Tiffany Blue brings a smile to every girl's heart...

I bought this desk at the thrift store and later acquired the curvy mirror. Typical old 70's brown finish to start. A coat of beautiful Tiffany Blue paint and a white wash made her really special. Don't have any daughters, so on Craig's List she goes!

Top two reasons I'm the luckiest mom in the world...

Need I say more????

Spring means in with the old???

At my house it does! I've been looking for a lamp at the thrift stores, but no luck until this week. My intentions were to paint it with the mirror look spray paint to give it the appearance of mercury glass. I am still deciding because I found a lamp that I'm really found of & it is the lightest shade of turquoise. I added a new drum shade & voila- looks very chic. The other things I found this week at the antique store are the cutest little turquoise fan (that really works), an old scale, and a straw holder (big hit with my younger son). When he got a straw, he ended up dumping all the straws out, so I have to give him a tutorial. Today, I was also elated to find the mason type jars with numbers at Tuesday Morning for $4 each! My tea bags and sports drink packages fit perfectly in them. Happy Mother's Day to me!!!!

Happy Easter

We had a wonderful Easter starting with church last night. Pastor Craig never ceases to amaze me, he actually gave me goose bumps. Amazing message!! Then we awoke to thunderstorms and rain, we needed rain so badly. What a blessing! We had dinner and the boys hunted eggs inside the house. After we got home, I had a chance to make some changes to our living room. I added new curtains (which are actually drop cloths from Lowe's) -much cheaper than the linen panels I've had my eye on. I've also added the pics of my endtables that I recently finished. I am in LOVE with them- they make me smile everytime I see them with their stylish legs and retro marble tops.

Look at the Strawberries!

My husband laughed because I actually took a photo of these strawberries, but you have to admit they are beautiful! They were delicious too. One of the many reasons I love spring & summer-yummy fruit.

Cabin Fever

Cabin fever has set in after 4 days of school being out. I just love chevron prints and was trying to be thrifty as well. I created these black and white chevron canvases to hang in our breakfast area. I painted them without using painter's tape, so they aren't perfect, but I think that's what makes them even more unique.

sNOw Kidding

The weather had been forecasting snow for the past week, but as usual I just take it with a grain of salt. They were right about that blizzard we had on Christmas Eve 2009 and there was that time with the May 3rd tornado- still I think they blow things out of proportion most times. Good thing I made my usual weekend grocery store stop because on Tuesday morning we woke up to blowing snow and frigid temps. The boys have been out of school for four days and the roads are snow packed- we even saw the trash truck get stuck today while trying to get into our neighborhood. I have one thing to say...Thank goodness for that global warming, it's really been helping us out :P