What a wonderful weekend I had :)

After a rough week some of the CCPS girls decided to have a girls night in at Ms. Lyndsie's house on Friday. We had a great time enjoying some wine and appetizer's and getting to talk grown up talk instead of 'boo boo bags' and 'walking feet'.

Having our girls time made me realize how much I really love the girls that I work with. I'm pretty blessed to get to spend time with them each day.

We had a little too much to catch up on because I didn't make it home until 3 in the morning. Eek! But like I said, great time!

On Saturday my community was having a garage sale so I got up early and hit up about 10 of the 25 to 30 garage sales within walking distance. I bought quite a bit of little stuff and total spent $4 I think. I kept telling people I felt like I was stealing from them when they'd say something like, "That'll be a nickel."

After garage saling I made my way to my least favorite place in the entire world, (besides the eye doctor with his little air puff) yep, I went to Wal-Mart. Eww. I somehow always end up leaving there without anything (because it gets left due to lack of cashiers and my lack of patience) or complaining about how I almost got ran over at least twice in the parking lot. All in all, it stresses me out.

With that said, Spring has sprung and I needed flowers, potting soil and paint for a project I was planning to work on. And we all know I'm cheap, cheap, cheap. So I knew I was going to have to make the journey down to my real life hell. ;)

Somehow I lived through it and didn't get maimed by anyone in the parking lot. Erin and Kinley stopped by when I got home. While she sorted through baby clothes for the wee one in her belly I got to work on a project.

I bought this little dresser at Goodwill a while back. I had absolutely no use for it but it was $5 and sometimes I just can't turn down a bargain. As I was in the check out line purchasing it the man behind me tried to make a deal with me by offering me double. I declined.




As my sewing excursions have taken on a life of their own I recently decided I needed something cute to put my fabrics and such in. And it turns out that I already had something, it just needed to be revamped.

After stripping the dresser I threw on a few coats of the paint color I had picked at 'hell' and then put on my knobs that I had bought a few months ago for $5.

The end product.....




And because it was looking a little bare I topped it off with a little color. By the way, I purchased two bouquets of these flowers while buying groceries yesterday, they were on manager's special for $2. Out of the bouquets I was able to make five different vases of flowers to go around the house to brighten things up and feel a little more Spring-ish around here. Plus, they smell yum. :)

Speaking of flowers, that was another thing I bought at Wal-Mart along with a tomato plant to pot.



My Mimi had given my some fresh cilantro, oregano and mint when I went home for Easter so I spent Saturday evening putting everything in their own little pots. I really have enjoyed going out and picking a few little sprigs of cilantro this week when I cooking dinner. And soon (well about 48 days) I can go pick tomatoes for dinner too.

My good friend Jenny and her fiance have just purchased their first home. How exciting! And I'm getting to help with all the priming, painting, decorating AND gardening!!!! Jenny and I are planting a garden at her new home in the next week or two when they are all settled in. This really does make me ecstatic. Afterall, I dream of owning an old farm out in the country, watching my future husband in his too tight wranglers driving his tractor, being a stay at home mom, picking fruits and veggies, canning and making jams all while drinking a big glass of sweet tea in my big floppy straw hat. My dreams may not seem like much, but they're mine. :) And Ms. Jenny is helping me get a little bit closer to them by letting me help with the garden. Even if I do have to imagine that I'm on a farm in the middle of nowhere I still love growing and picking all your own veggies.

So stay tuned for Gardening Excursions I'm sure they'll be quite interesting.


I've been so behind on blogging I forgot to share my last sewing excursion.

I have been wanting to make a cute Spring/Summer dress so I got started by making this cute little flower to inspire me



I had some hot pink fabric so I decided that was going to be what I used.

So I cut. I pinned. I sewed. I got this.





I'm pretty sure this won't be the last one I make.


And because you might be needing a laugh I'll leave you with a funny from my kids (for other kid funnies, click here.)

Marriage has been a hot topic around our three year old table for about the last month. I'm not sure how it happened but it turned up one day and has refused to leave.

While eating snack on Wednesday afternoon my children began the marriage discussion once again.

'J' proclaimed her want to marry 'E'.

But he said, "No, I'm not getting married anymore."

After a short argument back and forth with her saying, "Yes, you are!" and him saying, "No, I'm not!"

She gave up. She said, "I'm marrying my brother."

That's when another little girl chimed in and said she was going to marry her sister.

And a little boy said he was definitely going to marry his sister too.

I then said, "I don't know if you can do that."

I got lots of "why not's?"

I said, "Well, you can't do that in Texas."

That's when 'K' said, very seriously, "Yeah, you have to go to Hokohoma to do that."

Ha ha. I loved it. They really do keep me laughing.


With just a week until my birthday I'm still trying to figure out birthday plans. This is so unlike me, I normally have something massive planned a month in advance. Looks like I'll be going low-key this year. Is that what happens when you get old? ;)

Me on my first birthday which happened to be on Easter :)

Sewing Excursions

So if you've been to my home you've seen the ugliness that is this chair




I've been talking about recovering it for quite some time now but I just dreaded doing it. But I couldn't take looking at it anymore. It was ugly! It was a lint collector! But it was FREE! Yep, I took it off someones hands for free. I'm always up for a project.

A couple months back Jenny and I were garage saling and I found some material and knew it was what I wanted to cover the chair in. (Truth be told I found some at Hobby Lobby but being the cheapo I am I refused to pay $8 a yard for it, so I waited I knew something better would come a long)

Anyway, we were at the garage sale and I found 5 yards of this fabric along with a couple other types of fabric, ribbon a basket and some vintage newspaper. I got it all for $1. Yep, I just typed that, ONE DOLLAR!

First, I stripped the hideousness off of the cushions.



I had a staple gun so recovering the ottoman was super easy.






The sewing machine took care of the rest after I made a pattern for the cushions. This project actually didn't take as long as I had thought and was pretty easy. Which actually ticked me off since I'd been putting it off for so long thinking that it would take too much time.

Anyway, here is the finished product.....





Did I mention that this whole project (including the chair itself) cost me about $.25,yes, A QUARTER! Give or take a few pennies. :)

D.C. in Pictures

So I know I'm behind on blogging... I have no excuses except laziness.

And I'm going to post D.C. pics but I'm gonna be even more lazy and not even write captions.. :/ All the captions are on facebook as well as TONS more pictures! So if you would like to see the rest just friend request me on there.

So almost two weeks later...here are the pictures.

Any questions? Leave a comment :)

D.C. Update

Because I'm so tired right now I'm just going to entice you with a few pictures until I feel like writing again. Afterall, it's dinner time and Heather and Jason have cooked me a savory meal that I must go eat ;)

See ya soon friends!

D.C. Day 2

On day 2, Heather and I had to head on base (did I mention Jason's in the air force?) for her doctor's appointment.

After a very interesting visit filled with rude people we finally got out of there around 3 and decided to just do some light shopping.

We went to Michael's and bought stuff to decorate our tea party hats for Heather's birthday tea party on the 16th.

It was a short day.

We headed back to the house to cook dinner, Paula Dean's enchiladas.

Then we went to Jason's volleyball game on base where they kicked some major tush! Go Jason!

We came home and enjoyed relaxing a bit before bed.

D.C. Day 1

So I must first thank Ms. Jenny for waking up at the buttcrack of dawn to take me to the airport on the 10th.

I was up at 4:30 and she was there by 6. My flight left for D.C. at 8. It was quite the early morning.

I was so excited to see Heather & Jason when I got off the plane. It had been entirely too long since I'd got to spend time with them.

We headed to lunch at a really fun brick oven pizza place called Romomo's. It was very delish.

Then we chatted about fun times on our way to the Metro station. Which included a hilarious story about when Heather's mom wrapped all their Christmas gifts one year and didn't put any one's name on them. Which meant that everyone opened each other's gifts. I swear the story is hilarious, I mean I almost peed my pants. Really, it was a close call.

Heather and I decided to spend the first day walking around downtown D.C. I got my first look at all the greatness that resides in our capital. But because the weather wasn't as clear as I wanted it to be we are going back tomorrow or Wednesday for a photo op.

Including but not limited to, the capital, the white house, the Washington Monument. And a little browsing at H&M.

I really loved Union Station. It had alot of beautiful architecture on the inside.






Heather and I grabbed a quick snack at Au Bon Pain. This place had such wonderful pastries. I was definitely a fan.

Overall, I found the Metro station and public transportation in general in D.C. quite nice and clean. I was really impressed. It was nothing like when I visited Chicago. I thought the underground transportation was positively gross.

Anyway, I'm off subject. Heather and I headed back to where Jason had dropped us off and then we went home and cooked a yummy dinner.

It was a great first day in a new place with old friends.

* I didn't take too many pictures the first day I more so just got a feel for things. Knowing I'd be here 8 days, I know I'd have time to see it all. Plus, I just concentrated on catching up with friends.

**** So I'm only posting a few pictures because they're messing up when I try to add them and they aren't edited....don't worry there will be more to come soon :)