Halloween Decorations and Painting

I apologize. I was sick last week, so I wasn't thinking when I went ahead and made our Halloween pillow cases and coasters without remembering to take pictures throughout! Sorry! I can, however, give you a step-by-step tutorial on the coasters and a link to the blog post I used to guide me in making the pillow cases along with pictures of my finished products. The coasters were my original idea, so I can make some using  non-Halloween materials to make a full tutorial with photos if you'd like. They're very easy and take basic sewing machine knowledge, or you could easily make them by hand! For these I used a blog source to teach me how to do a blind stitch, so I can link that up too.

We started painting bedrooms this weekend! I'm excited because they were so terrible before. The old owners had painted EVERYTHING in the room the same color. The floorboards, the doorway, the frame at the top of the closet, the window frame, the walls, everything. It was horrible. And they did it in all three bedrooms! One is the pink-ish purple shown below. The other is a lime green and the master is a burnt orange (and the master has double the closets and double the doorways!). We decided in the purple room and the master to just paint the trim white and leave the wall colors for now since I like the pink-ish purple (especially if our first baby is a girl!) and he loves the color in the master. The green room will become our office and is being painted a light blue with white trim. We're also going to be painting the guest bathroom a light yellow instead of the current dark green to help give it some light. Here are some before and after pictures of the purple room. The color in the "before" picture is accurate. The "after" pictures were taken at night using a lamp and the color looks more pink, but you can still tell the amazing difference in the room. 

Before:

After: 

Since this room took us 5 hours to complete between taping and painting the trim, we decided that yesterday we'd tape the master and then start painting later this week to break up the time we spend in one room. I've taken some before pictures of the other two bedrooms, I'll post those with some after pictures once we have those rooms finished. 

I love seeing our house coming together! We also moved our dining room table into place last week and have put up a few decorations to make the house feel festive, even though he won't be moved in until closer to Halloween. It's so much fun looking for furniture to make our house our home. I'm excited to get to go holiday decoration shopping next month!!!! We'll also be having a fall house warming "open house" at the beginning of next month to show off our house to family and friends, so I'll get to have fun decorating and making food for that! Yay!!! I'll try to get that tutorial made and posted soon (aka within the next month...sorry, school and house come first!). Maybe I'll make some fun Christmas ones or some fall themed ones!