wordless{ish} wednesday: little projects.

you know how i've been talking big lately about all the projects i have going on around my house?

{this is where you smile & nod}

well i've made baby steps of progress.  but the problem with mixing up the decor of your house is that you can't just change one thing.  i mean, if you change a color scheme everything has to go.  and then you realize this has become more than just getting new curtains, now you have to get new throw pillows & wall accents & oh my gosh wood furniture doesn't look so good with these things let's paint everything white!  but it's like i always say, go big or go home.  i really do always say that.  in fact, i never stop saying that.

so i decided to give you a little sneak peak into my home at a couple of the little projects i've completed around here that make me a happy panda.  and turns out?  some are even pinterest inspired.  so maybe this is kinda a mini-stickin'-it-to-pinterest post?  ok yes, it is.

oh & ps:  this is totally not wordless... just in case you hadn't figured that out yet.

number one.  my wire-clothesline-picture-holder thing.  there are two lines & the top one is about 4' long & the bottom one is about 5' long.  they go on much longer in both directions than this picture shows.  they are hung above my computer monitor & keep me company late at night as i blog & edit into the wee hours of the night.  weird?  not at all.

i was inspired by pictures i've seen like this & this, but really it's not that original it's just something i've seen around & liked.  so i did it.

rundown:
- wire = $2.50
- pictures = $14
- mini clothespins = $0 (already had)

total cost:  $16.50.  and it makes me very, very happy.

number two.  new sheets & quilt.  i've had a recent obsession with all white bedding.  there is nothing like a bedroom with a bed that has fresh crisp white bedding, right?  think: posh hotel.  yeah... now we're talkin.  and you should know by now that i have become particularly obsessed with quilts.  this is actually the quilt that started Quilt-pocalypse 2011 & after being super frustrated that i couldn't find fabrics i liked as much as these, i ended up just ordering the real one online.  if i had done that in the beginning?  i woulda saved a pretty penny.  but it's too late, & a fabric buying monster inside of me has officially been born.

i am still working on making a handmade quilt though... someday i will reveal it to all of you.  oh yes, i will.

total cost:  let's not talk about it.  because i'd have to include what i spent in my original endeavors of attempting to make it.  oh, & please don't bring this topic up with sam.

let's move on.

number three.  big wire organizer baskets.  these may not look like much to you but they mean the world to me.  ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration.  they're really not that big of a deal.  but they do bring lots of order to the top of my office bookshelf & for that?  i'm grateful.

i was inspired by this & actually plan on hanging a chalkboard above them, similar to the picture.  and i'm going to paint the bookshelves white like the picture too.   i'm such a copycat.

rundown:
- each basket = $7
- black spray paint {they were ugly metally metallic originally} = $4

total cost = $25.

number four.  my bathroom makeover.  it's a work in progress.  but here's a little peak at my mini-project inside this bigger project.  i'm not sure why i'm so proud of myself for spelling "BATH" in my bathroom but so far i really like it.  i bought the letters from joann's on sale & didn't have to do anything besides stick on those velcro sticky things & eyeball the arrangement.  it was done in five minutes.  maybe that's why i like it so much?

rundown:

- each letter = $1.50

total cost = $6.  and that's a price you can't shake a stick at.

so there you go folks.  some of the little things around my house that i've been working on & proof that i'm not all talk when it comes to my millions of home decor "projects."  because i wouldn't want you to think i was saying all those things just to sound cool.  because i know it sounded really really cool... that's what you were thinking, right?  

{linking up with wordless wednesday at and then she {snapped},  baby baby lemon, the paper mama, & a little king & i}

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