Our Art Gallery

This is our art gallery in our kitchen. It was super-easy to make- we just used some screw-in hooks, yarn and some really cute mini clothespins that I picked up at the $1 Japanese store with Bek forever ago (you could paint your own really easily, though). It is a fun place to display all of the girls paintings, crafts and drawings from school or just hanging out at home. 

 Here are some close-ups of the wall art. One of my favorites is the little red and yellow figures clipped to the painting of EJ above- she made them out of cut up cupcake wrappers.

I think we need to make another one for the Tower toy room, though. They make so much cool art that this one is always full!

The Tower- Before and After

Our fourth bedroom is called the "Tower" (I'm sure you can guess why) and since we've moved it has been a storage room for extra junk and boxes.  We decided to convert it into another play room.

 The garage has been converted to a play room in this house, but Bear can't play out there without adult supervision because it also has to store tools and whatnot. Plus, it isn't insulated, so we aren't crazy about needing to heat and cool and entire garage just for playing.

So with a couple hours of hard work the boxes are cleared out and now there is a new baby friendly place for all of the kids to play (and read).  We moved all of Bear's toys, the dress ups and books inside. Now the play room (in the garage) has all of the girls' toys they don't want bear to get into and they can play out there as long as it is warm/cool enough.

The new tower play room has been a huge success and I'm glad that Birdy and Bear have a place to play (where I don't have to watch him the whole time) and I'm sure our bills will appreciate not heating and cooling the garage!

EJ's New (Huge) Bed

EJ has a new bed. It didn't look that big in the pics, but it is HUGE in real life. She absolutely adores it, though, so it is a keeper.  So far it has been a castle, a boat and who knows what else. She and Birdie have had SO much fun with it!