Boo!

Somebody F-I-N-A-L-L-Y decorated...

I think my visit to Gardner Village for Mom's birthday did it for me, ya know.. Witch Hazel gave me that last little push with the broom stick I needed to FINALLY come home and spookify the house with pumpkins -n- witches -n- ghosts.. Oh my!
 

*I know you're probably asking yourself & I would be too: Why does she have a red hutch up against a slightly different colored red wall??? Answer: The red wall is going to be a new color in the near future, I just haven't decided exactly what color yet.. therefore you get the red hutch up against the slightly different colored red wall for now.~

I wanna go trick-or-treating at a place just like this picture.. in fact, I wanna live in that place.~ LOVE IT!

Happy

Halloween

from

ME

to

YOU

[the reveal: heart shirt makeover}

Sorry. I didn't mean to drag out the reveal of the "Thrift Store Heart Shirt Makeover" quite that long... but it's been a very busy week. My oldest boys {twins} turned the big double digits on Thursday 10! We basically had two full days of festivities between family and friends parties!!!

Anyhoo- here it is: 

Front

Back

I sewed on hearts in accompanying material and thread color to cover those "who knows what they were" stains. I'm kinda glad it had the stains though, cuz now I like it even better! I like the little handmade touch it gives it.-

When thinking about what I would wear with it, I remembered this necklace that I made last Fall, it couldn't be a better match! I love it when things come together like that...

{saturdays yardsale delivered & a chalkboards on the way}

The story goes like this:


I have been looking for something to turn into a chalkboard for a while now... Saturday I went to a ginormous yard sale and there she was, Mrs. I've Seen Better Days waiting for little old me to sweep her off her feet and give her a little makeover from a has-been mirror to a I-can-hardly-keep-my-hands-off-you chalkboard!

Wanna see???

One step forward in the kitchen/dining/family room makeover direction! I wasn't sure what exactly I'd use the blue tinted glass jar for when I first got it, other than decoration of course.. but now I think I'll use it to hold chalk! I'm just itching to condition the chalkboard and start writing out my weekly menu's and daily words of wisdom! 

To find the right vintage blue/green color of paint, I took the lid of my Martha Stewart teapot my mom gave me for Mother's Day, the teapot that started this whole change of color scheme and makeover... and matched it to a Dutch Boy color at Walmart called "Escape #G004."

{note to self (or husband I guess I should say): when I take everything off the walls to repaint... rehang the chalkboard with an even amount of wall on each side.}

{the taking forever... still not finished but making progress boy's room update}

{I'm way annoyed... I just upgraded to the newer version of posting through blogger and I HATE it. Arrrggghhhh! It's giving me all sorts of headaches... can't move the pictures where I want them, can't type in between pictures.. only at the very top or bottom, cant, cant, cant.. Is anyone else frustrated with it too? Just wondering-}

Okay now that I've vented, I feel a little bit better.. but only a little. So, how do you like it so far??? I know I said I was going to take pictures a few weeks ago of the new things I had found for the boys room at Ikea but life happened and here we are. Sorry it took so long.--- I'm still looking for some storage solutions and would love to find some old lockers, the walls are obviously bare and I haven't decided what all is going to accompany them, I'm going to paint their desk a different color, probably white or green like their sheets {haven't decided yet}, the cord on the space orbit light still needs to be attached and ran down the corner of the wall and most likely painted the wall color to blend since I hate cords, and amongst other finishing touches they still need some floor length curtains on the window, but this is it for now and I'm likin' it!


Added Ikea items are: ceiling light fixture, corner orbit projecting light, little martian night lights in window seal, abstract polka dot duvet covers + pillow cases and alien green fitted sheets and big square pillows. Saturday while at Walmart I came across the most perfectly matching orange colored round pillow/throw set on clearance for.. are you ready??? $3.99! Woot!!! They were actually marked down to $7.99 on the sticker which I thought was still worth the buy and then at the register they rang up as three-freakin-ninety-nine!!! I almost jumped for joy and did the moonwalk, but instead I contained my emotions 'til I got them in their room and then I added some screams and squeals too! Isn't the round pillow cute with the dots on the duvet, say YES!

Oh and the gritty little haunted house plug-in is from Bath & Body and guess what??? It doesn't just light up... it FLICKERS!!!!!!!! Doesn't get much better than that, I tell ya! Now run out and get yourself one, or two.. or three... hee hee hee  I know I'm going back for more!