A few Christmas pictures

I absolutely love Christmas time and I love decorating. I just got a new Sony a33 camera, thanks in-laws!

Ornament gifts

My daughter goes to a daycare center and I know she has a lot of ladies that know her and/or take care of her. I was afraid I would leave someone out if I bought specific gifts for people so I decided to do these cute ornaments I saw the other day. I did go with another recipe that I found online.

Ingredients:
3 cups powdered Sugar
8 oz. non-fat dry milk
16 oz. Instant Chocolate Milk (I use Nestle's)
6 oz. Creamora (or any non-dairy creamer)
1 large box of instant chocolate pudding mix

Mix ingredients well and store in air tight container until you're ready to make the individual gift packages.

Add crushed candy cane to make it minty.

One batch made 16 ornaments (good thing because two ornament didn’t make it out of the box)

My husband taking over my project!

The finished product.

I put them all in a basket for easy travels.

I hope all the ladies enjoy them.

Let tile the kitchen...

I have always loved tile backsplashes in kitchens. My husband and I had talked about it maybe once until one day a friend informed me that Home Depot was having a sale on glass tile, $4.99 per square foot. So my husband and I stopped by and picked up two boxes and thought we would give it a try.

Before

After

Before

After

I am in love with the way it turned out.

Great trip to Harris Teeter

A good friend over at The Pantavong Clan is teaching me how to become coupon savvy. This was my trip to Harris Teeter yesterday.

Lysol Neutra Air
7th Generation Dish Soup
Colgate Toothpaste
Jimmy Dean D-light breakfast bowl
Jimmy Dean D-light Breakfast Sandwiches
California Pizza
(6) Martha White Muffin Mix
(2) College Inn Chicken Broth
(5) Jolly Time Popcorn boxes
(2) Bush’s Grillin Beans
(2) Barilla Plus Pasta
(6) Bumble Bee Tuna Pouches
(2) Kahiki Tempura Chicken
(2) Pillsbury Sweet Moments

Total = $22.17 (not bad if I do say so myself)

So I really wanted to do a project this past weekend and then I remembered I had bought 2 table cloths when I was reupholstering the dining room chairs. I only used one, so I decided to use the second one on the China Cabinet.
Here is the before.

I couldn’t take the back of the cabinet off because it had big staples instead of screws,
so I cut the table cloth into 6 pieces after measuring the spaces in the cabinet.

Next I attached the table cloth with (believe it or not) double sided tape. I didn’t want to use anything permanent.

After putting everything back, here is the finished project.

What do you think?

My Version of “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall.”

I saw this project and fell in love with it. I needed something in our guest bedroom. Here is how mine turned out.

What do you think?

Halloween Cake

I was home on Friday with my sick daughter and got to watch the Today Show and they did a Halloween episode. They showed you how to make this Halloween cake and I decided to make it for a Halloween Party. What do you think?

Candy Jar

I just love this candy jar.

So here is my attempt at it. It was so easy and cheap. I will change out the ribbon for different seasons/holidays.

Cork Wreath

I'm very happy with the way this wreath turned out. A couple of weeks ago some friends and I went to a winery and they had the cutest wreath made out of corks and with having 2 grocery bags full of corks (thanks Mom and Avery) I thought this was great project. I took the corks and glued them to a straw wreath. I added some fall fake leaves and an orange ribbon but for Christmas I will change out the ribbon for a red or green one and add red berries or something more Christmassy.

Dining room chairs

Our dining room set was a hand-me-down from friends. The chair covers where white and had water stains. I ran across this table cloth at Bed Bath and Beyond and decided I wanted to use that to reupholster the chairs. I love how it turned out and if I had enough time and guts I would repaint the table and china cabinet white…Stay tuned to see if that ever happens.

Just a little something...

I have seen these vinyl quotes everywhere these days. I came across vinyl paper for the Circut Machine at Michaels for $9.99 and thought “That’s perfect”. And this is what I came up with.

Some improvements we have done

The house was in great shape when we moved in and I love the colors that the previous owners had painted however there was a few things I wanted to do.

First-the Chandelier in the dining room had to go.
I hate the brassy gold color, so my husband and I primed and painted it with Rust-oleum spray paint.

Picture on the left side-Previous owner, Picture on the right-what it looks like now.


Second-I added pulls and knobs. It's amazing how much a little thing like makes the kitchen look so much better. (P.S. the walls are still yellow

Our New House

We closed at the end of February 2010.