Wonderful and happy

I stumbled across this music video by Oren Lavie called Her Morning Elegance. It is what I needed this morning to just relax and enjoy life. It is beautiful and extremely creative not to mention the song is soft and calming. If you have a couple minutes... relax and enjoy.

Milkshakes, bird seed, and well... still the unfinished bed

On Tuesday I had a 2 hour brake from work. I was able to do some school work and other things I needed done. I decided to stop at a little local hamburger joint down the street called Burger Time. I wanted something to eat but not sure what. I got a corn dog, cheese curds (that looked like deer poop but tasted fantasticely fattening) and a wonderful jolly rancher watermelon milkshake. I ordered it kinda skeptically. The lady at the window said if I didn't like it she would make me a different one free of charge. Isn't that super nice! That is fast food service you would NEVER get at McDonalds or Burger King. I love local places! But it turned out being SO yummy!
I have had it in my possession for about 5 minutes and already done some deep damage to the milkshake. You can't go wrong with anything pink either!

I have a bird feeder that I got at a yard sale last year in the fall. I hung it up on a hook right outside my kitchen window. I LOVE looking at it. I wasn't able to fill it with bird seed for a while though because it was winter. Well, I filled it about a month ago and the birds love it... therefore, I except the HUGE mess they make and leave behind. Remember that pretty window box I have, well the flowers and dirt are filled with bird seed. Oh well, the birds are worth it so the bird feeder stays.

Crappy picture of my bird feeder. The bright blue Napa auto part store wall and blue dumpster kinda take the pretty and nature out of the beauty of the birds and feeder. Oh well, I try.

See all those little things in the dirt... no it is not flower food or miracle grow. It is the bird seed that the birds scatter everywhere!

Still working on the bed frame. I stained the footboard and the...well almost the whole headboard but then tragic struck. I had gotten free stain from my dad which is great. Saves me money right?!? Well, I ran out. I looked at stores and on the internet for this brand and stain color. The brand DID NOT exist. Are you serious? Turns out the brand had been bought out to a different company. I did end up getting a different brand of the same color name, which is Salem Maple, and the stain colors matched perfectly. Thank goodness! Last night I stained the rest of the headboard. Then Rillz polyerothained the pieces. I would be done with the stinkin bed frame if it wasn't for chasing down the stain. Oh well. I must say it is looking pretty good!

First of all, staining inside the house is NOT a good idea. Can I say passing out from the fumes! Oh well, beats being freezing and in the dark outside. Anyways, this is the headboard before being coated with the clear gloss. Just looks shiny from the camera flash. This is the stain color though. I can definitely say I am no good at staining! It is kinda hard and can't believe my first staining project was such a big piece of furniture.

This is the footboard after it's first coat of clear gloss.

Hopefully the bed frame is complete tomorrow and I can have my living room and kitchen back. Not mention I can continue on my bedroom makeover and finally get to those terribly out of place red curtains.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Bed frame...so far

After having such a bad start to this project on Friday night I was very skeptical about how yesterday would go. I picked up the air compressor from Jeff and got all the stinkin nails that I swear didn't exist. After going to yard sales and hula I got home around 3 which is when Rillz got home from work. And we went straight to work on the bed frame. It ended up being super easy and quick. Besides accidentally nailing 2 long nails through the floor and some extra scratches on our hard wood floors our living room became the perfect construction zone. Our bed frame is far from perfect. Because 1) pine wood is definitely not always straight wood and 2) I am nowhere near being a perfectionist. So I really don't care (ok maybe I do a little bit) that there are gaps in some places. Anyways, after 4 1/2 hours of work this is what we have. Now I just need to stain it. Which, I am not patient at all when it comes to painting so I will have to learn quick so I get the right color and don't try to race through it. Hopefully, it is in my bedroom soon!

Work in progress. Our little moveable dishwasher became a work bench for cutting and drilling holes.
Here is what we have so far. The headboard and Footboard. The pictures make it look less gappy than it really is.

Panties in a knot

So Rillz and I have started the construction of the Farmhouse bed plans.

Rillz bought the wood yesterday at home depot. Then last night, we went to Lowes and Walmart. We tried to find 4 1/2" screws with no success. At walmart I was frustrated in what color stain I should do it. We were going to buy an air compressor... but didn't. It was just a really frustrating night. I DEFINITELY had my panties in a knot! Therefore, both Rillz and I were just frustrated. We rented a redbox movie, The men who stare at goats. But we didn't want to watch it. We just went to bed instead. Well, I woke up at 7 nice and refreshed. I have hula practice at 11. I want to go to Ace Hardware and garage sales. But all I am doing right now is watching the movie The Men Who Stare At Goats. I was just going to watch some of it during breakfast but it is kinda interesting. Not to appropriate as I have only been watching for 15 minutes and plenty of fowl language, drugs, and I saw some boobies (portraying the '60s era of freedom). But the movie has me hooked. I hope I can pull myself away to go visit yard sales and Ace Hardware. Anyways, I hope my bed building day goes better than last night. Wish me luck.

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Yes... this dress too, I want!

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This shirt is gorgeous! And I want it!

new bed pillows

I have been looking for fabric to buy for new pillows. I decided to keep the comforter we have because it is a nuetral brown and I am poor right now so really don't have money to buy lots of fabric. Anyways, I was drooling over Joel Dewberry fabrics. Like these ones...



What gorgeous pillows these would make






Or this one by Alexander Henry... oh the birds! I am SO into them!
So after wiping up the drool and after buying the fabric yesterday at yard sales my mind went racing. I decided I would have to use what I had. I knew I wanted golden yellow still because of the side table, orange because I love orange and the orange chair, and brown because of the comforter. So this is what came out of the sewing machine. Let me tell you... today I have watched 3 movies so far and last night I watched lots of t.v. until 1:30 a.m. making 3 pillows. I read internet tutorials and decided what I wanted to attempt. At 1:30 when I finally went to bed I just sat there staring at the ceiling thinking of what type of pillows I was going to make today. Ok... here is the finished project, and one that was yucky and looked like a jester pillow that just was not going to work.

Sorry the picture is sideways. But this one is my very favorite. A bird of course. I keep going back and forth on whether I really like the birds legs. I wanted them long to kinda be different and artsy but I don't know. I still love this one though. The fabric is from the yard sale yesterday. And I love the golden yellow fabric.



I did the pillow tuck style in the back for all the pillows. It was SO easy! And makes a nice finish if you don't have a zipper on hand and don't want to get one (like me) :)

This fabric I have had for a LONG time. I loved it and picked it up years ago with intention to make a skirt or something. When I saw it in my fabric pile I decided... well it has all the colors I want. Golden yellow, brown, plenty orange and to my surprise the same purple color I just bought yesterday too at the yard sale. None of it on purpose. I just bought those fabrics yesterday just to have around because it was cheap. Rillz was skeptical about this fabric. But now says he likes it, maybe just being nice. I really don't care either way... haha. These were the first pillows I made.

This is the purple fabric I picked up yesterday at the yard sale. And the brown flower is from fabric from yesterday too. I like this pillow too but feel the pillow is too big and the flower too small. Any thoughts? Should I add something to fill some of the space or leave it?

The close up of the flower. The middle is a green square button. I wish I had something more flashy laying around but I don't so oh well.

My bed with it's pillows. Don't mind the red curtain because that is the next thing to go. Maybe golden yellow curtains with something else? I don't know what do you think? The brown pillows we already had.

Ok... this one is a bit embarrassing. It looks like a jester pillow and turned out so bad. Unfortunetely, it took a whole movie and then some to do it and realize it is total crap. But I did learn how to do the ruffle thing from this pillow so that is good. Needless to say... not going on my bed.

Ok so this is the start to the bedroom makeover. Any thoughts on the pillows (more pillows, less pillows, other designs that would look good with them) and any curtain color ideas? Obviously I didn't use Joel Dewberry fabrics, as much as I want to, I thought I should just save a little money for now. On the other hand, I need to buy curtain fabric and maybe something of his or similiar will work. Oh and I already told Rillz I am going to recover the living room pillows too. He was not as excited as I was. He is kinda attached to his boring faded brown and rusty yellow pillows... but not for long. hehe