Skippy Peanut Butter

Saturday morning myself, Greg, Em, my Mom and Dad, and Aunt Laurie headed to downtown P-town for a little adventure..........

Consider yourself warned

Creepy!

Are you wondering what any of this has to do with Skippy?

Well....nothing really?! HAHA This picture explains the reason why we ended up in this frightening old Skippy peanut butter plant......reclaimed lumbar!!!!!! I got this guy's number from a nick nack store after spending about 6 months looking for reclaimed lumbar on Craigslist, the side of the road, dumpsters.....you name it.......I looked! I don't know why this was more terrifying than a dumpster....it just felt like something out of a horror movie!!! 

I could only get pictures when we were near a light and I didn't even make it....upstairs. Well......because of some stomach issues but that's besides the point :) 

We got our wood and got out! Then we had a little break so Em could pick up some rocks in the parking lot,  always a good time :)

Greg is CLEARLY thrilled to have spent 30 minutes of his life looking through an junky, abandoned peanut butter factory for some dirty old wood ;) Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Hopefully, he'll be more excited once we have beautiful, original sofa table ;)
My Dad on the other hand, had a GREAT time, so if I ever need to go back, I'll think I'll bring Dad along and leave Emerson with Greg :)

change

Cha-cha-cha-change will do you good!

Let's hope so!

So, I have this running list of things to do inside the house that I was going to work on, before the lovely spring weather arrived....well it hasn't even gotten cold here except for a few days. So I've been working on in between being sick, trips to the zoo, attempting to help my parents move (hard to do with the wee one), hanging out with friends and family and getting ready to start school.

Here's my list.........

1. make Emerson a beanbag chair-done

2. go to Ikea for the first time ever in my 27 years of life!!!!-done and awesome!

3. Organize toys for living room-done, thank you ikea

4. Organize my office/craft area-coming along

5. Go through our clothes and donate-done

6. Redo Em's closet-done

7. lighting for dining area-got it, just needs to be hung

8. clean out and organize spare bedroom/office-done

9. finish dresser-almost

10. details in our room and spare bedroom

11. laundry room-looking for wall cabinets to paint for storage

12. make a raised bed for a garden

13. redo deck

My husband shutters at the mention of the "list" because he knows once these things are done, I'll just think of more :) Although I think he felt great after de-cluttering the office this weekend!

I'll try and remember to take some pictures of all the finished things. I find our house is hard to photograph but it takes practice, right?

Here's the beanbag chair I made by hand for Emerson and guess what? It hasn't fallen apart yet! I'm so impressed with myself! When I set out to learn to sew I thought it would be an epic fail......who knew?

Here's the link if you want to check it out!
http://www.dana-made-it.com/2010/01/rollie-pollie-is-here.html
(it's a washable slipcover, ideal for little ones)

Please pardon our backyard it's in major need of an overhaul, but it's great for exploring :/

Em has a good ol' time walking around with his wagon, picking up sticks and rocks, blowing bubbles and posing for the camera :)

Greg has a really nice camera, I say it's his because he's had it since before we were married, anyway I really want to know all the ins and outs of.....so I can take awesome pictures of this little guy!

radiator redo

So we have these realllllly bad radiators, easy thing would be to pull them all out and sell them! But they work and actually provide us with heat (well, they would if it was cold, it's January and 60 degrees here!! Crazytown!!!) 

So.....they stay! but I couldn't get them clean to save my life (they've been around probably almost 100 years, because that's how long our home has been around) so they've seen alot, but these bad boys are UGLY!

What do you do when you can't get something clean or make it pretty? 

Cover it up!!!!

So, that's what I did...........

Fashioned some slipcovers for our radiators.

I used canvas drop cloths, you can find at the hardware store in the painting section 

This was quite a process and honestly I couldn't even explain what I really did, just made it up as I went along?

.........tadah!

This is the one I made for Emerson's  room, much better  :)

The are by no means perfect, but it works and we can still have heat! (if we need it?)

our new fall wreath

This is the wreath my best friend and I made several months ago. It's yarn wrapped around a straw wreath with felt flowers, hung with matching ribbon.....

well after several months and cooler weather creeping up on us :) I thought maybe we needed an update for fall! So my Mom and I headed to Michael's and decided on a color scheme, the pictures don't really show it all that well so I'll tell you what the colors are. 

It was really, really easy!!! A little time consuming but easy! 

1. I just removed our old flowers

2. Rewrapped the wreath with leftover yarn (just to freshen it up)

3. Cut out our diamonds hot glued them on

4. Then wrapped our berry yarn around in a criss-cross pattern

 and wallllahhhh! there you have it!!!!

(taupe yarn, mustard and sage felt diamonds and berry yarn on top) 

Best part about.......it was cheap!!!!! With a Michael's coupon it this was about a 4$ update. I didn't even need all of the felt I bought, so if I returned it, it would be even cheaper!!!!