Curtains!

This is the window in my almost 18 month old sons bedroom:

Do you see my problem?

It is too bright and he doesn't get a good nap.

That makes for a cranky baby and an equally unhappy Mama.

I had seen some blackout curtains on clearance at Target awhile back so yesterday I went to see if they were still there. Nope. Oh, they had some, but they were 20 dollars for one 45" wide panel, and they were BLACK. I didn't have 40 dollars to spend,

and really didn't want black curtains in my little boys room.

As I walked by another clearance end cap I saw this:

It's a shower curtain!

I held it up and it seemed to block quite a bit of light, so I scooped one up to test out in Travis' bedroom. After testing it out I realized that to cover the window I would need a second one, so today I ran to get it, praying the whole way that it was still there.

It was! Yay! 

See why I was so excited? Yep, $3.74

Plus I loved the color and the pattern.

(The first picture shows the true color of the curtain)

I also got two packages of these at $1.08 to hang my new curtains.

Here is the room with a light on so you can see the dresser under the window.

I am eventually going to paint it orange(I think).

Here it is again with the light off.

We already had this curtain rod which was given to us by a friend who didn't want it.

Gotta love FREE, right?

Here are my clearance shower curtains!!!

I love them in the space, but now I am realizing just how little I have done in this little boys bedroom. There is no wall art and the paint color is BORING. I didn't want to paint until I knew what theme I was going with and over a year and a half later I still can't choose! Dinosaurs, cars, sports, robots, superheros, bugs???

I am excited to say that these curtains have helped me to decide...I am doing COLOR!

Bold primary colors. I plan to mix themes as long as the colors jive.

You can see here that the curtains do not touch the ground.

I don't care.

I paid less than $10 and have a boy who can nap now!

Here is Travis checking out the new digs...he approves.

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Pots and Pins

Over the weekend I went to a couple thrift stores looking for shoes for Travis. He goes through a size in just a couple of weeks and I hate spending 15 dollars on a single pair of shoes for him. I ended up getting him 5 pairs of shoes for 15 dollars at a baby thrift store, and all of them were in such great shape.

I went to a new thrift store in town and found 6 brand new recycled plastic pots for .50 a piece and 2 boxes of sewing pins for .98!

I have been wanting to make a felt rosette wreath and all I needed was some of these, so I was super happy to get 900 of them for less than a dollar!

Oh yeah!

(Said like Vector from Despicable Me)

These I bought to use either for a potted herb garden or for the lemon tree seeds that I have drying out in my kitchen right now. $3.00 for 6 of them! BOOM!