Ellie and Quincy: 12/27/09

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Christmas Break Project 3: Quincy's Room

I took an art class last semester and painted the large (flower) picture above for Quincy. She didn't like it at first, but now she says she does. Huh, that's a three-year-old for you.

Quincy's new fabric headboard. It is really, really pretty in person....waayyy prettier than the photo is making it appear. And it only took a couple of 2x4's, a staple gun, a sewing maching, and a glue gun. Martha would be proud.

A close-up shot of the fabric. It is a heavy pink and white-ish upholstery fabric.

The headboard fabric complements the chair I sewed a slip-cover for a couple of years ago (for Quincy's room in our old house).

Christmas Break Project 2: Ellie's Room

Ellie, being the older child, was given the larger of the two Jack-and-Jill bedrooms (it has a walk-in closet) when we figured out that she and Quincy needed to be separated at night (all they did was play...they never slept!). This is the room that Quincy had last year.

I inherited a beautiful chair (now in the spare bedroom) and settee set from my grandparents but could never decide what I wanted to do with them. Then I stumbled across this GREAT pink, cotton, shaggy fabric. Above is what came of my vision. Ellie LOVES it and both she and Quincy sit on it daily reading their little Bob Books to each other. It is too, too cute!

A close-up of the fabric.

Christmas Break Project 1: The Spare Bedroom

Last summer Quincy and I were laying on the spare bedroom bed after her nap time chatting about 3 year-old stuff when Quincy stated, "This room is ugly." She was right...it was all brown and boring and totally ugly. I just hadn't gotten around to doing anything with it up to then as I was busy with other rooms and our growing family. Well, a coat of paint later and I was on my way to creativity. Last month, I found some beautiful chartreuse raised velvet fabric and reupholstered a chair that I inherited from my grandparents. The chair makes the room. The next step is to find some fabric to make a headboard similiar to the one I made for Quincy's room.

A close-up of the fabric (with my head-shadow in the photo).

Opening Presents

They opened all their presents as a team....they really are that close now (which is a big, wonderful change from six moths ago).

Thank you sweet Lucy and Aunt B for our great t-shirts!

Christmas Morning

Has Santa arrived?

Yes! And Quincy runs to see what he left her...

Ellie, on the other hand, still has fresh memories of her traumatic visit with Santa the week before in her head (shouldn't their be sugar plum fairies in there instead?)....she isn't so sure about everything.

But she finally decides that Santa isn't actually in our house anymore so she makes it over to the tree and they both discover that Santa loved the cookies and milk they left for him. End note: Mommy will be hitting the gym extra hard this week.