Spray painted glass bottle

So here is the makeover of the bottle I bought this weekend at the one and only garage sale. I like it but I think I would like it more if it was a tad cuter. I might try putting some silver on it or maybe black. Any other suggestions or pictures of a glass bottle you saw that was cute I could copy. Please comment with the link.

Garage Sales

1. I have recently started garage saling.  The makeovers around blogland are incredible I want in on it.  I started about a month ago and so far all I’ve come home with is toys for the boys.  That’s what happens when you take 2 4 yrs garage saling or I call it toy hunting.  They are completely into it.  I’ve been pretty happy with my finds…star wars helmet originally $30 I pd $5, transformer helmet originally $40, I pd $1 and she threw in a pair of speedo goggles for the boys, brand new baseball mitt for .25 a few odd toys all .25.  But this weekend on the way home from Walmart I spot THE sign…..I can’t read what it says…..by the way if your going to have a garage sale please make a LARGE very BOLD arrow…I can’t read your address in the fine print as I’m driving….then how about another sign at the front of your street again with a large bold arrow…anyway…I follow the cardboard box squares to the house and at first I don’t want to even stop but I’m there and now I have garage sale withdraw so I head up and what do I see a bottle for painting, (because so many are doing that now) something red (xmas) and a tier basket thing.   Don’t you wish I had a picture of it all….oh, no I’m not quite that good yet with the blog thing and remembering to get the pictures of the before's and after’s so this will have to do.  My mom took the tiered basket thing but here is what I kept.  Oh, and I had started painting the bottle when I realized I needed a before picture but imagine on the top of the bottle twine and a black lid.  I’ll post the after picture tomorrow, the paint is drying right now.   

I spent the morning in the Mohavi Dessert

 

This morning me and hubster went to Canton, TX.  Now we had been told  not go in the summer that fall is best.  Yeah, yeah our kids are gone we going, we love hot weather.  We got there around 10am, we couldn’t have been walking around for more than 30 minutes and there was sweat dripping and I don’t mean just a drop, I mean BUCKETS!!! are pouring off my forehead.  GROSS!  Oh, and I came SUPER prepared I froze each of us  2 bottles of water and brought  a snack bar for us.  We are going to make it through with all this for sure.   Let’s see I believe the water was thawed and drank by 10:45.  The snack bars didn’t make our of the car, the 1 1/2 hr drive will make you hungry!  So after about an hour we decide we need food to help us get through this……. or maybe it was the large fans blowing in the food court that drew us in.  Chad sits down and I realize his shirt is soaked with sweat and I don’t mean a little I mean there was nothing dry and everyone is staring at him, all you can do at this point is laugh hysterically.  So we eat our overpriced food and work up the courage to leave the fans.  We fill up our water bottles….okay now we have food and water we will make it the rest of the way.  So we trek on and 2 bottles of water later, it’s bound to be 2 hrs later and we’ve seen everything we need to see we head to the car…..we arrive at the car and open the door and fire  heat pours out of the car.  We crank the AC and get ready to take off……it had been 30 mins !!!!! from the time we finished lunch….go head laugh at us.   When we moved I was so excited to be moving to warmer climates and everyone said oh, wait until the summer the heat is unbearable.  I believe them now but I still love this place.

Funky Monkey !!

This place is SUPER cute and fun.  If you need a girly pick me up this is the place.  Today my friend Michelle and I went there and spent some time roaming the place.  It was great, no kids just girly fun.  Thanks Michelle!

West Elm but cheaper

I not only stalk blogs but Rate my space. There is a girl on there that I cannot get enough of her house. I want everything in it and so when she said she bought these canvas pictures from West Elm well, I googled right over there and tried to buy them. But West Elm and I had a difference of opinions on the price and they wouldn’t negotiate so I showed them……I copied and made my own, now for $25 instead of $270 I am a happy girl.

Mexican Corn Salad

This is a great summer time salad.  The hubby and I eat it on a bed of lettuce.  The boys eat in on chips either way this is so YUMMY! 

Thanks to http://mcillecespot.blogspot.com/2008/06/mexicorn-salad-la-jeni.html .   You will notice a pattern on this blog.  Every idea will be from someone or somewhere else.  I love to decorate but as far as original ideas I do not have them.  As for cooking I only learned how after I started reading blogs.  Thanks everyone my family loves dinner now.

Mexicorn Salad
2 ripe avocados, peeled and diced
1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
3 tomatoes, diced
1 1/2 cup Jack/Cheddar cheese, shredded
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can mexicorn, drained and rinsed
Combine all above in a large bowl. Mix the juice of 2 limes, 1 Tbsp. olive oil, a pinch of salt, and garlic powder to taste and drizzle over salad. Serve with corn chips.

Calling all creative minds

There are so many creative people out there can someone HELP me! My style is very Pottery Barn. (Well, at least that's what I want it to be) I saw a post today that made me remember I still had these hidden in the closet. http://thehappyhomebody.blogspot.com/ I want to put them at the bottom of the staircase landing.

And since this is my first blog I figured I you might want to see some parts of my house to get a better idea of my style.

And if Chris from http://j-a-girl.blogspot.com/ could come stay a week at my house, I know my house would be be-u-ti-ful!