
Im still here! Whats up with me and new milk paint colors!!!
Milk Paint, random, Sweet Pickins Milk PaintOh WOW, I just keep getting the award for worst blogger ever over and over, im just so good at disappearing!! If your with me on Facebook, then you know im still around. I sometimes even post on Instagram, but Facebook is my jam - its just…

Unplanned Blog Break…Be Back Next Week…For Reals!
randomSo i wasnt planning this little blog break - but life has been so busy lately. I have SO many emails, blog comments, FB messages and posts to reply too and there are just not enough hours in the day, but just know that i am working on getting…

Whats up with me lately…
randomSorry i have been MIA lately...
Sometimes i am super motivated to blog and sometimes not so much...
Right now, it has been a little of lack of motivation as well as just being busy. There hasnt been one thing in particular keeping me busy,…

{My Favorite Things In The Shop} – Useful Tools
random, shop spaceIve received an email or two or three... over the years about some of my favorite tools in the shop. While these pics arent necessarily tools (power tools i guess) - they are some of my most used, cant live without shop tools. There are…

The great CLEAN OUT of 2013!!!
randomNope...Im not moving - although it looks like it :)
I have been in some sort of a funk lately when it comes to my house. I really dont think its just the winter ickies that will soon pass. I have been feeling this coming for a while.…

Custom Orders – Back Again!!
randomJust a quick note for all my local Utah customers....I will now be taking custom orders on a limited basis
Ok - i didnt go to long without taking custom orders did i??!! i feel like i am missing out meeting new people and working on lots…

{Hot Chocolate Station}
randomI just wanted to do a quick post and let you know of a fun and easy idea that the kids have been doing for the last few years. Of course in Utah we get chilly winters, so there's a lot of hot chocolate drinkin' around here!
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{Changes} – no more custom work for a bit
randomI just wanted to drop in real quick and let you guys know that i am making some changes as far as my furniture biz goes. As some of you may have noticed, and i know that you have because of the emails i've gotten, i haven't posted any furniture…

{Im Going In} – the closet under the stairs
randomRight around the corner at the bottom of the stairs is a closet door that seems innocent enough....
But then....it opens to this....
And unfortunately, its jam packed like that all the way through, even wrapped around and under the stairs...
You…

{Read All About it, Read All About it!!}
randomI totally forgot to tell you guys - i have added "columnist" to my resume!! I was asked a couple months ago to write a couple articles a month for the 2 biggest papers in Utah - the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. I was a little…

Ask Me Anything Answers – Part 1
randomWow, finally i am back and here to start answering these questions! These last few weeks around here have been craziness. I did another plank wall in my entry way, painted my main areas of my house, painted Zailees room, painted my cabinets,…

The house is a mess…keeping it real post
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(aren't those the most gorg flowers you've ever seen?!)
I always love when i look at another blog and see a post filled with pretty pics of their house. It gives me tons of inspiration/motivation. But i also love when i come upon a…

{My new FAVORITE color!!!} – & giveaway winner announced
giveaway, random, UncategorizedI seriously cant get enough of this color!! I have painted so many things this new color over the last week or two! Its so fresh and clean and just makes me happy. I want to bring this color in to every room of my house...i've already…

{Meet Mr. Bo Diddly Dum}
Bo Diddly Dum, random>Well, we have recently acquired a new family member – which I couldn’t be more happy about. Seriously, I love him too much. Kdin complained that I wasn’t this excited when him or his sister was born, whatever… Bo,…

{the NOT SO PRETTY part of painting}
random>For the most part…usually…well…almost always…pretty much – my paint projects go off without a hitch – some of course are a little more involved than others, some take a little more time than planned, some are easier than planned…

{bringing home my work!}
random>Since i quit my job and working on furniture full time, i couldn't be happier – seriously words cant even describe how much i am loving it. In fact, its only been this last week where it has really started to sink in that this is what…

{Some changes for me – good, happy changes}
random>I QUIT MY JOB!!!!!!! For a while now, i have really wanted to quit my full time job as a court clerk (10 years this June). It had been nagging at me for some time now, seriously buggin me. I didn't want to quit because i didn't…

>{Finding balance…}
random>I will be the very 1st one to admit that i have been a bad, bad blogger lately. I don't keep up on posts, i don't keep up on emails, i have a hard time even keeping up on my things that “have” to be done – like taking showers…brushing…

{Finding balance…}
randomI will be the very 1st one to admit that i have been a bad, bad blogger lately. I don't keep up on posts, i don't keep up on emails, i have a hard time even keeping up on my things that “have” to be done – like taking showers…brushing…

{I’m back….}
random>Ok, i have had a nice little blog break and i am ready to get going again! My husband came home on Friday and i feel like i can now get back to what i love to do. I wore myself out - i was going a million miles an hour, i was wore out physically…

>{i have lost it….i got nothin!}
random>Have you guys ever lost ALL motivation?! Well, i am there – i have ZERO motivation….nothing…zip…zilch…nadda… I have hardly even looked at any blogs in the last 2 weeks – something i normally do daily. I am just not…

{i have lost it….i got nothin!}
randomHave you guys ever lost ALL motivation?! Well, i am there – i have ZERO motivation….nothing…zip…zilch…nadda… I have hardly even looked at any blogs in the last 2 weeks – something i normally do daily. I am just not…

{random finds}
found junk, old doors, random> Sorry i have been MIA again, since my husbands been home we have been BUSY doing a whole lotta nothing. We have been working in the backyard and i did start a new project that i am hoping will be done by Sunday and then i can…

{Why i have been MIA…}
random>I know, i have been a bad, bad blogger. Its been over a week with no post, not that i am not busy, just haven't even been thinking about turning on the computer – i have about a gazillion emails to reply too, so if you are waiting for…

{randomness}
kitchen, random>My sis-in-law told me a couple days ago about these cute little white ceramic cookie jars @ Costco. White and ceramic?? I must go and check them out. Glad i did because they were super cute, and super cheap. All 3 for…