Friday, March 26, 2010

I think I might be in LOVE!

Apparently I have been suffering from "kitchen envy" lately. We are in the process of trying to move and looking at houses and my mind and heart keeps getting so excited at the possibility of getting a new kitchen. Our kitchen right now is great and I am very thankful...But...who would not want to make a gourmet meal in one of these two kitchens? I think the kitchen of my dreams would be some mix of the two of these, and maybe with a little bit less stark white...But the architecture and details in these kitchens make my mouth water...

Southern Living

BHG

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sometimes you just get Lucky!

With 2 crazy kids, you never quite know what you are going to get when you try and take a picture. Especially if you really are trying to get a good one... After about 42 takes, I actually got one that I love and is totally frame worthy!

Woo Hoo!


Monday, March 22, 2010

Pottery Barn Lamp Inspiration

I have a lamp in my daughter's room, that is cute...but lately it has really been boring me. I have been looking around for a new shade, but really do not want to spend any money...

Well, today I was looking in the Pottery Barn Kids magazine, day dreaming about what it would actually be like to order something from it, when I came across this picture of a beautiful lamp... I mean it was only $99.00, plus shipping, plus the base. So once I calculated how many months of my monthly budget it would take to save up for that beautiful lamp, I realized that I could totally make one like that with my daughters old lamp.

I thought about buying some silk flowers to hot glue on the shade, which would be very pretty, but still to get that many flowers would still be more than I wanted to pay. So I walked around the house trying to come up with another alternative. And then I say a roll of crepe paper that I had use for my daughter's birthday party last year. It was the right color and I had almost an entire roll. Then I remembered seeing around blogland those super adorable crepe paper roses...

And it was on...

I started whipping out those roses like there was no tomorrow. If you have not seen them they are very simple to make. First I cut a bunch of 12 inch strips. Next you roll the end about 3-4 times and then fold paper in half. With your left hand grab fold and start wrapping and twisting your strip. Twist wrap, twist wrap until you are at the end. Then I just added a dot of hot glue and you have a rose. You will start to have a bucket full like this.

This is by far the longest part. It took me about an hour to get all of the roses made. Once you have a pretty good pile, I started hot gluing them in a line around the shade like this...


Once you fill the whole shade you have a whimsical and very girly lamp that any little girl would love to have...Enjoy!!



Bird Crafts Party

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Pokeno PArty

Last week I got to host a Pokeno party with the ladies from our church. We had a great time laughing and me not winning at all! Here are some of the homemade decorations that I came up with for the party:

Friday, March 5, 2010

Jars gone wild...

Well for a while now I have really wanted to come up with a much cuter way to store all of our crap, I mean craft, stuff that the kids and use... in comes Hobby Lobby and all of there glass ware being 50% off I got all of these jars for 65$. That's a great deal, since at any point I can put them anywhere around our house and just one would of cost me $34.99. Some of them were only $2.oo!!! And now I get excited to get the markers out...
I do plan on labeling each jar with a something, I just have not gotten there yet!!

Before...
Boring, Boring

After...




MAster Bedroom REDO!!!!

Well if you are like me....
you have probably redone every room in your house EXCEPT your own room. I have been married for five years and I have never walked into our bedroom and just felt relaxed and happy to be in there...
So sad, I know....
But now, thanks to my AMAZING husband I have redone the entire room. We had been using the bed he had gotten in high school, which was a great bed but it was a low platform, very modern bed and that is just not our style. I am very thankful for the five years of use we got out of it, but I was not sad to see it go. There was no design, or flow or anything else that is all throughout every other room in our house...no curtains, nothing on the walls, no lamps, black very modern bedside tables, no chair, no candles, no pictures of preston and I...nada
so please enjoy these after pics...