Summertime

This summer has been a wonderful summer.  I have never experienced a summer quite like this one before in that I'm not bored and lonely at all.  I've kept myself busy with birthday projects, painting rooms in our house, taking trips with friends, enjoying family visiting from Michigan, and playing with my lovely Rae.  This summer has been absolutely perfect.

Here are a few shots of our summertime fun.

Having some fun at a local splash pad.

Rae's favorite animal at Old McDonald's Farm.

Kerbey Lane cafe was our favorite breakfast place in Austin.  Cinnamon roll pancakes were out of this world!

About to go into Longhorn Caverns, excited!

The entrance to Longhorn Caverns.  Rae didn't make it much further than this, haha!

I painted over the hideous 'Venetian plaster' job in Rae's bathroom.

Rae helped.

I tore down the crazy tea-stained paper treatment that was in the game room upstairs and got very brave with this new color, 'Expressive Plum'.

Finally, I made these fun decorations for Rae's party.  The lemonade stand was so easy to make it shocked me.  Can't wait for August 9th!

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Stretched Canvas Artwork

For the last week I have been substitute teaching for a high school computers class.... needless to say, I've been doing a lot of blogging around the internet.  Yesterday I found many inspirational ideas for wall decor over the sofa at Julie's beautiful site, BelleMaison.  She always has such beautiful photographs and unique design ideas!  I fell in love with the idea of hanging a stretched canvas piece over the sofa.  Such a statement piece!

Wouldn't it be gorgeous to have the photograph of my little Limelight Hydrangea made into an art piece?  I would definitely tweak it; maybe gray out the background so that the lime color pops.

Here are some websites that I've found where you can download your images and they make them up into a piece of art.  Amazing!

fineartamerica.com

www.uprinting.com

www.designerprint.co.uk

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Door trim

I was admiring some great pictures of a linen closet re-do from Sage Mommy's blog and thought about a project that Estevan did for our house (that's right, I'm not taking any credit for this... I love my handy husband). We have hollow-core, oak veneer doors all through our house. These things are so ugly, straight from the 70's. We decided to do something about them but didn't have the budget to buy new doors for our whole house. Good tip: By nailing on simple oak trim in the shape of a rectangle, about 5 inches from the edge of the door he created an authentic looking detail. He then primed and painted the doors all satin white so that you can't even tell that they were once nasty veneer. Beautiful...

Before and after

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