~halloween~

This is my sister Jenn

who lives, with her darling little family, in our home state of Ohio.

She is a WONDERFUL stay at home mom to her four little kiddos, wife to her husband Josh, cookie decorator, party planner and an avid home decorator among other things!!

She loves to decorate for every holiday as well as host many, many parties for family and friends.

Here are the pictures of her Halloween decorating for this year that I just SNAGGED off of facebook...I did ask for her permission!!! :)

She is so creative!!

Although, apparently her little 2 year old has been walking through the house with her eyes covered because she's scared!! The skeleton in the carriage freaks her out the most!!

POOR thing :(

I would cover my eyes too!!!


Linking to:

Curly Q Crafts

~finished chairs~

Aren't these GORGEOUS???

My client Nicole (check out her FANTASTIC photography blog!) and her SUPER talented sister Shelley (custom slipcover blog) applied this super fun fabric!!!

I absolutely LOVE how these turned out!

Nicole, thanks so much for sharing the finished chairs!!

I hope you and your family are enjoying them :)

~client chairs~

WOW! I am a HORRIBLE blogger!!!!

Has it really been that long????

Sadly, our family blog has been suffering just as much :(

I promise I have been busy working although, I do feel like I have been only going in circles lately...

Thank goodness I do have one finished project!!

Can you believe my client purchased these chairs from D. I. of all places???

I only seem to find JUNK whenever I go :(

Anyhow, she wanted them painted cream, lightly distressed and stained.

I am beyond thrilled with how they turned out!

Have a look...

Before:

After:

Thanks for looking...Have a great night!

~pictures~

I know this has nothing to do with furniture but, I just couldn't help myself...

I am in LOVE :)

I received these today from Katie Dudley, a photographer here in Utah. She did an amazing job! Tate was being quite a little stinker that day and thank goodness you would never even know it!

Thanks Katie!

~repaired~

Of course a woman CAN DO this - HA!!

For a couple of weeks now our dishwasher has been making this terrible crunching sound when the food disposal thing is running...

I thought the noise might possibly be a nut or seed or maybe even a small piece of hard plastic that had broken off of something. I gave it a bit to see if it would actually crunch and dissolve on it's own but, it didn't seem like that was going to happen.

So, after running the dishes through this morning and listening to that awful sound once again, I decided I had to see what was causing all that noise!

~it only took a couple of minutes to disassemble it -super easy!~

And this is what I found...a rusted screw!

I know it looks kind of GROSS but, I promise it really IS one :)
Problem SOLVED!

~hmmm~

We had a very fun and eventful day celebrating Pioneer Day (a Utah holiday). We spent the majority of the time at This is the Place partaking in their many activities for the kiddos...their favorites were the candy cannon and the pie eating contest!

We also ate dinner at Red Robin - YUM!

Finally, we ended the day by going to IKEA in search of a couch.

I have to say that I am not quite sure of that place...it seems to be a cross between a ZOO and a furniture AMUSEMENT PARK!!!!

My kiddos sure had fun jumping from couch to couch! YIKES :)

Anyway, I do know that I have never seen so many people carrying measuring tapes in one place before! And that it is WAY too modern for me...

I guess the search continues...

~Have a great evening~

~UH OH!~

This is what happened Monday night when the cable to our door broke!And this is what I am HOPING for....

My FAVORITE :)

Choosing one seems to be the hardest part!

Thank goodness our HOA's only requirements are:

1. It has to be a solid color.
2. It has to be an earth tone color.
   

~Have a great day~