A few more pictures of the desk!

 I had a couple of requests for more pictures so here you go!!

Here are a few more of the top and over all desk.

Look at ALL  that storage!!! LOVE!!

In fact, my four year old can fit in one of the cubbies!! (Not that I would ever keep him there ;))

Maybe, I'll just keep his millions of coloring books and crayons in there instead. Seriously, those things pile up when you purchase one or two from the dollar spot every time you're in Target!

And here are a few more of the pages I took from the book. This one makes me laugh every time!

I placed this one on correct posture right next to my chair as a reminder. ;) 

And here is what happens when you have a busy two and four year old "playing" upstairs while you take a few more pictures for your blog.

Yes, my children drew a "hopscotch course" on the carpet with purple crayon! One that apparently incorporates a spider man web! Really?? Luckily for me and for them it actually vacuumed up! Whew!

The (almost) finished office!

I have been slowly trying to transform my office space into something more inspiring and functional. Go here for a reminder of how the room looked before. After that, I added my vintage chair and my burlap drapes. Then I waited and waited for further inspiration to strike. I knew that I wanted the space to be different, but blend well with the rest of the house as it is the first room you see when you come in. Well inspiration finally struck... in a thrift store, of course! I found this book for $2.00.

I picked it up and started glancing through it. It was awesome!! This book had "information" on EVERYTHING!! Check out the copyright date!

Well, I knew I wanted to incorporate this book in a fun way. So the wheels, they started turnin! Then I found these shelving units at Target. 

"Would it work??? It would be stinkin' HUGE! But huge could be good! But it would be HUGE!!!" Oh sorry that was the conversation going on in my head when this idea started coming together.

Anyway, I decided to get two of the shelves and my sweet hubs said he would build a desk top for me. You following so far? Yeah, you guessed it... those awesome pages are gonna get to know some Mod Podge real well!!  So I made a HUGE desk decoupaged with little nuggets of wisdom from 1953. You wanna see how it turned out?? I thought you would ;)

It was so hard to narrow it down to a couple of the pages as there are close to 100 of them all over the top of the desk. If you want to see more...just ask!! There are dancing instructions... bug charts...flower charts... travel info... how to tell someones personality by the shape of their skull (for reals)!!! I love this desk! It makes me smile. It makes interesting conversation when someone else is in my office.

Here are a couple more views of the office.

And, because it is so ginormous I can share it with my munchkins. Those ottomans not only store their toys, but they can pull them out and join me at my desk without being in my way at all!

I think they like it. And then I get to look at this precious view while I'm working!

I made myself a couple of cute pillows, one for my "reading nook" with a vintage camera on it. (I used the same transfer paper as for my pottery barn pillows)

Then just a burlap pillow with my initials "sharpied" on.

Whew! Anyone still here..... anyone.....anyone.....crickets! Well, overall I am pleased. I am really enjoying my new office space. I would still love to add a few more pops of color here and there, but I am glad the hard work is done! Now onto the dining room. Yeah it's getting a little nip/tuck done as well. She was just so jealous that the new office was getting so much attention!

I spent Memorial day weekend celebrating my lil sis getting married. She had a beautiful backyard spring wedding. I have hardly any pictures to share as I was busy with bridesmaid duties instead of behind the lens. She had a photo booth though so you can see a smidgen of our family's craziness! And my husband at least got a couple of shots of our boys ruining their sweet wedding outfits with giant lollipops! :)



Here is a shot of the three sisters and one of our cousins. We were trying to be "sexy" (I'm on the left... isn't my husband a
lucky fellow??;))



While the wedding was beautiful, it was an unseasonably cold day so I spend the majority of the reception in my husbands suit jacket.

 

Here is the whole combined crazy family!

 

LOVE that face!!




And here is my little sweetie!!!



 I have a couple of projects to finish up and share but this is what I have been up to all this last week! Congratulations Sis and new Bro in law!! I wish you both a  life full of love and blessings!



pottery barn butterfly pillow

Did you know that you can make your own version of these super cute super springy Pottery Barn pillows with a little fabric, inkjet transfer paper, some basic sewing skills and a half an hour??? I did!

Their not perfect, but it only cost me the $8.00 or so for the transfer paper. I had the fabric leftover from another project and I just found some cute butterfly pictures on Google images. LOVE. Welcome to Spring dear sofa!

painted table and a chair's found potential

Let me tell ya! It has been a week here in Crazy town! One of those that by Friday night leaves me wanting nothing more than  a long hot bath, a good book and a weekend long escape! Is that too much to ask??? Don't get me wrong, I love my children, but they about drove me to my brink this week!! So the projects I am sharing were actually done last week, but I haven't gotten around to blogging about them.

So the I finished(?) the chair from this post. I still don't know if I am in love with it. We left off at re webbing in the previous post. We also had to re-tie the springs. This part was not so fun. Luckily my sweet sweet husband helped me out a little a lot with this part! I tied them onto the webbing and I came home one night to find this:

I attempted it. Really I did. But I thought my head was going to EXPLODE trying to get those springs to lay right.

After that I tried just putting a few layers of batting over and the burlap, then sitting on it. My tush had some major protests! One of the back springs was determined to remind me of its presence. Since I hadn't budgeted for foam as well. (That stuff is not cheap) I went down to my stash and found some leftover scraps from the kitchen chair project. I pieced them together as best I could layered lots of batting over it and reupholstered. Bonus?? I actually had enough drop cloth leftover from the kitchen chair project as well, so that cost me nothing! So that is FIVE chairs recovered with one drop cloth!

Anyway, here is the final product.

I still feel like maybe it needs a little somethin' somethin'. At least a nice colorful pillow. I also considered doing some simple stripes like a vintage grain sack look.  Kinda like these:

Whatcha' think??

Also I painted the table to go with my new chairs

a couple coats of Zinsser primer and a few coats of Rustoleum Heirloom White and tada...

I love how bright this area is now!

Thrift store love!

I have started to notice lately that the area around where I live seems to be thrift store central! It seems like once a month I drive by a sign advertising another one I have never heard of before. Of course, this means that I have been trying like crazy to check them all out!! I love going into thrift stores. It is such a thrill walking in, wondering if you are going to walk out with something that will become a lovely treasure! I love the feeling of finding something I know will be beautiful, but watching people look at me like I have lost my mind because I am actually buying "that".  My latest find earned a couple of comments from the check out clerk. I didn't care though. I just might be in love.

So what I found was this:

The cost was $10.00. Apparently no one wanted to buy it because of the gross looking dried flowers inside.

Lucky for me the bottom was loose and I could tell that was going to be a really easy fix. I unscrewed the bottom.

Gently pulled it apart.

Then chucked this gross stuff in the trash.

A quick coat of ORB spray paint on the base and my pretty girl was reborn.

Here she is with an extra lamp shade sitting in my dining room.

Does she remind you a little of these or is it just me? The cheapes of these bases goes for $169.00!! I am way proud of my savings!!

via pottery barn

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