tour of my house--stuff on the walls!

I went around my house & took photos of most of my fave things hanging on the wall.

Most are things that I made, but some were also gifts.

For the things I made, I'll share a link to the post on my blog about that specific thing.

Let's start upstairs & work our way down!

Shelf in my daughter's room. I love the white & pink stuff there all together. {I posted about her room when she was a new baby. It's different now, maybe I'll share what it looks like now sometime.}

Another fave thing in her room is her pink mirror that I bought from Home Sense- {like Home Goods in the US}. I still love it & she likes checking herself out in it :)

And this little bird I made for her wall was a cutting board I found on clearance at Urban Outfitters. I just painted it pink & mod podged scrapbook paper on it!

I love this hair clip board that hold just some of my daughter's large collection of hair accessories. The hook underneath is from Urban Outfitters.

My dad made me this wall hanging of the "Be's" & I love it. And it reminds me constantly of how grateful I am to have parents with such strong faith. 

Collection of white picture frames in the hallway upstairs- The one with the yellow mat has a picture of both our kids at one month old. So fun to see them as babies & to see the similarities! The "W" printable was something that Lizzy at Pickle Doodle Designs made for me!

Our house is all painted in neutral colours- except our son's room. His room is a bright blue colour & his room is totally boy & very colourful! {His room is also different from the original post & maybe I should share how it looks now sometime.}

I made this pencil crayon initial that hangs above his dresser:

This handsome mirror was one of the first things I made for his room & it was also my very first feature! I was so excited when it was featured on Tip Junkie back when I shared my crafts on our family blog!

I also made this "I Am A Child of God" wall hanging. (My hubby cut the material for me & rounded the edges, then I painted it & added the vinyl words.)

My brother gave this "Love" board to me one year for my birthday, shortly after I got married. It's hung in each home we've lived in & it makes me happy :)

I still of course love my DIY jewelry holder. It hold all my everyday-type necklaces & my 'real' jewelry lives in my jewelry boxes.

Another fave in my bedroom are my heart map shadowbox frames:

Near our front entrance is this shelf, with my DIY fabric-covered bulletin board:

In our main floor hallway, we have this board that I made in December to hold our stockings. I had a glittery star in the centre. It ended up staying put 'cause it's just so handy. 

This drawer front was in our basement waiting for me to re-purpose it somehow...

I just added some knobs onto it...

And I let my husband hang it up. My son LOVES hanging things on it. It's a great home for our bag of library stuff!

By our computer desk, we have this pair of Ikea frames that contain the first picture our kids each made. Both were done when they were the same age. So I added a Jenni Bowlin sticker on each of them with theirs name & age on it.

In our dining room we have this shelf that has some family photos that we love. That large family picture is a year & a half old- I need to update it!

Now down to the basement!

In December my husband finished making a room down there that serves as the kids' play room & also has my craft stuff. {Another thing to post about sometime!}

Anyways, I love this collage frame my parents gave us for Christmas one year. So perfect for displaying some fave family photos!

Above my craft area, I have these canvases. I love Dr. Seuss quotes! And the canvases I did of the kids' hand prints last summer are so precious to me. 

I love this built-in shelf area. It houses some containers of books that were overflow from the kids' rooms. It's also great for a few decorative items!

I scored the yellow & blue lanterns at the end of last summer. Superstore marked them down from $8 each to $0.44 a piece!

I also have the blue Walt Disney quote printable, as well as a Winnie the Pooh quote I found on Pinterest.

There you have it! 

I hope you enjoyed the tour through my home of my favourite things on the walls!

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hot pink closet dividers

I bought some wooden door hangers at the craft store and painted them hot pink. Then I added some glittery silver Thickers scrapbook letters to them. I added ribbon to the top to hang them in my daughter's closet so they can keep her clothes sorted.

our baby girl's room

Here's a tour of my daughter's room.

My husband painted the walls grey. We put our comfy leather couch in the room with a tv and dvd player. Those 3 things were awesome to have during those first few weeks especially! [The cushions on the couch are from Ikea.]


I wanted the wall with the crib to be an accent wall, so he painted stripes in a grey that's darker than the color used in the rest of the room. I love how it turned out! The dark grey curtains and the white curtain rod are both from Ikea. [The little handmade toys that are by the tv can be found here and here.]

I covered canvases using pretty paper to hang above the crib. I didn't want anything heavy on that wall, just in case.

The lamp came was one of four that my parents gave us last Christmas. I fell in love with that mirror when I saw it at Home Sense and thought the $24.99 price was reasonable!

This white floating shelf was from Ikea. I added some accessories that I thought would coordinate with the other things in her room. The pink mdf "M" came from a dollar store and I painted it hot pink. The white one I picked up from Michael's. [Here's a post about the small oval frame]

My husband replaced the old shelving that was in the closet with some new wire shelves like the ones he's installed in all the other closets in out home. All the clothes she has yet to grow into, as well as her dresses, are in there. I made these dividers to organize the closet.

The rest are in her dresser/ change table. [You can read about the bird that's on the wall in this post.]

We put lots of work into her room and are happy with the result!!

updated picture frame

I bought a pretty small frame from Michael's for only $1.50. The gold color wasn't really my taste, so I painted it white to go with the other stuff in my daughter's room. Then I added some paper that I love and had used elsewhere in my baby girl's room. I think it looks way cuter now!

for the baby's room

Back in September, I found this bird-shaped cutting board at Urban Outfitters. It's regular price was $16 and it was marked all the way down to $1.99. I thought it had some crafting potential!

So I painted it pink...

And mod podged on some cute Heidi Grace scrapbook paper that I found at Michael's. The paper is embossed so it was $1.79 for the sheet. It's now hanging over the change table in the baby's room.

There you have it, pretty cute wall art for under $4.00!!

accessory organization

This is how I have organized my daughter's every-growing collection of hair stuff on the wall behind her bedroom door:

I had this memo board that was in my room when I was a pre-teen that I had bought from Claire's.

And here is the new and improved version that it now a hair clip board:

I bought this hook from a dollar store like 3 or 4 years ago. It was $2.00 and I thought it would be nice to hang a purse on in our room. But it wasn't totally my style and I didn't like using it anyways.

So I spray painted it bright pink and mod podged some of the paper that I used elsewhere in her room to make it look like this:

I hang her little hats on this hook thing I got for an awesome clearance deal of only $1.99 from Urban Outfitters last year. Part of me wants to paint it pink or more likely white, but I also like the way it looks now. So I'm leaving it alone unless I decide otherwise.

{This was featured on the Dollar Store Crafts site}