Lately

Wheeew! Its March already?! Im pretty sure February only lasted 3 days this year, or at least thats what it seemed like. I guess it really is true what they say, Time flies when your having fun(and busy). I added that last part myself. We had so much jam packed into last month its pretty cool. Not only did we have a lot going on, but the whole month was litteraly so fun :-) We had Zachs daughter Savannah down a lot more than normal last month and it was pretty fun. She's such a funny little girl to be around. I love seeing how little minds work, its awesome. My brother and his family moved down to Florida from North Carolina a few weeks ago and we were lucky enough to have them stop here on the way down for a few days! I was so stoked to have them here. Not only do I really love all of them, but I knew it was going to be the last time I got to see my brother before he gets shipped out to South Korea for a year, boooo. He leaves in less than a week, but when your in the military ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Im planning on going down to see my sister-in-law, Cassie,  and the kids at the end of this month. I can't wait. They live 10 minutes from the beach. Woo hoo!

So I'm pretty obsessed with garage/yard/moving sales right now (its "spring" so duuhh). I dragged poor Savannah all over Marietta, Roswell, and Woodstock Sunday looking for deals. Sadly we didn't really find anything :-( I was super bummed about it, but hey, its only the start of the sale season, we gots LOTS more time people! But I've also been hitting up all the awesome thrift stores I keep finding around my house. I havent been too lucky yet, but I have found a handful of treasures I needed to bring home. I have a hugely growing list of projects I want or need to do. I managed to tackle a few of them last month and I'm pretty happy with how they came out :-) Take a look

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when my parents moved out of their old house they didnt want all their records anymore so I jumped at the chance for them. We have a record player that we can play them on, But I also knew I wanted to one day frame my favorites. Im a cheap person so I looked a long time for the best price on 12.5x12.5 black frames. I was able to get 3/pack for $19.95 at Michaels! AND managed to only shatter one piece of glass in the process, go me!

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I have a slight obsession with old windows like this. I go this one in Blueridge for like $10 I think (some places charge $40-$60 for these windows...uuummm no thanks) I've also added a few more to my collection from the thrift store around here. I knew I wanted to hang one of these in our powder room after we redo it becaue there is no window in there. So I added a few of my own touches to it (i think it looks better in person than in the pictures but thats just my own thought, it probably just looks awful both ways!)

It's not hung up in the bathroom yet because we havent finished redoing that bathroom yet!

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Then we have this beauty. This mirror was my grandmothers and I always kept it up. I honestly never liked it and was thinking about getting rid of it (this was a couple years ago) until my mom said I should paint it. DUH!! Took me awhile but I finally got around to it!

It's white, it's shiney, and I love it now! Its amazing what a few coats of high gloss spray paint can do! Wait until I post the finished product of the chandeleir im redoing for Savannahs bedroom! Free nasty brass thing...to this awesome high gloss pink chandelier! (trying to find shades for it then itll be finished!)
I THINK I know where I want to hang this, but I can't find my bracket to hang it up...errr I haven't really looked for it yet :-/! I BEEN BUSY!

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Talk about easy, cheap, and CA-UTE project! I've been making quite a few of these for family and myself, and friends actually. So many options of how you want it to look, pretty cool! I actually really enjoy doing this. depending on the size of the wreath it takes about an hour or so to complete one. Perfect little craft todo while im catching up on my all my shows!

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I have'nt done much in the kitchen decoration wise, but decided I really wanted something on the doors for a little privacy. I didnt want to do full blown blinds or curtains so I thought this was a nice compromise. I had originally bought the things for this project for the windows in the dinning room, but decided it would look better in the kitchen than in there. It was actually really simple.

Im not too sure what those ring things are called or what they are really even used for (jewelry I think) but they were like 7 bucks a piece from Ikea. The shade I got was a really light weight straw material that I got super cheap from Bed Bath and Beyond. I cut the rods away from the top and bottome, then measured how wide I needed my strips to be and cut that baby up!

bob and weave through the wholes and this is what you get.....

Vwa La! (how do you even spell that?!) I can't decide what to do with the bottom of it to "finish it off" Leave it or do something else, eehh ill figure it out.

Now all I have to do is finish a few more of the things I've started and forgot about. Whether it be rooms or little projects! No rest for me :-)

Off to go prepare my high maintenance dogs their dinners and to meet Zach at our usual joint for dinner myself (I dont feel like cooking tonight!)