Painting My Family Room

So...if you have followed me somewhat you know how much I want to give my house that beachy look. Well as I am sitting here watching football on TV, I start searching out other bogs.  I found this blog how to paint wood paneling  Needless to say I so excited, as I have to do the same thing.  Well then I am searching this blog a little more and I came across this fireplace happenings which talks and shows you how to paint a brick fireplace.  OH MY...that's also what I need to do.  WOW!  Now I can see a winter project for me to do.  The first thing I am going to have to do is get my DH to take stuff off the walls for me.  Then I can start with filling in nail holes in the wall. 

Pics to come!!!

If you have any suggestions or comments please leave them!!

Halloween is coming

WOW, I can't believe Halloween is right around the corner.  Last year I made these gift bags which I filled with candy, a cupcake and a cute Halloween pencil for people at my work.  I want to do it again, but I want to do it better this year.  What suggestions do you have.  I'm still going to bake the cupcakes.   Now I'm left with trying to decide what and/or how to make it snazzy.

Here is a sample of what was done last year:
last years project

I'd love to hear your suggestions!!

What to write about...?

So lately I've been away or kinda shy here.  I haven't been able to find any time to craft lately.  So I'm asking all of you who follow me...what would you like to read about?  More about me maybe my other hobbies..?!?!?!

New Chairs!!!

OK, so some of you already know that I want to turn my home into a "beach house"!  It's the closest I'm going to get to owning a beach house.  Anyway, I've been looking for some chairs that would go with this theme w/o breaking the bank.


I decided I would check IKEA and see what they have.  I have looked online before, but never found anything that caught my eye!  Any way I came across this:  CHAIR AT IKEA $69.99

They had the same chair in black but that wouldn't have been beachy....right?  So I was very happy that IKEA has this one on display.  Well when I sat in it, it wasn't that comfortable....and it was low to the ground.  :O(

So I kept standing there staring at the chairs and found this one:  IKEA CHAIR 2
which looked like this:

 I sat is this chair and it was much better, even my husband agreed.  However, it was $99.99.  So I stay in the chair and think about it for a while.  I decided I would go for it.

Here's me putting them together:

 

YAY!!!!

Been outta touch...

WOW, it's been a while since I've posted here.  SORRY!  I missed you all too!  I'm trying to think of some of the things I've been trying to do.

Well I did have that 50th B-day party for my hubby back in May.  I was a success that's for sure.  Here are the center pieces I made.  I used also a mirror square with some flameless tealights.  The candle holders I found for a terrific price at Bed, Bath and Beyond.  Plus I can use them whenever I want for any other occasion.  

So that's how the room was set up.  I was able to get a hold of some leather table top coves and they just really completed the look. 

  So that's about it for the Big Day for my Hubby!!

OH YEAH...I couldn't forget this....THE CAKE!!!!

Centerpieces for Hubby's 50th

OK, so my DH is turning the big "50" this year and I decided I wanted to throw him a Birthday Bash!!!  So far  I have gone to our local community center and put a deposit down on the party room, and also applied for a beer & wine license for the event.  My DS said that he thought we should do a motorcycle theme event since that's what Daddy really likes.  I thought that is an awesome idea!!!  SO I had seen the sucker centerpieces and that started my wheels turning thinking about how I can go from lollipops to motorcycles.  With some help of you ladies on here, I found the right supplies.   

So there are some small motorcycles I found from a bakery on-line.  I was able to buy them buy the case!

Here are the sticks that I got to place the motorcycles on.  These were super hard for me to find as I didn't know what they were called.  It was a member on here that said I needed candy apple sticks!!!  Thank you - who ever that was!!!

 So here I am using a hot glue gun on the end of a stick.....getting it ready

 That's all 4 sides of the bucket....it says....Roll On The Throttle


While I was at Michaels, I got a new light for my desk too.....I gotta share it.  

 OK OK...back to business....
Here are the motorcycles all stuck and ready to be used!!!

Here are the motorcycles stuck into the foam...

 So my thought was to get shredded foil to put in the bucket to give it some pizazz.  So I went to Michaels today with my coupons of course.  I was looking at the shredded foil and it was 429 per package.  I'm sure I would have needed 10.  Anyway I was walking around and I see the easter grass......and I say HOT DAYMN!!!!  .69 per bag....yeah that's what I am using.  There went the pizaaz!!!

 TAADAA  that's it folks!!!  1 down 17 to go!!