4 Men 1 Lady: March 2010

3.30.2010

Meet my blog designer.

Have you ever met one of "those" girls?
You know the type of girl I'm talking about...smart, cute, classy, classical pianist, athletic, perfect petite figure, artistic...they've just got it all.
Meet my blog desginer, Erin (who also happens to be my sister-in-law ... a lot to live up to, right?).

P.S. Don't show up to the same event wearing the same dress as her. Did it. Hands down she looked better.

There isn't much she can't do and blog design is her specialty. I come to her with my scattered ideas and out pops a blog design. She is the master-mind behind Designer Blogs. I always get questions about my fancy-schmancy signature at the end of each post - she does that. She also does buttons, custom title fonts, Etsy pages...just to name just a few.

Mention this post and get 10% off your order!

Erin, I adore you! Thanks for putting up with me.

Surgery.

Oh you beautiful blog banner, your time is up. Don't think of yourself as being replaced, just a little cosmetic surgery. It will hurt just a little but it will be better when it's all over, I promise.

Surgeon Erin will take good care of you. In fact she's already come up with a few updated looks.
Don't worry, she's the best in the business, a true artist who will sculpt your new look.

Ugly no more.

One of the things I regularly look for at thrift stores are lamps and chandeliers. I can't tell you how many times I've come accross these very dated chadeliers and passed them up. Well, Mrs. Devore didn't pass them up. She had a vision and went to work.

This is one of the best transformations I've seen in a long time! I'm off to look for a couple of ugly chandeliers. Bravo Mrs. Devore!

3.29.2010

Spring.

One of the best perks about living in the desert in March...

You can spontaneously drop your drawers and run through the sprinklers!

3.24.2010

Outting.

A few days on antibiotics gave us enough energy to venture out.
Couldn't let Granny Goose leave Tucson without experiencing the Petting Farm.

Heebie-jeebies:
Main Entry: hee·bie–jee·bies
Pronunciation: \ˌhē-bē-ˈjē-bēz\
Function: noun plural

Definition: Jitters, creeps.

3.22.2010

My quest to get everyone sick in the house is turning out to be a major success!

5 year old - runny nose, cough, chills - CHECK!
2 year old - took to Urgent Care on Saturday with an ear infection -CHECK!
Me - took myself to Urgent Care yesterday with Strep Throat - CHECK!
(Loved having Nurse Olga jam her two cotton swabs down my throat while saying, "Don't fight the urge to gag.")
Husband -Congestion, scratchy throat... - CHECK!
Granny Goose (visiting) -Tingly throat - CHECK!

My sweet little 5 year old put this picture on my pillow while I was soaking in the tub.
And you know, despite feeling lousy, it did make me smile.

Aren't I a great hostess? I let my guests take care of my kids while I lay in bed then I send them back home with a good ole' sickness.
(I'm so sorry Granny Goose. Thanks for all your help while you were here).

By the way, she did say that she loves her room. Here's a sneak peak: found this picture on the Little Green Notebook of the very same lamps I used in my guest room. A $5.00 thrift store find.

(Don't you just hate sneak peaks? They're so anti-climactic).

3.19.2010

Visitor.

Today we had a visitor.
I'm assuming Mr. rattlesnake was enjoying our golf game in the backyard for some time.
Then he had to go interrupt our game with a little rattle noise.
We told him he wasn't welcome.
He was banned from our Garden of Eden.

That's life in the desert.

3.17.2010

Happy Green Day.

I'm hard at work trying pull the guest room together before Granny Goose comes for a visit on Friday. I'm hoping to reveal pictures next week but until then here a little sneak peak.

(For the record, upholstery tacks are much trickier then they may seem).

3.15.2010

I'd like to thank the Academy...

OK, I didn't win any awards but to simply be featured on two blogs that I completely admire feels like I'm holding a little gold naked statue.

Jennifer at Made by Girl and

Stefanie at A Brooklyn Limestone in Progress,

thanks for the feature.

$0.29 soap station makeover.

I just love a good soap pump. I want a big puddle of soap in my hand with just ONE press. I don't like standing there pumpin' all day for just a little dime size amount. Weird, yes.

These were olive oil bottles at one time. I took to spout out and replaced them with the pumps from my industrial-sized Costco shampoo bottles.

Problem: wet hands + soap bubbles = slime all over the counter.

I tried putting a plate underneath but the bottles just didn't fit quite right.

2 years ago a tile store gave me this sample of marble when I was trying to convince my husband to replace the tile around our fire place with this.

The marble tile fit nice and snug in plate.

Now the water can drain off the tile on to the plate.

$.029 thrift store dish.

Soap, bubbles and water all contained.

Simple pleasure. Happy.

Check out this link to see how to make your own DIY marble tray.

3.13.2010

Oh Mr. Flu, I do despise you.

Take your ugly wrath elsewhere.

Pick on someone your own size.

3.09.2010

Guest room update.

My dad asked me how my guest room makeover was coming along today.

"Dad, it's taking me forever. I could probably get it done in 4 days but it's impossible when you have little kiddos."

He then told me he just watched The Bridges of Madison County and paraphrased a line from the movie, "When you have kids you put your life on hold to watch their lives grow. Then when they're grown and you pick your own life back up you don't know where to begin."

Preachin' to the choir.

So here's my slow progress on my latest room makeover.

I found these amazing green trellis sheets at HomeGoods several moons ago. I actually purchased them for a client who has run in to some snags so her room has been put on hold. Collecting dust in my closet I thought I'd put them to good use. I'm using them for a few things (don't want to prematurely ruin the suprise) but I will reveal that I cut them up and made a bedskirt. I simply detached the existing ruffle from the muslim and sewed on a new skirt. I will also reveal that I've given up on sewing machine. The thread broke 10 times while I was truckin' along. What up? I fooled around with the thread tension on my needle and bobbin to the extent of a few explicitives...still can't figure the darn thing out. Any ideas?