Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Woo Hoo...She's Done!!!!

Last year I did a post on my oldest daughter Courtney's Senior Project. Do you remember the Under Ground Railroad Quilt that she made? Well, that year flew by and now Kelsie just presented her project today!!
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Our state has rigorous graduation requirements and one major part is the Senior project. You can pick any topic, but you must have a learning stretch and expand on what your topic is. Kelsie chose "What effect does color and interior design have on the mood of a room."
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The room she decided to redecorate was the Senior Company Room at her dance studio. It's an honor to finally be in Senior Company and she was chosen in 1oth grade. There is the thrill of a select group of girls having their own room separate from the other dancers. However, that room is the storage room for supplies, props and all in all crap. They just like having their own space.
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Unfortunately it looks like this...just gross
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After she worked her whole April vacation...it now looks like this!!!
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This is the view from inside the room looking out.
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and now that corner looks like this!



She took that big old desk top and had her father cut it down to a smaller top.
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Now it's a smaller desk for homework, doing their hair or makeup.
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All the following pictures are projects she did to fill up the room on a budget.
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This disgusting couch was in the first picture. It was in the room, but no one sat on it for obvious reasons. However, there was no way we could afford to buy another couch.




So she scrubbed the heck out of it. She used every chemical we had, bathroom cleaner, Simple Green, Spic and Span, bleach...you name it.




Here it is with the tar getting kicked out of it.



It looked great, but she wanted to jump in the shower.


Can you believe that was a white leather couch under all that. From the 1980's, but clean enough to sit on now.



Then she painted.



and painted. One of the things she learned during all this is...she HATES painting. Cute smile though.






Here are some craft projects...blow up a balloon, dip string in glue and then wrap it up. Let it dry and pop balloon.
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Decorations to fill up a bowl.
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She went into Joanne's for fabric with a whole different color scheme and came home with these. She made pillows, wall hangings and decorations.



One wall was really large and needed something big to fill it in, so she used wood from her father's wood pile and some fabric.












There were some large card board tubes that the flooring for the dance studio came on.








More decorations for the shelf.
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Then there was the large wall over the nice WHITE leather couch. She just nailed in the straw paper plate holders.






and here it is again. She presented today with a power point of 30 photos and a 12 minute speech in front of a panel of 8 judges. She did GREAT!



One more thing checked off the list for this year!
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Take care,
~Karen~

44 comments:

  1. That's one very talented young lady you have there. Now how can I get my girls into being so creative? Well done Mum.
    hugs - Miche'le

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  2. Very nice! All her hard work really paid off! :0)

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  3. WOW!! Awesome make-over!! What a clever, hard working young lady!!
    Paulette

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  4. I think she takes after you in talent! Great job teaching her mom!

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  5. That is an AMAZING room. I love the makeover.

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  6. Like Mother Like Daughter
    Well done
    She must be feeling very pleased with herself

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  7. Wow - she did an amazing job on her project. And I bet she learned tons from the process of redecorating. Good work, Kelsie!

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  8. That girl takes after her mother. Awesome talent!

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  9. Bravo!! Tell your daughter she should be an Interior decorator. What a great job she did.

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  10. Wow, the room looks absolutely gorgeous now. She did an awesome job and is very creative...just like her mom.

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  11. Wow! That is amazing! She did such a fantastic job. I hope she is majoring in interior design when she gets to college because she is really talented!

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  12. What a nice job she did!!!! Congratulations!!

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  13. Wow! what an amazing makeover, your daughter is beautiful, and obviously talented.

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  14. OMG! What an incredible job your daughter did with the room. Like everyone else said, I hope she becomes an interior designer.

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  15. Karen, wow that is fantastic! Both my kids had to do senior projects at their high school but neither of them did anything this elaborate.

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  16. Wonderful job...and when I saw her painting the shelves, it was very obvious she has learned a lot from her mom!!! :)

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  17. Obviously she has been watching you closely to be able to very thriftily pull together such an attractive room. What a lot of work! I'm with her on that couch---ew! Congratulations to her for accomplishing a minor miracle in that makeover.

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  18. This room looks great! Your daughter has done a marvelous job. You must be soooo proud!

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  19. Wow, she did a great job!
    I love the idea of using pieces of wood on fabric (the wall hangings), that is so effective! Clever girl!

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  20. Wow, I'd hire her, she did fantastic. I think she inherited your thrifting creative talent. I love the colours in the room.

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  21. It doesnt look like the same room. She did a fantastic job and everything is so clever what she did. :)

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  22. WOW the room looks fantastic!!! I am going to steal some of the decorating ideas!!
    I think she has found her calling..interior decorating!
    She is welcome to come over and redo a few of my rooms:-)
    Super job!
    I'm impressed!
    Liz

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  23. Wonderful job - is she planning to go into interior design? She should!!

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  24. I see a carier in interior decorating!

    Am I surprised? No she is your daughter!!! :)

    I love the color scheme and it is a lot of work is just fabulous! You should be very proud!

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  25. Lovely job on the project. What an improvement!

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  26. She did such a GREAT job! Reminds me of one of the HGTV or DIY shows. Tell her CONGRATS. Laura

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  27. Well Karen I'd say that is Karen Jr.,the apple doesn't fall far from
    the tree. She did an AWESOME job.
    That was a lot of work for one
    very pretty young lady, good thing
    she has family to help in a pinch.
    CONGRATS TO HER!!!!!:o)

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  28. Great project Congrats to your lovely daughter...and .... me thinks Like MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER!

    Pat

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  29. BRILLIANT!

    Like mother, like daughter!!

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  30. Wow, that turned out great!!! Good job!

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  31. Wow that looks great! Can she come redecorate and organize my teenage son's room? On the other hand, that might be a lost cause, even for her....

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  32. Great job, Kelsie....like Mother, like daughter! What a difference.

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  33. Awesome makeover. She certainly is creative...Just like her Mom. Tell her another of your followers sends Congratulations!

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  34. What a transformation!!! You've taught her well!!

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  35. What a difference, it looks so warm and natural now, a wonderful place to relax. You must be very proud of her.

    Debbie

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  36. Amazing job, Kelsie! Always fun to see "before" & "after" pics! So much hard work & long hours in this!

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  37. Hi, Karen! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm excited to take a look around your blog. What your daughter did is really impressive--that room looks like it took a lot of effort!

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  38. Well isnt that the neatest?? I loved it. And that couch!! WOW who knew?? She should be proud, she did an awesome job.

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  39. Wow...I'm impressed...
    That is quite a project for a girl to tackle by herself. You must be so proud.

    Congratulations ~Natalie

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  40. Wonderful!! And we can all see how proud mama is...!! ;-)

    Congrats Kelsie ...Awesome job!!

    Hugs,

    ^A^ngel♥

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  41. i'm the Associate Director of Dance at our Performing Arts Company and I recently turned a "crap" room into our very first Studio Office! it had an old van bench seat, 50 cardboard boxes and piles of cracked old flooring. my dad and i painted, brought in furniture, painted some more... i visited the fabric store... very similar to what your daughter did! the re-do has boosted morale among the instructors immensely. i'm glad i'm not the only one turning junk rooms into pleasant rooms in dance studios! loved this post!

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  42. Was there a particular product she used on the couch that really worked? She did an AMAZING job! I love her fabric choices.

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