the hat

I made this beanie for a close friend who just had her baby girl, sweet Lyza Joan.
...here is Lyza...

photo taken by Tania

To those who have asked, I do sell what I make. Just leave me a comment with your e-mail address
OR
e-mail me at liv2dayasno2morww@yahoo.com and we will get in contact.

Andrea- from the town who has to home school (wink wink) please e-mail me...I have been trying to figure out how to get a hold of you :)

Coffee Table

Back in April....lets count....that was 9 months ago, I made a comment about how I scored something great at DI, which I did!
The redo has been completed for a LONG time, probably 8.75 months, but I never got around to taking pictures.
I finally decided that while I was taking Christmas decor pictures that I'd snag a few of the table. I threw everything from the table onto the couch and...
without further ado...

I give you...the $25 table.Solid, sexy, and distressed.

We bought her in her natural 90's stain. (p.s. there is no way to make these pictures look good or cute)
this picture is from after we sanded her

She came with lovely rounded legs.
And now she's BLUE and as cute as a button. She even has a green polka dot drawer knob, but of course I don't have a picture of that.

I love and adore her imperfections and ability to withstand some tough love.
I hope she stays for a long while.

Steps:
sanded
painted
waited
distressed
polyurethaned, for water resistance

Christmas 2010

It hasn't been a full month yet...so I don't think I am TOO far behind on this post.

I continued my banner tradition.
The one for December/Christmas says "Merry Christmas."
I always love how the banners turn out.
I'd like to have one up for every part of the year, but what would January be? I suppose February could be "Love" or "I Love You." But what about January? Although, I must admit the "Merry Christmas" banner stayed up for awhile this January so maybe I don't need one. But any ideas?

Last month I signed up at Real Deals to decoupage a star. When I got there I was so annoyed that the teacher didn't have as cute of papers as her example...but after a lot of errrs, ugggs, grunts, and puffs I think me and my helpers (Tania and Cassidy) came up with a decent product. Now, of course, I love it!
But you know how it is, you see something you love and you want one just like it. I also made one for my mom, but I don't have a picture of that one.
James spent quite a few weeks growing his beard out and we thought it would be fun to color it white and pull the whole Santa HO HO HO thing. Well....if you know James, he has the thickest, blackest, thickest, coarsest, thickest beard ever. We bought white hair color spray (like the kind the kids use for crazy hair day or Halloween) and we tried it out on a little patch of that thick beard and it seemed to work. But when it came time to actually use it it didn't seem to do anything! In fact, it dripped off that thick, coarse, black beard.
We didn't grow that beard out for nothin' (and yes..."we").
By the way, we were around the corner of his parents house trying to prepare for our grand entrance, HO HO HO.
So since the spray wasn't working we moved on to plan B, baby powder. We ran to the ghetto small town dollar store and I bought the most nastiest smelling baby powder (it was really gross) and we powdered the heck out of that beard!

Turned out pretty decent if I do say so myself.
My mother-in-law got a kick out of it. Pierson (one in the picture) was like "uhhh, haha?" And Nathan, who was standing on the couch behind Grandma was saying "that's funny, that's funny" in his adorable raspy little boy voice.

Well the kiddos didn't fall for it, but it was fun!

Siblings

My sister and Kristina have been best friends since Kindergarten, which was 13 years ago.
Here is Kristina and 3 of her 4 sisters and her 1 brother.

and of course
Cassidy and "K-word."

Emily and Lyle

Emily and Lyle are expecting their first baby in February and I am so excited to meet him.

l.o.v.e these pictures

Hindman Family

I met Perri (the mom) while at my methods site for special education. I first saw her in the halls and was jealous of how cute she always was. Then I learned her name was Perri (my maiden name). We just hit it off.

These are some of their fall/winter photos we took up at Sanctuary Cove.

a sweet ball of energy

This picture is from July {family reunion}

Temprance (that's her name) is my 1st cousin once removed (in-law)