We've Moved!!!

We have moved to our "Dream Home"!

Moving here has been such a blessing

for our family!

We feel like Heavenly Father led us to the right place!

We feel so fortunate and blessed!

The people here are amazing and wonderful!

We have found an amazing place to raise
our children and we couldn't feel any luckier!

Coming Soon....

Pictures of Board and Batten in the Living Room!



A sweet little "Artist" Birthday Party!

My sweet little girl just turned "7"!

I can't believe time has gone so fast!

Avery is such a thoughtful sweet girl! 

She has so much talent and potential! 

We are so very happy that she is a part of our family!

I try to have a fun Birthday Party for the kids!

My mom always made everything so special for us

and it is such a fun memory.

So I want to do that for my children.

For her Birthday she wanted to do an

ArTiSt PaRtY!

I found some cute things at Target in the Dollar isle.

We decided to let each child that she invited,

paint their own cavas.

We found those on sale at JoAnn's. 

And then we got the basics (plates, cups, napkins, balloons etc)

at Walmart and the Dollar Store.

It turned out to be a hit!

Here's what went down...

A sweet girl that I had just met. 

Let me come over during her precious

twin boy's nap time and helped me makethis sign! 

It turned out just perfect!

The FUN treat table!

We dipped marshmellows (Artist Brushes), and got

primary colored candy to fill the table with!

Skittles, licorice, dum dum suckers, & dots.

We also got some fun glass bottles, red & orange, of Crush.

We let the kids fill their own treat bags at the end!

You would think that would be a disaster,

but they did really well!

We thought it would be fun to make

a Cool entrance to the party!

On the labels for the treats and also on the names for

the treat bags(forgot to take that picture),

we used primary colored paint strips.

I ran out of time to make the Palette shaped cake that I wanted to.

So we substituted with cupcakes with Primary colored frosting on them.

I found these fun candles that went "Perfect" with everything!

                                                            

                                                     The Canvas Painting table!

We also had playdough shaping contests! 

The Girls had so much fun and were so creative! 

MAKE A WISH!

Until next Year!!!

How to paint ceramic tile

This ceramic tile was pretty outdated and because of budgets reasons and time, it could not be replaced. 

So I decided to paint it!  I had some Zinsser Primer that could be used on ceramic tile. 

So I slapped it on that pink tile and covered it up with some nice tan paint.

I also cut some simple molding and put it up in a large rectangle.  And then painted that whole area white, including the mantel. 

Here are some photos of what took place...

I was happy with the end result!

Out with the Old and in with the New ~ Laundry Room

This Laundry Room was a fun project. 

It was full of Americana Decor. 

From the curtains, to the light plate, to garbage can.

So once again, it was time to update!

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Master Bedroom Before and After

This master was huge!  It had two walk in closets! 

It was just a bit outdated! 

But paint can fix just about anything!  Right?

  So I took down the wall paper, the curtains and the flower wallpaper.

Painted over the taupe and eggplant colors!

Painted it a soft cream and a pretty gray blue.  Added some soft sheers that let the light in. 

And after I think we have a nicely updated Master Suite!



                                                                                After





Kitchen

The kitchen  did not change a whole bunch.  There was only so much I could change in the amount of time that we were here.  I would have loved to take out the dropped ceiling and have painted the cabinets.
But there wasn't time. 
So really the only change I made was painting, taking down a shelf, taking down some curtains, putting up some curtains and putting up a coat rack.

Before:

After:  

I know the after is not huge, but from the pink paint

it is definetley an improvment.

You can't tell in the picture, but the new paint looks much better with the countertops.

Before:

After:

This coat rack was over the stairs and as you walked down the stairs, unless you were 7 ft. tall you couldn't use the rest of it.  And as we are 5 ft 6 in and under, we could only use the first 3 ft. of it.  So, to make it more useful I took it down and moved it to a more useful spot.  I had to paint it and spray paint the hooks.

I like it much better here!



Living Room makeover

I know I promised I'd show you the Living Room yesterday.  Sorry!  I got a little side tracked!  I am trying to get ready for an Open House here on Saturday.  Here are some of the pictures of the befores and afters.  I thought I got one of the curtains on the windows, but I guess I didn't.  Just imagine white lace valances.  I am sure they were in style at one point, but just not anymore!


Before Paint

After Paint:



After Paint and Decorations

Since I skipped a night I will do the Dining Room too.

Before:

Professionally painted vines. 
 Once again, I am sure they were nice at on point. 
But not anymore!

 Here are the lace curtains I was talking about.

AFTER

I sanded over the vines so they wouldn't show through the paint. 
Painted the top part of the walls two shades darker than the Living Room.
Replaced the curtains with paint drop clothes.
I was happy with the turn out!