It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home
I found another pretty craft for the holidays on Pinterest. Source It’s so pretty isn’t it? Plan #1 ~ Paint the bottles white. Stencil the word “Joy” in green. Find sticks and paint them glitter green. The example used wine bottles but the only bottles we use in this house are cooking sherry bottles. I […]
If having ten people over for Thanksgiving isn’t stressful enough, I thought we should paint and re-cover the dining room chairs! OH OKAY!! I painted the dining room furniture about six years ago. You can see it here. Notice the chairs and table started out white, I painted them blue, and now I’m painting them […]
The second bathroom redo (or what we lovingly call the “Fishy Bathroom”) is finally complete. With summer vacation, ultimate frisbee games, family time, and life in general, this project has taken way longer than I wanted. This is what we started with. Now you know why we call it the “Fishy Bathroom”. As our kids grow older, […]
We’ve been working on the guest bathroom this weekend after a long break. You know how life gets in the way? School, sports, vacations, etc. Well, my girls started back to school and we had a break in our frisbee tournament schedule so we took advantage and got some work done. Just to recap, this […]
Son #3 is moving out of his college dormitory and into an apartment off campus. You know what that means don’t you? FURNITURE SHOPPING!!!!! And where does a cheap DIYer find great furniture for cheap? HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE!! We found a great but a little beat up dresser for $55 that my son liked. […]
Having high school and college aged boys living in our house, we've had some sweet young ladies come through. Son #3 is dating a beautiful young lady (Miss J). They've been dating about two and a half years now and we absolutely adore her. Here they both are at Miss J's Senior Prom. Today Miss […]