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 […]
Month: July 2013
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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