Boring Hallway Becomes MUCH more welcoming

Before: Chair rail needed some paint.

Before: Blah blah boring WHITE on walls.

Before: Boring arrangement of pictures.....

AFTER: Chair rail painted white (Kilz Paint..Color: Autumn Breeze). Walls painted to warm up the space (Valspar Paint..Color: Bungalow Gold from the Eddie Bauer collection). Phrase on the wall ...Walligraphy..."It doesn't get much better than this!"

After: I added a potting chair that I painted black (spray paint...gloss). I made the wallpaper covered canvas that I already had. {Take a peek into my den...I've already started priming that brick fireplace. Wow, will that room be a time consuming project.}

After: I definitely need to pick up those toys underneath the entry table and redo the entire arrangement on the tabletop.

After: Closeup of the picture arrangement and wall phrase. I took all of the pictures out of the frames and spray painted every frame with a flat black. I think it all looks SO much better and more unified this way.

After: Oh, so much better....WARM and WELCOMING!!

More projects to come. Hopefully I can start on our den painting or the living room. We'll see which strikes first. I'm trying to get everything painted the way that I want it BEFORE the new flooring is put down. Hope you are having a FANTASTIC FRIDAY!

Tuesday: Family Night (BABY PIGGIES)

All of the pictures were taken at diff. times throughout the month. Just thought I'd share several different things we've done.

Yep, that's us...we're that family that makes gingerbread cookies in March. The kids enjoyed it SOOOO much....{so did daddy}.

Rolling out the dough and eating along the way...fun times!!

We had the "blizzard" this month. The weathermen were calling for anywhere from 6-12 inches in our area, but we got 3-4 inches instead. (I was fine with that.) Unfortunately, we were without power for about an hour this past Friday AND for 6 hours on Saturday. The kids finally got to go outside and play and they had a blast!!

All bundled and ready for sledding behind the golf cart.

Jeff and I took the kids up the street to visit some newborn piglets........I almost had a nervous breakdown because of the CUTENESS. Seriously is this sweetheart not just the most darling thing EVER. {Want it in my lap right now.}

This was the runt, so tiny as you can see....little thing was only about a day old. Ummmmmm, slap my mama {not really mom} CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't you want it? !? ?! I do.

Boy has today been a crazy one and I'm sorry that I'm just now getting this posted. For some of you that do not know, I have set aside one time a month to post about "Family Night" or Family Day, Weekend..., in honor of sweet Tuesday Whitt that passed away from cancer. I really wanted to honor her precious name by doing something with MY family. I think it is so very important to drop the phone, leave the computer, step away from the t.v. and really DO something with your family, it gives children a better sense of security. {Plus, it's just really fun to hang out with your mom and dad!}

I hope that you are all doing well. Please leave me a comment and let me know if you have a "Family" post. I don't have Mr. Linky set up, yet...ugh. So, sorry about that. We can find you through the comments though, ok. Thank you and love ya,

Don't forget to grab my {Family NIght} button and paste it on your blog if you'd like. :)

Please pray for baby Stellan......he needs our prayers desperately and so does his sweet mommy.

Please also, thank GOD for your many blessings.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is TUESDAY, March 31st. I'll be doing my Family Night post in honor of Tuesday Whitt. If you would like to join me (I'd love for you too) and let me know what you and your family have been doing.... tomorrow is the day! Thank you for your participation.

Blizzard Time In Oklahoma

We are suppose to be getting a blizzard here in Oklahoma. The news is telling us that the northern part of Ok; which is where we live, is expected to get up to 6 - 12 in. of snow and possible snow drifts of up to 6 feet. This could get interesting for sure. My children are VERY excited at this point, in hopes that the sled will be coming out and our weekend will be filled with sledding, snow angels, and snowball fights. Me on the other hand.........I'm just hoping that I don't go stir crazy, the kids don't destroy the house, and our electricity stays ON. Don't get me wrong, I love a good snow.............but I also LOVE a warm house.
Our dogs are running through the house like they are in for the race of their lives. Samantha (the Sheppard) is laying down just watching the the other two go at it. Samantha and Aggie (the Great Dane) will do just fine in the snow, Cowboy (the Dachshund mix) on the other hand....I just hope he doesn't get lost in a snow drift. We don't want any frozen weenies around here.
You all have a nice weekend, hope it stays Springy for you all.......just think of us Okies and send us warm vibes. Thanks!!!

Potting Chair (not potty chair) and Entryway Progress

Need your OPINION: Do you think I should take all of the pictures out of frames and turn them into black and white and paint all of the frames black (spray paint of course)? I will be getting some sort of vinyl lettering (a phrase or saying) to put on this wall and place the pictures around it. I thought the black frames would look nice w/ a black vinyl something up there.

Entry BEFORE paint

The chair rail will be painted a creamy white....toile wallpaper will really pop against the white. Hello wooden columns that I want to come down.

Ok, here is the POTTING CHAIR before. It has a hole in the seat for a large terracotta planter. It has been sitting on our back patio getting quite weathered.

Mama Katy (Aggie behind) with the Potting Chair. (Uh, oh the Camry is STILL here....still waiting for the Mama Van...should be done any day now.)

My 3rd project from yesterday. I had this canvas that L painted several years ago, it was in the bathroom for a while, I rested it and stuck it in my closet....I brought it out yesterday for a little makeover.

B helped me hold the canvas down while I covered it in leftover wallpaper. I folded and tucked the edges around the canvas and used a staple gun to keep it in place.

Entryway during the painting ....the kids played here while mama got her project on.

See my cute new door decor? Cute isn't it. (thanks mom) I want to paint this door BLACK! Awesome.

Oh for the love of paint, the walls were thanking me. Color: Bungalow Gold from the Eddie Bauer collection at Lowe's, Valspar Paint. The door bell thing will be taken off and painted black or possibly replaced....more realistically painted, cheaper option is always better in my mind.

Look at that potting chair now, I decided to let her live in the house to give my entry a nice piece of eye candy. I painted her with a black gloss spray paint.

Potting chair w/ original terracotta pot....I will paint it and stick a fern in it for some nice earthy-ness. Check out the toile covered canvas, it's not perfect....but it does look better than a blank wall. Right!?!

Canvas and Potting Chair....for the love of accessorizing (one of my many purposes in life).

3 things I did yesterday 1. Painted Chair 2. Painted entry and hall walls 3. covered a canvas

The real AFTER pictures will come as soon as the entire paint job is finished, BUT I just couldn't help but show you the DURING photos. Hope you enjoyed and maybe I helped w/ some inspiration for YOUR home.

What? ...Wednesday

I want to know something about you.... WHAT is a fear of yours?

Here is one of my fears........
Someone standing near my bed staring at me. THAT scares me.
So, now it's your turn.

I've missed you and a tid bit about my housekeeper..

Man, I feel like I've missed out on so much lately since I was gone all last week. Hope you are all doing wonderfully and I'll be coming to visit you at your blogs soon.........

Today, my best friend (my cleaning lady) is here. We are catching up on laundry and such, it is lovely. I love her and I love it when she is here...she loves our family and the kids LOVE her!!! I thought that I was going to have to let her go and I still might have to (I really should actually), but I just can't do it. I cannot say it, I get tears when I think about it...she's not JUST our cleaning lady, she has become my FRIEND!

Well, I'll be back to normal posting probably this evening, but for now I'm getting my house nice and tidy.