Inspiration File: Noodle’s Big Girl Room

As you know, we have a lot of redecorating going on here at Making Lemonade! Now that you’ve seen how we are going to convert the guest room into a guest room/ office, it’s time to reveal the master plan for Noodle’s Big Girl room.

Her nursery is currently decorated with birds, so I’d like to keep the birds but add in another element as well. That led me to a garden theme; there’s so much I could do with that! I have a million ideas in my head, but hoped to find ways to implement them with some inspiration from the interweb to illustrate them. Here you go, my inspiration file for Noodle’s Garden!

I’d like to do a “two-tone” paint job, but have the line higher up on the wall. I thought jumbo rick-rack would make a could “buffer” between the two lines, but I am also intrigued by the following ideas from Design Dazzle:

Birds and Branches room:

French Diva Room:

Floral Woodland:

If I don’t do two-toned, how about a trellis as the “beadboard” like in this garden nursery:

Here is a way to incorporate flowers into the garden room: large flowers painted on the wall. I liked this idea, and thought jumbo rick-rick might make a fun stem. Or, as flower heads, I have an idea up my sleeve that I’m hoping to pull off as a surprise! This photo came from the Flower Girl room, also on Design Dazzle:

Bow Holder

Oh my goodness, seriously, how cute are these window boxes? This might put the whole theme over the top, but if we can incorporate them, we will!

If we don’t go with a two-toned room, then we WILL have a background mural such as this Cherry Blossom room:

Isn’t this mobile/lamp idea swoon-worthy? It’s made from an IKEA lamp, leaf ribbon, and felt birds:

Okay, as a tease, here’s my inspiration board for Noodle’s Garden. The details aren’t exact, but it might give you an idea as to what’s up my sleeve:

Noodle’s Garden

Next up: my inspiration file for Baby Boy’s room. Then, after all this talking, it’s time to start MAKING IT HAPPEN!

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Over the past year, I discovered the world of “couponing” in a whole new way and found strategic ways to save money. Quite simply, it has changed my life. Yes, it takes quite a bit of time and effort but I look at it as my part-time job and the savings are my “paycheck”. The money we save can be put toward maintaining the lifestyle we had before I became a stay-at-home mama, making sure our children will be financially stable, and also all the extra medical expenses that have popped up since Noodle was born.

We still have a long way to go in setting a stricter budget, investing, planning for the future, and finding even more ways to save. I also know we are “leaking” money in several places so we need to plug those holes. That’s why we are working on a financial tune-up in 2010; now that we’re saving money, we need to know how much and where it’s going. Saving is so much more fun when you have a goal!

One of the tools I recently discovered is the Savings Tracker at The Coupon Project. Enter a few bits of data from your receipts and the spreadsheet will calculate your savings for you. It will even give you a month-end and year-end summary. Sweet!

Hope you enjoy it, and let me know if you’d like to hear more about ways we save moolah. I’d love to include special deals, freebies and cheapies, thrifty decorating ideas, and ways to save more often here on Making Lemonade– but only if there is interest.

Enjoy the Savings Tracker, and let me know if you use it!

{by the way, if you live anywhere near a Harris Teeter you MUST take advantage of Super Doubles going on now through the 12th! My BFF tells you how on her guest post from a few months ago. Needless to say, I’m very jealous of ya’lls Super Doubles.}

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Comments

Luschka says

January 10 at 12:49 pm

I think it’s great you guys have all these coupon offers. We don’t seem to have the same thing here, although we do have ‘money off’ vouchers on things we NEVER use. We’re forever getting things for shampoos, make up and so on that we just don’t ever buy, so buying them ‘cheaper’ wouldn’t be much of a saving. Specially where cheaper is more expensive than our normal brands! But we’re doing the same saving thing over here – and it’s been interesting seeing the changes we’ve had to make. Few of them have actually been ‘sacrifices’. And this moring we bought fresh pastries for breakfast with the remains of our weekly budget. Yay us! :o)

Shell says

January 10 at 3:45 pm

I do live near a Harris Teeter- I’ll go check out her blog!

Mrs Gloves says

January 10 at 5:45 pm

Thanks for the link! I love couponing and have been looking for a way to keep track of savings.

…stopping by from SITS…

Steph @ A Grande Life

carol says

January 10 at 7:21 pm

That’s cool. I like things that calculate for me.

Erin says

January 10 at 11:04 pm

I’ll have to check that out. I saved $20 by using coupons today!!

I left you an award on my blog today, but I’m pretty sure that you might have gotten it already…

Paige says

January 11 at 1:12 am

Just stopping by from SITS! I want to learn to coupon better this year and save some money each month. Thanks for the tip!

Twincerely,Olga says

January 11 at 2:16 am

stopping by from SITS!! I, too need to start doing this.I am a SAHM too!!! stop by

Meg says

January 11 at 3:58 pm

I love hearing about all your thrifty/saving money tips. More please! Plus, if you can make the time to do it with a little one, I know I really have no excuse.