Christmas 2010

Child table and chairs

I got the little table and 2 chairs free....I started to start my post by saying "how come every time I get something to re-do it is nasty?" But I guess I cant complain as you heard me say it was free...
I always start with my bucket of hot soapy water and my best friend Clorox Clean up.....in this case I just started ripping off the vinyl and batting on the chairs....



the poor table was that cheap vinyl with batting under...so nasty...I was having a hard time imagining my sweet little grand daughter sitting and using this table....the table had rips in it and someone had taped the rips....



When I had everything stripped off the table it was basically a pace of warped particle board. sorry, I forgot to take a pic at that point...I was on a roll...
I put a good coat of Rustoleum Primer x2 on all the metal parts (also the poor warped table top to cover something that looked like spaghetti sauce, gross me out!)
while that dried and in between I traced out new batting for the chairs, and some darling little Laura Ashley fabric I had...I used some left over Rustoleum Ballet Slipper for the chairs. It is a very soft pink. I loved the color! I used all the pink of the chairs so I used Rustoleum Heirloom White for the table.



On to the table, I decided to use Modge Podge, I found some girly scrapbook paper and just tore it into pieces. and put it on the table randomly. after that was dry the next day I put 3 coats of Poly to seal it all. Since this table will pretty much serves the purpose of my 3 year old grand daughter to color pictures and so little activities, it will serve the purpose until I can get or find a cheap wood one that I can repaint!

Decorating Books

I LOVE decorating books, and have quite a collection of them...I can sit for hours and scour over them, over and over and over again! Here are some recent books I got.

Fall Decor

Just a few pictures of some decor around the house...

Pumpkin Patch

So, I am catching up my post, have all my pictures and been so busy I really need to catch up....so I am posting all in one day!
I am blessed, my niece Melissa (or as I call her Missie) lives here in the same town with me....



I have been lucky to have a close relationship with Missie...she has a sugar sweet personality, I love her dearly. She calls me "Auntie"
Missie got married over 2 years ago....her husband, like my husband, works a lot...Missie works full time but lots of times we are able to meet for dinner when she gets off work....Missie has a baby girl that is 19 months old... Kamy...so that makes me a great auntie....boy I feel old...Kamy may as well be my 3rd grand daughter....She reminds me so much of Missie when she was a baby...I love spending time with her. Kamy is super smart for her age and really talking....I feel really bad for my sister, this being her only grand child and living out of state....I know how terribly they miss each other...When I am with Kamy I try to send my sister lots of pictures, I don't want her to miss anything! Missie invited me to go to the pumpkin patch a few weeks back...there is a house here in town and they fill that back yard with nothing but pumpkins and gourds. They have cute little cut outs so the kids can get behind them and get their picture made...we tried a few but Kamy wasn't tall enough...lol...
tons of pumpkins all sizes every where....


















to be honest, after Kamy took a look around, she was more interested in her bottle of water!


this is me with Kamy





Kamy called the pumpkins "apples" lol



I love fall.....even though as you can see how we are dressed it was a warm day. we ended up buying 3 small pumpkins for Kamy to paint later....