I STILL by no means have it down perfectly, and we had a ton of photo's that just didn't turn out right. But that's one of the great things about photography. You can always take another shot !
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Back to School Photo's
So after searching Pintrest for some inspiration, I found it ! I had to borrow a few props ( Desk, Globe, etc ) But after all the hard work ( from the girls and my Mom who let me use her yard and held my shade ) I LOVE the way they turned out.
Homeschooling in a Small Space
Homeschooling in a Small Space
A little less then a year ago we moved ... AGAIN. We found a super cute rental home that is 3 bedroom/ 2 bath. The house is great, but it's small. When we started our home school journey we were in a 4 bedroom 2 story house was a den we used as our school room.
So I had to figure out how to incorporate what we need for home school into our very tiny dining area on a very tight budget.
Chalk Board from Hobby Lobby
So first I decided to off center out table from the light. This gave us much more room inside the dining area and enabled me to get to the chalkboard.
Then I made a trip to Wal - Mart where after several laps around our sad options for fabric, I FINALLY spotted this. I grabbed a matching bottle of craft paint, a little hot glue refill and this super cute little slate. The cross had actually fallen off of a sign I had and was in a drawer. SO I glued it on, measured and glued the fabric on a couple of magnet boards I also got from Wal - Mart for under 5 dollars and painted a picture frame I already had.
I also had an old Lamp that was just stuck in a corner. I revamped the shade with left over fabric.
again with the fabric lol I only bought a yard, but I had a lot left over. The frame was on a had that didn't match anything and the fabric flowers were left over fabric from another project. The grey flower is actually an earring that broke and I had kept the pieces in case I ever needed them for something. The girls love this because I have already started leaving them little messages in the mornings.
15 dollar Wal - Mart bookcase. We bought this bookcase just to fill a blank space in our other house. It didn't get much use at all. When we moved, we just put it in the laundry room as a holder for junk. So I pulled it out and placed it in front of the window. It fits really well in the space. Also I had these wicker baskets from a different project, but the work so well for holding the kids books and supplies.
In the right hand corner you can see a bag. It was my craft bag for scrap booking. I have since kinda gotten out of scrap booking and decided to turn it into a supply caddy. It's PERFECT ! I purchased it at Michael's years ago, but have seen them at Wal - Mart and Hobby Lobby. It has SO many little pouches for scissors, glue, colors, pencils, sharpers, glitter, paint and brushes, etc etc. Everything fits in it and it will be perfect when we get the urge to do a little home school outside !
Our dry erase calendar fit perfectly on the side of our pantry.
And I EVEN had a little left over for a no sew valance in our kitchen. It dressed the sink area up so much ! All I did was iron down the side and hot glue them ! Took me 5 mins ! I already had a tension rod that fit perfect just sitting in our garage. It's crazy what you have laying around the house and when you get a little pintrest inspiration, what you can do !
So It's hard to tell from this angle, but I think this will work for us. Since I posted this picture I added some green seat cushions and I painted the dining table black with chalk board paint ! It's works perfect !
Shawn left us messages :) he's so sweet !!! And funny lol his message to Matthew was E-malk ? This is how Matthew asks for milk
I also cleaned out the bottom of our pantry. It was just a catch all and had the girls easy bake ovens in it. I had this plastic storage tub in the laundry room for just junk. It fit perfectly in the pantry and even had space on the side for my co op bag and a place in the front for all the cookie cutters I scored at a garage sale !
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