A little DIY on the Fly...........

I am so excited to show this little ditty off! One of my best DIY's by far if I do say so myself. My only regret is my lack of a before photo.
I bought the little house shelf for a buck at the rummage sale a few weeks back. It was just plain wood and quite dusty. But I saw promise in it!

My Free Valspar paint came with in days! I chose 'Journal Book' which is a very,very light blue. Did you get yours? They are still giving away samples every day this month. Get on it!

2 Coats later plus a little glue and scrapbook paper she looks like this! Total cost? About $1.75!! It's for Stella's room but I'm thinking it's too pretty to not have downstairs......Hmmmm........
I simply cannot stop gushing over it!

Also just for fun I added some pizzazz to the red cabinet doors.Just some clearance scrap paper that looks like bingo cards:

I'm linking up with April over at Gingerbread for Sweet Saturday.

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Oh,what a week it's been. Summer seems to have kidnapped Spring before it has even got here!The calender says it's still Winter yet this week we have had open windows,played with chalk and bubbles,gone for ice cream and the kids have worn shorts. I broke out the flipflops but I realize now I need a pedi desperately before I go around sporting those.

Onto InstaFriday!.........................

Aww,someone sure does love his little sister!!

Went through a thing of old photo's with Emma. I loved taking pictures of my space even back then. The other pic of me is from January 1998. My sister and I were on our way to go see Oasis.

Saw this chandelier in Ikea on Sunday. I think it would look awesome in my dining room!

Ugh!!! Started taking down that flower border in Emma's old room/Stella's new room.It came off right away! Only to reveal that bow stuff underneath.Thanks so previous owners......Not!

Seriously?? Could she be any sweeter????

In an attempt to save some $ and watch what we eat/drink we are making our own green tea lattes and smoothies.

The smoothies were enjoyed during a wonderful thunderstorm last night!! 

Couldn't resist these thanks to the little bow on them. 


 

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Good{Mid}Morning! Well,I hope it's good,better than yesterday. Yesterday I was in a nasty mood. Then at 11pm I decided to break my string of healthy eating and bake cookies. I ate 4 huge cookies and went to bed.I also slept too late today.

Anyways.
Plop your bum down on the seat next to me.I promise to try and not wine to you anymore.But I will tell you about the newest schemes I have for the house. Besides,just having that window open with the fresh air coming in is doing wonders for me! (70*'s today! Can you believe it?!?)

I want to tell you about my idea I have for some clutter control.All that stuff you see just sitting in the front hall? I want it gone. Well,not gone but out of sight. When Tim and I were at Ikea the other day I saw those
Expedit shelves.You know the ones.All the cool bloggers have them in their craft rooms. Well,I want them in my hallway.Each kid will get their own cubby(with a door or basket) to place toys,flip flops,gloves etc...in there. They will fit almost perfectly on the one wall.And to treat myself I'm thinking that wall should have some super cute Orla or Anthro wallpaper. Ok,at this point I'm probably dreaming :)

So here is my other idea: You know that super cute old cabinet I got a few weeks back? Currently it is housing a whole bunch of craft stuff and finds from junking. But I was thinking of using it as a beverage center.For my Keurig of course and my tea and mug collection.There is even enough room in the bottom for a tiny fridge to hold creamer,bottled water.etc.... I'm sure Tim will roll his eyes at me when I mention this one.

Oh and one more thing. This is actually my comment on a friends blog but I copied and pasted it to share:

Now much to my dismay my Emma-who is 12-is not real big on reading. When I was her age I was devouring books.So it has broken my heart that she didn't follow suite.

BUT on Thursday after school she hijacked my Kindle and has read HG non stop! As of last night she is 33% through Catching Fire.

My heart is swooning that she is reading and that we are connecting over it :)

Ok,I had to get that out. Really,I'm that excited about it!!!

Thanks for having coffee with me. I would invite you to sit on the porch with me for a spell but uh,that purple toilet is still hanging out there.Cue the Sanford and Son theme!!

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Sunny Sunday

Here what I think she's saying. "Guys! The sun is shining and it is gorgeous out here! Ain't no way we are staying home!" So we listened to her. True story. We got the oil changed,checked out a property for my parents,got the car washed,treats at Sheetz,a few groceries,and we hit up Ikea. Because Mommy wanted new curtains.

I put them up as soon as the groceries were put away! Aren't they cute? They are Eivor from Ikea. They are a welcome change from the heavy velveteen mustard drapes I had in here.Plus I was able to take the toile valances and put them in the kitchen :)

Another healthy dinner: Teriyaki salmon over a bed of spinach. We are doing really well. I hope we can keep it up! I also took a nice walk with Caleb today (after my curtains were hung). He wore shorts! Oh! Today was great. The sky was the perfect shade of blue.I think we could have just kept on walking!

My weekend was just swell! Hope yours was too!!

XOXOXO

Nikki

Typical Saturday

Coffee.

Estate sales.
Disappointing Estate sales at that.

Fro-Yo. (Green Tea with pecans and pineapple)

New lip balm.

Goodwill.
Pyrex!

Meeting with Friends

Going to DC in May for 4 days!

Pulled Pork in the crock pot

with sweet potato fries.

source

To the mall with Em.
Perfume samples to last forever!
--------->Pink hair dye.
Boba Tea.

Back home for the night.

Watching The Hangover.

{I really want to go back to Las Vegas!!!}

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I'm back with InstaFriday after last weeks hiatus:

It's official! We have Caleb signed up for Kindergarten in the fall. I keep telling everyone that I really don't want to share him. I hate to admit it but he is kind of a mama's boy.
After we left the registration we asked him what he wanted to go do to celebrate. He replied with............

'I want to go eat sushi!'. That's my boy! Actually that's my boy with raw tuna he skewered onto his chopstick.......

to keep bellys warm on rainy days.....

Emma Sunshine on Wacky Wednesday last week. I looked just like  that when I was 12. I must have some fierce DNA.

2 more weeks!! Who else is sooo excited? Emma has put her Harry Potter aside to read book one in time for the movie. Tim made a special trip to Target just so I could grab that magazine. Love him!

A good mail day is when you score 4 free things in 1 day!

What is on your weekend agenda? I plan on junking/crafting with Erin,going to a friends house to plan a summer activity for our kids, church and working on Stella's room.To be honest I'll have Tim working on Stella's room. When it's finally done I will do the decorating.

A breif visit with the outdoors.

Spring has arrived! Perhaps not officially but the temps are close to 70* out there.

And we are inside.

I took them out earlier.
We walked (a few houses up).
We did bubbles.
We did chalk.

Stella is not easy to corral. I was so nervous she was going to run into the street.
The yards are still damp so the only  place to play right now is the driveway.
I woke up feeling yucky. Had my coffee and vitamins. Felt a bit better.

A migraine came on.
Dragged 2 unhappy kids back inside.
I gave into Caleb and let him use my phone and watch tv.
Stella is napping.
I wish I was too.

I compromised with an open window.
Just one.
In case winter decides to remind us that he is not really gone after all.

Hopefully Spring will say and the headache will go away.
And playing outside will commence.