My top 7 favorite things (right now)... I know, random number 7!

Creative furniture: I LUV the idea of taking a dresser and making into a bathroom vanity, or painting a dining room table and chairs YELLOW!! Vintage pieces, furniture with curves, something I can paint and bring to life again.... LoVe IT!!

Ruffles: Anything with ruffles is my friend! No, not your old Grammy-type lace-ish ruffles, the hip/trendy new ruffles that you can find everywhere now!! LOVE'EM!

Teal!!! I can't get enough of this yummy color! The running joke in my house when I buy something to "re-vamp"...is that it would look great painted TEAL! No matter what I buy, Clint says that!! Jokester!
I just can't explain it...i just love the color teal!

Embroidery... can't stop loving it! Yes, I feel a little old now that I said that..but it's true. I love all the cute embroidery ideas out there.

Crafty/Creative Blogs! I don't think I can go more then a day (unless on vaca of course) without checking out my fav creative blogs!!! These are just a few!!

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Anything vintage or retro: So cute! Wish I had a whole house of this kind of stuff!!!!

Sewing: I have really been into sewing cute outfits, crafty things, curtains...you name it. I struck GOLD on Craigslist after Christmas and got a Bernina 1006 for $50!! I am so in LUV with that machine! Here are a few things I have done:

Thursday Night Concert

This was our Thursday night entertainment!

A Girl After My Own Heart

Laynie is in a home-ech class again this year. They have started to learn how to cook, to sew, etc... She came home Monday and wanted to sew something.

I suggested she make the letter 'L' since it has good straight lines to learn from. She was very good at sewing and we enjoyed the bonding time together!

Here's Laynie with her letter 'L'.

Halloween Recap 2009

Halloween was pretty low-key this year! We had no little ones to take trick-or-treating, so Clint and I stayed home and handed out candy. Laynie and Blake were with their Mom this year, so we were happy to have them stop by for some pics and candy! Here's Laynie as our "hippie" and Blake as the scary "skeleton man". Notice our pretty red doors? Clint finished them and I think they look super fabulous! Here's little Gooch... dressed as a bumble bee! He was SUCH a good sport about it all.

Clint and our friend Jeff decided to make a scary man with a mask we already had. They build him with a speaker inside so that when kids came to our house, Clint spoke through the microphone and scared them. Poor unsuspecting kids!

Here he is hanging in our tree. Clint had him hoisted up and connected to a pulley on our deck upstairs. When the kids came up the walkway, Clint would let him go!
I got crafty with my fake pumpkins from Michaels. I meant to do this a few weeks ago when I bought them, but I guess life got in the way! So... here's the first white pumpkin. I printed out a big 'E' on my computer and then cut it out and traced around it on my pumpkin with a pencil.

I painted it with craft paint and then added some fun polka-dots.

The orange ones got a few polka-dots too.

You can see that I took the other white pumpkin and stenciled "Boo" on it. FUN, FUN!

Hand Embroidery

Lately I'm obsessed with hand sewing! I remember being a little girl and LOVEing to play in my Moms sewing box. She had this butterfly thing that held all her embroidery floss! I was IN LUV with all the colors! She cross stitched a lot. I learned how and did a few things (of which I have no idea where they are :(

These days I have "graduated" to hand embroidery. I am, by no means, experienced in this new craft arena! So far it's all been off the top of my head... and actually I figured out today that I was not even doing the back stitch correctly! :(

So... now that I found out how (via an embroidery website)... I plan on making these SWEET dresses someday. Especially if I have a girl (no, i'm not prego...I'm just say'in). I have a thing for all things vintage and "antique". These little dresses are just SWEET. I got the FREE download from HERE.

So anywho.... Right now I'm working on my "Quiet Book" as a Christmas gift for my nephews. I hope it turns out cute. I have seen a lot of cute ones online...especially this one from Homemade By Jill. Go check her out...she's a crafting genius!!!

Right now, my living room is looking like a sweat shop!

Progress!!

Last weekend we made some MAJOR progress on painting the house. Clint is such a hard worker and really got a LOT done! I attempted to help (and I did) but it took me forever! So I'm not sure how much help I really was.

Here's Clint getting ready to paint up underneath the overhang.Yes, this is Clint on the ROOF! He's painting the trim. Luckily for us...we have a flat roof right there!
After our hard work on Saturday!
Here's the house now... We still have to do a portion of the upstairs, and paint the front doors and the brick around the bushes. It looks a million times better then before!! :)