Girls Room-REPOST

 So of course my daughter has to add her touch to the room with the posters. I HATE them!

 I did the desk before I knew anything about distressing and glaze. I see a re-do in it's near future!

 Modena made matching blankets for their dolls

 My mom made that bunny for me for Easter (my mom passed away when I was 12)

 Frame from Real Deals and butterfly from Micheals

 Knobs from Anthropology

 Hooks on the back of their closet door from 3m. Theirs also some on the other door to hang what they are going to wear the next day

 Cute chair from Direct Source Furniture

 Everything here was from Gardner Village

I know! Sorry if you get bored looking at their room, but our computer crashed last year and I lost the pictures I took and I need them for the scrapbook album. And I needed for my sidebar...so there. I did hang up some butterflies on their walls, but everything else is still the same. I want to re-do their desk and nightstand. Its way tooooo white. I want to paint it green..I think.

Good Sport

Poor David puts up with a lot, mostly from Austin. The minute David steps into the house, Austin clings to him. And David obeys his every command. Austin tells his dad what to do, how to do it, and what they are going to be doing for the next several hours...and David obeys every command. David doesn't' even eat dinner until around 9pm after Austin has gone to bed because Austin wants his undivided attention. I swear I play with him during the day!!! I swear I do! We read, we do homework, I'll watch a show with him, but then I say "It's mommy's turn now. I need to get some things done."  "Okay, mom!" If David were to say that, Austin would scream:"NOOOO! Watch movie with me!!!"      And he does.

WALL OF FRAMES

I have a blank wall in my bedroom that I've been wanting to do something with, but was too nervous to. I HATE hanging things on my walls, mostly because we have moved around so much I hate taking it down and then fixing the holes, like 2 months later! So I am finally getting this wall done (and then put the house for sale..just kidding)
Everytime I would go to DI I would pick up a frame or 2...or 3. Some of the frames I already had.  So with a little spray paint and some photography skills...VIOLIA! (spell check isn't working so I don't know if thats really how you spell it, but you get the idea! )Blogger downloaded my pictures in the wrong order!) The first picture is where I got my color scheme: I stole this from another blog...Betcha thought this was in my house! YEAH  RIGHT!!

 

 Imagine David's face when he came home from work and saw this! My dad painted the picture of the dog for me when I was a kid.

Book Review

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


UGH! The twist at the end!!! Not liking it whatsoever!!! I really liked this book...until the end and was sad when I was done and couldn't wait until the 2nd one came. I wasn't frantically turning the pages like I was in Hunger Games, but I still liked it. Gotta love the cover though! Its like Lord of The Rings meets Twilight and Shiver.



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Austin's Desk

This is my latest project. $15 bucks at DI. Its not done, obviously. I just threw some things on the top for the picture. I still need to glaze it which I will be doing inside since I cannot take the cold anymore!!! I still need to hang up some rain gutter bookshelves over his bed and I bought some really cute vintage superhero pictures to hang above the desk...still so much to do!

Red Barn

It was finally a clear day so I went back to take pictures of the barn...literally 30 seconds from my house

Thou Shalt Not Covet

Thou shalt not covet the $1100 camera I want especially when I see these pictures!!!!! UGH!  AUbree had a good game though. They won their first game. She still has soccer so we might rotate games or just forgo soccer altogether and just have her focus on basketball right now. They don't keep score in this league until next year, but of course the parents keep score!

Next Project

I'm working on a wall of frames for my bedroom wall. I have pictures of my kids all over my house and wanted to change things up a bit for this wall. But come to find out...I literally only have pictures of my kids!! So I jumped in my car to snap some pictures..not of my kids.
This is what I found. This is literally around the corner from me. I love it out here!!(Except for the crappy air)

HE IS FORGIVEN

He shall be forgiven of every past and future birthdays he has ever forgotten

Dresser With The Knobs

Here is the dresser with the knobs...that came with the wrong size screws...in which I spent many hours minutes of my life that will never be returned to me going through all of my screws to find the right size. Notice my Scentcy candel, hoping to get rid of the dying old lady smell....IT AINT WORK'IN!!

OLD LADY SMELL TV STAND

Here she is in all her glory!My $25 DI dresser! I've been working on this for about 2 hours everyday for the past 10 days...in the freezing cold...in horrible lighting. Even after I got it all set up I noticed where I had missed some spots with the spray paint and had to re-do it....#$%%^&&&*! David complains that the TV sits too high, but luckily he hasn't noticed the smell....oooohhhh lets talk about the smell shall we?! It STINKS LIKE AN OLD LADY!!! An old dying lady to be exact which is probably where it came from. So I've got my candles going and I've been spraying air freshener on the hour (and he still hasn't said anything?!) But for my first HUGE project I like the results. Oh theirs a ton of things I would've done differently like tried black glaze instead of chocolate. I wished I would've painted white instead of antique white..ya know things like that. David said I'm done with projects for while (except theirs 2 end tables waiting for me in the garage....we shall see how long my break lasts!)
I won't do a close up on the corner cuz I know nothing about woodworking, but one of the corners had been cut off so I had some wood cut and sawed it down to the size I needed it to be (YES! I used a saw! (wait..yes their still there......inside joke) Then I glued it on and sawed it again to fit right. It still is not perfect, but at least I tried. Their are some knobs on order, but I couldn't wait to take pictures.

I yanked out one of the drawers and had some wood cut at home depot so the DVD player would fit right

LATEST FINDINGS AT DI

ABOVE: Canisters from an antique store. I got the set for $9.00
Vase from DI: $1.00
Teapot from DI: Their wasn't a price so they gave it to me for $1.00
DI: Plates 50cents, platter $2.00
ABOVE: Bowl from DI. Its more of a mustard color. This isn't its permanent place.
BELOW: $25 dresser. I've been working on this one for over a week now. I have the base painted and glazed so I think I'm going to set it up tomorrow cuz I'm to impatient to wait until the drawers are done.

This is the only way I can get motivated to take down my Christmas decor is by buying new things for the house. I've put away 4 bins and have one more to go!