Fall Break

I absolutely love fall break! I had a pretty busy first day, and I was in bed by my normal school night bedtime :) When my husband first purchased our house, my best friend Brooke and I were so excited that we would finally have a scrapbook room to make as big of a mess in as we wanted and not have to clean it up every time we were done scrap-booking.  I wanted to paint it a 'fun' color since my mom would have never gone for anything loud in her house, so we chose neon green. It was fun while it lasted, but 2 years later it was time for a change.

Before -excuse the mess I'm cleaning out!!

The closet before

I started cleaning out and though I am sick and tired of this blinding green color, I think I will go to Lowes!!

After browsing the paint for quite some time, I chose Lyndhurst Timber. I thought maybe the once scrapbook room, now office/dog room could use a little manly color. I spend the rest of the day cleaning out and painting the room. Not too bad for day one of fall break, but we still have a long way to go!

did a little re-arranging

much better!

Oh and the best part was when my husband came home. He took some bills into the office and said "oh you put the dogs right beside each other"... and that was it! After dinner I asked if he noticed anything else, and he thought and said "you moved the computer desk over some". I laughed and asked if THAT was all. He thought for what seemed like 5 minutes, walked back into the room, looked around a while and then said "OH you painted". What a typical man!

Yard sale finds

This past Saturday I went to my favorite yard sale of the year. Yes, of course I woke up early just to stand in line to get in the door! I went expecting to bring home a truck load of treasures just like last year, but I was disappointed in the amount of good junk. I did find one steal (or two) these ugly 1975 brass lamps were three dollars a piece.

I thought with a little spray paint and fabric they would be as good as new, an much cheaper than I could find cute lamps for any where else. I paid six dollars for spray paint, six dollars for spray adhesive and I dug out some fabric I had purchased at a fabric sale last year. Fifteen dollars and and hour later this is what I ended up with.

Not too shabby by my standards. I love them and that fact that I only spent fifteen dollars makes me love them even more! This was an incredibly easy project. I removed the old shades and light bulbs, stuffed paper towels in the holes where the bulbs go and gave them 2 coats of oil rubbed bronze spray paint. I rolled the shades along the fabric to make a template, and cut it out and used spray adhesive to adhere the fabric. Put it all back together and presto! This was a perfect project if  you want instant gratification!

-Enjoy!

Fortcast for Labor Day = Rain and that was perfectly alright with me. Working on my summer tan at this point is a lost cause anyway. With my sweet husband at work, I  FINALLY had some time to work on a few projects!

About a month ago I found a super cute solution  for the very ugly pot light above my garden tub. I found this awesome and seemingly simple idea on http://www.freshlypickedblog.com/2011/03/how-to-make-chandelier.html . How more economical can a project get?!  A sewing machine, wax paper, some kind of circle cutter, an old ratty lamp shade and a few cup hooks are the only materials needed. No one mentioned that this project would take an eternity to complete. I have been cutting out wax paper circles for the past 2 weeks and have blown through 2 boxes of wax paper and had nothing to show for it. Today would be the day that my project transformed from a pile of wax paper into a chandelier... or so I thought! I set about the task of chain piecing all of my circles together, starting with the bottom row... only 18 circles per strand no big deal, right? At the end of the day, 8 hours and 422, yes 422 wax paper circles later I completed the bottom row of my chandelier! ... Only 2 more rows and 90 bajillion more wax paper circles to go!



More detailed instructions will be included when the project is completed!

Enjoy