Two more projects

I keep forgetting to upload pictures of my newly painted bathroom. One, maybe because you can probably barely notice a difference. My bedroom is going to be decorated in teal and brown, so I didn't want a matchy-matchy color on the walls. I did the bathroom first, since it was a smaller room. I wanted to do cream and brown on the walls. I figured with my small bathroom, that I should only do the cream in there, because it would make it look small with brown. Well, I am glad I tested the bathroom first. The cream was really, really light and almost looked like a white or off white almost. I took pictures of it anyway, but you can't tell much of a difference.

Before:

After:


My other DIY project was one I have wanted to do for a while now. This little table was in a spare bedroom for years now holding useless junk. I am not a fan of light oak at all. Nothing against you if you are. I just prefer darker wood like Cherry, chocoloate, mocha or something like that. Well, unfortunately, they don't have a spray paint called Cherry. So, I got the closest thing - Rust-Oleum's Kona Brown. The table was cute, and I knew it would do great in my bedroom. My VCR and cable box was currently sitting in a chair. It has been this way for 4 years now. I have totally neglected my bedroom all these years fixing up the visible rooms first. Its time to fix 'er up too! The table was a great new edition.

Please see how pitiful this was what I was doing as a TV stand before. I know...no comments please. LOL.

Here is the cute little table before:


Here it is after. I am not the best at spray painting just yet. I also was aware that there may have been a little bit of a gloss finish on the table, but I was too lazy to sand it. So, I do have some bubbles where the paint wanted to run off. I am not too picky though, and I think it looks just fine.


Now, see how much better it looks in my room!! No laughing at my 2001 Big screen either. :)


I am learning and trying to get cool new ideas from other blogs on what to do for my bedroom. I am addicted with wanting to spray paint things now days. I plan to try to paint my bedroom with a new cream and brown Monday while I'm off for Columbus Day. I'm thinking of doing a brown stripe at the top all the way around the room and cream on the bottom. I hope this works out. It looked really cute on the Behr example online. :) I will post how it goes.

My Project and Pig

It has been forever, I know. I have majorly been slacking once again. I was waiting to be able to post my project that I did, but it took forever for me to get it finished. Well, not forever, but forever to decide how it would look good hanging on the wall. I still am not perfectly happy with the way it is hung on the wall, but I can't think of much else to do. If you have any ideas, I am open for whatever. In order to get the pictures to stagger perfectly, I would have to start much higher than the mirror, and I felt retarded hanging it as high as I did. The toilet is not centered between the counter and the tub, so that also makes it awkward. I didn't want the last picture so close to the shower either that it got wet. Anyway, enough babbling. Here is the project.

Since I got a new comforter and was finally able to put out my Christmas gifts in the bathroom, I needed some new matching decor. I decided to try my hand at making my own. I hope the idea is cute and feel free to steal it if you want to. I originally ran to Hobby Lobby and bought some wood letters, glue, paint, and scrapbook paper. I went to Michael's the next day and found much cuter letters and scrap paper.

The bathroom before...see how I needed something in this space?

My supplies:

The letters and some paint!


After painting them all and letting them dry, put some glue on the back of them to glue on the paper.

All done!! I love that they are all on different paper. I am so proud of them!

The first time I hung them, this is hat I decided to do since it was small space. I liked it until Kyle came in and said he didn't know what it was supposed to say. So, I rearranged.

This is what I came up with next. I am still not happy with this arrangement either, but I have hammered a ton of holes in the wall. So, it may just have to stay this way.


This past weekend was the 4th of July. We decided this year to celebrate our birthday party on the 4th, since both of our birthdays (7th & 8th) were during the week this year. Plus, I had not given Kyle is birthday present yet for him to know we were really partying the following week. I got him tickets to the Jay-Z/Ciara concert in Atlanta. He was so excited. I reserved our room for Saturday and Sunday so that we could actually go out in Atlanta. Its good we had our party on the 4th though, because more of our friends could come. A ton of our friends showed up. My awesome parents actually threw us a "Pig Pickin" party. They got a whole pig to cook on the pit. It was awesome. They did so much for us with buying all the food and just providing the house and time. I am one lucky girl!! I know they had a good time too. They like to party with my friends just as much as I do. They got us a keg that lasted pretty much all day. We played some horseshoes, volleyball, tossed the football, swam, and fished...Oh, and ate, and ate, and ate. We had chicken, brats, and hot dogs for lunch. Heather and I both made her yummy Mexican dip (I hear Alyse taught her this in 2nd grade?? :) ) I need to add that to my recipe blog for sure. We spent all day Friday cleaning up the house to make it presentable. The house looked awesome. I'm glad dad was able to be off work for a week for the first time in months. I hate he had to bust his butt through most of it to get ready for our party. Thanks mom and dad! Yall are awesome and we love you!! Here are a few pictures from the party.