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~