Howdy!

My husband is finally home, hooray!  Three weeks he's been gone.  THREE WEEKS!  It was awful. LOL  I planned to be productive this weekend, really.  BUT our house had different ideas.  An idea like a busted pipe which soaked through the drywall on the stairs and soaked the carpet too.  Yay! Not.  Here's the area that was sopping wet.  See the paint bubbling up?  Yeah, awesome.


Luckily I'm married to Superman and he happened to arrive home in the nick.  Wait, you wanna take off the cabinets I just lovingly painted and caulked?   Noooo! 

Waaaa! :'(

I was so scared but in the end there wasn't much damage done.

Found the leak!

Fun with soldering

My poor kitchen

The worst part of this whole fiasco was the dust created by cutting drywall.  Yuck!  Looked like it snowed in my kitchen.  No bueno. 


Got it all patched up after we let it dry for awhile.  I left a handy note on the first hole we cut which wasn't in the correct place.  Now it's a drywall time capsule. ;) That was our fun this weekend.  After cleaning the kitchen up I was drained so we did a lot of vegging out the rest of the time.  Walking Dead marathon, that sort of thing. 

In other news, I called to order a medium pizza and 24 piece wings yesterday and it was 40 bucks!  I said never mind and headed to Stater Brothers instead.  Got 2 pizzas and a bag of wings for $17.  Much better.  $40 is insane.  Just insane.  Couldn't do it.

I got a happy surprise yesterday when I got an email notifying me that someone left a comment on my blog.  Turns out Miss Elizabeth over at www.chasinmasonblog.com (wife to my friend Seth from high school) wondered if I'd like to guest blog on hers next month!  She does a segment on Mondays, #boymoms where guests write about being a mommy to boys.  Seth told her that I had a blog and boys, maybe I'd be interested...  And boy am I!  I'm so excited, I can't tell you.  Fun stuff!  I'll be doing that on December 15th so be sure to check it out.  Of course I'll remind everyone (all 3 of you) when it happens.  ;)

It has prompted me to analyze my blog though and I've come to realize that it's quite unprofessional looking.  She couldn't even email me because I don't have a link to it on here.  Der.  Lucky for me my friend Tracy who is my partner in Pinterest crime just happens to have a degree in marketing and is really great at html and whatnot.  She's agreed to class this joint up soon so be on the lookout for my blog makeover. 

Next weekend the fam and I will be heading to Lake Silverwood to camp and fish.  Super excited for that too.  Been a long time since we've gone camping.  The boys are at a better age than they were last time we went camping in Pismo Beach. 

Anyhoo, that's all for now. 
Peace!

♥ Holly ♥

Hi there!

I was very busy this weekend, playing hand-ball with the boys, crafting, painting cabinetry, painting our mantle, cutting in the paint on the ceiling...  So much painting.  *sigh*  My wrist hurts.  But all the kitchen cabinets are done!!! With the exception of some doors/drawer faces.







Such a relief!  Once the ceiling and the rest of the cabinet doors are done I'll be a seriously happy lady.  I'm putting Daniel right to work when he gets home this weekend. ;)  That'll teach him to leave me for 3 weeks to rear our children and fix up the money pit house.  Ha Ha

Saturday night my pal Tracy came over for some wine crafting and musical watching.  First, we made giant letters, inspired by this Pinterest post:

 Here's my version:


I cut out the letters in cardboard and spray glued glitter to them.  We ran out of glitter. LOL Also I finished them with lacquer to make the glitter stay better and it didn't dry clear. :(  So they look unintentionally "frosted".  I'll pick up some more glitter and touch them up.  I'm gonna try them on a burlap ribbon.  Hopefully they'll look as classy as the Pinspiration when I'm done.

We watched Gypsy (the one with Bette Midler) and made coffee filter wreaths as well.  Once again, Pinspired.  The link I pinned didn't have great directions but I knew she used coffee filters and hot glue so we winged it.  I'm really happy with how ours came out!  Here's mine:


I got really big filters from Staples (of all places) and just folded them into triangles and hot glued the bottom to a cardboard ring that I cut out.  Easy peasy, except for the burns sustained to my fingertips.  That comes with the hot gluing territory though.  Gonna hit the dollar store for some sort of glitzy ornament to adorn this with.  Tracy suggested spray glitter but I think I like the clean look of the white.

I attempted to hang the wall art I made too buuuut I'm gonna have to wait for Daniel on this too.


Turns out that sign is very heavy.  Need his man-muscles to hoist that baby up.  Twas a bit scary up there. LOL I think it'll look great once it is up, can't wait.

This week I'll be in cleaning mode.  The house looks like a bomb dropped on it.  At least it was because I was getting stuff done, so I guess it was worth it.

Have a great week!
♥ Holly ♥

Hello y'all!
     I was a busy little beaver this weekend!  Halloween was easy peasy this year.  We went to our church which had a Trunk-or-Treat festival, complete with free  bouncers, cotton candy, kettle corn and beverages.  Didn't have to pass out candy, yay for me!  The kids had a blast too, they were Wolverine and Spider Man.

Jack (left) and Dylan (right)

At the last minute I was inspired by my holey jeans and went as Garth from Wayne's World.

Scarily close... LOL

Good times!  Love it when I can whip up a free costume.  The boys were only like $15 each at Costco so we got off pretty easy this year.

In other news, I was inspired last week by a sign I saw on Pinterest:

I had just the leftover piece of plywood for the job too!


I slapped some white paint on the board, not too perfect for a more "white washed" or distressed look.  I traced the lettering onto a piece of brown paper which I measured to be the same size as the board, used clamps to attach the paper to the board and cut out the letters with a box cutter.  Then I used paint that my mom had leftover from a bench she fixed up and a toll painting brush to fill in the letters.  Voila!


I changed "WATER" to "LAKE" since we live by the lake.  Now that it's dry I'll be sanding it a bit to distress it further and hanging it in a big bare spot above the stairs.  I'll be sure to post a pic once it's up.  I love the way it came out!  And I love FREE home decor, don't you?

Saturday night I had craft night with my mom and mother in law.  Inspired by another Pin, we made these:
It's not too early for Christmas ornaments, right??  I didn't think so. ;)  Foam balls, a little bit of ribbon to hang them, buttons and pins.  Super easy craft.  The boys each made one too.  As soon as they went to bed Friday night, I was watching cheesy Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel. LOL  Can you tell Christmas is my favorite holiday?? 

Saturday afternoon I also painted more kitchen boxes.  Only two small sections left and a few doors/drawers!  It's really coming along.  Can't wait till the hubby gets home from his work trip to see what I've done.  That's the only thing I like about him being away is the surprises I get to share when he returns.  Hoping to have all the boxes done by the time he gets back.

TaTa for now!
♥ Holly ♥