My youngest kids, Daughters #1 and 2, are in a year round elementary school. That means they are in school for about 9 weeks, then off for about 3 weeks all year long. Their breaks are a little longer for Christmas and summer. All my kids have gone to year-round schools since we moved to NC […]
Family Room
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOOKCASES #1 ~ The Table Saw
I feel like the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" in regards to our family room built-in bookcases. I think my brain is the hare and the progress and the LOML are the tortoise. I'm so past the built-in bookcase project and we haven't even made a dent in it yet. It's kind of frustrating […]
ORGANIZING DVDs ~ put a label on it!
Summer vacation has ended in our house. Sad Face My two daughters are in year-round school so they began school right after July 4th. But Son #2 was moved into his place at App State this past weekend. It's always tough to say goodbye. (Sad face again!) ON TO SOME FUN STUFF!! Remember the […]
NEW LAMPSHADES ~ and a new glue gun
On our last trip to IKEA (I believe there will be an IKEA in Heaven girls!), we bought two of this great lamp for the family room redo. But if you know me at all, I'm not a white kinda gal. I love color and lots of it! So I wanted to cover the lampshades with […]
STAINING SOME BUTCHERBLOCK COUNTERS ~ a really long counter!
How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed time with family and friends like I was blessed to be able to do. Friday night our family went to a Durham Bulls baseball game. It was an exciting game and the park does a fantastic job of entertaining the crowd during slow periods of the […]
KICKING OUT THE KICK SPACE ~ trimming off the bottom space of our cabinets
We got a little work done on our family room built-ins last week. How exciting!! If you can remember we bought a whole set of kitchen cabinets from The Habitat for Humanity ReStore. We got a little side tracked with the tv niche. But the LOML thinks he wants to do "easy" cuts […]