Our Weekend

This weekend was fun. Lots of things going on...here's a little recap...

John went fishing with his brother Sam on the Nodaway River Saturday night...they had a great time!!!

I rearranged the furniture in the living room on Saturday morning. Here's a pic of the the transition point with everything all messed up.

Here's an after pic. I traded out our big coffee table with a truck I found at a garage sale for $20. That little table between the rocking chairs I got at a garage sale for $2! I love great garage sale finds!!!

John is in the process of creating a retaining wall beside our house. Saturday morning he was doing this with some friends. Everything went really well except he broke the water line! Luckily he is a plumber :) so it was quickly fixed.

This is Johnie girl while I was rearranging furniture. Guess she is already a little trickster!

I made an AMAZING peanut butter pie this weekend!!!! I'll share the receipe later this week!

Should have taken a pic a little quicker!!! It didn't last long!

Another great weekend...no big plans just staying home, eating good food and enjoying the fam! Hope you all had a great weekend...what did you do??

Parties

I thought today I would share some pictures of some displays I have created for parties/showers that I have hosted.

This picture is from 4th of July a couple of years ago. I love using fresh flowers in table settings. The flowers in this pic were picked from our yard. I had printed the menu and framed it for a table decoration also.

These pictures are from a wedding shower that I threw for my cousin. I made the picture window as her gift. I have made several of these they are always a favorite. Her theme was rustic.

John cut tons of wood pieces for me to use as candle holders on the tables. They turned out great. (I later made costers for Christmas gifts out of them :)

Jaggers 2nd birthday was a Rio theme, his favorite movie at the time. I made the cupcake stand and banners here. I also made a Rio cake. It turned out pretty cute!

These pictures are from Thanksgiving this year. I spent allot of time this fall collecting pretty plates for my collection. I have pretty table settings for 20 people. Again fresh flowers on the tables. I put hankerchiefs in mason jars which held the knives and forks.  

You may notice that the chairs in the picuture above are just metal fold out chairs. I am currently in the process of collecting wood chairs for entertaining. My goal is to have 10....5 more to go!

I love the entertain it is my passion. I love creating a mood and making people feel special when they sit down at my table. Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for stopping by.

DIY

I got this idea from this post on Beautifully Rooted. Here is my version.

I tend to use materials that I have laying around the house. For this specific project I would have rather had a prettier piece of wood but since my husband is in consturction 2x4's are what I have access to so that is what I used.

Here's what you need

Wood
Sticks
Paint
Glue

Pretty basic....

You can paint the wood whatever color you like and put any word you wish on the wood. I used my last name.

Nothing crazy but very easy and a fun personalized decoration

Had to Share

My awesome babysitter sent me these pics today while I was at work and I had to share...

Thanks Nicki for taking such great care of my babies...you are MUCH appreciated!

Playroom

Here are some pics of our playroom. This room was not included in the house tour because it was too messy at the time...imagine that! This is the room that the kids and I spend the most time in.

These curtains over the sliding glass door are actually shower curtains that I found at TJ Maxx. They were too short for the doors so my mom added pieces of an old sheet to add length...thanks mom!

This is an old butcher block table that my parents gave me. I LOVE this piece it has been in several rooms but as of now this is it's home.

I made this book shelf out of an old door. It is the perfect height for Jag to sit and read.

You can't see this shelf very well but it is an old Hostess advertisment with Mickey Mouse on it that I got at a garage sale for $10! Score!

I made this quite a while ago but I still love it. In case you can't see these are profile pics of our family. The words read (John's pic) plus (my pic) equals (Jag's pic) and (Johnie's pic).

I made this collage after a friend took some family pics for us earlier this year. Nothing special but I love it.

Jagger's first painting!

This is our countdown to vacation...only 18 days to go!!!

Picture wall...I love me some pics!



Johnie's section of the room.

Jagger's art displayed.

I made this table for Jagger last weekend...it didn't turn out as great as I wanted it to...but it serves it's purpose.

So there you have it, our playroom. Hope you enjoyed.

ENT Doc

Jag and I spent some quality time at the ENT doctor on Thursday. He had a 6 month check up on his ear tubes and we also checked out his tonsils. The doctor said that his tonsils are a 3 on a scale of 1-4 so we are considering having them taken out.

We were at this appointment for 2 hours so I had to pull out all the tricks to keep him entertained. We sang every nursery rhythm we could think of.

Once he figured how to work the chair he was pretty proud of himself!

We are still deciding wheather or not we are going to have his tonsils out....what's your opinion? Do you have any experience with tonsils??? Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

4th of July Mantle

Sunday afernoon I worked on updating our fireplace mantle for the upcomig holiday. Here's a peek...

I made the pinwheels using the Lisa Leonard tutorial

I made this wreath based on something I saw online. The flowers are SUPER easy!!!! I will definatly be making more.

I have a banner that hangs on this picuture all the time. To make it festive without altering the banner I just added triangles for scrapbook paper and attached them with small clothes pins. This way I can easily take them down or change them out at any time.

So here's the finished project...what do you think???