Tuesday, November 23, 2010

House transformations

My sisters were talking the other day and one of them mentioned my change to white picture frames and the other couldn't picture it. So she emailed and asked that I post a few pics of my recent projects and my house so she can picture it. Honestly ladies, you should just come see it in person!

Here's the coffee table before:
And after! Including new rug and throw pillows:
The old entertainment center

Picked up this treasure at an antique store in town
(are all of you Tuconians aware that there are great antique stores in Tucson? There are!)
Painted:
Antiqued:
I love how the antiquing makes all the details pop out!
And in the house, complete with "family" sign I also painted:
p.s. is it too early for Christmas decorations? I didn't think so, my house is all decked out!

The chairs have had a few transformations
Here is the first change in 2008:
Now in 2010, love these fabrics! And no, they are not practical but who cares?
They make me happy when I look at them:)
(also, pre treated the fabric with stain guard and they wipe off pretty well!)
My kitchen wall. This used to have one picture on it.
I painted all the frames, many of them I already had so it didn't cost much!
(My christmas things are in there so its not completely how it looks normally but you get the idea)
Another wall of pics.
I love the oval frames and the round framed mirror was a great find at Goodwill!

No before pic of this little gem but it was brown/ugly.
Now it is my adorable end table!
My favorite compliment from anyone thus far was my friend who said, "I saw that before you painted it and I honestly thought it was way ugly and it looks great now!" She didn't have the vision!



This wall is still under construction. Tracy is making me a fat white frame for my timp pic for Christmas, can't wait!! And I have a cool framed scripture to go where the Christmas sleds are now. The little thing on the right is my collection of antique finds at the local stores.
Oh, and my garage during the chaos.
I knew somehow I was going to organize it to fit our new van when it came.....
And here it is: the Swagger Wagon! The boys think it is so cool, even cooler than Daddys truck! Probably just because it is newer,
Hope you enjoyed the tour!
My painting ideas came from www.allthingsthrifty.com Check it out.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

A Musical Meeting with Ellen

My cousin was on Ellen!! She is famous. I love Ali, she is such a fun loving person. Way to go Ali!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Mission San Xavier



We took a little morning trip to this mission that was build in 1783 by some friars from Spain. As we were there and learning about the history of it I realized 1783 was a really long time ago...who knew anyone but the Indians were here then?
It is totally in the middle of no where.
I love the white of the building against the deep blue sky.
The whole place was abandoned at one point and wild animals were living inside. They did major restoration on the whole thing.
They are just cute.
Deep in the labyrinth.
The Indians come to set up little eateries in the stalls on the mission grounds. There were about 7 or 8 stalls and all of them had the exact same menu. Fry bread, fry bread with sugar, fry bread with cinnamon, fry bread with meat, fry bread with honey. It was hard to choose who to buy from when they all look exactly the same and they are all eying you to see where you are going to spend your money. We chose the people who had two cute little kids:
I thought Jack and Chase looked cute playing under the table with these little Indian kids. Seeing them made me thankful that Quinn has a good job.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Have I mentioned...

That my awesome mom is coming in 2 weeks and that we have tickets to go see:
So You Think You Can Dance Live on Tour!!
I can't wait!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween

We were the bat family for halloween. I wanted to do Batman and Robin for the boys but who wants to be robin?
Of course this pic is a little lame because you can't see Quinn's camo backed bat on his shirt and you cant see the boys awesome bat capes!
Chase particularly enjoyed the sugar feas!t

Carving pumpkins is really fun! Why did i not remember how fun it is?