13 Months

Wells 13 months 

I'm a little late posting this but better late than never! I wanted to have a post about each month so I would have it to go back. I'm terrible about keeping up with pictures so this helps me.

 

I can't express how sweet she is. She brings us so much joy and we love her to death! She walks, well runs everywhere and loves to follow Finn around. They actually play very good together but they do aggravate each other as well! She has starting dancing and turns circles round and round until she falls down. She thinks it's the best thing ever, me not so much, she usually ends up bumping her head. 

She is eating really good now and loves to eat pretty much anything. There for awhile I was getting worried because she wasn't eating good, but she has turned around and started eating really good!

DIY Projects {part 2}

Framed Mirror

Jared also framed my mirror in my bathroom and I distressed it. I am going to re-paint this bathroom when I figure out what color I want to paint it.

Painted Stool:

This is a super cheap and easy project. I got this little stool from the Habitat Store {which I love FYI} for 3 bucks! It was already painted white so I just taped it off, painted it, and sanded it a little to distress it.

Burlap ruffle lamp shade:

This was some leftover burlap from my wreath project. I didn't take a before picture because it was kind of a make up as you go project {while watching Grey's!}. Making a ruffle with burlap is SUPER easy because you just hold a string in the middle of your strip and pull it to ruffle! I am going to take pictures of the one I am making for my sister to show you. I just hot glued it on to the shade I already had on my mantle.

 

Side table:

This was a 3 dollar table from a yard sale that was gold and pretty ugly! I spray painted this and didn't do anything else to it. Right now it is being used in Wells' room to hold books and lamp. She pulls all the books off this table every day, 10 times a day, it is driving me crazy and it won't hold all of here books. Plus it looks pretty junky I think.

These are going to be book holders for the kids rooms! We are currently working on these and I am really excited about them. I found these idea on Pinterest! I still need to sand and paint them.

This is what I am making! 

Source: littlelucylu.com via Shelli on Pinterest

Wood/Tin bar:

This is Jared's project {in basement} so I can't take any credit for this. I just wanted to show how cute it turned out for only 8 bucks! He used some wood from his Granddad and some old tin. He made those frames on the wall from some old barn wood. This literally took him one day to do. 

Saving Jars:

I saw something similar to this on Pinterest but wanted to use something I already had. These are old sauce jars that I always keep. It's funny how I used to laugh at my Mom and Grandma about saving jars, containers, and plastic bags to reuse and now I do it too! The Tithing sticker got messed up so I need to remake it.

I tired to find where I saw this and can't for the life of me find it. 

DIY projects {part 1}

Free Changing Table:

This is one of my favorite projects! I was coming home from town one day thinking about re-doing Wells room to get all the dark furniture out and make it look more girly! I had been looking for a new changing table/dresser. I saw this sitting on the side of the road and of course drove past it. I got down the road and thought man that would be perfect for a changing table. I turned around and pulled in to check it out. I was going to go to the door and offer to buy it and nobody was home, so I assumed they were just giving it away. It was broken and all beat up, which was perfect because I was going to distress it! I loaded it in the back of my car, cleaned it really good, and sanded/distressed it! It turned out really cute and it was free!

Burlap Wreath:

This was a super cheap and easy project. I had a foam wreath and had 2 yards of burlap. I cut about 4 long pieces, wrapped my wreath first, and then just twisted and pin the burlap in. I like to change things often so I didn't glue it on! I made the flower by cutting some shear fabric in circles and gluing together in the middle.

Painted Rug:

My plan was to paint the rug under my kitchen table an off white color and do tan stripes on it. It was a red rug with the straw type material on the inside. Like an outdoors rug. Didn't turn out like I wanted because the red kept coming through after a WHOLE gallon of paint! So it ended up on the front porch and I  bought a new rug at Ikea for under the table! 

Lazy Susan:

This was a 3 dollar lazy Susan from Ikea that was just a natural wood. I painted it dark brown, then this aqua color, and sanded away! 

Kids Bathroom redo:

I was getting so tired of bright/dark colors in my house! I really hate I didn't take a before/after picture of this bathroom. It was a BRIGHT dark yellow. It was awful! I wanted to lighten it up and give it a clean look! I started by painting the light green color that I painted our kitchen with but I added some white to it to lighten it up a little more. Jared put up the bead-board on the bottom with the molding around. He also framed the mirror just by gluing the wood to the mirror! It is a cheap easy way to dress up your bathrooms! I saw some people glued their wood together before putting it up, so much easier to just glue each piece to the mirror! 

I am going to add some hooks to the molding {on the plain wall} to hang the kids towels on! Check out a new love of mine, the vintage milk vases in the old crate! Love them! 

I still am looking for things to decorate with with some pops of color!

If you didn't notice I have a new blog design!  It turned out so cute thanks to Erin at Designer Blogs! 

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Organize your Life

One of of the things I want to work on this year is organizing! I am so unorganized and it is driving me crazy. One thing I can't stand {that is a constant battle around here} are paper's laying around everywhere! I need a place to put list, coupons {before I put them in my purse}, receipts, mail before I bring it to the office, and other paper's that get stacked up in my kitchen. Also, I had a calendar on my refrigerator and other magnets/pictures that just looked messy. I need a calendar in my kitchen, because that's where I spend most of my day, so I had to figure out a way to put one in the kitchen without the clutter. I found these boards at Wal-Mart that have these little sticky things on the back {it doesn't mess up paint when you pull them off}.

Now I can have my calendar, magnets, the paper organizer that is magnetic, you can write list {that aren't laying around}, and I can close the door and can't see anything!

My fridge is now clean of clutter except for a few pictures!

I am also in the process of making labels for things! I bought some clear sticky paper and made some labels!

My pantry is going to be all containers and NO boxes/bags! I bought these containers from Ikea, but need more to get everything transferred over. I still need to repaint my pantry and make labels for all my containers! 

I still have a long way to go to get really organized but I am working on it!

Finally catching up!

We have been sooo crazy around here. Since Christmas I have been cleaning, trying to get myself organized, doing some makeovers to our house, going to doctors, PAINTING, PAINTING, and more cleaning.....ugh the list goes on! I did want to post some pictures from Christmas just so I would have them! {this little blog does some in handy when I made a book from all the pictures last year..I could pull up each month and have all the pictures organized!!}

My bearded husband..he finally shaved{thankfully}!

Wells got her first diamond necklace from Mimi, and her fist mini set of OPI nail polish from Aunt Mindi!

This girl LOVES baby dolls! She carries them around with her all day long.

Before church on Christmas Day!

Christmas at Papaw Jimmy's house.

We had such a wonderful Christmas!


As you can see in the pictures Finn fell in the shop with Jared and got a black eye! Then the night before New Year's Jared was outside hanging a swing under our deck, dropped a HUGE wrench{this thing is about 2 feet long!} on Finn's head and we spent all night in the emergency room! He got 3 staples{thankfully no concussion} in his head and hopefully we will he accident free for awhile!

Waiting to get them out in the Doctor's office! He didn't even cry and I was DREADING taking them out so bad!

I wish I could show you pictures of our house where I have re-painted and done some updates, but my little Finn has lost my camera card so I haven't taken any pictures yet! I will put them up as soon as I get a new card!