Artwork Display

Kenna brings home artwork and worksheets all the time now that she is in daycare. Because stuff is falling off the refrigerator, when I seen this picture on Pinterest, I knew I needed to try to make something similar.

 

I had a piece of scrap board from our faux sofa table, already stained, so I cut out a stencil and used the inside of the stencil, painted over the whole thing in a bright/light yellow Valspar paint sample, and then peeled the stencil up to show that pretty stain. I decorated some clothes pins with scrapbook paper and Mod Podge, then hung it on the wall with Command Strips!

While I was working on that, Kenna crafted!

Then we took a stroll outside, well, not really a stroll, while I peeled the stencil off.

And here we are!

I also hung up some art in the kitchen. I had some prints I was waiting to use, a Corbin Family Rules print I won from Signs by Andrea, and the middle top big print was done by my cousin, artist D. Renee Wilson!

Painted door!

I’ve been wanting to do a brightly colored door like Young House Love’s yellow door forever now but really had to work up to it, lol, so I decided to start with my back door. I got Travis on board by saying, “Wouldn’t a bright door be so welcome to come home to? We’ll see it and be like “WE”RE HOME!!! Look at that door!!!” He just gave me one of those side glances but, hey, it worked! So I immediately started a Pinterest board aptly named painted doors. After finding DIYShowOff’s chartreuse door in Valspar’s Gilded Pesto, I fell in love.

Here’s some before pics of our very ugly door. Ignore the frame of the door with the chipping paint. We’re replacing the door frame soon!

After priming…

Overspray =/ Forgot to tape the hardware…

Now the color! Isn’t it gorgeous!? We bought Valspar Duramax exterior paint in a semi-gloss finish in Gilded Pesto.

Stopped to Instagram, lol

And now for the end result! I’m completely smitten!

I think the hardware is my favorite part! I had a can of Rustoleum Universal in the shed in hammered bronze I had bought to do a Mother’s Day project and it went on like butt-ah!

Faux sofa table

A while ago, while trudging through my Google Reader’s 1000+ blog posts, I seen where Jess from East Coast Creative made a faux soda table! I was immediately intrigued and put it on my massive to do list. Now, honestly, a lot of my ideas on my to do list or Pinterest boards never get done. I am too ambitious, lol. However, this project needed to be done so I bought a piece of wood, some L-brackets, short screws to go in the wood, longer screws to go into the wall stud. After staining my board, then trimming it to fit on our short wall, we screwed it in and admired our handiwork.
As you can see below, that’s Travis putting up my work of art =) I have ideas for that interior window that looks into the kitchen but haven’t decided quite yet which direction to take.



About a week went by and I finally decorated it, lol. I’ve been moving very slow here lately. Oh, and those horrible iPhone pics up there, yeah, I know they’re bad =/ Here’s a better after pic! I love that I can add some decor since I don’t have end tables in the new house. Our living room is long and narrow so end tables were a no-go. 

This weekend I have my fingers crossed that I can finally paint my Ana White shelves. The temperature is dropping fast though so I have a feeling I might be painting indoors because I’m ready for those babies to be up on the wall!

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Resolutions in Motion Round 2: Final Results

Well, I’ve made it to the end of Round 2. For a quick refresher on my goals for this round, they were to

• Drink at least 64 oz. of water a day and less Mountain Dew
• Try to exercise on my “newish” exercise bike 20-30 minutes a day
• Read my Bible more

I can proudly say that since Resolutions in Motion Round 1, I have had hardly ANY Mountain Dew! I would say no more than 5 Mt. Dew beverages in the last 12 weeks! I think this go around, I might have two instances where I had a Mountain Dew while out or when I ran into the convenience store as a treat/pick me up. I’ve been sticking to water, PowerAde, and this morning I’m actually drinking Blueberry and Pomegranate Green Tea! Yeah, I know! I feel like a grownup, lol. I have a great accountability partner though. My work friend, Yvonne, has got me taking vitamins and I’m feeling better than I have been here lately.

Now, exercise? I exercised, maybe three days. I went about a mile on the bike which took roughly 5 minutes. My goal was to move up to 2 miles, then 3, etc. Yeap, even though it was only 5-6 minutes a night, I slacked off. Haven’t done it since =/ I did see this nifty idea on Pinterest pinned from Diet Girl and think I want to give it a try. Then pin says it basically takes 21 days to make something a habit. As each day passes, you pull a Post-It off! I think the visual would help me.

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My third goal was to start reading my Bible more. Sadly, I didn’t make this goal either. I’m ashamed to admit that, especially since I’ve been praying more and asking for guidance. My guidance lays in the written Word so I’m starting today during my lunch break. My doctor visits, vitamins, and whatnot haven’t helped tremendously so I feel like the something that is missing is the Lord’s medicine. I’m just sorry that it has taken me the whole six week challenge to realize this.

Cheers to all my fellow participants in the Resolutions in Motion series whether you nailed it, grazed some or one of your goals like myself, or completely forgot, lol! If there’s a round three, maybe I’ll see ya there =)

Our Living Room

Whew, slowly but surely, I've finally been making decisions and decorating. Since moving in, I think my biggest drawback is I think too long about wanting to do something in the house whether it's hanging something on the wall or what to put in that blank corner, in fear I'll end up hating it. So here we go with less words and more pics =)

So here's some before pics...

  
Lots of toys in this pic ;) We've downgraded to just her box of toys and a stroller she wheels around!

After pics!!!!
YES, I made a faux sofa table! Tutorial soon!



















My piano has never been in my house before! When we lived in the old house, we didn't have enough room so it was in my craft shed. I've since moved it in the house because two weekends ago, I HAD to go clean out the rest of my craft shed since we sold it. SO now my new empty craft room looks like a tornado hit. We've been putting up shelves when we have the time so I've been slowly organizing that room but I digress.

The items I put on top of my piano, I'll probably remove because I have plans for a picture display over the piano! I'll give you a hint ;) Macho man using plans from a pretty awesome well-known woman by the name of Ana White!

Until next time!

The beginning of a craft room

Finally a new house post! Although we moved in December 1, it's been a looong process with unpacking and trying to make rooms "ours." We're still not done yet. I haven't wanted to decorate the kitchen, for instance, because I want to paint in there first and I'm not up to tackling that big job yet, lol. However, I have tackled my craft room!

I chose Benjamin Moore's Moonshine (thanks Young House Love for the color inspiration =) color matched to Olympic No VOC paint in satin. I also used Zinnser primer with is high quality, stain blocking and low-VOC! All that and it was less expensive than Kilz. Our look-like-wood linoleum we bought from a small privately owned surplus store a couple of towns over. We scored! And bought it for a mere $3 a yard because it had flaws. We have yet to see any flaws in the 9x13 piece we bought but there was a lot of tape and tape residue where they had it rolled up and secured but that's easily cleaned =) So now a few before and after pics.

This is one of the better 'before' pics I have. The rest are sadly iPhone pics =/ I know, I know!

First, we did have to rip up the carpet and put new sub-flooring down because there were quite a bit of soft spots that made me nervous to even walk around in there =/



Below is my first attempt to get rid of that wallpaper border! The previous owners had left a bottle of Zinnser Wallpaper Removal here and let me tell ya, I LOVE that stuff!

After pics (well, they're really "still in progress" pics)! As you can see, when I took these pics, I hadn't painted around the window yet but that's done. The floors got done although I still haven't cleaned the tape off yet, lol. The closed door is a closet. The open door used to be a bathroom but because a pip broke (hence the soft spots), it was just capped off and made it into a second closet.

And that's what I've been up to part of the time, lol! Today though, I've moved my table in there because I'm itching to get my sewing machine out to finish a few gifts so there's been some progress today =) So there will definitely be more official after pics soon!