Decorating and Packing the Camper

So it's been a year since we decided to move out of our house, sell our stuff, move in with my parents and renovate a vintage camper. I'm still very slowly decorating and trying to decide where to put stuff. Here are a few photos...

The storage under the wheel wells aren't the best for everything, but they're great for storing extra clothes, towels or deflated pool floats. 

Hanging shoe organizers work great for more than just shoes!

I really like having the vintage juice glasses displayed, but taking them down and packing them individually for travel has been a pain. At the moment they are not in the camper. 

I loved how these globes looked, but just like the juice glasses, I've found they are a pain to prep for travel. 

Camper Renovation - Ombre, Chevron and Dinos

I'm slowly decorating the camper, in the meantime we have gone camping for vacation. We had a great time at Possum Kingdom state park and Lake Whitney, Texas. For now here are a few pics of Libby's progress!

One of the original lights + an IKEA magnetic board to showcase prints. Oh and 3 itty bitty dinosaurs. 

My vintage blow fish print. I picked this up in an antique store and when I re-framed it I discovered it isn't a print but the cover of a cruise ship dinner menu from the 1960's.

Oh hey, here are some cinnamon rolls freshly baked in Libby's vintage gas turquoise oven! So cool. And I absolutely love my new camper kitchen. There's plenty of room for cooking.

New camper cushions!! I really like how the gray and white stripes turned out. And I'm totally crushing on these turquoise ombre and yellow chevron throw pillows! All sewn by my awesome mom. Thanks mom! Oh, and there's a peek of the yellow floor too.

Possum Kingdom and Lake Whitney - Camping Trip

The past week we went camping and it was all Texas lakes, sunburns, SUP and yummy food. We're talking roasted corn with lots of salt and butter, Snickers s'mores and slow cooker BBQ ribs. Oh and I totally made cinnamon rolls and pineapple upside down cake in my camper oven.

We camped out a couple of nights at Possum Kingdom State Park. One night it stormed like crazy and the rain poured every which way. If we weren't sure the camper was water tight, we are now. That camper was snug as a bug in the rug and dry as a bone. Good to know.

After Possum Kingdom we drove down to Cedron Creek at Lake Whitney. We spent a few nights there in blissful quiet before the rest of my family showed up for the family reunion. We had a great time.

Camper Renovation - Sewing, Beads and Fabric

So guess what - we took Libby camping! It took two weeks of intense work to get her "camp ready" and we had a lot of fun on the test run. There were a few things to fix or adjust but it went great. My mom was awesome and sewed our new camper cushions. My dad installed our new air conditioner and made sure the fridge wasn't going anywhere. Here's some photos of the cushion making madness...

I thought the cushions that came with our camper were great but since we made the bed bigger, we needed new cushions. We are pretty sure that the cushions were not original as the foam was just in too good of condition. 50 year old foam would have been all well... old, stinky, stained and/or grainy. They must have been made by some previous owners before my cousin bought the camper. 

Since our cushions make the bed I just had to add a layer of memory foam on top of each cushion. I ended up buying two memory foam mattress toppers in queen size (1.5" thick) and cut them up for the cushions. I also just used the foam from the original cushions (and added foam where needed.)

We closed up the backs of the cushions with velcro so that the covers could be removable and washable.

Just another one of my projects - this one is still a work in progress! My dad took the original chandelier and painted it white for me. Ok, I should say that I painted it white and made a huge mess of it. Then my dad exclaimed "didn't anyone teach you how to shoot paint?" and proceeded to sand blast it and repaint it. It looks great now. I have since been stringing different beads to hang on it. It's going to be filled with beads of all colors.

Cushion test run...

And here's just a little picture of our Libby at Tyler State Park.