jennifer over @ madebygirl posted about our apartment this week :) you'll get to see the photos that my amazingly talented friend jessica weiser took for me. eventually i will be putting up a whole slew of them (that didn't make it into jenn's blog) into a website for my home decorating business - my schooling is going really well so far and i'm enjoying it so much! the program is challenging but also interesting. (i tend to blog more about that over at my personal blog. follow me there, too, if you'd like!)

i'll be spending my free time this weekend working on two custom orders. they've both been cut out and i'm in the beginning stages of the sewing parts of each. one will probably come along faster than the other, so that is the one i'm focusing most on this weekend.

the top blue fabrics are for a baby who has yet to be born. i'll be doing a 9-patch quilt with two matching pillows. the bottom car/truck fabrics are for a little boy who is four and loves anything with an engine! (that is the one i'll be working on mostly this weekend.)

i almost forgot!

just a few pics of some new things around the apartment...
cleaned up sewing corner in the second bedroom:

new quilt (from LLBean!) in the bedroom <3

finally hung the artwork in the upstairs hallway:

the new washer/dryer in the bathroom:

and FINALLY found a home for my favorite lamp!

switch-eroo!!

recently we decided (due to noisy neighbors) to switch our bedroom and sewing room. ...i was hesitant at first, because that meant a smaller bedroom, but now that i get a larger sewing room its all good! ;) here are a few photos of the new setups, you can see the before-s if you scroll down a bit to some previous entries...

bedroom:







sewing room (& upstairs lounge area!)--

bedroom update!

got a new print from madebygirl for the bedroom! the frame is from ikea, and was originally black but i spraypainted it white to go with our decor. still working on it, but i'm trying to make the bedroom as peaceful as possible (since the neighbors on the other side of the wall are SOOO loud!)...

we're all moved in!

we're all moved in, and its starting to look a bit like home... we're making a trip to Ikea next weekend, so i will wait to post pics of most of the rooms until we've gotten the rest of our furniture and rugs etc...

but the sewing room is coming along. i spent a lot of time this weekend making curtains for all over the apartment. i'm still looking for some shelving, and i haven't hung any artwork yet.. but i thought i'd share some "before"s, in the meantime :)



















as you can see, i'm at least set up in there enough to get some work done. not that i have a lot of time for work related sewing, when i have so much fun stuff to do around here!!

here are a few sneek peeks of some other rooms we're working on...
the music room/office/homework room:




entryway/sunroom/kitty room/library:


bathroom:




bedroom:





coming soon: living room & kitchen & dining space!