Friday Projects

The foyer is just about finished.  There is one chair that Jeff is going to paint for me and umm...well there are still the unfinished desk doors. But other than that it's done.  Since we painted the foyer I've seen several blog posts about how hard it is to paint a room gray.  I agree! The observant among you may notice that my aqua bench became yellow. That's because the foyer kind of turned out light lavender and the aqua gave it a slight Easter eggish feel.

Coming in the front door...

To the right..

And to the left..

With the foyer mostly finished I went marching on to the next room in need of some major improvement.  The desk area/the black hole.

I pulled together some ideas I had been saving and gathered supplies one afternoon while my mom watched the girls.

I covered a cabinet shelf I had found at the re-store with batting and fabric for the board in the background. 

The offices supplies are Martha Stewart from Staples.  I stood in the aisle for quite awhile just enjoying all the adorable tags, boxes, notebooks, etc.

On the Home Front

There's lots to catch up on! Here in random order is what we've been up to lately.

There was an episode of a cooking show filmed in our kitchen on Saturday! It was fun to have a true "behind the scenes" look at how things are done.  Plus we got to sample the food made on the show.

Hurrah for warmer days!  We enjoyed a trip to the zoo with Mom-Mom and Aunt Deborah on a very spring like day last week.

Aunt Deborah treated to the merry-go-round which was a hit.

We sat in an hour and a half long traffic jam on the way home but everyone remained in good spirits because, as Celene says, Aunt Deborah is hilarious.

We reached our first baking goal! We also have a good start on goal number two as well.  For those of you not on the email list, the money we raise is now going towards the expenses of a family in our church who are adopting from China.  Although we really like Show Hope we had decided from the beginning that if at any point we found out that someone in our church was adopting we would put the money towards their costs.

These girls make us laugh! There all in funnier rather than naughtier stages right now which is nice :)  I guess Shelby thinks that math is a nickname for Matthew. She asked me the other day if we could do some Matthew in school. I must have looked at her blankly because she said "you know, with the numbers".

Friday Project

This is the reason I could never be paid to blog. I post my Friday project on Saturday and it's only partially finished. But here it is nevertheless.

 

My dad had made this desk for me when I was still living at home. I enjoyed painting and decorating it but times and my taste have changed so it needed a makeover.

Please just imagine the doors painted white and on their hinges.

Paint for the desk from the Re-Store -$5.00

The patterned background is wrapping paper from the Re-uzit shop $.35

As for the decorations, the top shelf has a $.50 bowl, a spray painted vase I already owned, books my dad found in a house that I painted black and a clock I got from my mom and painted. Maybe I should write a book "Decorate on a budget by begging things off your relatives".

Second shelf has books from the Goodwill, again painted black $.50 each.

Third shelf has a vase taken from our bathroom, pom-pom flowers I made from yarn I had and more books from one of my dad's houses.

On the March

If my kids were old enough to know more about the Civil War they would probably think I got too much of a history lesson in Savannah. All those stories of generals on the march destroying everything in their path must have gotten to me. 

I came home and realized just how disorganized the house has been. I knew it but kept thinking I would have a purge when the remodeling was done. But I couldn't stand it anymore. So I'm on a ruthless rampage. I can't believe how many bags of trash I've thrown away and how many bags I've dropped off at the thrift store.

So there may be no Friday project once again this week.  I have been trying to fit some sanding in among the clutter control but it's not looking too hopeful.

Hello, Hello

No, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, just off the face of our home.  Jeff and I have been away for almost 6 whole days!  I had high hopes of keeping up with my photo of the day but I kind of took a vacation from my camera too.

We were in South Carolina for a combination of marriage retreat and getaway.  The marriage conference was The Weekend to Remember put on by Family Life. They have them all over the country including 45 minutes from us. But Hilton Head just sounded so much warmer :)

It was amazing to have all that time just to relax and be together!! We appreciated having some focused time to talk through different areas of our marriage. 

After the conference we took a day trip to Savannah and I actually took a few pictures.  What a beautiful city!

The southern accents were fun a change.  There were only one or two instances where we looked at someone blankly and thought "could you please repeat that in English".

As always there is no way we could get away without a lot of help.  So a big thanks to all involved!

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