New Shower Curtain and Hooks.

Alex-he LOVES books now. I'm so glad, because I was getting a little worried. A few months ago he didn't really have the attention span for them, but now he loves to sit on the couch with me and look at books. I can tell him, Alex, let's go sit on the couch and read books and he'll trot on over to the couch and know what we're going to do. It's so precious. He knows more animal sounds and is getting better at trying to say more words. I'm trying to be consistent with him about asking him to say words all the time. He likes to point to things and have me tell him what it is.

I really love him so much. He's so sweet and precious. His new thing is to point out Anna. He'll look at me and point to Anna and say, Nana, nana, nana. And keep repeating it until I confirm, and say, Yes, that's Anna. He seriously does it all day. Today he did it at the grocery store with other people.

Some times in the morning she'll still be in her room, while I'm getting him breakfast and he'll say, Nana. And I know he's wondering where she is. He really likes her and her companionship. Sure they still fight and stuff, but it's so nice to see how they get a long and have fun with each other.

Here we are reading some books together.

So I've been working on a few glazing projects lately. My favorite one is some shower hooks that I did for our hall bathroom. The bathrooms are slowly coming along. We FINALLY got rest of the trim up, minus a few pieces here and there. I just need to cover up nail holes and paint more, but my motivation is waning. Lol.

However, I did make a shower curtain. I decided on some black damask. I found some shower hooks at Ross for only $4! (and the rod for only $5).

This is what the looked like.

I loved how they had a matching pattern to the damask.

They were kind of a bronzey brown. I spray painted them white.

I then put glaze on the front and sides and wiped most of it off on the front.

I just LOVE how it just makes the detail pop out.

Here is the shower curtain when I first made it. I added the black to the bottom, but then realized that you couldn't really see the shower hooks very well.

If you look up close, you kind of can, but it just blends in with the curtain.

So luckily, I still had some black material, that was actually leftover from Dan's Halloween costume.

I added a strip to the top.

Now, you can see the shower hooks!

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and how much the glazing helped it.

I did have a mess up though when I was cutting off some extra material after I sewed the top black strip. I ended up cutting some of the shower curtain! Aaahh! I need to fix it, but luckily, you can't really see it unless you know it's there. There's always something....lol.