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    - (n.) the best playmate ever

Cornice Boards

I am trying to get window treatments up in all the rooms in our house. I have yet to do anything with Carter's big boy room, the play room, and our guest bedroom. I decided to go with cornice boards for the playroom for 3 main reasons...

1) Screwed to the wall
2) High and out of reach
3) Covered with fabric that adds color/pattern to the room

Here's how we made them...

Kevin built the frames from scraps he had/found laying around:

I wrapped it in quilting batting and used a staple gun to attatch it: 

Then I wrapped and stapled my fabric. I used Anna Griffin's "Haven - Ochre" fabric which I also got at the Sew Beautiful Marketplace with my Living Social deal that I talked about in an earlier post. 

The finished product:

Before:

After:

Our Finished Playroom:

The "pyramid thingy" on top of the storage unit was made by my sister, Anna Katharine, and designed by my mom! It's all of his first year monthly pictures + some cute extras transfered and mod-podged onto wooden blocks. Thanks guys, it really adds a lot to the room :-) 

Toys, Toys Everywhere!

All of you with children out there know the headache that toys and more toys and more toys can bring on. I came up with an idea for a storage system for our playroom to try to get the toymania under control! I was tired of toy lined walls... My wonderful husband did a BEAUTIFUL job creating what has now become my very favorite piece of furniture in the whole house :-)

I got the baskets at Target and sewed felt to the bottom to keep scratching to a minimum. The bottom bins are larger "vegetable bin" style. The labels on the front are small chalkboards.

The right side is a large chalkboard.

The left side is magnetic!

Thanks, to my hubby for making all my "do you think you could do this..." comments become reality :-)