New life for an old table

We had an old T.V. tray table. It was left at my apartment in college by the girls who lived there before us and honestly kind of sat in the corner gathering dust over the three years we were there.

Once we moved to the Lou, we used it a bit in the basement as a catchall once again and then it got moved outside where it turned into a plant stand. And began to look like this:

 {sorry for the weird angle, it won't turn for me...}

Not looking so great anymore. So to help it out from the eye-sore state that it had found itself in, I decided to paint {and do a little mod-podge action}.

Now it's really cute.

Now I'm not so embarrassed to own it. Or display it inside my house for a change!

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Snacks

We made mud. More to come later.

Restoration of Heart and Home

We have a little family project going on right now:

And for said project we have a new blog to document all of the process. We will try to keep it updated, so please check it often and leave some comments! We would love to hear everyone's thoughts!



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Ugly Lamps

We have a lamp in our living room. It's not very pretty. It was from growing up, and it was free to us once we got married. It's just your basic floor lamp, but hunter green.

It could be worse I realize, but I have had enough of it. Which takes me back to the 'I'm painting everything' stage that I'm going through. So ugly green has turned to a nice hammered bronze:

It looks much better in our living room now. Flows with the color scheme and such. At least my nice newer looking lamp only cost me about $9 for the can of spray paint and about 30 minutes of my time. Win!

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Unexpected Three Day Weekends

Normally I love having a three day weekend. They are full of relaxation and rejuvination that is greatly needed. I would have loved it this weekend too, it was the Greentree Festival in Kirkwood, which is a fun Arts and Crafts event that takes over the park. I always have so much fun going and walking around, but I just wasn't feeling quite up to par on Saturday, so I decided to lay low and go on Sunday.

Then the rain started. And it didn't stop.

Not that the rain was the main reason my plans were ruined. I wasn't feeling any better, so decided to bite the bullet and go to the doctor to make sure I wasn't really sick.

I knew it wasn't strep. I was positive. I thought it was just a sinus infection, but working with kids I needed to have that reassurance from a strep test to know I wouldn't get them sick.

Throat swabbed.  Six minutes to get the results.

Positive for strep {and I was right, I had a sinus infection too.}

Dang-it. At least they can give you meds for it. But I think I waited just a tad too long to head in to the doc because I was miserable Sunday night. And Monday. Nothing like laying around the house all day with a sore throat. They're the worst, right? I would have rather had the flu. My throat was so swollen and painful, but after that 24 hours of meds it did start to feel better. So back to the grind today.

The boys had their second full day of school. And they LOVE it. I barely get hugs when we get there, they just run in and tell me to take the Chunk home. Fine by me. Better that than leaving them in tears everyday.

Hope you had a great, strep free weekend!

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Refreshing

I've been on a serious painting kick recently. Nothing in my path is safe. If it seems like it looks funny, it's probably going to be redone {even if it is the light hitting it in a strange way.}

I've been making serious progress on everything too. The problem is a bit of adult ADD that I appear to be suffering from that has caused about six projects to be three-quarters of the way done right now. That just means I'll have a lot done all together, right?

Anyway, I thought I would share a piece that I have finished. It was finished, but I decided to give it a little update and tlc because I wasn't digging the blue anymore {it was fun, but the sports zone that is our basement needed a little beauty thrown in with it.}

So just to remind you what we started with:

And now:

I love it. The Mr. thinks I'm crazy. You probably will too once you see how many things I have actually painted in the last couple weeks.

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Easily Entertained

{I would like to go on record as saying that the last post was not being mean and teasing the puppy. I happened to be enjoying a pumpkin muffin, and the puppy decided to sit right there and stare at me. Camera was right next to me, I couldn't resist.}

Thank goodness that children are easily entertained. We have been in major potty-training mode on the job front {for the boys, not me, before you make the joke that the Mr. always thinks is so funny.} They are actually both doing really well, which has been great, because changing three diapers all day long was tedious. There were days where it felt as though the only thing I was doing was feeding children and changing them.

Their ever so important treat for going on the potty is getting an M&M. It's cute how special they think it is. Can you imagine getting one M&M as a reward for doing something difficult? It would be such a let down.

One of the toughest parts of getting the boys to the potty is what to do with the little one. He has become a master-crawler and is such a speedy guy that I can barely turn my back on him. Unfortunately he loves the little training toilet and the stairs, which both turn out poorly if left alone for too long. So while trying to keep him from pulling Curly off the training toilet, falling down the steps or knocking the toilet paper off onto the Blonde, I decided to see if he liked playing in the sink.

Success.

{NOTE: Although it does not appear that I am holding the Chunk up I am. The top picture you just can't see my hand behind him and the bottom picture I was only away from him for about 5 seconds to take the picture and was ready to catch him should he decide to jump. I promise no children were harmed in the taking of these photos}

The only problem with this mode of distraction. He doesn't like leaving the water so much. Results in some tears and what I can only assume are choice words he has towards me.

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