Thursday, June 11, 2009

pLAY rOOM

Kelly's Korner is one of my very favorite blogs! She has been doing this "show me your home" link party for several weeks now...I have wanted to join in, but never really get around to it! So welcome to our (very messy) play room!These are the french doors that lead into the play room...you can't really see it but that little door hanger says "no girls allowed!"
This is what you see when you first walk in...The pillows are silhouettes of both of our boys...
another shot of what you see from the door.... the table is painted with chalk board paint so the boys can color on it!
Some fun pics that I had blown up of our boys! Sammy on the left and Jack on the right....
This looks so messy...but the white shelf has puzzles, and lots of our little toys stored in red bins...To the right you can see the curtains...the long panels are burlap and then the topper is made of a small hounds tooth....This is some fun art work that the boys have done over the years... and then under it is costumes and dress up stuff!
This is one of my favorite things in our whole house...it is a word find with our names and all the future baby names that we like! There is a fun little bell hanging to the left that the boys LOVE to ring!!! The pillows are some floor pillows that I made and had monogrammed...the boys like to lay on them to watch movies or play with them!
This is a sweet little toy box that my parents bought for Jack on his first Christmas!
this is another shot of the top of the window treatment and the black armoire holds our computer/home office...This room is a play room/office/family room....we spend lots of time here!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

these are a few of my favorite things....

Pictures, My sweet boys and my very talented friend Brittany Stover!
(click on her name to go to the website)
password: jarvis
My friend Brittany came to the house the other day to do a quick little photo shoot with the boys...they are darling!!! I really didn't know what to expect because the boys were definitely not on their best behavior while she was here....but she sent them to me today and I don't know how I'm going to decide!!! They are all so sweet and definitely capture both boys personalities! Her style is so fun! She is one of the most talented people I know and just a super sweet person!
Thanks so much Brittany!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

10 Minute Makeover

One of my very favorite blogs is The Nesting Place
Today she is having people link their makeovers to her blog....there are lots of cute things....go check it out!
I have been re-doing a few rooms in our house and I thought I would share them...
I don't have a before but this is the after...this is my dresser from when I was a little girl! It was part of my "big girl" furniture.... I painted it black a few years ago and it sits behind a chair in our living room....I was never 100% happy with the way it turned out so I decided to lighten it up a little! I painted it an antique white and then sanded it and did a fun glaze on it! I am still trying to get use to it but it really lightened up that corner of the living room!
We desperately need a new couch...but with our boys being 2 & 4 I decided it would be better to make a few pillows to spruce up the couch we have and try to get a few more years out of it!
I love my pink kitchen but I have never really loved the stuff that I had above my kitchen cabinets...I just moved around some stuff that we already had and painted some of the things that I wasn't crazy about...it's still a work in progress but I really like it a lot better already!
I made this little no sew table skirt for the living room...
I will post more when I'm done with everything!




Saturday, January 17, 2009

A fun thing to do with old Christmas cards

Every year we get the lots of fun Christmas cards from family and friends...I feel so bad just throwing them in the trash...so this year we are doing something with them! Each night at the dinner table we let each boy pick a card and then we pray specifically for that family! The boys love it and it's teaching them te importance of praying for others!