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My bathroom needed something other than just a silly towel rack, am I right?

So why not add some extra storage!

These shelves were super easy to do and change the entire look of this wall!

look at this before of our bathroom …

YIKES!

When my husband and I first looked at this house this is what we walked into. Although it was very outdated I saw a lot of potential in this house we now call home.

This bathroom….

SO the deal was with the previous owner that we could pick everything out for this bathroom, and they would do the remodel and finish it before we moved it. Great deal right? Well that wasn’t really how it went, so we just took what we could get.

This bathroom is far from my idea of the potential it could have and even farther from my idea of a dream bathroom. But we are making it work.

These shelves have added extra storage in our tiny master bathroom and allowed us to free up a ton of space on our bathroom countertop.

So get to the point!

This cost less than $75!

However I did already have the stain.. but still great DIY!

Here is what I did

I ACTUALLY MEASURED THIS SPACE!

if you read my post about my Trellis , you may know I’m not the best at taking pre measurements.

so I knew I needed somethinghing less than 23 in to fit over the toilet and make it look like it wasn’t overbearing for that space.

I purchased

1x8x6 commonboard from Homdepot

http://1 in. x 8 in. x 6 ft. Premium Kiln-Dried Square Edge Whitewood Common Board-914827 – The Home Depot

along with four 8in metal brackets

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Crates-Pallet-8-in-Black-Steel-Shelf-Bracket-for-Wood-Shelving-69103/300434688?MERCH=REC-_-visuallysimilar_1_0-_-300436793-_-300434688-_-N

THAT IS IT!

I cut my board to 21in twice to make 2 shelves just to be safe

I stained them with Carbon Gray stain (also from homedeopt) that I already had lingering in my garage.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Varathane-1-qt-Carbon-Gray-Premium-Fast-Dry-Interior-Wood-Stain-300389/206386411

Once they were dry my Step Dad came over to help find studs and screw the metal brackets to the wall ( I could’ve done this myself however when he is over I always put him to work.. Sorry JOEY!)

And that was all!

I also want to mention a few items on these shelves.

Maleys B-Flat cream is a cream I have been using for a few month now, YES IT WORKS!

recently partnering with Maleys they sent me a few other products to try as well.

The “Bright”cream for dark circles because mom life..

The “B-Perky” cream because mom boobs… haha

+ my favorite out of the 3 so far (aside from B-Flat) is the “B-Tight” I have actually been using the “B-Tight” cream on my mom pooch and I am seeing results and it has only been a week!

Use my CODE:IVY15 for a discount on https://www.maelyscosmetics.com/

I hope you enjoyed this little DIY!

And of course the self care I added to the end!

Enjoy your weekend friends!

XOXO Ivy L

I saw someone wrote a few days ago that “If being a mother means one thing, it means sacrifice”

One of the greatest most rewarding sacrifices of all time is bearing a child and becoming a mother.

Becoming a mother has been the best blessing I have ever received.

Being able to conceive a child is a miracle in its self and having the ability to carry a child that my husband and I created is one of the best feelings in the world.

Going through pregnancy wasn’t always rainbows and butterflies.

In fact, the reason I found out I was pregnant all started from acne.

I never had acne growing up (blessed, I know) so when I noticed a few pimples on my face I knew something was up.

Then from acne was night sickness (morning sickness just at night, duh!) but most days it was more day + night sickness (that sucked). I couldn’t hold anything down, I lost my appetite, and you know when you throw up so much your abs hurt (like the nonexistent abs… the ones you wish you had… yeah those things!). It seriously was the worst nausea I have ever experienced.

Although the nausea went away by the 2nd trimester it was a rough few weeks, loosing a total of 14 lbs while growing a whole human inside of me.

I was sure to gain it back fairly quick though so don’t you worry!

Although my struggles may seem small to someone else, they were big to me! They were big until I got diagnosed with PUPPPS….

If you don’t know what PUPPPS stands for…

PUPPPS: Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) rash is an itchy rash that appears in stretch marks of the stomach during late pregnancy.

U G H !

This made the last few weeks of my pregnancy M I S E R A B L E!

I was constantly itching, like I had the chicken pox. I would itch my belly on one side, then the other side would itch, then my legs would itch then my entire body would just crave the sensation of being itched… terrible I know.

They say don’t scratch, it makes it worse..

VERY TRUE!

But at that moment in time there was literally no way on Gods earth I wasn’t going to scratch, it felt like I was paralyzed until I itched. It was the worst!

Along with that my body felt like it couldn’t be stretched anymore, the stretch marks were growing, my confidence was gone, my belly pictures were no more..

DIY BATHROOM SHELVES + NEW PRODUCTS!

Becoming a Mother

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