Project Interior - Chevron Rug

Catching up on a little blogging this morning and I thought I'd share the chevron rug I did last month

 It was a super easy project and a fraction of the price I've seen in the stores.  I've wanted one of these for months but the one I had my eye one at Urban Outfitters has been on back order so I got impatient and decided to try to make my own. 

Supplies:
Large black area rug (Wal Mart has a great inexpensive option)
Black and white chevron print fabric
Spray adhesive
Black grosgrain ribbon
Hot glue gun & glue
Scotch guard Spray

To make it i just measured my fabric out allowing a 3 inch border for the black of the rug to show around the edge then cut the fabric to size.

Next I brought it outside and sprayed the back side of the fabric with spray adhesive.

Also spray the area of the rug where the fabric will need to stick to...careful to only spray the area where the fabric will go and remember to allow for your border along the edge.  (follow the directions on the spray adhesive can for best results)

Finally you are ready to carefully apply your chevron fabric to your rug, smoothing it out as you go and applying appropriate pressure.

Now that you have your fabric down, allow a little time for it to dry outside or in a well vented area then you can bring indoors and begin to apply your ribbon trim.  I found the quickest and easiest way was to use hot glue but I'm sure you could use some other form of craft glue as well.  Pay special attention to the edges and corners to make sure they are glued down well.  Speaking of corners, I cut them at an angle to make mitered corners for a more finished look.

And that's it.

You can also spray it will Scotchguard to protect it since it's fabric and not washable.

Girl Gone Red

You heard me right...I've gone red.

Red highlights!  I went today to get my annual haircut and decided that I would get them done since I had been wanting them forever!  When the hairdresser asked me what color I wanted I told her red...unnatural, bright red!  She asked me if i was sure I wanted THAT color for my first time coloring my hair.  I said...YEAH, go big or go home! 

I never thought I could actually do this though.  I've always worried what my boss would think, what would my coworkers say, how would this effect my job and so on. 

Well now that I'm my own boss I don't have those concerns anymore.  It's taken me almost a year to really absorb that feeling of freedom. 

So I can now scratch this off my bucket list!

Easy Pasta Salad

Growing up my Daddy used to always make pasta salad...I just wasn't into it.

NOW, as an adult I love it.  And this is how I make it. 

Ingredients:

1 bag of boiled tri colored noodles

5 or 6 boiled eggs

1 can of sliced black olives

6 to 10 green onions cut all the way down to the whites (use green & white part)

diced summer sausage

desired amount of mayo

Once you have cooked the noodles and eggs, peel the eggs and dice them up, slightly mash the yellows, combine it all in a big bowl with your black olives, onions, diced summer sausage and the desired amount of mayo to make it as moist as you would like and you are done.  I like to eat it fresh and slightly warm but it is good strait out the fridge!  YUM!

Project Interior

So I saw a friend post that they were getting rid of some things on facebook last week and I saw a picture of a divine vintage yellow velvet chair.  I knew it had to be mine.  I immediately though of a black and white chevron pillow on it and I was in love.  So as we promptly bought it and picked it up and I ordered the fabric so by the weekend my chair/pillow project where done;)

NOW, I just need to get this amazing rug from Urban Outfitters.

And perhaps do some cool hanging lamps like this...no?

Ohhh, and the paint color...I die.

The wonder of a snow globe

This is something I've wanted to make for years!

Finally this year with a little inspiration from Anthro we did it!  It was super easy and Z had a blast.

 We just got some glittered Christmas decorations from the store, some glass jars, green picks from the floral dept, white felt and glitter.  We glued down the white felt on the inside of the lids and then placed all the decorations and green pieces where we wanted them and hot glued it all in place.  We put the glitter inside the jar then screwed the top on the jar and we were done.  No water involved so no leaks.  Easy.



Boys in Ties!!

How doesn't like a handsome boy in a bow tie?  Well I found a great tutorial on Pinterest for making these sweet little bow ties and quickly got to work!

I made these super cute matching bow ties for the boys to wear for Christmas!

Thrilled.  Totally priceless.

It's all a blur...

The Holidays...that is.  I pretty much have no words.  Just pictures.

It was an amazing Christmas and an amazing year.

Elf Magic

Like many families these days we have a Christmas Elf.  His name is Fred...

He gets into a lot of mischief, sometimes he decorates the Christmas tree

He steals our shoes...

He gives little reminders when we have a "troubled" day...

He takes hot chocolate baths

He reminds us again about how important good behavior is

Sometimes he has to make a phone call

And he usually rather be fishin'

But at the end of the day he's a pretty classy guy.

Dear Santa...

With all that was going on this year I was afraid with Christmas fast approching that we wouldn't get any Santa pics for the kids.

Obviously with this being Liam's first Christmas we couldn't let this happen.  Then Zane came home with this (above) adorable picture that was taken at school during a special "pajama party" they had for the kindergarden classes.  It was perfect.  I was happy with that but still needed something for Liam. 

So with just a few days before Christmas and Z out of school me and my parents packed up the kids to go to a follow up doctor's appointment from my surgery and decided it would be the perfect time to sneek in some Santa pics!

 We took these at the Bass Pro Shop

 Very happy with them

 AND...if you were with the first group there when Santa arrived (which we happened to be), you got to ride the merry go round WITH Santa!  How lucky is that?!  Score.

Happy Birthday to ME

I was a lucky girl this year for my birthday...

Not one cake...but TWO

 My girl Jamey got me this delish chocolate one and had a lovely snack spread prepared as we watched the LSU tigers play some football against her home team of Georgia.  It was fabulous.

AND my hubs got me this big 'ol wonderful cookie cake (picked up & delivered by our sweet friend Alissa)

As for the gift, well the hubs outdid himself again this year...

 I've had my eye on the beautiful Mignon Faget ring ever since I saw it and now it's mine, mine, MINE!

Speaking of cheese and crackers, also part of my birthday weekend...the parents kept the kiddos while the hubs and I caught a movie (Breaking Dawn!!) and ran by whole foods...this was the outcome...

A glorious cheese selection that stocks our fridge!  SO pleased! 

A season of thanks

This year I have so many things to be thankful for.

 Here are my top three. 

 Love my little Z sporting his turkey hat we made Thanksgiving morning.   I was so looking forward to him coming home from school with the traditional feather hat or the black pilgram hat but they didn't make them.  It made me sad...so we whipped this one up at the last minute and at first I didn't think he wanted to wear it but as we were hopping in the car to head to thanksgiving dinner he yelled...WAIT, MY HAT!  So I'm a proud momma!

Speaking of school,  this was our first Thanksgiving lunch with our little man.  Such a big boy!

And this was my attempt at a preholiday meal...a baked chicken with veggies and an acorn squash.  So yummy!

Hope your family had a great holiday!