights.  So much so, that I have had to ration my scrolling to only when I have finished the projects I have already pinned. Because to be honest, when someone hands me a $4,700 dollar check and says I have two years to rip apart our sun room and make it exactly the way I've always wanted, well, the creativity in me explodes.

And, it's messy my friends.  Very messy.

Because remodeling the sun room means that I can rewire the ceiling lights and get rid of the chandelier.  It means I can finally have the "window" between the sun room and the kitchen.  It means more precious cabinet space and.... New floors!  Which of course leads to new floors in the kitchen, that of course tie into the living room.  And then, since I'm ripping out the floors in the living room as well, I might as well get new couches, and that salt water fish tank I've wanted for an eternity.

You see where this is going right?

*cough* Bankruptcy.

Anyway, to reel me back in, and to not blow the whole check in 45 minutes, I curbed my creative guts into smaller projects I found on pinterest.

Like these rainbow cakes that I made for Oldest's classroom. Or...

using bread tags to label my cords.  Don't enlarge this, you'll spare yourself the goriness of the killer dust bunnies multipling on the cords in the back.  Then, I tried to get all festive with the valances in the living room...

After 6 hours of sewing and measuring ribbon I was seriously rethinking this idea.  None the less, I loved the way they came out. Then I decided to corral the Christmas cards with this idea from here... 

(Not my house, see referenced site above)

I also used an idea for Christmas clean up as well...

I have to say, this was so simple I can't believe I never thought of it. I even had everything at the house already.  Plastic cups in a red tote separated by cardboard.  Place an ornament in each one, nothing gets broken, and it's easy to find every ornament next year. Genius!

I've tried my hand at photos on canvas, and this little project....

 will adorn my walls somewhere, I'm just not sure where. (I'm also sorry, I have no idea how to link this picture back to it's original source)  When I finally run out of laundry detergent, I will be trying this recipe. No worries, I'll be sure to report back and let you all know how it worked out.

Also on the list is revamping the basement stairs in brown paper.  Only problem I will have is figuring how we will apply the 12 coats of poly without losing a child in the process.

So, since I was down to only two projects left, and I had Monday off, I decided it was time for a bit of rest.

PinteRest.

Wait until you see what I have planned for the sunroom!