Cornice Boards, Check!

Today I finally made/hung my cornice boards! I actually had no idea what they even were, until I saw that my friend Jennifer hung a great one in her daughter's room. Then I was in love. I've been toying with what to do with the kitchen windows. I didn't want curtains, and I'm not a super "valance" fan, but this, well this seemed like the perfect solution.

I couldn't find a more recent "before" picture, but the 3 windows still looked like this. Naked, bare and begging for some attention. I also had to do something that coordinated with the living room since the rooms are attached.

Low and behold, I found an old tablecloth that was the perfect color combination. Take that, with Jenn's great idea and this was born....

The extra best part? It was free! Jenn's husband was SOOO kind to write down instructions for me that involved MDF board. I was all for it, until last weekend at mom and dad's. I was at their old house and saw a huge sheet of foam insulation not being used. I asked Dad if he was going to use it and if I could have it. He had no need for it and was nice enough to even cut it down to the sizes I needed. He suggested I use caulking to attach the foam. Well, I didn't have any and in an effort to get this project done today, I challenged myself to be creative and only use what I had on hand. No caulking, but I had hot glue! Worked like a charm. 

I didn't have any batting either, so I cut up an old blanket. Again, worked like a charm. I wrapped the blanket and the cut up table cloth around the foam. Now I had to figure out how to keep it wrapped. The staple gun didn't work, the staples kept coming out. After a little research and a thought process, I decided to use sewing pins. Yep, those ball topped pins. They worked great!

Lee and I attached them to the walls with L brackets and voila! Completion. Gosh I love a FREE project that actually works out.

In other news- Amy was up again all night last night. This girl is killing us. (She also did this the night before we went to GA) Because she didn't get any sleep, she was "sick" today. We had a church activity this morning and I went all by myself. Ok, I love being with my family, no doubt, but WOW- it was a different world being able to talk to everyone without any children! Craziness!

Actually, I spent most of the time cooking pancakes. I'm now the Relief Society Secretary (as of a few weeks ago) and the RS was in charge of cooking the pancakes. So me and the RS President, Sila, went at it. Funny thing was, there wasn't a table that would reach the plug. So we sat on the ground. Eventually some men ran to the church to get us a table, that was nice. But before that we were doing it "polynesian style." (Sila is Samoan) I love her and it was fun to spend that much time chatting and laughing.

Also- I need to publicly thank Grandma for the new silverware. Apparently my old stuff was not quite up to par. Grandma gave it to us for our wedding but apparently was always diappointed in the quality. Mom started making comments the last time she was here. So I said, "Well, it works, I figured it was fine. How do you tell the difference between good and bad silverware?" Mom said, "Well, if you scoop out ice cream with a spoon, the spoon shouldn't bend in half." Oh. haha! Anyhow- thank you Grandma, we love the new stuff. It's so shiny and fancy looking. And heavy! Good quality for sure! It passed the ice cream test. :)