We had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas this past December. On so many occasions over the holidays I was reminded of the countless blessings in my life as well as the grace I have recieved through Jesus that all started with that quiet event…

After seeing how easy it was to distress furniture by giving it a glaze in the last project, I decided to paint a chair from our basement red and put a black glaze overtop. I spray painted the red on, which was a huge mess and resulted in what loo…

A couple of weeks ago Aaron’s sister came across a matching desk and dresser that had been painted white and asked if I had any fun ideas on what to do with them. Since I know she is open to bright colours, I suggested turquoise. She has some wind…

3 days after my last post I went into labour in the night and by 11:35am(to be exact) we had the newest member of our family-Leah Abigail. She weighed 8 lbs 4 oz. and was 21.5″ long. I loved her just as much as I loved Myles when I first saw him. …

Well, yesterday was my due date and we have no sign of baby yet, which turns out to be a very big blessing after the events of Tuesday evening. We had one of those evenings where nothing goes how it should. I’ll give a quick rundown. We had brough…

A couple of months ago I noticed that Ikea was discontinuing a few of the colours in the Karlstad slipcovers(which is the model of sofas we have). Green was one of them which was exciting because green is my favourite colour and because we already…

Yeah.. I’ve gotten really bad at this. 8 months since I’ve posted bad. I have some excuses but mostly I’ve just been lazy about documenting things. Well the first project I will post about is baby #2. He/she is part of my list of excuses but only …

We have had a fabulous winter for projects; there have only been a handful of really snowy days and many where the snow melted and it felt like early spring. We are currently in the process of building a garage which you will hear about later but …