Big Boy

My hippie boy needed a hair cut-- but kinda made me sad that he is a big boy now. OK he is still in diapers and takes a bottle, so not completely grown. However he does think he is a grown man and doesn't have to hold mommy's hand across the street. Maybe he doesn't want the ladies to think that he is a mommas boy or something

http://redhenhome.blogspot.com/2011/06/little-french-chocolate.html

This lady made this table look awesomely vintage. Copy and paste the title of this post into your browser to see how she did it

We Will Miss you Pam

Last Saturday, Pam and I went to the stawberry festival and met some other friends of ours. We had a great day. Then on Monday I tried to call her, and her mom answered and said that she had died. She is THE sweetest person I have ever know. As a matter of fact she was to sweet. She literally would help people if it took her last bit of stregth or her last dime.

From Grossness

Yep, this was our capet. Funky!! The folks that lived here before us had lots of foster kids and animals. Then we moved in with kids and animals. Al makes for some funkyness. Also the quality of the carpet is super bad. See the first pic? See the browns spot in the tear?? that is the sub floor. So bad. Luckily we got a few bucks from out taxes and got some tile. I found some that is vinyl/composit but looks like stone.

To Awesomeness!!

I LOVE our new floor!! It is actually some cheap (well sorta) vinyl/composit tile. I has been a Bitch to put in!! 6 hours of prep per room plus 4 hours of dry time for adhesive primer and 8 hours of dry time for the floor leveler. We have been working since Thurs evening and have the foyer and dining room done. Kitchen is mostly prepped. We were hating on the person who felt the need to put many rows of stapes 2 inches apart for the pad. Really dude? was it necessary? uuuughh. Oh will I am thankful for our tax return that alowed us to do this.

This is kinda weird

My friend Sheila sent me this

Awesomeness for Cheap

I am not a border person. They are usually kinda cutsy. Our Bathroom had a super cutsy country border with apples, rosehips, rustic stars, which is way cool if you like that kinda thing. Well I took it off and then took a pic. Yes the red part really looked like that.

I found some textured wallpaper, cut it to border size, then painted it with a "hammered copper" spray paint. I hung it up and it looked cool, but then I put a couple layers of a dark walnut stain on it. Then stain is kinda black and I worked it into the crevices of the design and then wiped it off of the raised areas. You can tell the diffence that the stain makes in the 3rd pic--part stained and part not. I think it turned out AWESOME and cost a total of $20!! I have a ton left over also.