Check out my girls' new bathroom!

I just finished re-decorating my daughters' bathroom!  We went with a butterfly theme, because the only fabric they all liked was green and white gingham with butterflies on it.  I used the fabric to make the shower curtain, and drew inspiration from it for the rest of the room.

I painted the walls with a slightly lighter green than what's in the fabric, and stenciled butterflies(and a few dragonflies just for fun) all over the walls, using the colors of the butterflies in the fabric. 

Here's the view in the mirror.

 I found the towel hooks at Hobby Lobby, and let the girls each pick a color from the fabric for their bath towels.  Angel picked dark purple, Princess chose medium blue and Kitty picked bright pink.  I picked the yellow for the hand towels and the green for the bath rug(you can see the rug and a glimpse of the new tile floor in the first picture).

The butterflies hanging from the shower curtain were found in the Christmas ornament aisle at Walmart a few months ago.

I'm really pleased with how the room turned out, and the girls love it.  I just hope they keep it clean and neat.

Growing lace

Here's a picture of the white lace, yesterday afternoon. I've done another repeat and a half since I took the picture. This is just one end of the stole, but you can get the general idea. It'll look pretty much the same when it's done, except that the flowers will be tiny in comparison with the size of the stole. I'm still trying to decide whether I want to wear burgundy or teal with it. I like how it looks against this burgundy blanket...Next time I take a picture I'll put a teal towel in the background. ☺
And, because I haven't got enough projects on my needles at the moment... I started this shawl for Angel.

Actually, I started it because she wouldn't quit asking when I was going to. Now that I've done a little work on it, I set it aside, telling her that when she makes progress cleaning her pit of a bedroom, I'll make progress on her shawl. Haha...I'm such a mean mommy sometimes.

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I considered working on the washcloths for the girls, but haven't done it yet today. I have four cloths done with the knit/purl butterfly design, and two done with the tiny butterfly lace, so I need to make two more lacy ones, and then use up the yarns in stripey ones. This afternoon I put the grommets on the top edge of the shower curtain I made, and it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. It looks like a shower curtain that you'd buy in a store, only much cuter than any we found in stores.

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My oven died. It's a gas oven with electric ignition, so I think it's just the ignitor. I hope it's just the ignitor. I'm having a guy come to fix it on Wednesday. Why is it, when my oven doesn't work, that I want to do a bunch of baking? I haven't done much baking lately, other than our Friday night pizza. Now, suddenly, I want to make bread, and cake, and pie, and cookies....

Yes, I'm easily distracted.

Hey, I'm trying to get back in the habit of writing often, so....let's see...

The white lace hasn't progressed much. I've done three repeats of the pattern, and have about 57 to go, unless I change my mind on how long to make it. And the reason I haven't worked much on the white lace is that I found "I Love This Cotton" on sale at Hobby Lobby. I'm going to redecorate the girls' bathroom when Kitty is finally potty-trained; hopefully this fall. I've already made a shower curtain out of the cutest green and white gingham fabric. It has little tiny butterflies, and sparkles all over it. All three girls agreed it was perfect(which is a miracle in and of itself). So it's my inspiration point for the project. I used a scrap of the fabric to pick the perfect colors of yarn for washcloths. I've made four washcloths so far, using two butterfly washcloth patterns. I'm planning on making four more, so there'll be two in each color. There probably won't be enough for more solid-color cloths than that, but if there's enough scraps, maybe I'll make one or two striped ones, just to use up the yarn. Sorry, no pictures today. I'll post a picture of all the washcloths together when they're done.