Room Makeover

The past 2 days have been consumed clearing out this office/Zach's garbage dump room....into this, something more presentable but still useful. I've been assembling the various pieces of this room for months. My goal was to do it as cheap as possible, which sounds great, but is very time consuming. Such as waiting for coupons to show up in the mail, waiting for pillow forms/fabric/flowers/vases to go on sale, taking several trips to Joanns since you can only use one 50% off coupon at a time, searching garage sales, refinishing furniture, making pillows, etc, etc. And finding places for all the junk in the room since, despite it's trashy appearance, was mostly stuff we needed to keep. But the extra effort was worth it because we spent just under $100 transforming the room.

Some of the cheapo art that I put together for the new bedroom and for our room. I took frames I already had and put scrapbook paper in the first and then pictures I took in the next 3. I have to do a plug for Costco. I printed the two 8X10s and one 11X14 there for around $6 or $7 dollars. I also called Ritz to price printing and it would have cost $24 there for the same 3.

So, needless to say, I'm pretty darn tired. And did I mention that Aubrey is still awake? It's 10:30 pm. She hasn't been going to bed until after 10 the last week and has only been napping about 45 minutes each day, if at all. I'm pretty sure a baby her age needs more sleep then that, but I'm 100% sure that I need her to sleep more then that. Let's hope it's a phase, because I have lots more to get done!