Weaving For The Girls' Room

An ongoing goal for me over the last 6 months has been working on finding projects I can work on in teeny tiny increments (think 5-30 minutes). Back in October, I felt the urge to get back into weaving, so I got to work. Cora was hanging around when I started this piece, so she picked this pink color and asked if this could be for her room. I worked on this in 30 minute increments over a week or so, then finished it up in January. Because I was working on this mostly at nights and during the middle of winter, the picture quality is all over the place... but that is not my biggest priority.  I always love seeing people's progress pictures, so here you go...

This is when I should have been finished according to my 'plan', but it just didn't feel right to me. I let this sit for a couple days before adding the black stripe on the top...then let it sit for a month or two before I decided it was for sure finished. 

Since I finished this up during the middle of winter, I wasn't super excited to head out and look for a stick to hang this on. During a walk in January, I decided to keep an eye out and found the perfect stick in front of our friends' house. I cleaned off the stick, trimmed it down, and attached the weaving.

Cora loved the final piece and kept mentioning how much it looks like a dress. I found the perfect spot in my favorite little corner of the girls' room.

The Girls' Room Doors

Last time I shared the girls' room it felt pretty close to finished. The closet was kind of dirty and there was some chipping paint, so it was definitely on the top of my girls' room to-do list.

I gave Cora the choice between blue and pink and she surprised me by picking blue. We mixed some white with the color we used for the trim and started painting. Cora popped in and out of the room to help out and cheer me on. After finishing the closet, we still had a lot of mixed paint leftover, so I started painting the inside of the closet door. That snowballed into painting all of the doors.

The painted doors (and closet) make the room feel so much more finished. The light blue feels subtle at times and really bold at other times. All we have left to do is hang some art over the dresser and I think we're finished in this room... at least for a little while.