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tiny bathroom make-over and a little 'how-to'

I can hardly call this a make-over, (no demolition, tools or paint involved!) but I'm calling it that anyway!  The main floor bathroom was a sad, sorry little thing.  It really had no style whatsover!

When I was at Target the other day, I rounded up a few things to spice the place up!  Some candles, pretty glass stones, a soap dispenser and new hand towels was all it took.  With the addition of a little patchwork sewing magic, (inspired by Bonnie and Camille's Ruby fabrics) I think my little bathroom has hope!

In all due respect to the boys in the house, I decided to leave out too much cutsey girly-ness here and kept it on the modern side.  I purposely kept out red, flowers or an over dose of polka dots, but I really love it!  A welcome change for me as well. 

However...I couldn't resist the pom-poms and Ruby scallops for the basket.  The perfect touch of cute.  ;)

Pretty glass stones, mixed with some rocks and beach finds I already had....

Fluffy new hand towels with some added patchwork goodness!  Love these colors!!

Before I started my patchwork strips yesterday, I made Peanut Butter cookies....

Which made my sewing time all that more delightful!!!!

I didn't mind the crumbs on my towels... :)

So, I did take pictures of my process in case anyone wanted to give this easy peasy idea a try.  Serioulsy super quick too!

Start with 8 2.5" squares per hand towel:

Sew them together, then lay it across the towel to make sure it fits:

Iron sides in 1/4" to underside, like a seam.  Lay patchwork onto the towel and pin down:

I measured 4.5" from the bottom to make sure mine was straight.  The hand towels weren't perfectly straight, so I did the best I could:

Stitch on patchwork strip, folding under the very ends of the strip when you get close:

Repeat for each towel.....

And admire your pretty creation!

Ooooh!!!  Aaaahhhh.....

Just lovely now....

:)

Tasha

P.S.

Thank you all for the wonderful purchases during my sale!!  I appreciate you!!!  :)

back to life

 

Ava and I sat and had a divine little breakfast moment together this morning.  With all the boys off to school, we had fun arranging the flowers, mixing and sipping up juice (i taught her how to do 'cheers') and gobbling up some oh so yummy eggo waffles.  With peanut butter of course.  (You really should try it!)  ;)

Ava really is all girl and loves doing this stuff.  She loves to be right in there, definitly has her way and say!

She loved using a tiny version of my mason jar!

As you can see, my counter chairs are red now! 

Over the long weekend we did quite a bit of home improvement/projects.  Sanding and painting the chairs was one of them. 

Here's my oldest having the time of his life. (Not!)

I've done alot on my bedroom finally, getting it all painted, painting my dressers and my hubby's ripped off the old mouldings so we can put up new white pretty stuff. 

I painted.....

While Ava slept on my bed.

So, all in all we stayed pretty busy.  It's definitly a work in progress though, so no great photos yet.  I've got some ideas for my bedroom that shouldn't be too far fetched, so hopefully I'll be able to share some pictures soon. 

For today, I'm opening up the the shop and here we are.....

back to life!

Enjoy!  ;)

Tasha