Stop staring and start sewing!

Spray paint is my friend (even though it's smelly and messy)

Hey, remember when I went so long without blogging because we were getting ready to send our darling daughter off to Montana to work?  Well now my excuse is we had to stop everything while Joey and my dad took off, with very little notice, to go get her and bring her home (long story, barf).  They covered 2000 miles in 37 hours and are my heroes.  So all my little chickies are back in my nest. 

Of course her little sister had already claimed her room (it's the big one after all) and now Olivia is left trying to fix the guest room up for herself.  Sigh...if it's not one thing....

Although this has made me nutty enough to want to start sniffing my beloved spray paint I decided not to waste it and once again spruced up a little piece of furniture.  My dad just gave me this ADORABLE magazine stand which was black and covered with dried mud but when I first looked at it I saw a cute pink stand perfect for holding many of my treasured texts.  And now that's what it is!  Would you just freak if you went into a doctor's waiting room and saw this?!  That's my idea of a dream come true.  I'd even stop avoiding my yearly exam if I knew this was waiting for me.

I wish I had a before picture (but like I said, it was black and muddy so imagine that).  Now I just need a foot rest and a side table (I actually have a side table I pulled from the neighbors junk pile.  It just needs...spray paint!).

Ignore him.  I'm trying to.

Here's a close up.  I love the little cut out pattern in the metal.  So my happy place is now an even happier place.  Dreamy huh?

Happy Monday!!  Sew something this week!  I'm going to try to but once again find myself doing the pre-quilt market scramble like everyone else in this industry.  But still, I should squeeze in a project just because it's fun!

A place for my stuff

7 years we've lived here.  7 years I've gone without a bed table.  I went from frustrated...to angry....to resigned and was just getting ready to repeat the cycle when I saw a table with drawers at IKEA that was a close enough match to the bed and tall enough to look right (our bed is pretty tall).  At only 99.00 each they just couldn't be beat.  And they were having a 2 for the price of 1 Salmon Plate too.  Nice.

Joey put the first one together fairly quickly but the second one took longer.  His assistant was very distractable and had the attention span of a 4 year old.  Due to being 4 years old.

I'm trying to transition my room from the red colors to the cooler yellow and greys (see my new pillow cases!).  Right now it's just colorful but I'm enjoying it.  As is Marmalade (this picture does not do justice to his true girth).

I hope you're having a productive weekend (sometimes just laying around can count as productive so don't sweat it)!

It may not look like it but I really am busy.....honest

Sorry for the long absence.  But maybe not really.  I've actually been enjoying life and the beautiful weather and my kids, etc....  My lovely Olivia up and left us for a job at my cousin's place in Montana so that's been a major "leading up too....and resettling after...." situation.  It's strange trying to find a new balance when someone leaves so we are in a bit of an upheaval and scrambling to re-organize everything.  We are missing her but enjoy hearing about all the things she is doing.

I have been very busy and crafty too and will start posting everything this week.  I have a new pattern review I want to post but don't have the brain power for it right now so I'll share some more spray painting adventure.  I had fun re-painting this cute little shelf that's been hanging in my office gathering various stuff and copious cobwebs.

 

Joey glued a little cheap trim under the shelves (9.00 for that I think).  I spray painted it and dug my white dishes out of the back of the pantry.  I think it's darling on my freshly painted kitchen wall.  I painted it blue not too long ago but wanted to tone it down just a little bit so it was more of a "backdrop" instead of being the main event.  I like it.



I'm working on lots of other things and hoping to reveal some of them soon.  Please continue to pray for the people of Japan (thank God for facebook where we found out all of our friends over there are safe!).