TGIM is Back!! Customizing Roller Shades

So, after a long and whirlwind weekend, I am sharing this week's(and last's... and the one before that... and maybe the one before that...ok, so I haven't posted a Truly Great Idea Monday post in awhile, my apologies!) truly great idea brought to you straight from a blog I avidly read! I thought this was so cute, I had to pass it along! So, be inspired by this week's truly great idea...


Emily Clark as in emilyaclark.blogspt.com shared this great idea on her blog not long ago! Using a $5 roller shade, she completed this project for the guest bath/powder room. Want to create this cute idea? The details are here. The finished project looked like this...

She goes on to suggest using this idea for a window that you want to soften the look of, but not something where the shade need be necessarily functional.  The fabric caused the shade to be too thick to easily pull it up and down easily.

If you are needing a functional roller shade, but still want to dress it up, here are some great ideas...

Better Homes and Gardens

Or, maybe add some ribbon trim...

What The Vita

Good Housekeeping

Or, try painting the whole roller shade...

Better Homes and Gardens

Or, how about a stencil that looks like fabric...

Velvet Toolbox

(And, I just found out that Lowe's sells a chevron stripe stencil!!)

And lastly, my favorite...

Dress up roller shades with trim and decorative pulls! Details here.

For a look divine!

Isabella & Max Rooms

Be inspired and create!! 

-Amy-

Whew...

Happy Monday! Life has been very hectic (and very tiring) for the Pendergists.  I'm booting this week's TGIM post with a "catch up on life with us" post....Surely you can find a truly great idea in here, somewhere! *wink*

I had a major job installation a couple of weeks ago.  It went really well, but we are working at finishing up some last minute things.  My photographer, Amy Hough Photography, came out and did a photo shoot of the finished room.  I am excited to get pictures back from that. I hope to get them posted soon!!


In case you haven't heard, we found out about 6 weeks ago that we are having another little one! Yay!! We are super excited, slightly surprised, and oh so... ..TIRED!! I am finally starting to gain some energy back and my appetite is beginning to show up (which isn't a good thing)! But part of my "hiatus" has been from EXTREME exhaustion!!! I don't remember being quite this tired when I was pregnant with #1... oh wait! I wasn't!!! I didn't have a toddler to chase around!! But all is going very well.  Our first doctor's appointment went great and little peanut no.2 is growing rapidly!

Now, if I can just get back into the swing of things...




Bill turned the big 3-0  the end of March, however, I planned his birthday celebration a week later. I booked the picnic area on opening night of the Arkansas Travelers'baseball season... (that should earn me wife of the year, right?!) We had a blast! The picnic area came with catered, all-you-can-eat good 'ole American baseball game food and soft drinks. I had his birthday cake made in the shape of a baseball. Seriously, an actual sphere shaped ball! We also got stadium seats to watch the game. We invited our closest friends and had an absolute "ball"! (hehe sorry.. ) And all during the 6th inning, they scrolled "Happy Birthday, Bill!!" across the scoreboard. I think I made my man proud.

And all of this and I have NO pictures! Yep. Pitiful. I am SOO not a picture taker. I always get caught up in the moment talking, or whatever and I always forget! I am trying to get better.. especially since I am blogging about these things. But I dropped the "ball" (hehe sorry...again) on this one. But you can enjoy the image of the invitation I sent out for the party... I designed it myself and stuffed them into red envelopes.....

Hope you all had a fantastic Easter weekend! We sure did! We had an excellent service at church Sunday morning, ate a yummy lunch prepared by my mother-in-law, and hunted eggs with Sophie! She was so cute! She caught on quickly...

I hope you all had a blessed Easter weekend!! Happy Monday, everyone!!

-Amy-