Home tour, Living room update.

I don't decorate my living room all that much for the holidays but I figured at $2.48 a pillow I could afford to add some summer time to the living room! yay target clearance!

So here is the normal tv view.

 All the couches, and my new pillows, they only had three. I also added a table runner a family friend gave me for a wedding present. It was way too short for the 83" table and I really wanted to display it!

 I also put a blanket where the cats sit and stare out the window, there is way too much cat hair up there!

 How cute is the table runner!?? it works perfect!

 My mother also bought me a faux book so I would stop ruining "perfectly good books" to make book safes etc. My husband and I am HUGE Sherlock Holmes addicts!

 And here is the maroon couch I have no idea what to do with, 

 with two boys in the house I figured it would behoove me to have ample seating.

I also made a cd "file" box.

Yes I am this anal. get over it.

 I printed out card stock with the categories and put them in a small oak molding box. 

I apologize for the following images but this is as good as it gets.

I bought a kids book at a used book sale from the public library and cut out some butterflies to make

a specimen art piece for my niece for her birthday!

Even though I'm sure I will also make her something else!

 took me about a whole five minutes to cut and tape them to the frame backing. easy!

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New photos in old frames.

I brought a bunch of photo frames back from my parents house home and painted them.

I finally got around to putting photos in them.

Most of them are from my wedding or engagement photos.

Some of the photos are too small for the frames so I just added decorative paper.

 And I added some more photos to the lower photo ledge.

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bulletin board re-do.

I've had this piece of cork board covered in ribbon for the last few years.

The main colors of my last place was yellow and brown, yeah its not so much anymore.

I dug in my stash until I found some fabric my mother and I agreed on.

 I just took off the ribbon and stapled on the new fabric and used some of the brown ribbon over.

I thought about painting the frame but at least black goes with everything and I'm lazy.

 And here it is hung above my desk.

 and there she is ladies and gentlemen!

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Happy fourth and what I've been doing.

My husband is returning from a 6 month deployment.

I'm very nervous and I don't know why, and my way of dealing with the stress has been great for the state of the house. I've cleaned every square inch of this house with my mother.

I've also finished up all the crafts that I've been putting off.

So I really haven't been putting off this one but still...

This is my deployment "craft". For every day that he was gone I added a patch, there are 189 patches, I just finished it by putting the back on. I'm all about getting things done before they need to be done so I don't feel rushed or in a hurry. Naturally this was one of them!

Close up-ish of the quilt.

 I also made a few ton of these wooden fire crackers! 

With all of my projects I have a ton of scrap wood hanging out!

Some paint, christmas sparkly wire, glue, twine and sand paper and I got these!

 They have gotten scattered all over the house, one bunch is even outside.

I didn't have time to dig out the faux flowers while stashing all my crap in a closet somewhere...

so I added pinwheels to the flowers I have. ta da. Its the thought that counts!

 And here are the other bunches of fire works.

 I even re-arranged the book cases so that they look better! 

yes, I'm that anal about the whole home coming thing.

Happy fourth!

wood working for blondes.

I've really gotten into a wood working kick lately.

And let me tell you something, I always took my dads tools for granted.

All you would have to do is dig through the cabinets in his garage to find what you needed.

the saw horses were nice too!

I started making this bench/table last week but I wasn't able to finish it because of sheer frustration.

8pm is not a great time to build something out of warped, free wood.

I wanted something that people could sit on, I'm tall and I HATE low patio furniture.

so its tall enough to be a table. not having anyone to help nor the patients to create a cute cross bracing this is what I came up with.

This is the finished piece. I know all the slots aren't all right but who cares, it sits outside.

I also made more moulding planters, I stacked the moulding on itself

 and the bottom one is an old pallet and a 4x4 fence post.

 My friend said the screws weren't very cute but it's meant to hold dirt.

It there fore has lost the right to be cute.

Bigfoot loves out side.

 Although most the time he is out back eating the grass...

And yes I gave him a haircut! cute, I know!

They really need to come and mow my lawn.

 Here is my back porch.

Yes, I have guys come and do my lawn!

Simply because my lawn is under warranty so the maintenance guys do it for me!

 meh, I'm not a huge fan of the set up of all the pots but what do you do??

 my favorite piece of lawn furniture.

 And here is the bench/table next to my chairs!!

how perfect does it match?

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Changes.

This whole flood thing is very stressful on everyone,

It got worse when the tap water was contaminated,

we are under a "boil order". you need to boil your water before you can use it.

There was even a fist fight over bottled water.

I waited until the whole crisis over water to end and I went to the store in town and bought 2 five gallon water jugs for the water cooler my friends have stored in my garage.

I have to admit now that I've used it I love the darn thing!

Add it to the list of things I need!

not such an eye sore as I thought it would be.

Okay so I added the garbage next to it so it wouldn't be lonely.

So I can't just let the rest house stay the same either.

so I moved the jumbled desk situation onto the other wall.

yeah you can see how organized it is right now......

actually this is how ocd I am that I think this is an atrocious mess!! I also HATE that lamp. 

I'm going to sell it at our rummage sale!

I'm also on the fence about selling the couch that was on that wall too but I know my hubby will be gaming in the living room so I just moved it.

 I'm sorry about the blurry photos here but the cats were way too cute.

this is my new "drop all" spot. before it was the kitchen table so I like this so much more.

 Bigfoot wanted his photo taken too...

 I also moved my bathroom scale here too so I can obsess over my weight some more!

(loosing it is very exciting!)

And here is the living room with the maroon couch back in it.

I dislike it but I can use the seating.

I would love two old chairs to put there........ 

Yes I was hanging and folding laundry and left it there.

I can't decide what to keep and what to sell!

I was distracted by my cute toe nails! I had to redo them though!

they were cute when I did them at work.

I know I have way too much time on my hands but I couldn't have ugly piggies with those cute sandals!

plus being a neail tech I kind of have to have cute nails, I'm not much on accuracy with my own nails so excuse the white and clear all over, its the way I roll!

I changed them to new o.p.i I lilly love you

I really love the names too!

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Grab your arm floaties ladies and gentleme.

Its flooding where I live so please excuse me if I'm not posting as much as I should.

that and I have strep throat right now.

So here are some of the newer photos of the flood.

 I love the finger here..

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