Ch..ch...changes

When your house is a whopping {1000} square feet & occupies 4 people and 2 dogs, well...let's just say that having some personal space is a necessity if everyone wants to maintain a level of sanity. While both of the tiny people had their own rooms, and the hubband was able to disappear to the basement, his office, the garage, etc., {I} had no space that was really my own. Even the bedroom was being invaded by the tinier of the tiny people in the middle of the night.

So, I decided to employ guerilla tactics and take back some space for {me}. Call me selfish... First, I talked the hubband into letting me buy bunk beds for the tiny people. A whopping $160 at IKEA and a couple of hours of work and {voila}, the girls are now sharing a room. Can I get a {WOOT!}. Next up? Decor. I moved them into the room previously occupied by the not quite as tiny person. Her room was already pink, which the tinier person was just fine with ~ I just had to make them coordinate. When we talked about the move ~ even before we bought the beds ~ the tinier of the tiny people said she wanted her bedspread to match her sister's. This is the bedding in question...

Now, I {love} Land of Nod ~ really, I do ~ but I just couldn't stomach spending $60 on a duvet cover. The only reason the not quite as tiny person had this bedding was b/c my MIL bought it for her as a gift. I started thinking about it and decided that there was no reason I couldn't figure out a way to make that duvet cover into 2 duvet covers. So while I was at IKEA, I picked up 2 plain white flat sheets....for $2 each. I also grabbed a synthetic down comforter for the tinier of the tiny people for $14. Then, I trimmed a bit of off each of the comforters (b/c I knew I was going to lose some fabric from the duvet covers when I seperated the front from back...and there's not a lot of extra width on bunk beds to begin with) and sewed them closed. Next I laid out the plain white sheet & one half of the comforter, put right sides together and pinned around three sides, and sewed the new, plain white back, onto the existing flowered print. And there you have it....two bedspreads out of one. I love it when a plan comes together.

I'm not gonna lie, the transition to a shared room has been rough. The tiny people have been staying up {waaaay} later than I'd like, and there has been a lot of coming out of the room over and over again ~ but I didn't anticipate it being an easy over-night switch. I'm just hoping that they'll be over the excitement and novelty before school starts again.

The {really} exciting part of all of this is that the tinier of the tiny people's old room is now {vacant} and ready to be used for whatever I darn well feel like. ;) I've already started moving stuff in. More to come soon!