Nesting part four - the finishing touches

Some finishing touches in our bedroom:

I made the clock this past week from a kit that I have had for quite some time. I got the candle holders from...get this....GOODWILL yesterday.

This is the top of my dresser with one of my all time favorite pictures of Luke, a box of albums, and some other stuff I got on sale.

Here's the top of Eric's dresser. The lamp was normally $119.00, and I got it for $12 at Hobby Lobby!!! Crazy, huh? I'm not crazy about the glass part of the lamp, but I think I know something I can do to make it look different or slightly colored but......it would be an experiment, and I'm not sure I want to tackle it in case I ruin the lamp. (Oh, and try to ignore the pole behind the lamp over there in the corner. That's not supposed to be there.)

Some finishing touches on the living room area
The bookshelf/desk you see when you first come into the house. Eric built it quite a few years ago.

These were up in my house growing up, and well, they just make me happy. The top left is my dad and his sister when they were little, and the bottom right is my mom and her older brother when they were little. These are located at the front of the hallway when you actually walk in to the house..(right next to the bookshelf).

I found these votive candle holders that my neighbor had given to me last Christmas and they match nicely. She was thrilled when she saw that I finally had put them out. She actually thought that I didn't like them. I had to convince her that I did like them, but just didn't know where to put them until now. I put two over here and then three on the bookshelf.

I found this little black basket at Goodwill the other day, and knew I could find something to do with it. And I think it works really well to store all the X-box controllers and stuff. Now to keep the kids putting them back in there when they are done!

I wanted some Scriptures on the wall which is yet another reason I LOVE Hobby Lobby. I go these canvases for half off which made them about $7.50 each. SWEET!!! These are above the chair in my living room that in the corner.

Remember the stars in the corner of the dining room??? I thought they needed something else, and well, I think it looks so much better now with the rub on words on the wall. Don't you?

Let's see...there's a couple of projects in the works still to get done. I have a mirror that I want to spray paint the frame of it, and display it either in the dining room or in my bedroom. I've heard that mirrors make a space look bigger, and I think it would probably look best in the dining room since our dining room isn't very big....but then...it would look good above my dresser too. We've had the mirror FOREVER and it's just sitting in a gold frame in our basement, so I might as well put it to use, right?

I'm also spray painting a basket that I found in my mom's basement gathering dust. It was a scary gold color, but I spray painted it brown and am waiting for it to completely dry. We'll be using it next to the love seat to put library books or magazines in. Hopefully it'll work for us.

Eric's working on building a wall in the basement to separate the yucky part of the basement from the school room. The frame of the wall is up along with the door, so he's moving on to phase 2 - DRYWALLING. I'm excited to see what it will look like when it's finished. It'll be so nice not to see the laundry/storage side of the basement when we have school.

Oh, and last, but not least. We plan on painting the playroom/guest room downstairs to make it look nicer instead of just having the primed walls. But this project probably won't happen for quite some time.