What a cheeseball! and a papasan chair make-over

 About a week ago I went with a friend to target because they had all their halloween stuff marked down 90%!!! I got this next little costume for $2. It's going to be too small for Siena next year, but I figured maybe a future child could wear it. I tried it out on Siena though. She's a fan!

We painted the little nightstand in the next picture. It also matches a small cute yellow bookshelf that we painted as well. I want to put cute handles on it eventually, but I like how it turned out. The yellow shelves were Joel's idea.

 We also found this miniature papasan chair at a garage sale for $2 the other day and couldn't pass it up. Literally the night before we found it, Joel and I were joking about wanting a papasan chair for siena..what are the odds on that one!?!?

 We painted the legs because they were originally a purple color and then re-covered it with new fabric. I'm kind of in love with it!:)

I think Siena likes it too.lol

What a cheeseball!! This is the smile we get when we tell her to say cheese.

 She also  showed off some muscle by carrying it around..

 Before we put her down for a nap or to bed at night we always sing "I am a Child of God." Joel began singing it the other day at random and this was the face she gave the entire way through it (I think she thought she was going to bed..):

 This was my birthday "cake" on monday. Brownie ice cream sundaes. Yumm!

 Any time Joel lays down on the ground, Siena goes and lays down next to him.  I love it, it's SO sweet!

We love our little cheeseball! She's the best!

A whole new kitchen

Just before leaving for Christmas vacation, Joel and I purchased a new table off of KSL. This table had GREAT potential! It's got a stainless steel top, but the legs and chairs of the table were a light wood..so we decided to fix it up a bit! We spray painted the legs of the table as well as the chairs, and then added cushions to the seats of the chairs.  I roughly used the outline given by Martha Stewart on how to make a seat cushion.

  We also re-covered a lovely picture that I've had for a while.  It's an awesome "painting" of Venice..but it just wasn't fitting the style of our house. Since I love this painting however I really didn't want to just get rid of it..so we just put fabric over it for now so that If I decide I still want it, you just have to uncover it.

We had to attach a layer of white fabric over it first to make sure the painting wasn't seen through the pattern of our new fabric. To attach it, we just stretched the fabric over the frame and used our staple gun to attach it in the back.

 

The finished product of all the kitchen projects!

New Picture Frames

Kristin and I were getting a little bored and really wanted to do some new projects. And since our anniversary was coming up, we thought we'd do something to remember some of our memories from this past year. Rachel Brinkerhoff recently took some amazing pictures for us of our family and of Siena, so we decided to print up some pictures and frame them.

We started of with a couple of old frames from DI.

In total we spent 10 dollars on the frames. Then we printed up the photos including a portrait of our new little family.

We did the matte with a 22x28 piece of poster board from Wal-Mart. Then we spray painted the old nasty frames and inserted our newly printed photos. And there ya go...