"Ello Govna", that's British speak for "Hey You!"

I know, I'm a dork.  Oh well.  Anyhooooo, I finally finished the project for my friend's baby (who should be born any day now)!  Here ya go, sorry about the crappy iPhone photos. 

It's a butterfly pillow!

And the rear...

It's my first attempt at a latch hook pillow.  That link takes you to this original kit at Hobby Lobby.  I changed the colors to fit the nursery.  The colors of the nursery are white, gray and yellow.  It's adorable!  I had to add the lavender for a little pop. The backing didn't come out perfectly but that gives it character, right??  Well there ya go, that was my "secret" project. LOL  I'm just glad I finally finished it.

We've been really lazy lately about doing house projects.  That T.V. room makeover we did back in April wiped us out!  So what if it was 3 months ago...  This weekend, however, we plan to do some work around the house.  If that actually comes to fruition I'll keep you posted on whatever we do. I WANT to test my new paint sprayer so keep your fingers crossed for that. 

Meanwhile, here's a picture I took with my good camera last weekend (I  LOVE playing with my camera).  Just wish I had Photoshop, or knew how to use it.


The sunlight was coming down through the filter of leaves from the tree behind the rose bush. The wind kept moving the leaves so the sun would highlight different spots on the roses.  I had some fun with it.

I hope you have a lovely Wednesday and I'll be back soon. *fingers crossed* ;)

☼Holly☼

Happy Friday, Friends!

So I've completely lost my projecting mojo.  Sorry bout it!  Last time I checked in I was finishing up my friends baby gift...  Yeah, it's alllllmost done. LOL  I have been majorly slacking.  I missed the baby shower because of piss-poor time management.  I am shamed.  I'm committing to finishing it tonight, I swear!  I'll be seeing her in a couple weeks when we get our hairs did by our friend, so I have no excuses.

Once I have that finished I promise I'll share pics.

I really want to finish our kitchen sometime soon, too.  I'm going to Home Depot at lunch with the hubs for a new lawn mower so I need to pick up some finish remover for the cabinets.  They are so greasy and nasty.  I have one cabinet door in the garage that will be my Guinea pig.  Maaaaaaybe I'll try my paint sprayer this weekend.  Maybe.

We have my MOL's birthday party tomorrow so I'll be busy most of the day with that and Sunday is the USA soccer game sooo... yeah.  Luckily we have a T.V. in the garage so maybe I can do both.  Send me all the positive and motivational vibes you can! haha

I do have one little thing to show you today.  We've had this milk crate in our garage, full of junk, and I've always wanted to use it for something.  I finally cleaned it out and found a use for it!

Fire wood holder! Yay!

I love it!  Our new living room decor is so modern that I love the mix of old with new.  Small thing but I really love it in this room. That's all for now!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Laters, baby. ;)

Holly

It's Friday, Friday!  Gotta get down on Friday!  Woohoo!

Can you tell I'm excited for Friday?? Haha

Welp, you know how we made our own kitchen counters from 3 Douglas Fir beams from Home Depot?  Yeah... that was a complete FAIL.  Don't do it. LOL After a couple weeks of sitting there they have moved SO much!  I forgot to take a pic but, man, did they move.  There's probably a centimeter gap between two of the beams.  My mom said that we need to put dowels in between the boards too and let the unaltered boards sit in the space for a week or so to acclimate to the room temp, etc. but at this point Dan is over it.  We're thinking that we'll probably just rip these out and put plywood down everywhere and tile.  Big tiles though, nice tiles.  Not the 4x4 white crap we have currently.  I'm so sad too because at first they were so beautiful!!!  I was so excited. :'(  Ah well, that's why we tried a small section first.

Haven't done anything else since painting the kitchen.

Love how bright it is now.

Nice pic that shows the difference between the new kitchen and living room colors.

Still need to paint the ceiling white, it's kind of an eggshell color now which is really dull.  It's called Swiss Mocha and I'm pretty sure that every house is originally painted this color.  Blah.  Thinking some crown molding will look awesome in these rooms too someday.  The other plan is to move that 4 light fixture above the stove to the spot over the sink.  There's a nasty old can light above the sink now and that 4 light fixture will go nicely there.  It doesn't give off enough light to be useful where it is at the moment so we need to figure out a better one to go there.

Painting burned us out, plus one of my besties baby shower is tomorrow so I've been working away on a hand made gift.  I'll be sure to post pics of that finished project next week. 

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend peeps!
<3 Holly