That Crazy Mom Over There...: August 2012

For all three kids... for the first time ever...

Just a second.

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pardon my happy dance. I've never had 3 hours and 20 minutes (but who's counting) to myself, each day of the week! I cannot believe how much I can get accomplished in that amount of time. I either go into hyperdrive and check off my entire to-do list... or I sleep. ;) Ok, that only happened on Tuesday. So sue me.

Mr. Crazy and I even had a breakfast date this morning, which shall now become tradition every other Friday when he has off. We LOVED our time together. All I can say is, God sure knew what he was doing a year ago when my world changed. Happier now than I've ever been.

Are you a SAHM and enjoying your "quiet" time? What are you going to do with your time (besides volunteer countless hours to the school)?

Have a great Labor Day weekend!... which also kicks off college football!!! Told you I'm a happy girl. :D

XOXO,

It should come as no surprise that in a townhome, space planning is necessary. Well in ours, it seems as though a powder room was an afterthought, shoved behind the laundry room. Ask me how excited I am that our friends have to walk through our laundry area to use the potty... a very.small.potty.room.

So I decided to give it a little sprucing up. As mentioned before, my whole downstairs has exposed wood with a "Cape Cod" type of feel, so I've tried to keep things light and airy. The powder room is no exception with exposed wood on the ceiling. Let's take a look at the before snapshots, shall we?

Yeah. Small.

So I found this great color at Home Depot. It's called Tropical Lagoon (GLB20) from Glidden, and things kind of took off from there. We have a TJ Maxx Homegoods store by us, so I shopped around a bit and found some candles, hand towels and my favorite piece, the wall picture.

Are you ready???

Ta-da!!!

What do you think???

Let me start with the light/plug socket frames. I found these at Walmart, unpainted, for $3. I already had this pretty teal color so I painted them and added rope with my hot glue gun. Lastly, I had seashells left over from our Mother's Day Luau, so I hot glued them in the corners as well. Totally cute, right? (PS - The difference in wall color is merely flash vs no-flash.)

Now, this little lighthouse gem I found in the dollar section at Michael's a couple months ago and bought it for no particular reason... just thought it would be a simple project. I think it was probably meant as a bird feeder but, ummmmm hello beachy bathroom. You go perfectly in here. So I painted it white with the same teal paint on top and voila! Love.

My last homemade project for the bathroom was a washcloth holder. You'll never believe what it's made out of... an empty peanut butter jar. Yup. I cleaned it out, added paint and our initial, and finally some rope and a seashell with the hot glue gun. Super easy and super adorable. I smile every time I see it.

I got the silver rack behind the toilet at Walmart as well for a mere $16. With that small of a bathroom, I need the storage. I may add some blue stripes to the back wall in the near future, but we'll see. Everything topped off with a few accessories and I have myself a cute beachy (but still small) bathroom.

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