On our last trip to IKEA (I believe there will be an IKEA in Heaven girls!), we bought two of this great lamp for the family room redo. But if you know me at all, I'm not a white kinda gal. I love color and lots of it! So I wanted to cover the lampshades with […]
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STAINING SOME BUTCHERBLOCK COUNTERS ~ a really long counter!
How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed time with family and friends like I was blessed to be able to do. Friday night our family went to a Durham Bulls baseball game. It was an exciting game and the park does a fantastic job of entertaining the crowd during slow periods of the […]
UPDATING FAMILY ROOM CABINETS ~ and I need your vote!
Hello All! Hope your week is going well. Tomorrow is Friday so it can't be too bad!! We're sort of stalled on the built-in bookcases in our family room. The LOML bought a table saw on Craigslist and is reading the manual on how to use it without losing any body parts. I think […]
TIME CAN STAND STILL ~ while I change the clock
Remember the clock I made? I was standing in McDonalds a few weeks ago with the LOML and as he was paying, I looked on the clock hanging on the wall. It was a beautiful Roman numeral wall clock. I looked at it for awhile before it dawned on me what was different about it […]
HIDING UGLY ELECTRICAL CORDS ~ and burning my fingertips in the process!
A few months ago I redid Daughter #2's bedroom. Click the link to see the beautiful peacock room. I hung these beautiful Chinese lanterns on the painted chandelier. That was not my first plan for them. I imagined these beautiful lanterns hanging from the corner in a cluster with soft lights shining through them. Daughter #2 would […]
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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ~ and a long wait for Harry
Rollercoasters scare me to death!! The feeling of falling and almost dying is not fun for me at all. But I don't want my kids to feel like me. I want them to love the excitement. When I was younger, I remember doing Space Mountain at Disney World, which is a rollercoaster in the dark, over and […]
ADOPTION ~ introducing our beautiful monkey girl!
Eight years ago plus one day, we sat in an orphanage office half way around the world awaiting the arrival of our two new daughters. Today is our youngest daughter's ninth birthday. Time flew by so fast in between these two occurences in my life it's unbelievable! It seems like yesterday that I met this […]
PICTURES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL ~ of the family!
I LOVE using old and discarded things as creative decorations. I also LOVE pictures. I love creating photo albums, cool photo gallery walls, unique pictures inside cool frames. So when I see an AWESOME picture frame like this Source I copy, copy, copy!!!! On one of my many trips to the ReStore […]
KICKING OUT THE KICK SPACE ~ trimming off the bottom space of our cabinets
We got a little work done on our family room built-ins last week. How exciting!! If you can remember we bought a whole set of kitchen cabinets from The Habitat for Humanity ReStore. We got a little side tracked with the tv niche. But the LOML thinks he wants to do "easy" cuts […]
