Under Construction

So, I've talked a lot on here about how I'd like to completely reorganize my entire home. I've read a lot of blogs and gotten an overwhelming amount of ideas...so overwhelming I was beginning to stress myself. I had tons of lists going at the same time and it was starting to be too much.

With that, I've slowed down a bit and I'm taking on ONE project at a time. I realized I was driving myself crazy when I was going over ideas with my aunt and she said "why don't you just do one thing at a time." DUH!!

This week's project...Jamison's room.

I have a few ideas for her room. I would first love to repaint it. Right now it's more of a sea green and I found this beautiful green color from Behr called Grasscloth. We'll see, I haven't decided completely.

One of the main things that I want to do is create an art center in her closet. I (and by "I" I mean Rondell) am going to bring up a bookshelf from the basement that I never use and make containers to hold all of her art supplies. I have found some great ways to organize crafts here, and here, as well as many others. I also want to organize her bookshelf and clean out toys that she no longer plays with. Lastly, I want to get letters that spell her name to hang on the wall. I really want to make these myself if I can...any tips?

So here's what I'm working with:

Here's Jamison's bed. I have to take her comforter to the cleaners and that will make her bed look more complete. If you look closely you can see her sleeping. So sweet!

This is the wall opposite of her bed. See her bookshelf...a friend of Rondell's made that for us as a gift before we had Jamison. Right now it looks crazy because tonight I started trying to figure out her books and Rondell cleared out some of her stuff from her closet (that used to house her dresser, which is now in Caleb's room...the kids' rooms are so small!) Anyways, I want to make this more organized and useful for Jamison.

This is Jamison's closet. Like I said before her dresser used to be in here. This is where I'll put the other bookshelf to put her art supplies. I will keep the games on the shelf but just stack them differently.

So this is it...my one and only project. It's going to take some time to buy all of the stuff I will need for the art supplies but other than that it should be done by this week. I will post some after pictures next week...aren't you excited?

***Also, if you have any ideas to help me all of you craft people, chime in!