~Fresh Market Cupcakes~

September 13th, 2009

Send a hungry man and a 5 year old to The Fresh Market and they will return with loads of yumminess like these beautiful cupcakes!

~Ace and Daddy’s Lego Penguin~

September 13th, 2009

While we were working on the vanity, the boys were doing this~A Lego penguin!!!!Dont you just love him?!?

Ta Da!!!! Chloe’s completed butterfly vanity~we LOVE it!!!!!! The perfect place for her Hello Kitty hair dryer and her all important Sweet Pea body spray (all 8 year olds need a place to primp~right?) Not bad for $20.

~Butterfly Vanity almost complete~

September 13th, 2009

Use old favorite, Mod Podge to apply butterfly to table.

~Chloe’s vanity~

September 13th, 2009

Cut butterfly from poster purchased at Hobby Lobby.

~Chloe’s new vanity~

September 13th, 2009

~Sunday Project~

September 13th, 2009

Oops! I forgot to take the before pic but imagine a plain solid oak drop leaf side table. All brown and sort of blah~one candle-check valspar paint in ocean breeze-check and a piece of sand paper-check. Rub candle along edges that you’d like to be “distressed” and then apply 2 coats of paint. [...]

This is an updated photo of the turquoise buffet I created from an old french provential dresser in the dining room. I am so into that eclectic cottage-y thing lately. I sort of redecarranged our dining room~painted it in Valspar “Madison Avenue” and created picture groupings on either side of the buffet [...]

~Mad Housewife Wine~

September 5th, 2009

My husband brought this home for me the other night and I was cracking up~how cool is this label? We are not big drinkers at all but we both enjoy a glass of red wine and he has his favorite scotch that he occasionally drinks but this label takes the cake. Angry retro [...]

I also saw this~what an amazing color!