Before I link up, I’d like to say a round of thanks to everyone who helped with Heather’s room.  I said in the first post that I didn’t have an HGTV crew–but it turned out I really did–just no cameras and scripts (yep, reality TV is scripted.)

Oh and while I’m totally off topic–last year this week we were having Heather’s No-Stress Birthday.  How times change :).

Here was our team:

Heidi, J and B for moving day

Heidi also did popcorn removal, Painting, and Organization.  Plus was my shopping and design consultant and domestic support–which sounds better than laundry, childcare and dishes :).

And of course Elizabeth, who painted while I had a family visit from the church. She was here for hours and also brought Tapioca pudding, which is Darren’s FAVORITE.

Mom, who was chief mudder (Bwa ha ha–get it? Mudder!); Child care extraordinaire (She kept all my boys for 2 full days); emotional support; pharmacy (she brought me flu meds); seamstress consultant; Floor installation assistant (She was here until 4am people!) And my top person to talk to when I’m not sure how to do a project under budget. She is the most frugal person around and by that I mean she’s the most awesome and responsible person when it comes to respecting the hard work done to get money and making it work hard for her. (Not that she’s cheap–which is not the same thing at all.)

And then there’s Darren, who really didn’t want to do this project from the beginning.  But because he loves Heather and me so much, he did a little bit of everything, especially laying a brand new floor all night until 5:30 am Thursday morning. He also mudded, sanded, installed trim, and made the money that paid for it all. And finished just in time for his 40th birthday :).

Ok, now for the tutorials I promised:

Ombre Curtains–which I sized up and turned into the hula hoop tent.

This is just one of the many tutorials I looked at to make the tent. Only I made mine differently to use one full sheet, which meant less ruffle fabric and less cost.  But then it didn’t go around my hoop all the way.  So I took a hack saw to my hula hoop to MAKE IT FIT in a wicked step-sister sort of way.  So just because I did it differently didn’t make it better, kwim?

And if I were smart, I would have used this tutorial to hang my gallery wall.  But instead I just hung one at a time by eyeballing it (Do you get the feeling I don’t like to measure?) Then moved it over a bit if I stepped back and it didn’t look right. Which mean I had to patch some holes before the big reveal :).