Category Archives: Home Projects

Oct 24

Oh Yes, the Tape is Gone

I stayed up late last night, pulling off the blue tape, and finished up the job this morning. I’m happy to say there isn’t a speck of blue tape left anywhere in the dining room today!

I’m so happy that we have this project finished, and James and I are already talking about what to paint next. We still have plenty of rooms that need it…

This is what the dining room looked like yesterday, beige paint, and plenty of blue tape everywhere.

Even Thade got involved in the painting. He got to paint a section of the wall, all by himself. He had so much fun, and even declared that he wanted to be a painter when he grows up.

I am absolutely thrilled with the dining room, and I think the colors look great. The green looks so pretty with the hardwood floors, but the soft purple is by far my favorite.

Today there is still a lot to be done, the house is one-big-huge mess, so I will probably be cleaning all day. There is a little touch up work to be done too, but I like those kind of jobs, and I can take care of that one while Dylan is napping. We’ll see what room we paint next!

Oct 23

So Long Blue Tape

James is on vacation for the next few days, and we are going to be busy painting the dining room. I’m so excited, I can’t wait to get rid of the blue tape! Wish me luck, and hopefully I’ll have some new pictures of the progress up soon.

Oct 15

Me and the Leaves

This Fall I’m trying to do a better job at keeping up with the yard. We have 2 large trees that love to throw their big leaves all over the place, so I have made it my mission to get out there and rake up those leaves every weekend.

I was doing pretty good about the extra chore, and I have been raking 2 bags a week. This last weekend the weather was perfect, and the kids were cooperating and playing happily outside while I raked. I finished the task in record time, and had the leaves all bagged up before the weather turned cold and rainy. I was pretty proud of my yard work accomplishment.

Later that night I felt a sharp pain in my leg, weird. I took a look, and evidently I raked up some little Spider’s home, because he left me a bite to show me just how mad he was at me for doing so. Great… So let’s just say that this bite swelled up to about the size of a half dollar, and still stings like crazy, so not cool.

After last night’s rains, the leaves are all back this morning. If the weather improves by the weekend, I’ll make sure and rake a little more cautiously, I do sincerely apologize for raking up the spider’s home.

Sep 8

Oh Electrical Woes

After the party was over last night, we could smell an odd burning scent in the living room. No candles were lit, and then the lights went off. We had a little wiring problem with one of our outlets, we were lucky though, we caught it just in time.

So today we are having a few of our electrical woes fixed, and I hope that all will be better soon… It is getting a little warm in the house.

Aug 23

I Heart Spray Paint

So yesterday I got adventurous with Spray Paint, and I’m hooked. I’m now looking around the house for more items that need a punch of color. I’m pretty sure that by wintertime every wooden surface in my house is going to be painted.

If you look in the background there is a little brown chair. This is one of the chairs from the kitchen, and it could use a little something.

The kitchen chair got several coats of Hot Pink Watermelon Spray Paint, and looks so cute! I’m now thinking of painting the mis-matched kitchen set in bright pop art colors.

I have a small Wicker Chair on the front porch and every season I try to paint it a different color.

I have painted it Dark Blue, Wine, and most recently Aqua. With Fall approaching I thought it would be appropriate to paint it Orange.

The orange paint looks great, and I think the kitty looks adorable hanging out on it too. I moved the chair back to the front porch, and now I can’t wait to decorate for Halloween.

On to the last project. My mom gave me her antique Printer Press drawer, and I have never known what to do with it.

When we were kids the drawer hung in our den and was home to many miniatures. I think that with a little pink paint and maybe a little decoupage it would make an awesome jewelry holder.

Painting with the Spray Paint was so much fun, but my arm is a little sore today. I think it took me about 2 hours to finish all three pieces, but I love how they turned out. Watch out furniture, Nico has a new hobby.