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March 31, 2014

Pampering Our Kitten

This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and Litter Genie, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #petparents http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV.

As you all know, I am an animal person. Animal “hoarder” if you ask my hubby.

My entire life, I have had pets. If there is a stray animal within a five mile radius, I am the crazy lady that is feeding it. It’s that maternal instinct kicking in. Even in the third grade, I was the one rescuing a litter of kittens out of an old tree stump — and of course the one I wanted was the runt of the litter that no one else wanted.

So as soon as I graduated high school, the first thing I did was get my own pet. I went down to the local Humane Society and walked all around, searching for my perfect new cat. There were many that were pretty, but I just didn’t feel a connection until I stepped in front of a beautiful tabby’s kennel. She was a little, brown ball of fluff with the sweetest eyes. She was sticking her paws through the bars, trying to touch me … and that is when I knew. She needed me.

So off we went, this 18 year old (who was a child herself) and her new little sidekick….

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March 27, 2014

Stenciled Side Table

You know where I had my break up with old man winter the other day? Well he’s like that old boyfriend you had in high school that you broke up with, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. It is freezing here with torrential winds and tons of rain for the last two days.

Topher was out of town for the first half of the week, so there was a bit more on my plate than usual, and with my new booth space opening next week my to do list is a mile long.

One thing I can cross off my list was this guy.

I found this old end table at a yard sale last week. I got it for the bargain price of … free! It was the last day of the lady’s sale, and she said I could just have it so that she could be rid of it.

It was music to my ears.

So I loaded that baby up (quickly — just in case she changed her mind).

It was dirty, dated and down right ugly….

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March 25, 2014

A Break Up Letter (and a vintage secretary makeover)

Dear cold weather-

I am sorry to say … I am ready to break up with you. I can not deal with your wicked ways any longer.

I am a summer girl. Shorts. Yard sales. Being able to walk the pups. No school. And the shaved ice place up the street. That’s the type of weather I’m looking for. No. That’s the type of weather I need.

I do not like having to wear a coat just to go to the mailbox, or having to listen to the unnamed child gripe about having to scrape the frost from her windows in the morning (since my hoard of furniture is in the third car bay).

I do not want to have to make soup for dinner, just to warm us up; nor do I like the fact that it takes my joints an extra hour to loosen up because it’s frigid in the house in the morning.

I am ready for the Drive-In Theater to open up, and to have teenage girls giggling in my house as they take their depressingly toned, bikini clad bodies out to the neighborhood pool behind our house.

Warm weather means I am much more motivated to go to the gym, since it isn’t freezing outside, and I can hear neighborhood kids playing in our yards with the extra hours of daylight.

You, Mister, have kept us held hostage in our homes long enough, and I for one am done with you.

Sincerely,

A Summer Kind Of Girl…

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March 24, 2014

Vintage Mirror Makeover

Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a great weekend!

Mine was pretty busy. Topher and I were godparents at my niece’s baptism, and she was so good! No fussing, and she didn’t even spit up on her baptismal gown.

I was a painting maniac! My dogs are so multi-colored it’s ridiculous — I’m not sure why they can’t walk into my studio without rubbing up against the piece of furniture I’m painting.

I did get quite a few projects finished, but I still have some big ones in the works. I’m working on a giant dresser, two cute end tables, and I’m getting started on a sign for my new furniture booth. It opens April 1st, and I have so much left to do!

The unnamed child was feeling pretty depressed last night … Spring Break is now over, and it’s time to wake up early and get back to school.

Speaking of feeling blue, while at a yard sale on Saturday I found this vintage mirror….

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March 18, 2014

Easter Egg Trees

Do you remember on Friday, when I told you how excited I was that we were going to have our first Spring Break here in a million years with beautiful weather? Well, apparently Mr Weatherman is a big fat liar: Friday was nice out, and the first half of Saturday … then it got cold and started pouring rain (which then turned into hail for a good portion of the day). Then Sunday, it was freezing — as in Shanna-could-not-use-her-paint-sprayer-like-she-planned-to freezing. Yesterday, it was in the 50’s and not terrible. And have I mentioned the wind … For people like me that do a lot of our projects outdoors, Kansas is just not the right place to live. There’s not a lot of spray paint that finds its target in 50mph wind gusts. With the kiddo off school, we decided to start watching a new series: Hart of Dixie is our new obsession. We have been watching 4-5 episodes a night, which has had us staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning. I can’t recommend this show enough!…

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March 12, 2014

Easter Peeps Wreath

When I was little, my grandma would buy all of us grandkids Peeps for our Easter baskets.

Remember Peeps? Those little sugar-covered marshmallows, shaped like little chicks?

As a kid, I was obsessed with them, and now they make my teeth hurt just looking at them.

Even though you couldn’t pay me to eat them today, I still get a feeling of nostalgia when I see them in the store.

When I was at Michael’s a few weeks ago, I saw little boxes of what looked like fuzzy little peeps, and I knew I had to make an Easter Peeps Wreath out of them….

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