Night Stand

In our room redo things have been moved around, and moved out of the room.

All this rearranging left Alex with no night stand.

No good since we both always go to be with drinks and our Ipad/Ipod!

So he needed one.

He picked this up off the side of the road for free a few weeks back.

It is real wood which is always a must for our funiture projects.

I had just been telling my mother in law how I felt like I needed a brightly colored piece of funtire,

this was the prefect exuse!

I used left over yellow paint (from the playroom mural)

It was the usual clean, remove hardware, sand, paint, repaint!

Bought some simple black knobs at Home Depo.

Alex says that it will help to wake him right up each morning!

lol

So it's a little bright,
 oh well!
 It was free and I like a little sha-bam every once in awhile!

It's just paint! lol!

Oh the drawers are actaully not my paint job.

I let Nathan paint them since he showed such an interest in painting

(read about his paint experiment here)

Summer Time!

Is amazing what plants are capable of when you actually water them!

We are starting our 3rd summer here.

Each year I feel like I have become that much better at gardening!

Nathans Pumpkins Plants!

Yummy Avocados!

RASPBERRIES!!

These plants have gone WILD on our bank!

They are huge and apparently re root themselves as they grow bigger!

I'm not complaining I love raspberries!

And we are going to have tons!

They are all over the bank and we just planted

raspberries, boysenberries, and grape plant along the back fence!

As you can see our yard is in full bloom!

We are so blessed to have so much food growing here!

Nathan loves to pick it!

We have limes, oranges, grape fruits, tangerines, and apples also!

Plus an herb garden!

It is so fun for me to ask Nathan to go out and get a lime for salsa,

lemons for lemon aide,

basil for pasta, tomatoes for salsa,

peas for salads!

He feels so proud and its just so healthy and fun!

I never thought I would like "gardening" as much as I do!

Ok Ok Honestest time...

most of these things are on timers and watered daily for me!

But still!

They are in my yard!!

So I can take some credit...

Right?

Decorating

Gah I'm on a decorating kick!

I'm loving all of the wonderful resourceful and creative blogs out there.

So inspirational!

I am loving the master bedroom make over,

every time I walk in there I get a calming feeling.

So not the way I felt before!

It's so light, crisp air and just feels so much bigger.

Even Al waked in the other night and said

"it just feels so much nicer in here now".

Once the I find end tables and it is complete I promise I'll show you!

It has totally got me motivated to get going on the rest of the house!

I just need to figure out what direction I want to go in I guess!

I'm loving this!

Teal...

The bedroom redo is underway!

I'm hunting and gathering things for it,

I have a floor plan laid out in my head

But I'll probably play with it some more.

I've decided on grey walls, just have to find the right grey!

Here is my 1st teal bedroom accessory!

I picked this baby up at JoAnns for 80% off in the clearance section.

There were two screws in the back so I though

Just unscrew those puppies pop the flower off

spray paint it, re screw.

Yeah well that baby was SUPER DOPER glued down!

Alex even broke a petal off trying to get it free...

So we ended up just taping it off and spray painting!

Worked fine, just took a little longer!

Oh and I hot glued the petal back on!

She is now waiting for her time to shine in my bedroom!

The bedding is in the works also!

I figure that if I do a few "knots" each night

It should be done by Easter.

Easter is my goal.

I'm considering hosting my families Easter Celebration this year.

It would be my first holiday hosted for them!

I've hosted Christmas the past few years for my in lawed family.

I think if I host it will giving me more incentive on the spruce up!

Who knows though because I already fell like my plate is rather full!

Where art Thou....

So I'm kinda a clean freak...

But it's not my fault!

I was raised by a clean freak, who was raised by a CLEAN FREAK!

So as you can see it runs in my blood!

I just can't help it!

I need things to be clean!

Recently however my vacuum as decided that SUCKING is not what it wants to do

So.... it just pushes dirt around, rather than picking it up

LAME!

Sooooo not ok when you have an acre of dirt, plus a dog and a two year old boy!

Needless to say my floors end up with a lot of dirt!

I need a vacuum to do it's job! Cuz I vacuum A LOT!

So after lots of research I ordered  this baby!

The Dyson DC25 Ball All-Floors Vacuum Cleaner!

And boy am I excited for her arrival!

BUT...

She was suppose to be here today,

I left the gates open and waited

And waited, and waited.

She never came.

(Picture me with a VERY sad look on my face.)

Hopefully she comes tomorrow, because lord knows my floors need her.

BADLY.

On a less boring, house wife note

I started my new bedding!

I'm gong to attempt this anthro knock off bedding!

Wish me luck I'm gonna need it!

But isn't it just lovely!

I FINALLY am putting some effort into the master bedroom!

It is just plain yuck right now!

After getting the whole house decorated,

to an acceptable amount

(there is still so much I want to do and change)

I never ended up putting any effort into the master.

It was just the last room to be finished construction wise

and I never got around to decorating it,

Until now!

Stay turned I'm going to post pictures of it right now

(once I find my lost camera, have you notice I seem to misplace things often)

and do a step by step of the transformation!

It'll be slow, but fun!