Random Hopeful Plans!

Hello there blog world! It's been a crazy monday. Tyler is working tonight and I hate it. It always keeps me from sleeping and I get anxious. I am a worrier, I can't help it. So here's a slightly A.D.D. post...it's monday and my mind is going a million miles an hour so you get random hopes for our home in this post today!

So anyway I've been working on the beginning stages of my new cushions and I have a confession to make...I got different fabric then the one I was looking at originally... I decided I wanted to go with a more subtle color and use bolder colors for pillows and such. Here's a preview of what the new fabric will look like:

So far I've got one of the cushion forms cut to size/shape and now I'm just needing to get some more foam and make the other one so when the fabric gets here it will be all ready to go!

I am trying to decide how I could convince Tyler to let me paint the light fixture that goes over our bathroom mirror. It's gold- which I'm not a huge fan of and I would love to get it to match our more rustic bronzed ones.

this picture was taken when we bought our house in 2008

It's on my list of someday projects... a list which also includes either getting new mirrors above the sinks or framing them out with some trim...

I'd also love to paint our bedroom...we have one wall painted the same as the red in our living room and I'd love to paint it a basic color so I can have more options when it comes to bedding...someday maybe! Tyler is one of those guys who thinks if it isn't broke, why fix it? And well the blog world makes me dream of new things I'd love to do in our house!

If I weren't so addicted to "Better After" and other makeover blogs I wouldn't have so many ideas running through my mind! Hey, a girl can dream, right? And who knows, one of these weekends Tyler is out hunting maybe he'll come home to a newly painted bedroom!

I can't wait to get my fabric in the mail and show you finished cushions!!

Custom Picture Frame How To

So we recently went on vacation to beautiful Myrtle Beach, SC. It was awesome. I love having pictures of special memories and as our first family vacation it was definitely special! I was looking for a nice frame while we were there but they were all insanely priced and I didn't have the heart to pay that much for a picture frame so, I decided as we were hunting sea shells I would use some to make my own custom frame!

Here's what I started off with- I forgot to take a before picture but basically it's just a plain ol' frame.

 I had some white paint left from the growth chart I made for Lucy so I did a couple of coats.

I then used a basic kitchen knife and scraped some of the edges to give it a bit of a distressed look. 

 Then I gathered some of the shells from our trip (the star fish was from home but it was too cute not to use) I was originally intending to cover the frame in shells but I didn't want to over do it once I started I thought the simpler the better...

and wah-laaah! a finished frame! I like it, it's simple but it has special memories having used shells from our walks on the beach (my favorite memories from our vacation!)
Custom frame with special memories on the cheap!

Thanks Christine for sharing your opinion yesterday! I was nervous about the fabric but I'm falling in love with it! I'm going to order the fabric tomorrow and hopefully soon I'll have a beautiful new window bench cushion to show you! Well, I've got to get making some more baby food for Lucy. I'll have to share with you sometime how I do all of her baby food. It's super easy and helps save lots of money! Hope you have a wonderful day!

I need your opinion please!

Okay I'm really wanting to make a new cushion or my window bench. I've got a few fabrics that I'm loving but I can't decide....I'm wanting to use outdoor fabric since my dogs love to jump up there and look outside...So I'd looove to have your opinion! Here are my favorite options at this point....

solid cushion with patterned pillows? patterned cushion with solid pillows? oh the choices! Here are some of my favorite fabrics- we have greens, reds, tans, etc in our living room so I tried to stick with those colors...

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

 I am reaaaaally loving option 1 but I don't know if it's too much for a cushion....
here is a picture of our living room from a family get together- the red wall was there and we liked it so we kept it red. we have a tan/green couch and love seat and a red rug. I'll also be making a matching cushion that will go on my hope chest my dad made. the window bench is on the far back wall in the bay window...

This is our dog Ryah's favorite spot in the whole house...

Since she likes to lay up there I'm tempted to do a tan/solid color so it won't show as much wear as a darker fabric...the stripes I have now I'm just sick of haha, I made them rather poorly and I'm really wanting to do a better job and use actual cushion forms.

So, what do you think would look best?

Long Time No See!

Oh boy has life been insane around here. So last I was on here was pretty much March. Let me tell you about the past few months of craziness! April I had youth conferences/concerts/fundraisers/events with my youth group pretty much every other weekend. Not including Easter. Plus, Lucy got sick, Tyler got sick, and I got sick. It was a bad month all around. May was just as crazy with mother's day, graduations, weddings, family get togethers and lots of craziness with work! And then came June...my goal had been to be back on here much earlier but holy cow it was like a bad habit I couldn't break! Things just kept piling up! They still are but, I'm making it a goal to get back to blogging!
So, all six of my subscribers I hope you're happy I'm back!
Here's some pictures from the past few months!

March 31- Lucy's first time with food- cereal- it was so funny watching her eat!

she kept lunging forward after the spoon!

I took my youth group to Winter Jam in St. Charles April 1st the above pic is Francesca Battistelli it was an awesome concert!

my mom opening her birthday gift- floral arrangement and wine

Lucy on her 5 month birthday!

playing outside with daddy!

she now loves baths so much she cries when you get her out of the tub!

having a breathing treatment from when she was sick in April- she was on the brink of pneumonia :(

green beans! yum!

Lucy's 6 month birthday!

The beautiful flowers Tyler got me for our Anniversary, May 12

our drooling baby!

Lucy's first time as a flower girl!

Lucy's first 4-wheeler ride with daddy!

playing in the pool for the first time!

happy girl playing at Grammy's on memorial day!

So there's some pictures from April and May! I hope you enjoyed them! I've got lots of recipes and fun stuff to share with you all so I hope you enjoy the fact that I'm back! I promise I'll do better about not taking such long breaks again!