Morning friends! I teamed up with a slew of creative bloggers swapping flea markets finds and then making them over. Here's the deets, shop [items from a flea market, thrift store etc] for a fun item for another blogger to makeover, spending between $10-15 bucks and then send them the item and they get creative making it over. My Swap buddy was Christy from Our Southern Home. Christy sent me several gold frames and wood leaf tray.

I recently saw some cute frames on Pinterest turned into pin cushions and love d the idea of turning one of the little frames Christy sent me into a pin cushion. I thought it would make the perfect cute addition to my sewing box.

I looked though my fabric stash and decided to use this green floral fabric I bought a while ago. I stuffed the inside with batting and wrapped the fabric in cardboard and then hot glued the bottom down.

The pin cushion turned out so cute and will come in handy during my sewing projects

I have a few ideas for the other items, that I received I plan on using the other frames in a gallery wall. I'm thrilled with how my Swap It Likes Its Hot project turned out. My swap partner was Shavonda from SG Style, make sure you pop over to her blog and see what I sent her plus, see what she did! I can't wait to head over there too!

Here's the list of other bloggers participating in Swap It Like it Hot today

Town and Country Living, Thoughts From Alice, Our Southern Home, SG Style, Two Thirty Five Designs

Sometimes, little spaces need to be bold with use of colors, patterns and textures. That sums up, how I'm feeling about my own little laundry room.It's been at a standstill for months, we were able to pretty it it up by adding large scale artwork for the HGTV Magazine Shoot, but since then it feels lackluster. I've identified whats working and what's not. I really want to give my full attention to a few areas in our home that have received little love since moving back home and one of those spaces is our laundry room. Top priority is repairing the drywall behind our artwork, I shared the fiasco of cabinet hanging in a prior post. We also need to fix our wood counter top, it got beat up during the whole ordeal. I'd honestly love to replace the counter top with butcher block, if I can find the right depth and if its budget friendly!

While the walls in my house of neutral with color layered in with lamps, colorful pillows, and rugs for my laundry room I'm gravitating toward throwing colors on the walls with either wallpaper (possibly the removable kind) or stenciling the walls and adding in artwork. Our laundry room is on the small size and also doubles as our mudroom / entrance to our backyard / kitchen and garage! There's a total of three exits and entrances into this small space, that's why I totally feel it could handle and needs all the pattern and fun it can get!
I did a quick sketch on my lunch break to share a few ideas, so you can visualize my thoughts.

Here's a quick little rundown of my plans for our laundry room that also officially doubles as a mudroom.

Subway Tile back-splash about washer & dryer
Pattern on the walls via: Stencil or Wallpaper
Possibly repaint the interior door, Chartreuse?
Recover the bench with bright cheeky fabric?
Add Mini Gallery or Large Frame (kids artwork, I picture a blown up artwork that one my kids made framed)
Install Floating Shelves above Washer & Dryer
Add a peg rail or hooks above bench to hold bags, umbrellas and coats. This is critical, our home has no coat closet! I know, crazy right? I actually had it removed during our re-building using the extra space to make our bathroom and kitchen larger, priorities!
New Rug? Maybe a natural weave rug?