Blue Family Scene

When it rains it pours!

2013-02-03T17:04:00.000-07:00

You know when things start to look a bit brighter something always happens? Well, that is so true for the start of this year. I decided things were going to get way better and that 2013 would be AWESOME! Then come January 31, 2013. My oldest had a basketball game and was doing really well, UNTIL.... He went up to block a layup (which he did beautifully I might add) and the other kids tucked his head under my sons arm and back which launched him even higher and he came crashing down on his elbow and forearm. Which pushed his shoulder up and out. Breaking the ball off of the Humerus bone. And NO it was not funny.

Lucky for us the other coach is a Physical Therapist and he looked at my sons shoulder and said to get him to the hospital. He made a make shift sling out my youngest boys coat and helped us to the car and filled a plastic bag with snow and put it on his shoulder and off we went.

The other 3 kids did pretty well for being in the ER for 2 1/2 hours. My most wonderful friend Marilee came and got them for me and let them stay at her house for the night. Did I mention how wonderful she is? Well, she is the very BEST person in the world. She blesses my life everyday!!

He had surgery first thing Friday (February 1, 2013) morning. Placing 3 pins in his shoulder. We also found out he has a buckle fracture to his wrist so he will be getting a cast put on his forearm as soon as the swelling goes down. He will be in both the cast and have the pins in his shoulder for the next 4 weeks then on to physical therapy.

I stayed with him during his hospital stay. The Staff there was wonderful. It made it so much easier on the both of us. I was able to bring him home last night (February 2, 2103) around 7 pm. So this is his NEW bed for awhile. Here's to a happy and quick recovery bud!!

Blogging Conferences! Always a good thing....

2013-01-22T12:06:00.000-07:00

Reading my favorite blogs was one of my greatest parts of my day. It slowed down quite a bit this past year. I took the time today to sit down and try and catch up on some of those most wonderful blogs that I adore!

Back in April 2012 you might remember my recap post of the Blogging Conference I went to called SNAP!2012. It was a huge part of my joy for the year 2012. I met so many wonderful ladies that I had been blog stocking for a year or more. LOL I think we all do that. :O) I was reading one blog today that made me remember how much fun i had at the conference and why I went to it in the first place. I so wanted to get a ticket for SNAP! 2013 but they sold out so quickly (keeping my fingers crossed I can buy one as it gets closer).

Anyways, Michelle Lunt is one of those people that just make you feel good. She is the creative mind behind Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust. And I had the pleasure of meeting her at SNAP!2012. She was so sweet to talk to. She recently wrote a post giving the "Tips for attending a Blogging Conference". I loved every part of it. So, I thought I would share it with you all. Just click the highlighted texted above and enjoy! Just make sure you do come back and visit me again. :O)

Having gone to a couple Blogging Conferences this past year has made me aware at the power we as Blogging community have. And we are always there to help and support each other. We are creative minds, inspirational people, instructors, and most importantly.... FRIENDS! We have our first interaction with each other online then when we meet in person it is, well, like having magic friendships.

I encourage all of you, if given the opportunity to attend a Blogging Conference. You will not be sorry.

Enjoy! :O)

2013 = New Perspective

2013-01-14T14:53:00.002-07:00

With a New Year comes new perspective, right? I sure hope so. This past year has brought me and my family some laughs, fun times, pain, disappointment, and realization. Which is why I have not posted on the blog for several months. I am sorry for that. I needed time to try and mend, heal, and gain a new perspective. I am not quite there yet but everyday I am getting better. I know that with the help of my Lord and Savior I will be able to pull through this time in my life a better, stronger, and more Spiritual person.

I do hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season and that this New Year brings to you all the greatest blessings you need.

May the Lord be with you all though out this year. Let us all keep our chins up and hearts open to the Lord to help guide us.

Love to all my readers. You are Awesome! :O)

Harvest Decorating

2012-11-05T11:20:00.000-07:00

* Any highlighted words will take you to that post. So enjoy!

So here we are in the month of November and I realized I NEVER even tried to write a post in October. Shame on me. I did happen to take a few photos of my Halloween/Harvest decor so I thought today would be a good day to show all of you. I went pretty simple this year. Isn't it funny how our decorating tastes change over the years or in my case it has changes almost every year. These first two pictures show the only real Halloween decor I displayed this year. I just was not in the Halloween spirit this year. My poor kids! They love the month of October. So on with the tour....

This side table/pie safe is sitting in my living room in front of my very large window. I love having a table there but this one is a bit too high. I hope to have that rectified in the future. The skull I got last year after Halloween at Walmart. I absolutely love it. There is a button you push that plays the theme music from the movie "Halloween". It is awesome. I made the "Autumn, Harvest, Give Thanks blocks a few years ago. Everything else was from around the house.

Here is my side table I got from Goodwill while living in Michigan. I still need to paint it but have not decided what color or if I should just re-stain it. The cloche was the one I made back in the day. It is the one that made Allison of House of Hepworths go viral with hers.

This is my coffee table in my living room. I got that tray/cupboard door from the Habitat Restore. The ceramic squash was from Hobby Lobby in their clearance section, and the faux plant and sign are from Tai Pan Trading. Absolutely Love them.

Here is my Dining table center piece. I was trying for a bit cleaner look this year and used what I had around the house again. The tray was from Goodwill in Michigan, the pitcher is from Ikea, wooden sticks are from a blind that I cut down, that faux foliage ball is from Tai Pan Trading, canning jar and pumpkins were from my stash from last year, and the rot iron bracket is from Hobby Lobby. Got it for anther project but had never used it until now. The table runner is just a scrap piece of fabric (can not remember the name of it) you use for Swedish Weaving.

Here is a closer look at the vignette. I really love how simple it is. Lots of texture there. LOVE IT!

Here is what my dinning room looks like now. It is coming along. I will do another post on my new addition... The utensil wall art. It is my FAVORITE!!!! And so simple. Well thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week. :O)

Blog Envy....

2012-09-29T21:38:00.000-06:00

The other night I was watching an episode of Studio 5 and they were talking about "Blog Envy". It was quite interesting. It got me thinking about the blogs that I love to read. Did I have bog envy? I think I just might.

Fast forward to this morning. My oldest had a football game at 8:30 am and as I was sitting there watching them warm up I pulled out my phone and started reading my favorite blogs. There is one in particular that I was mesmerized with today. Now I have been reading her blog for a while now but not as frequent as I normally did. I found myself looking over every picture and devouring every word.

It came to me.... I have SUPER blog envy for her blog. So what to do? Well show you her blog of course.   Her style is what I love and am trying for my house.

Let me introduce you all to Holly from Down to Earth Style. I think you too will fall into "blog envy".

                                      *All pictures are courtesy of Down to Earth Style

First is a picture from her previous house in CT.

   Holly made the kitchen island and it is to die for.    Doesn't she have the greatest taste in decor?

            These next picture is from her new house she is renting in Virginia. Holly is having so much fun finding new ways to decorate using her old decor and making their new home FABULOUS!

So do you have "blog envy" yet? Head on over to Down to Earth Style and say hi to Holly and peruse her blog. You will not be sorry! Tell her I sent ya! :O)

Where's my Candy coating? aka The Dirty Dash

2012-09-24T11:09:00.001-06:00

Well this weekend was the fall run of The DirtyDash. Talk about fun! I talked my BFF into running it with me. We went up to Midway, Utah for friday night and had fun chatting the night away. Saturday morning was The Dirty Dash 10k race. So up and at 'em we were. Okay we are ready... We think. We were team M&M (Margo and Marilee, get it?)

We had our kind of matching outfits on! Are we not just the cutest? Then we checked in and off to the race we went. Sorry no pic just before or during. Go watch the videos' on The Dirty Dash FB page. They are awesome! Lots of good ~~clean~~ MUDDY fun! We laughed the entire time. Over came a few fears along the way too. We both are a little afraid of heights so say the least. And hate getting dirty! But enough of that. Moving on.....

This is us after the race. I think we lost some of our "Candy Coating" along the way. Oh yes, it is that kind of party! We donated our shoes at the end to help send shoes to Countries that are in need. Always willing to help when I can.

Well, we had so much fun running The Dirty Dash that we have decided to make it a tradition. Come and join us next year. You will not regret it one bit. This is the way "mud slinging" aught to be. So go watch the videos already....

First Day of School....

2012-08-21T09:34:00.000-06:00

Well, the new school year is under way. I have mixed emotions about it. Yeah the kids are in school, but boo they are growing up so fast.

My oldest started 8th grade today. He is becoming quite the young man. He has a tough school schedule this year (trying to get him ready to take some AP classes in high school so he has honors math and honors English and is taking Spanish) and is playing football again. They want him to practice being the quarterback and is a wide receiver and safety and something else. He also just earned his Star rank in the Boy Scouts. Can you say busy? And to top it off he is turning 14 in a few weeks. Like I said, growing up way too fast. I was not able to get a picture of him this morning before driving him to school so here is one I took over the summer (beginning of July). He is so handsome... Love this boy!!!

Now, my next two kids started school today also. They do not have to be there til an hour after my oldest so I was able to snap a picture of them. My 10 yr old is in 5th grade will be starting to learn French this year in the new French Club starting September 6th. We will be having 3 different languages spoken in our house this year. HELP me know!!! It will be crazy but fun. He too will be playing flag football again this year. He is such a sweet boy. Love him too!

Then there is my only daughter! Which is fine with me cuz she is a whole lotta DRAMA!!!! She started 1st grade. A whole day at school. Yeah! She was so excited to ride her bike to school AND eat lunch at school to boot. The things that make her happy! She cracks me up. She is growing so fast. I am loving that she is finally into playing with Barbies. Had to pull out the ones I saved from when I was a little girl and give them to her. She turns 7 this year. Hard to believe. She is our Princess! Love her bunches!

Our youngest starts kindergarten next week so I will be sure to snap a picture of him and share it with you.

Hope your week is great and that this new school year is a success for ALL of our children. :O)

It's the BIG one!

2012-08-13T11:33:00.001-06:00

Well, It was my birthday last week. I turned the big 40. I can hardly believe it. I do not feel like I am 40 but I guess the numbers never lie.

So here's to being 40. Hope this year is what makes me ME!

Thought I would show you all a fun family portrait we did over this summer.

Hope the rest of your summer is wonderful. We start school NEXT week!

Projects here and there

2012-08-06T15:48:00.000-06:00

So I decided to take a little break and spend some time with my family. It sure has been nice and we have had some fun.

But it is about time for school to start here (in 2 weeks) so I better get in gear and start posting again. I mean can I really expect the kids to get back in to school/homework mode if I myself can not get back into blogging? So here I am back from a fun summer break. :O)

I thought I would show you all some fun little (and I mean little) projects that I have been doing over the summer.

I had painted the inside of the front door black last fall. I love it. But it needed something. I had leftover ruffles from another project and thought they would work great to make a rag wreath.

Next, I changed out the blue Christmas ornaments that were in the cloche I made a couple years ago.

I had gotten these green moss rocks quite a while ago so this was a no cost change-a-roo.

If you have never gotten on Groopdealz than you are missing out. Check out the fun personalized kitchen rules subway art I got. It was an awesome deal. I LOVE IT!!! It has even helped the kids table manners. Maybe the kids can learn to be civil at the table. Ha ha ha.

It is hanging in my dinning area. I also FINALLY made the curtains for the window in the dinning area. They match the living room curtains. I know why did I have them match? Because I loved the fabric. I was thinking of doing different curtains in the dinning area but did not want to spend any more $$$$$ so I had to use the same fabric as the living room. That is alright cuz I still like them. Just gives it a little more of a finishing touch in there. See...

I had decorated the tops of my cupboards last fall and never showed you all. I know shame on me. I had these miss match baskets and some fake grass ( from my neighbor who worked/worked for Albertson's warehouse here in Utah) and he had all of this fake grass that he was getting rid of. I guess they had an over abundance and was going to throw it all away and he saved it. Then I got some. Wish I would have gotten lots more. Anyways, I spray painted the baskets black to make them match and put the grass in them. The memories sign I got from an antique store that was going out of business. And wouldn't you know it, the lady that owed the store and I had met via our blogs a year earlier and did not know we lived in the same town. CRAZY I tell ya.

I don't know? I am wondering if I should paint the memories sign. The finish on it right now is like galvanized metal. What do you think? Come on give me your input.

Another part of the cabinets is small so I needed something to fill it up with out it looking cramped. I made the "B" blocks back when we were living in Michigan. The egg basket I got from the Goodwill there too. More of the grass and some fake fruit.

Here is a better picture of the "B" blocks.

Just another view of the top of the long cabinets.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have/had a wonderful summer like we did. As always have a great week. :O)

4th of July Decor

2012-06-28T00:00:00.000-06:00

I figured it was time to show you all some of my 4th of July decor. This happens to be from my living room. If you follow me on Twitter than you might remember a little shopping trip I took with my daughter to some of my favorite stores (Ikea and Tia Pan Trading Co.) These are some of the goodies that made it home with me.

The medallions I made for a Cub Scout Pack Night. I loved them so much I new they needed to find a home front and center. And what better place than on the living room table.

Speaking of the table... Do you all remember me buying it like 2 years ago on a late night walk with my bestie? I snagged it for $8. I sanded it and painted it white with leftover paint. I knew it needed something extra so I pulled out the painters tape and some more leftover yellow paint (used on my family room several years ago). I instantly loved the stripes. The hubs not so much. In fact he said he hated them. So it sat in my living room waiting for a make over. Funny thing is. Come New Years the hubs said he liked the stripes and I was so over them. LOL Well it sat there forever. Now I am liking the stripes again.

Doesn't the legs of the table remind you of an elephants tusk?

I do love how curvy they are though.

Well have a great summer! I know we are..... :O)

Gotta Love Velata!

2012-06-27T00:00:00.000-06:00

Sunday was our second childs Birthday. He does not like cake and has now informed me that he does not like frosting either. Good to know since I was going to give him a can of frosting instead of a cake. Frosting WAS all he would eat at Birthday Parties. LOL Funny boy!! Any ways, While I was at SNAP! back in April this year we had the priviledge to try a product spin off from Scentsy. It is called Velata! It is a warmer for fondue. They even have the best Belgium chocolate that you can order for your warmer. The flavors are milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and my all time favorite.... caramel milk chocolate.

So anyways, this is what I decided to do for his party this year. AND it was a HUGE hit.....

It was super fun to choose the different items for dipping. There was something for everyone and no one complained they did not get enough frosting. I feel a tradition happening here. Head on over to Velata to find a consultant near you. You wont regret it!!

Summer FUN!

2012-06-26T11:15:00.001-06:00

So sorry for being M.I.A the last few weeks. We have been doing A LOT of this....

Gotta love Seven Peaks!! I know we sure do.. Maybe we shall see you there!

As always, have a safe and super fun week/summer. :O)

9 p.m.

2012-06-13T13:46:00.000-06:00

So what do you do on a Tuesday night at 9 p.m. in June? Me? Well, I head on over to my friends house and pick cherries from her tree. :O)

Aren't they so pretty. There is just something about cherries that SCREAMS "It's Summer time!"

I filled 2 freezer gallon bags and had enough left over in the colander for eating. Which is enough for another gallon freezer bag. Just saying.

I was told that you can freeze the cherries so you can eat them all year long. Hope it is true... Now her tree still has a lot more cherries on it but we did not have a ladder tall enough for us to reach them. I wonder if We could convince the boys to climb the cherry tree and pick them? Hmmmm. Now there's a thought.

Hope you are having a wonderful beginning of Summer. We sure are. Until next time! Enjoy! :O)

4 weeks later....

2012-06-08T15:11:00.000-06:00

Well, it has been a long time since I have posted. Not from my own doing.. I have had MAJOR PROBLEMS with blogger. I have been hounding them to fix my problem (which they still have not) for the last 3 weeks. I finally saw a message sent TODAY that they are having problems with the error message for spam on blogs that use Explore. So I had to switch to another user and here I am. Wish they would have figured that out 3 weeks ago. Anyways, I know it is late in coming, but here are some fun photos from the Breathing Space Blogging Retreat I went to at the beginning of May.

Andrea from Queen B and Me, Suzette from Cozette Couture, and Amber (how is starting her blog soon) and of course ME.

Andrea and Amber

Andrea and Suzette

This is my favorite. I told Suzette to stick her butt out...And she did! Guess who was our guest speaker for the night? Look below and see if you recognize her.

It was Dawn from Survivor... Love her...

This was some of our decor for the Stepford Wives Dinner. Super cute. I hope to get back on track with the blog now that I can post. Been doing lots around here on the home front.

As always have a great one! :O)

Robertson Adoption Fund

2012-05-01T18:05:00.000-06:00

My friend Andrea (QueenBandMe) and her husband are trying to adopt and found out the cost is enormous! We are having a fundraising rummage sale/ silent auction for them to try and help out. Please come and donate items, your time, or spend some $$$ to help such a great cause. Help spread the word.

Thanks so much!

Tulip Festival at SNAP!

2012-04-27T13:16:00.000-06:00

While at the SNAP conference which was held at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah we had the opportunity to walk through the grounds and enjoy the 3 mile long Tulip Festival. It was sooooo pretty. They said there is like 250 thousand tulips there. Just Beautiful. I thought it would be nice if I took some pictures for you all to enjoy. Like you being there with me but, only not. So here are some of the pictures that I took. Enjoy....

So want my daughter to see this carousel. It was so pretty and set off by its self.

Entrance into the Secret Garden.

I practically laid on the ground for this picture. But it is one of my favorites.

Thanks for tagging along at the Tulip Festival. Hope you had fun. If you live here in Utah and are close to Thanksgiving Point I highly recommend you go see it in real life. It is BEAUTIFUL!

As always, have a great day! :O)

SNAP! Recap

2012-04-26T12:22:00.000-06:00

It was a real last minute decision to attend SNAP this year. I so wanted to go but the hubs was covering his shift and another shift for someone else (management-gotta love it) so time off was non-existent. He called me late Friday night (Apr 13) and said can you still get a ticket for SNAP? I don't think so why? I have the time off and I think you should go and have fun.... So on twitter I was like white on rice. Found my ticket (so sorry :O( you could not go Karen) on Monday and off to SNAP I was on Thursday. Yeah me! Boy did I learn A LOT!!!!! Notes galore. :O) I even met some of my favorite bloggy personalities.

That would be me and Shelley from The House of Smith's

Here is Andrea from Queen B and Me, Jen from Tater tots and Jello, and Me

The so fun girls from Mom it forward. SHHHH don't tell them I posted this picture.

Me and Laura from Corner House. She is super sweet and fun! And my new BFF!

Ana White came and spoke. She is so cute and tiny! I think the hubs has a small crush on her so i had to snap a pic for him. TEE HEE!

The girls and I having our Italian cream soda before the closing dinner/Par tay!

And we can not forget to thank all the wonderfully talented ladies that made SNAP happen. YOU ALL ROCK! I can not wait til SNAP 2013. I will be there with bells on. Better hold me to that. :O)

Have a great day! :O)

Gallery Wall

2012-04-20T00:00:00.000-06:00

I know I have showed several pictures of my living room and a certain wall but have not talked about it. I jumped on the Gallery Wall band waggon last year. I knew ofter I put the board and batten I wanted to do a gallery wall on the main wall that stretches from my front door to the kitchen/ dinning room.

I just used what I had around the house. I have been hoarding stuff just for this purpose. See the rectangle mirror on the very top of the wall? I got that at the Goodwill while we were living in Michigan. It was actually a candle holder. It has these little feet on it. And it is heavy. I just popped the feet off and use a few Disc adhesive plate hangers. I hung it up and it has never moved since. Those Disc hangers are awesome.

The "B" was the one from the dinning room from this post. I liked it in there but LOVE it so much more on the Gallery wall. I really enjoy looking at my wall every time I walk into the living room. Not bad for using only what I had around the house.

Hope you all have a great weekend. I know I will. I am at the SNAP! Creativity at Your Fingertips Conference. If you are there look for me and say hi.

My FAVORITE Fruit Dip

2012-04-18T18:14:00.001-06:00

Sorry it has been a while since my last post. Seems like I have been saying that A LOT lately. I thought I would share with you all one of mine and my families most FAVORITE recipes. It is super easy and oh so YUMMY!

Best Fruit Dip Ever

2 pkg (8oz) cream cheese softened
1 jar marshmallow cream
Maraschino Cherry juice

Place the top 2 ingredients in a mixer and start mixing it together. Add the maraschino cherry juice a little at a time and keep mixing together to get to the consistency of a dip.

That is it. You will love it. I have to make it several times during strawberry season. That is the best way to eat it. I like it best after it has been chilled.

Enjoy!

I will be at the SNAP! Creativity at Your Fingertips Conference this weekend so if you happen to be there please find me and say hi. I am so looking forward to meeting everyone IRL. :O)

The wheels on the truck go......

2012-04-06T12:43:00.000-06:00

I just love it when the UPS truck stops in front of my house. Today he brought me something so fun. Take a look.

I found this lovely on a site called Save-on-Crafts.com. And at a great price. Only $8.oo plus shipping.

Aren't the little milk jugs soooooo stinkin cute?

And what about those handles. I love how it is rustic but not to overly done. Now the big question. Where to put it? I have so many ideas.

Well, we start Spring Break this afternoon and it decided to SNOW/HAIL. What is with that? I hope it changes back to sunny weather soon. I wanted to start painting the outside of the house this weekend. I even picked out 2 colors to choose from. ARGH!! Wish me luck. And have a great one! :O)

Breathing Space Blogger Retreat

2012-03-30T15:05:00.000-06:00

I'm going are you?
This will be such a fun time. Mark your calendars and order your tickets now (space is limited). The date is May 4-5, 2012. Lots of fun classes to attend. The cost is get ready for it...... $75 that is it. Just $75 and that includes your lodging, 4 meals, and classes. What a bargain. So head on over to Breathingspaceretreat.com and register NOW!!

Can not wait to meet you all there. :O)

Hall Cabinet Redo

2012-03-28T19:03:00.000-06:00

Wow has it been over a month since my last post? I had such high hopes for myself this year. I better get my butt in gear and start making weekly postings. I do have a lot of projects I have been working on that need to be posted about. So lets start with the hall cabinet.

Now if you have been following my blog for long you have seen this cabinet several times. Back when I did the Board and Batten post I showed you a glimpse of it I think. But I know you saw it with my book page wreath already made over. Sorry this next picture is from my old camera so it is really bad quality AND I never turned the picture so it is sideways. Oops... But you can still see what it looked like before the makeover.

Here is an up close shot of it right before I started to prime it. I am not sure if you can see it as a video. Did not mean for it to be a video.

I used the same paint for this cabinet as I did for our master bedroom makeover. I love that color.

It is so nice and pretty sitting at the end of the hall now. I love to look at it. It goes real nice with my book page wreath.

Up close and personal.

I also put new knobs on it. I was given 2 glass knobs from my mother that she had purchased from Hobby Lobby and never used. Score! I ended up having to buy 2 more matching knobs for this cabinet. I of course used a 40% off coupon. So my total cost for this cabinet makeover was............. $5.00! I LOVE THAT....

I just love how the details pop on this cabinet now.

Thanks for stopping by. I sure do hope I can get my rear in gear and get to posting every week. Thank you for being so patient with me. You all are the best. As always, have a great one! :O)

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Another fun picture with Photoscape!

2012-02-12T13:23:00.001-07:00

I have been having so much fun playing around with Photo scape so I thought I would share one more before and after with you.

A couple weeks ago the Hubs and I decided to take the kids down to Fairview to go sledding since we have not had enough snow to sled here yet this winter. We do live in such a beautiful part of the country. We brought the camera with us and the hubs decided that we need a little healthy competition. He wants to see who can take the better pictures. You see his father being a wedding photographer makes him think it runs in his genes to take better pictures. I am up for the challenge. :O)

Here is his picture straight from the camera.

And here it is after I played with it on Photoscape.

I am loving being able to take a brand new picture and making it vintage. Such fun!!!

I hope you all have a great week!

Fun with PhotoScape

2012-02-11T14:32:00.003-07:00

So I was catching up on some of my favorite blogs the other day and saw that Traci from Beneathmyheart shared how she edits her photos. I have been trying to reason why I NEED TO GET Photoshop but I did not want to pay for it. So Traci's post was just what I needed. She uses PhotoScape. And the best part...... IT"S FREE!!!!! So I downloaded it and started to play around. I thought I would share one of my before and after pics.

Here is the picture straight from the camera. She is super cute and I love it.

But take a look at the Photoscape version after I started playing around.

I know it is not the exact same picture buy you get the drift... I love how the picture looks like I took it years ago. And the sharpness is awesome. You can even see every freckle after I sharpened the image. I can tell I will have lots of fun with Photoscape. Thanks so much Traci for sharing... :O)

A trip to the Big Orange Box...

2012-01-24T11:58:00.001-07:00

We took a little trip to the big orange box and ended up coming home with all of these goodies.

I am so excited for this project. Can you decipher what it will be from the following pictures?

Any guesses yet? I will be letting you know very soon. The hubs is almost done with his part then its over to me for the sanding and painting. My mind is just racing with the make over that is NOW in the process... So exciting... And YES, we have a carport and it was FINALLY snowing here. This is like only the 3rd time this winter it has snowed. And now it is warm again and starting to melt. The kids did make a snowman at 8:30 last night. We needed to get one in this year some how. LOL

Hope you all have a great week. :O)