Jewelry frame

I made this frame for my jewelry.  I found a bargain frame at Salvation army, removed the picture, spray painted it brown and using a staple gun attached chicken wire to the back.  I love having my earrings and a few necklaces displayed. 

 

Have you made anything lately?

 



New Chairs

Preparations for new chairs- donation of our old chairs and I cleaned the carpet!  Thursday night I moved all the furniture to one side of the room and on Friday night I moved it to the opposite side and cleaned carpet. 

Our new chairs!  Now we need new lamps- the shade on this one is broken and always seems to be teetering

Griffin modeling the new chair

they are recliners but it is hard to tell

what do you think of the pattern?

Face lift

Our house before face lift.......... new windows and shutters

we already has a new storm door, kick plate and door knocker put up

the old windows are painted shut, have snap in grids, no screens and the trim paint is peeling

the shutters are also in need of paint or replacement

the house with all the shutters off

obviously our house used to be red and when the old owners painted it they painted around the shutters

all new windows and shutters on the front

 

can you see a big difference in the before and after?

we are so excited to have one more side of our house with new windows, two sides down two to go

Laundry Room

Our laundry room needed an update. I forgot to take a before picture so I will just have to describe it a bit. Just past the closet on the left there was a bookshelf that held buckets and baskets for craft supplies. Then the freezer on the left, topped with the oatmeal play bin. After the freezer was a large blue recycle bin. On the right side everyone piled up shoes and there is also a large plastic bucket for shoes. Also when the kids get undressed downstairs they would just through their clothes on the floor by the washer. 

 

We enter our house through the laundry room and so do many of our friends. The only people who use the front door are people making deliveries and occasionally guests who are coming for a party. So when I walk in the laundry room and things are scattered and the shelf is stacked with papers and misc toys it really grates on my nerves. I am a bit OCD about organization.

So we took out the shelf and minimized the craft supplies that are available to the kids.  If you look at the far left corner on top of the cabinets you will see two buckets- these have paint and play dough supplies.  You can also see part of the oatmeal bin.  We moved the freezer down into the left corner which opens the view as you look out into the room.  I replaced the big blue recycle bin with two smaller white bins.  We ordered a red bench from Ikea for the kids to sit on when putting on shoes and the shoes are in separate bins under the bench (Syd blue, Griffin yellow and momma blue).  I bought a collapsible clothes bin.  

Sydney modeling the bench- silly smile

We still have two craft bins on top of the freezer that have crayons, markers and stickers. 

Bill hung the window mirror in front of the fuse box as a decoration and to hide the ugly gray panel door

The room is now more open and organized and less prone to clutter

Have you done any reorganizing or arranging lately?

More STARS

I am just in love with stars lately and we are all enjoying the recent decorations around the house.

This is the bulletin board above my desk and I decided I needed to redecorate.

Blank- these boards are from Pottery barn

Finished - I hung a few stars for myself and then strung a pretty ribbon across that I can hand pictures on

I opted to leave off the calendar for now

I did move my mom letters to the top and I took off all the ribbon.

My sister in law Rita had these letters as a decoration at my baby shower she had for me when I was pregnant for Sydney and I love them!

what do you think?   do you have a bulletin board?

windows

We are the proud owners of 4 new windows! 
The windows in our house have all been painted (by me) white and shut.  The grids are just the wooden snap in grids and some of them are broken, plus we have no screens and I cannot reach the top floor windows to clean them on the outside.

The windows on the chimney side of the house were in desperate need of repair because the wood around the window was rotting.  We would love to be able to replace all the windows at once but we have 20 some windows in our house so we are doing 1 side of the house at a time. 

I love the new windows- the grids are between the glass, we have full screens and I can tilt them in and clean them from the inside!

this is one of the older ones that is actually in okay shape- the wood is intact just peeling- Bill was home when the guys came and he did not take before pictures.  Oh well.

Bill used to sell windows so he knew just what we wanted and he measured them for the guy and we got a great price.  Yeah!