Pink Chair Redo

So I'm interrupting my vacation --which I'm kinda already sucking at anyways- dang facebook :)-- to bring you pictures of the latest finished project.

Brynley's Pink Chair

Before:

Lovely hole backing, mauve fabric, and the wood I wouldn't have painted over if I was not going to put in in the girls room cuz' it could've looked nice after some fixing up and better fabric but......

After:

I love the cotton candy/ vintage look to it. Perfect for my little girls room-

 I'm one step closer to getting the nursery done- yay!
*** also this was a flame hammer project-- I tore it apart and painted the frame and than waited so long that I forgot how to put it back together so my sexy flame hammer did it for me :) if you have no idea what I'm talking about click here

Also today I trimmed Brynley's hair-- It's so hard to do sometimes-- I want her to have long pretty hair and it seems like it grows and than I trim it back, I do want it to be thick and nice for her though but ahhh like I said hard sometimes to do--

So anyways we pretended we were at the Salon for this haircut. I washed her hair and made it smell all pretty and than blow dried  it and styled it for her-- we also of course had to paint the fingernails :)  Than we went and had a mini photo shoot on her new chair to show her grandma's how pretty her new haircut is.

 

 Had to make some silly faces of course!

We had lots of fun-- and oh those little toes-- I just want to kiss them! Did I mention I love my little girly girl!

Vacation time

So I'm gonna take a vacation from the Internet for awhile--- I don't know about you- but it so sucks me in some days-- and before I know it my day's over and I've got nothin done :( which I find a bit depressing, actually a lot depressing
Plus I've made some goals and some deadlines-- By the end of March we should have all of the inside of our home projects done!!! oh happy day-- oh happy day!  But that means that I have a whole lotta this to be doing

& some of this

& most likely a lot of this going on for me ( I need my naps)

And my other goal/ deadline is I 'm going to take the scary plunge and open an etsy store to sell some of my announcement designs in March-- (extremely scary for me-- and no, I have no idea why) So I've gotta get my act together and finish and organize all the designs I've made so far

So If you don't hear from me for awhile that is where I've gone to-- the land of doing projects, many many projects. That or I may just become a hermit and stay inside all day doing nothing because of all the snow that we've been getting and the fact that I no longer can get my boots on by myself anymore and if you can't get your shoes on how in the world do you ever go outside in the snow??? huh? huh?

Dear flip flops,--- I need you-- can you go and talk to mother nature about our little problem.

and P.S. It's really hard to take a shot of your shoes over your belly--very very difficult :)

There's no cake there's no ice cream, Happy Birthday.

So it was the Hubby's birthday and to him birthday's are just another day no big deal-- which is so different than I feel about birthdays I like the "hey it's your birthday for a month" idea :)

But the thing that is really crazy bout Dave is he hates cake-- even cupcakes-- brownies that have the cakelike texture- yup hates em all. So because the kids were insisting that dad get a cake this year-- (they were confused that he didn't like them and plus they wanted to help me make it-- really wanted to help me, so much that they were asking me about it ever freakin second of the day) we had to get a little creative.

So I present the Rice Crispy Cake--- Dave luckily loves rice crispies.

He even got serenaded to by Brynley--- "long after the song was over she was still saying happy birthday over and over in her sing songey voice."

 In the end all was well, and all were happy, and we did get cake and ice cream after all. 

(though the nasty kind of ice cream Dave likes that never has chocolate and always has weird fruits like "blueberry and pomegrante" come on where's the chocolate at this party!!)

gotta love the cheek pictures--- Love you honey! tons and tons and tons and tons!

Taking it easy.

So I get all excited about how far we're coming on the house and different projects and I'm all ready for a week of working to get things done so we can move on to another project on Saturday---- but well the little belly says otherwise........
So I'm taking it easy-- well as easy as I can without going insane!  So today while lying in bed I  made some felt flower hair clips--  I'm excited to get some headbands to put these on-- and get to take pictures of our new little one wearing them :)

They look so soft and petite to me

Oh what fun it is to get to be having another girl! As for the table and the millions of other house projects well I'm hoping by at least Thursday I'll get to start tackling them again, Wish me Luck.

The Farmhouse Table-- Part 1

So I found some chairs finally off of Craigslist that I liked and was going to refinished since all of mine so far don't match and half of them I have to make sure and tell people not to sit on them cuz' they'll smash them to the ground--- awkward-- " I really mean the chair is weak not that your hefty or anything you know you look really good, have you lost weight recently?." 

But bad thing was the chairs included a table with it and they wouldn't split it up. So for the $60 price tag I figured whatever I'll figure something to do with the table--- Anyways a week or so later this is the conversation that ensued.

Me: Honey, I think I figured out what I'm going to do with that table---- I'm going to rip off the old tile table top and build more of a farmhouse table on the legs cuz' I really like the legs of it.

Dave: Uhhhh-- I think we should finish the fireplace.

"Ya but I'll do it by myself you don't even have to worry about it-- I'm gonna get me a pink hammer."

"What? your going to buy yourself a pink hammer?"

"No- This pink hammer---  see I'll be awesome sauce cuz' I did it all by myself and I'll link to this page-- cool huh"

"uhhh-- why does it matter if your hubby helped you or not? Where's the my freakin amazing hubby built this flame hammer? huh?"

"Ummm---whatever-- it'll be cool and I'll do it by myself"

"You know that  farmhouse table design looks like a picnic table to me"

"Whatever, I like it and it does not- it looks like a table that's been used and loved and had many cherished memories over-- I like it--- now can we please take the truck so you can help me get the wood."

"But that would mean that I was helping you and you weren't doing it all by yourself"

"Whatever that doesn't count-- you don't want your big pregnant wife to have to put all those boards in the truck by herself do you?"

"K, get the kids in the truck"

After getting the measurements and making the plan, going to the store and loading the wood and bringing it home I ended up on the couch so so so tired.

Dave: "Come on-- let me help you build that table"

Me: "Alright--  but I will get my pink hammer sometime ya know"

"uh- huh"

"I will"

"yep"

"You don't believe me? Do you honey?"

" No I believe you, but I think you know deep down having the amazing hubby flame hammer involved makes the process go a hecka lot faster huh."

"Ya your right-- I really like the amazing flame hammer hubby-- He looks very very sexy when he's using that hammer."

"Whatever you crazy girl"

See I told you it had some nice legs-- ugly green but nice

 Here's Payter being the help that he is and a sneek peek at the almost finished chairs

and the built but not "finished" table at to which when we were building it I said more than once
"Shoot! It does look like a picnic table"
But I still have hope--- It will look nice and I will like it when I finish it :)

See a little imagination-- It'll look similar to this pottery barn table :)
Can you see it?







But having the table take 2hrs instead of 2 days wasn't the best part of the day-- Payton yesterday discovered that his camera had video taking capabilities and was really having fun with it-- He took a video of Brynley dancing---- * I love the little posing/moves-- she gets those from her daddy :)

and while we were out working he decided he'd take some video of himself-- which we discovered when we came back in on his camera and it cracked us up! I'm still laughing at his dancing moves.


 and Honey--- Cuz' I love you and do think your freakin amazing sauce.

Brynley's Bed

So since we will soon be blessed with another little girl and Bryn's room will no longer be just "her" room we've been trying to make the transition as smooth as possible-- so it's not the new nursery it's the new pretty girls room :)

I found the awesome plans/idea to make this bed on knock off wood (love the site- you must check it out!) and I felt very ambitious and was going to make this bed all by myself. Problem was that we needed to make it a toddler bed size-- (we're planning on have Bryn in the toddler bed for at least a few more years and than Elleana/ Lilly/ Amelia/ the little nudger can use it 2) and to shrink it down took a lot of math work-which my brain hates to do- and included using the table saw :( and sorry but that thing scares the hebbergebbers outta  me! so I recruited Dave- and he was amazing of course and we built the thing in about 2 hours.

The Before:  Isn't it some pretty wood-- I can smell it still yum :)

After being Built

course it took me about a week to finally paint it and finish it :) This belly is gettin big and I have to be really careful painting so it takes fooreevveerrr.

After:

some distressing, cream paint, pecan stain, and a little smoke glaze

The girls room is still far from done-- and I plan on changing Bryn's bedding and making some pillows but it's definitely a work in progress.  but I think this bed looks a lot better than this old thing did-- *but it was free and thank you thank you Mike and Misty for giving it to us it has gotten a lot of use :)

The Free Dresser

I love Craigslist and would most likely be embarrassed  if someone looked through my computer history and saw how much I get on the site. I constantly have to ground myself from looking-- but it's so great to find what you need and even better when it's for freeeeee. :)

 So before we moved into our new house I knew that for once my kids wouldn't be sharing a bedroom and so because of that we needed another dresser. Looked on Craigslist-- bam! found it and it was for freeeeeee! (have to add adam sandler expression seen in bedtime stories) so I had hubby pick it up that evening. Now it's emabarrasing to say that six months later I finally refinished it-- but the house threw me enough projects (and being pregnant) that I just couldn't pull myself to do it-- even though I love refinishing simple projects like this that take like a day--

But it is now done-- Yay!! It is by no means a nice dresser but you know what it functions and I love love love the feet, and Bryn's room (and baby's 2 now) will eventually have more of a vintage feel so it works :)

*I had an impossible time taking pics of the thing-- but it's painted a really pale turquoise-ish blue and distressed with a smoke glaze on it :)

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THEE Kitchen

The Kitchen

BEFORE

Notice the: unmatched floor, the big light box, nasty gold chandelier, maroon vertical blinds, cheap wood trim, builders grade cabinets, and what you can't see is the dirt, grime and grease all over the walls and cabinets

Yummy.

It's been a pretty long journey

1-first we tackled the wood floor

2- Than the blinds and trim-- Hello neighbors every evening still cuz' I don't have replacements up- but to me I'd rather live without them than with those hideous loud broken things anymore

3- Than came the lights--down with the box and ugly chandelier that I'd whacked my head on a million times while doing the floor and up with the three pendant lights and flush mounts

4- Than we started the bar area-- we gave it some paneling so it didn't look so plain

5- Than finally we started on the cabinets-- after the wood floor was in I was overwhelmed with oak-- oak everywhere oak oak oak and I always had planned on painting the cabinets but that was the thing-- I always had- Dave hadn't :) It took some convincing and even I was a little scared but after living with the overwhelming oak I was ready

Cabinets

1- First up on the cabinets was the boxes for the top-- I wanted to raise the height of them somehow but than we went and saw my brothers cabinets he was building that he had put beadboard over his soffit and it looked awesome so we copied it :)

2- Than came painting-- oh the painting

a- remove all of the doors and hardware and label everything

b- become overwhelmed by the sheer amount of doors to paint

c- sand, prime,let dry, paint, let dry, paint, let dry, paint, let dry flip the doors over and do the other side now. :) And make sure and be six months pregnant have to be bending over the doors on the garage floor and trying to make it as safe as possible to be doing this, oh ya also it's January and freezing in the garage. Make some great memories doing this.

Finally we put it all back together

It's still not finished we still have a light we need to put in and curtains and more caulking and of course decorating but for right now I'm just enjoying it being as far done as it is-- plus we already moved on to other projects for now (like building Bryn a bed and working on the fireplace) someday the whole house will be done and it will be great and than most likely we'll move :)

But we aren't just doing the projects to make our house look nicer, it's actually part of our parenting plan of raising our kids-- we don't live on a farm or in the country so our kids aren't having the opportunity to work and learn how to work, so every Saturday we work on our house or some project because really we believe that is where it's at. Family time, sacrificing, working hard, accomplishing things, learning how to do things, being together, helping each other-- that is what we are trying to teach and I must say it's pretty fun to see my little boy learning how to work and hammer nails into pieces of wood.

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