Random Recap

This is just a quick post to give a few details about what's been happening here:

I finished my project. I was going to wait until I could show you the entire room, but I'm having trouble with a corner. It's not coming together at all. I think I may have it started now, but we'll just have to see. 

If you look closely to the left, you can see our kitchen wallpaper. Isn't it beeeeautiful? 

Last Thursday, the teen girls from Sunday School came over and we made cards. I think they had fun...I did. Friday night, some came over from church and we played games. Most were snowed in. We had a great time! We love the people here. 

We had some snow over the weekend, so Arilynn had fun with dad.

Hiding God's Word

Age 4

Lamp Redo

Have you seen all the neat lamps out there? Hobby Lobby has some super cool ones...like drool over them cool. Well, you know what I mean. :) However, as much as I'd love to support them right now, the closest one is a hour and something away, plus it's not in the budget. So, a hunting I went...

We popped into the GW and lo and behold they had this beauty eye catcher. It was in my price range and so home it went.

I was so excited I forget to even check to see if it worked before I went to all the trouble. HA! Nothing a little spray paint and rope (Walmart) won't cure. And, it works, btw. 

You can see a sneak peak of the material project.

Bathroom #1

A lot of our family hasn't made it here, yet, so I'm trying to show them as much as I can through this blog. I know I enjoy seeing other peoples homes, so hopefully you do, too.

We kept the bathroom fairly similar to our last house. I liked the decor, so I stuck with it. :)

I didn't quite understand the arrangement here. The cabinet doors wouldn't fully open because it bumped into the mirror concoction. Someone mentioned (Hi! Kristin via Becky) that they would take the cabinet doors off and put baskets on the shelves. It was nearly impossible to find matching baskets, in my price range, with the correct measurements. I remembered I already had the one and it fit perfectly. I fixed the other shelves with decor. There is a decent size linen closet, so it all worked out. 

 

We used to have the mirror in Arilynn's room, but I couldn't seem to make it fit. I was wondering what to use in here because I wasn't putting the box back up. Then it dawned on me. YAY! The light fixture came from a salvage store that cost us about a 1/4 of what it would have at Lowe's. There is a tiny chip, but no can tell unless I'd point it out. I haven't even noticed it since Wes hung it. The tan light switch is driving me crazy, but I keep forgetting to get one to replace it.

Project

I worked on one of my many projects tonight. It involves this:

I certainly hope I like it. I'm wondering if it was one of my crazy moments...

Mantel

I got my Christmas decor down fairly quickly this year. (I guess Arilynn's tree is still up. It blends in). We put our tree up as soon as we moved in, so it was up longer than normal. I was excited to decorate my mantel, but it took me forever to finally get anywhere with it. I wanted to go and buy all new things, but that obviously wasn't going to happen. So, after stealing from this room and that and sending Wes outside to cut branches from our tree, I think I finally got it. For now.

GW pitchers and wooden container.

I did buy one new thing with Christmas money-the canister came from TJMaxx.

We went goodwilling when we went home for Christmas and I was super excited to find this topiary. I knew it would look perfect sitting there. Wes was thrilled trying to arrange it in our vehicle with the 500 tons of other things. I heard about it all the way home, but I didn't budge. It was going home with me. Tee hee...

Mom gave me the clock for Christmas! :)

1st Haircut

**Sniff, sniff**

My little boy is growing up.

It's not super soft when I run my fingers through his hair anymore.

Big Stuff!

**Sniff, sniff**

Emotional moment over...