Bathroom makeover!

I gave our old... very original bathroom a little makeover this week! It was fun, and a much needed makeover. The plan is to gut it in a couple years, improve the layout and get rid of that beautiful flooring... :)

I thought I'd try and work with the yellow and black tile and maybe distract from the flooring! Love how it came together. And my funny little 3.5 year old is just lovin this makeover, I guess you can tell she's my daughter. She would wake up in the morning to see the new bath mat, or vase and flowers and coming running to me so excited to tell me how much she likes it!

She has been telling all her friends and anyone else this week about our bathroom makeover... haha, its hard to explain to a 3.5 year old that... most kids don't care too much about bathroom makeover! But I'm glad she does ;)

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After - This is my favourite little corner, just makes me happy :)

 

Me - clearly satisfied with my quick little makeover! haha.

The things that went into this makeover:
- New paint color... I know! Hard to tell from the pictures, but it is quite different. It was quite a creamy brown taupe, now it is quite grey
- Took the ugly verticals down that we never use anyways, since its a high window
- Painted the cupboards yellow. I used the leftover paint from Avery's room. It was much to light, so I tinted it with my paints... quite happy with the yellow I came up with... now for a silly paint name!
- New shower curtain, bath mat, accessories, art work above the toilet
- New hardware on the cupboards

Pretty simple and took me about a day! Grand total: $185! Most expense was the shipping for the shower curtain (wayfair.com - thanks for the tip to my pal Tara), and anthropology knobs... hehe, $10 each! But who can resist!

Choose the Right! Primary 2012 Board

Like I said in my prior post, I do not blog about something that does take up some of my time over the last 2 years. That being my responsibility right now in our Church which is over seeing the Primary (Children ages 3-11.)

We have a theme each year from the leaders of our Church, this year it is CTR - Choose the Right. I've really enjoyed this year thus far, and our board came together really nicely too! When we were planning it in December all our ideas just meshed together as a presidency and came out with this!
We came up with this thing we call our "CTR check in." We have our awesome teachers as the kids each week what they have done to Choose the Right. Then they pass it along to our secretary. We then feature a child from junior and senior Primary each Sunday. We read there CTR moment and they get a sucker. Then we write there CTR moment in the speech bubble beside there face!


A friend of mine that does vinyl lettering helped made up the black part of the CTR shield and the speech bubbles.

Every month we have a sub-theme to our CTR theme. The shield around the CTR shield has the title of each monthly theme. We started in January at the blue puzzle piece titled "Agency." We then with the help of our teachers have the children memorize the monthly scripture that goes along with the theme. Its amazing, we have little sunbeams that memorize the scripture! The puzzle pieces in the middle get added each month. Once a child has memorized the monthly scripture and passed it off to there teacher, they get to put a sticker on that months puzzle piece.

This was the funnest part, drawing little stick bodies to the children's head! Way too much fun!

I just had to include a close up of this weirdo child in the middle with the bow on her head... oh... that's my child! haha! Love you Primary kids!!!