We were very busy this weekend getting a little frustration out and getting a lot of work done all at the same time! We're building built-in bookcases on one whole side of our family room. I've primed the ReStore cabinets we bought with two coats of KILZ. Tomorrow I'll paint two coats of white […]
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BANANA PUDDING ~ a yummy dessert for the holiday weekend
This Memorial Day weekend, I am blessed to have the whole gang home. This is my absolute favorite time EVER! For the holiday, I made a yummy dessert the LOML has been begging for. BANANA PUDDING INGREDIENTS 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese 1 (14 ounces) can of sweetened condensed milk […]
DIAPER WREATH ~ I’m goin’ to a baby shower!!
Having a baby is one of the most exciting times in a girl's life! For all her friends, the shower is a way to celebrate this exciting time. I have a dear friend…she's Daughter #1's fourth grade teacher. She was also Son #3 & Son #4's teacher, too. She is expecting her first baby. I think […]
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We've been so busy lately that our fireplace mantel project has been stuck looking like this FOREVER!!!!!! So this weekend, the LOML mudded it and me and Son #3 sanded it….TWICE! My arms are killing me! There was a thick layer of dried mud on everything! YUCK! I painted the space with two coats […]
FROM TABLE TOP TO CLOCK ~ using what you got
I am becoming the queen of trash recycling. Not the "where you fill up the recycle bin and put it at the side of the road to be picked up once a week" kind. I'm more the "instead of throwing it out, I try to use it for something else" kind. I was throwing […]
A FAMILY ROOM DISASTER! ~ but all the lights work!
Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own home?? My family room looks like a tornado ran through it, picked everything up, then spit it back into my family room. AAAHHHHH!! What really came through was Charlie, the electrician from CJS Electric Company here in Raleigh, NC. We hired him to put […]