The Great Paint Mix-up
I love to paint. I do. Really. Just not things I’ve painted already. Rooms that I thought were done. I busted my a$$ and painted the main area of our new house in 15 hours (over 2 days).  This included living room, dining room, kitchen and entrance.  As I was applying the first coat of paint, I kept thinking, “This color looks awfully green.  I don’t remember the paint chip being so green.  I don’t actually WANT green. Green doesn’t match my flooring, my accent color, my cabinets, my curtains…” (I was going for more of a grey-brown color) But I kept painting. I finished two coats and I’d

Gettin’ Down to Bidness…
And the “Great Paint Project” has begun!! Again! Seriously, it feels like I was just here…doing this.  Incredibly, it’s been almost 2 years since we built our house!  TWO YEARS!  Where has the time gone?! I’m lucky not to have had to prime the house or paint the ceilings this time.  We put it in our budget to hire that stuff out.  So I thought I had it easy to just have to paint the walls, even though I only have about 2 weeks to do it. I must have tucked away a few important details into the recesses of my brain.  Like how much work all the preparation is to actually paint the walls.   Oh no…you can’t just take

land of the happy dance
Literally.  I’ve been doing a lot of happy dancing around here lately. For starters we are 3 weeks from moving into our new house (complete or not). *insert happy dance* It’s drywalled and we are waiting to for the painter to come in and prime and paint the ceilings so that the OTHER painter (me) can go in and paint the walls.  Then we are going to get flooring in and move in regardless of the rest of it being finished.  It just means we’re going to be doing a lot of eating out for a week or two Second.  I FINALLY did my

The Big Birthday Quandry
If you know me at all, you know I LOVE my birthday.  I mean I <3 HEART <3 my birthday!!!! It’s not that it’s about “ooh look at me, it’s all about me” as much as it’s about a really, really good reason to be with my peeps!  And who doesn’t like a good party?!  Last year was awesomely fun and I heard some calling for a repeat with the costume idea.  Let’s just call me a party planner/event coordinator that happens to have a birthday really close to a holiday where people dress up and like to party and so I can combine the two. (An

Take the Cake
I’ve been making my daughter’s cakes since their first birthdays.  I’ve discovered over the years that I LOVE making cakes.  Sorry, I LOVE decorating them. This year I decided to make the jump into fondant icing.  I’ve always wanted to create designer cakes and I realized that fondant is the way to go.  I was going to buy the Wilton premade fondant, but after reading a few different opinions about the ickiness of premade fondant I decided to try to make it myself. Thank the Lord for YouTube!!!  Hehe. It turned out wonderfully and I will now use fondant to ice my cakes.  It’s just so easy and beautiful! But before I discovere