| Vintage to Modern Designs

By the look of my last post it's been quite a while since I've posted a blog. I did however become active with twitter a couple of days again and a new follower today so that she checked out my blog! #embarrassing. There are so many projects I have been working on and thankfully even a few I've finished since then but I thought I'd stick my toe back in the water with a couple of shots of my bedroom redo.

So this picture is from my iPad so it's not the clearest of all but it gives you an idea.

I wish I had a picture of my bedroom before. It was dark dark dark. No lamps, no curtains, and maroon walls. My husband picked up and walked out of me and the kiddos last March and as you can expect my bedroom was one of the first things I needed to change.

So I picked up some paint at Lowes named "wave". Sounded nice and serene to me.

Got the beautiful lamps at TJMaxx. You can't really tell but the shades are a nice dark gray that complements the blue well! :).

I scored the fabric for these curtains at JoAnns for $10/yard on sale from $40/yard! SCORE! I had been eyeing this fabric for awhile because I knew I wanted white but they have a design monogrammed in the, so it adds texture! Love!

The quilt and shams are from Home Goods and again are white with white design for texture. And just a shout out that a Home Goods will be opening up in my city soon!!!!

And lastly, I made these two little throw pillows from fabric that matches the backs of my bookcases that I made here...

So I backed the two bookcases with the fabric (these were curb side trash). And the middle part is a bookcase that was cut down for another project - (show you that some other day).

As you can see there is still work to be done. I need some things for the top of the bookcase and that frame on the wall that I picked up at a thrift store by the way will end up being painted and I will insert a board with cork and fabric to hang pictures, reminders, inspiration...whatever. I'm also getting rid of the little green plastic bins and will be inserting some other type of container. and lastly....I need something hung above my bed....whatcha think?????

K, so it's been FOREVAH since I've posted or even visited my blogger page. I'm teaching 5 classes this semester so I've been seriously busy! But that's another long story that no one is interesting in. So let's get going on what is so amazing and disgusting that I had to bring myself back from the blogger dead.

Even though I have been absent from blogger I haven't been absent from Pinterest (what can I say - I only have time for one addiction). I came across this Pinterest post...

How to clean a micro fiber sofa.

So we got a micro fiber sofa and immediately the kids did their magic on it and it looked horrific. Finally got a leather sofa and stuck this one in our "play room". I hate throwing things out and my hubby assured me that someone that worked in his restaurant would need a sofa and so it sat and sat and sat. I had reached my limit and was ready to send it curb bound and if my husband would have been home to help me carry it out it would have been gone. So while searching on Pinterest I saw this "How to clean micro fiber". I figured it was worth a shot. So check out her blog to see how it's done.

Now for the amazing and disgusting part. Here is my sofa. I don't think I have to tell you which part I haven't gotten to yet.... How amazingly well just a little bit of rubbing alcohol cleans it and how absolutely disgustingly filthy this sofa was!!