Sna-Sna-Sneak peak!!

So, I finally caved and bought the console table from World Market that I have been wanting! After a few months of searching on Craig's List and coming up with nothing but junk, the one I wanted from WM came on sale for $50 dollars off! Plus, I had a 10% off coupon! Ah, I love it! Check back in the next few days for the decorated version of the console table! Here it is at the moment....

I also bought a 'sun' mirror at Home Goods the other day for over our bed in our bedroom! Although it is going to be a few months until the finished product is up (still need to get chairs for the sitting area), this mirror is super cute I had to share! It was on clearance for $35 and I could not pass it up! Here is the sneak peak bedroom mirror!

I know it is not cleaned yet! We had a little incident putting it up. I did not measure the head of the nail that was screwed in... and it did not fit. Well I thought I could get it, and dropped the mirror, which happened to slide - not-so-pleasantly- down the wall leaving a lovely black mess on the freshly painted walls. AGH! Nothing was taking it off, so I went to my handy dandy Magic Eraser by Mr. Clean, and it came right off! This sucker also takes of crayons for all you mom's of toddlers! 

I also put some things on our end table in our family room. We are trying to teach Aiden the value of things and that the things that are not his, he cannot touch. Well, it does not work so well for an 18 month old. But, we keep trying because he needs to learn at some point. The little bird is from Home Goods, which he loves. He picks it up, and tries to chase you, all while growling with the bird! He doesn't get that every animal does not growl. Note to self: start working on animals!

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the decorated console!

Honey-do list!

This Christmas break I took it upon myself to make a to-do list during the time I have before the semester starts again! Well, most of this is going to be for my lovely husband to do, because I can't/do not want to! 

This is our horrid laundry room! It is messy, unorganized, and blah, I hate it! We painted and replaced the floors when we first moved in (Buh-bye linoleum!) This needs some love, and I have great plans for this room for the break, it is just a matter of getting the stuff and putting it together! Some of it involves a shelf right above the washer and dryer, a small lamp, and an entry bench with some baskets! 

Don't mind our partially painted door! This was supposed to be replaced way back because having a doggy door (there when we bought the house) to the garage breaks fire code, and we are in the process of finding a steel door that is 31.5 x 79.5 that is a white 6 panel door... this task has become harder than we thought it would be (a custom door costs around 300!) YIKES! Check out my new sun mirror for our room, found on clearance at Home Goods for 35! This is the only room in our house with the white baseboards, eventually all of them will be white, not nasty wood colored! 

Boo doggy door for making our laundry room cold! Brrr!

This lock does its job. But, it is just placed there, not screwed in, so we need to get on that! :)

See that hot pink spot?! It is from anti-freeze because our home was empty almost 3 years before we bought it! It was winterized, and they spilled it everywhere, including all over our carpet in the family room. Hopefully within the next year we will be putting wood floors in the entire first level! Also, there is some yellowing from rugs never being moved (or pee) who knows?

Sneak peak at the girly (farmhouse) guest room! :) More to come!

This is my boring wall at the bottom of the stairs. I am in search of the PeRfEcT console table to put here. I have found some I love at World Market, but have not had the guts to go spend the dough on them! This should be complete before school starts again! 

Also, I did not take a picture, but I am going to have him also rip out our juniper that lives outside our garage. It is ugly, smells like cat pee, and is the gigantic mansion to hundred of bees! GASP! They hibernate in the winter, therefore their mansion will be BULLDOZED in the winter! :)

That is it for now! I will let you know how my husband does with his 'honey-do' list!

Well hello there, Christmas break

A big sigh of relief! AHHHHH! Finals are over and I can finally focus on some crafty ideas and decorating! Since we closed after the semester started, I have constantly been busy with school work, tutoring, and being a teaching assistant for my old Statistics professor! I bet you didn't think I was that good at math, did ya?!

Well, first off, Aiden's bathroom. It is adorable, and whale themed! Sadly, he usually showers with us unless the occasional poop explosion, diaper bead explosion, or the latest adventure of playing in the toilet water forces us to bathe him!

Do you remember the bathroom?

Well, it is extremely hard to find suitable artwork, at a decent price, for a children's bathroom. So, I ventured over to Etsy, and decided I would look for things I like, and make them myself for a fraction of the cost!

Here is one piece of artwork I hung over the towel rack!

The frame was $16.99 at Target and the photo cost $3.18 at target! I should add, ordering this from a private seller, it was $23.00, without a frame!

I also started working on a series of canvas's that I saw on Pinterest! Which, is the best site ever! I am planning on getting rid of the towel rack in Aiden's bathroom and painting some shelves to put over the toilet that are functional. The towels are going to go below the sink, and I am not sure what I will use the towel rack for, all I know is that I do not like the unbalanced effect it gives the bathroom! Here is a hint to what I am working on!

I also sort of copied, in a 'I admire your oh-so amazing design skills', my friend from high school, Katy's blog! Check out her more than amazing blog, that I one day aspire to be, here! I have had this problem with my dresser since I got it! Before, in our condo, our television was on my dresser, leaving me very little room to do anything cool! Now, the television is on my husband's dresser, so I have my dresser back! Woo hoo! I never know what to put on a dresser to make it 'fill' the room! So, here is where Katy was basically my inspiration!

The light in the far corner of the room will be going very soon! I had some extra mirrors and frames so I used those for the back-drop of the dresser, the light is from TJ Maxx for $34.99 (my splurge!) and the little decorative vase fillers are from Target! The three tea light holders are from Goodwill for one dollar! (Score!) 

And... just for fun... here is a little of what Aiden is working on! :)

I have the cutest MONKEY baby ever

Aiden now says touchdown, football, cookie, cheese, and shakes his head no when he does not want something! He is starting to love hats, mostly just daddy's hats though. And, he has figured out how to saddle Bama!

California Visits Colorado

My best friend was in town from Long Beach, California this weekend! Since most of her family lives here, and her dad flew her sister in town from Lakeland, Florida, we decided it would be a good time to have a baby shower for her little boy who is due February 5th (Superbowl!!)

We have been friends since high school, lived together in the dorms freshman year at CU Boulder, and then sadly had to part our ways so she could follow her love to California (which clearly worked out) ! We see each other many times a year, sometimes in Colorado, sometimes in California, but mostly we meet in the middle in Las Vegas!

Some of our latest adventures....

 Las Vegas June 2011

 Santa Monica September 2011

Colorado November 2011

And for the lovely baby shower! She is going a Safari theme in baby Trevor's room, so we decided to continue that theme in her shower! :)

That is all for now! Have a wonderful week all! :)

Kitchen

Although we did not do a lot to our kitchen, other than paint and add some of our own decor, I think it looks much better without gross textured walls on the back side!

Downstairs half bathroom re-do

When we first moved into our house, the downstairs bathroom was BLAH! It was school-bus yellow, with a horrid Sleeping Beauty look-a-like mirror! And, it had an odd smell! Well, after adding the new paint and mirror, along with some IKEA shelves, we re did this bathroom for under 60 dollars! Woo hoo! :)

Before

This picture does not do the yellow justice! It was horrible!

After