Project!

A while back I posted about recovering the chairs in our dining room. Grant helped me pick out a fabric from a local fabric outlet store and we went to town. I ended up having one yard of fabric left over...and that evening I also saw this post by Jenny of the Little Green Notebook for a pelmet tutorial so I started scheming. After Grant got home from work that next evening, we ventured to Michael's and purchased foam core boards. They were on sale so we only spent about $3.00 that evening!

I did take pictures along the way as I worked on the pelmet boxes for each window. Please let me know if you want to see those and know of all the steps involved! I give my husband all the credit for helping me hang those things...light (because I used foam core) but still tricky to adhere.



Please excuse the Droid picture...I was too excited to wait for Grant to snap a clear shot.

The pelmets add more character to our dining room; I'm in love! We had guests here for the weekend and they couldn't believe I made them. Me either!

Monday Musings

1. Recovering the dining room chairs tonight! Will post pictures of the before and after, have no fear. I wanted to do something like this:


(image from styleathome.com)

But was vetoed by Grant...and he has always been very supportive in my interior choices so I knew I better compromise. Haha!
We ended up going with a floral piece that has fun colors and is slightly less bold!

2. I've loved having more time free to experiment with recipes and I found two new ones that I tried last week. They were a huge hit with the family!

Pulled Pork



Found this recipe from a college friend:
Chocolate Chip Cake Cookies
They were AH-mazing!

3. Missing my students but I received a letter from one little gal yesterday! It absolutely made my day.

Guest room!

We have finally put together our guest room! Grant and I have enjoyed finding thrift store or great deals and making them work for our house. It was GREAT to have a break from school to use days to search for deals and plan out our room and guest bath. I cannot wait for more friends to visit!




Brittany and Andrew stayed with us, as our first overnight guests!

My sweet husband.

He gives me too much credit...

Click on the link below to see what it's like for me to be behind the camera! It's rare!

Grant's thoughts about our Christmas decor...

Welcome!

Our home is slowly becoming more cozy! Take a peek at a few of our rooms...








We plan to add an area rug to our kitchen/breakfast area!
Grant and I love our house. God is good!

Absurd.

Grant and I are homeowners! We have created our own rendition to the tune of We Got a Dollar from the movie the Little Rascals. Check out these kiddos...

We Got a Dollar

And now see our lyrics:

We bought a house, we bought a house,
We bought a house, HEY HEY HEY HEY!

You may now proceed to imagine us belting out this tune in our new, spacious North Raleigh home...yep, funny.