40 year old cabinet

This is what we've had our TV since we moved to Georgia and has been bothering me. I hated seeing all the cords and when Vince comes and gets a little older I know he'd go straight to them. So we decided to change things up. 

Ryan has had this cabinet for 3 years and inherited from his parents who got it from an aunt and who knows how long she had it. So we'll just say 40 years. It got a little beat up from the move and needed some love.

The perfect man to do the job!

He repaired some of the wood that broke off, primed and painted it and put on new hardware and turned out great!! It's so much nicer to only see 2 cords and have a cabinet to put things in! Thanks Ryan!

Maryland Fried Chicken

   

         This is where Ryan and I had dinner last night. So I joined this Living Social website which has these pretty cool deals that they send you via email and Maryland Fried Chicken popped up one day. Well there's one pretty close to us in Evans which we have wanted to try and the deal was 2 full meals for $7, so I figured, what the heck! Lets do it! So last night we go to the one by us and as I'm giving the voucher to the cash register she tells me it's for the one in downtown Augusta. So we say ok, we already bought the deal and I was hungry so we make our way downtown. We both had never been this far downtown and weren't surprised when we arrived! It was pretty ghetto but the chicken and fries were decent and was an experience. Needless to say, we'll probably never go there again, especially in downtown Augusta but at least I know now to read the whole deal and where it's at!

Curtains can be so deceiving

Curtains can be so deceiving to make! I thought it was going to be not big deal...WRONG! So I found some white fabric that I got on sale at JoAnns and was really excited to make curtains for all 5 or my windows. I start measuring and cutting and the first set I made were too short and laid out funny. Attempt two I really measured and cut precise and got everything the right length and they looked great! I was really excited. I knew I didn't want plain white and decided to dye them with some RIT. So I filled up the sink and they looked beautiful soaking in the water, this perfect deep red that I wanted. The instructions said to stir constantly for 30-60 min and I kind of pushed them around for about 5-10 min and then took a nap for the rest of the hour! lol So as I was taking them out of the dye and rinsing I noticed some little splotches but figured it would fix itself in the washer. Wrong again. I washed them and not only did the splotches not mix in they were now pink! Plus they frayed, even though I hemmed all the edges. I was like screw it, I'll just see how they look hanging! So I had to cut all the fray (cheap lightweight fabric) and iron them all (which also made the color now a slight hint of brown)! All in all, when I hung them up you couldn't see the splotches very well as long as they are left open and the pink isn't as bad as I thought. But this whole experience just made me laugh and learned a few things!

1. Don't buy cheap lightweight fabric for curtains

2. Cut and measure precise and leave room for error

3. Follow ALL the instructions on the RIT dye

4. The washer doesn't fix splotches

5. Don't iron on such a high setting when it's dyed

Hope you got a laugh like I did and good luck if you decide to make your own curtains, hope some of this advice helped!

Fun and cheap fall projects

I love crafting and doing projects!! Unfortunately sometimes they can get a little pricey and that is something I don't like. I was walking around Hobby Lobby looking at wreaths and some cost like $60 and even at Walmart they were like $20 and not really what I wanted! So I decided to give the Dollar Store a chance and it paid off! Literally it only cost me $4 to make this!! 

Here's what you need:

Christmas wreath (the Dollar store had cheap thin ones so I bought a big and a smaller one to fit inside and tied them together

Fall colored spray paint (mine was obviously red)

glitter

fake leaves

cute pumpkins or any fall decor

glue gun

It was really simple. We just spray painted the wreaths and I poured some glitter on them before they dried then glued on the leaves and pumpkins and wa-la!! Even Ryan was impressed and hey it only costs $4!!

Transformation

I've had this mirror for a little over 2 years and felt like it needed some love but wasn't sure what to do. We actually got it the first summer we were married up in Northern Wisconsin at the races in Crandon for like $4! I was walking through Hobby Lobby and found this turquoise painted mirror and fell in love and got my inspiration.

The primed stage

Painted

Finished!! I don't think this picture gives the turquoise justice, it's a really bright and beautiful color and I love it!

Oh and here's Vince and I at 23 weeks!

Savannah

Last weekend we went down to Savannah, Ga and met up with Tom, Yasmin, Grandpa and Bestemor! It was really fun and great spending time with them! The weather was HOT and humid!! Like 95 degrees and I swear 95% humidity but we survived!

Grandpa and Bestemor's first time touching the Atlantic Ocean, they literally drove coast to coast on this trip!