Adventures in Decorating - week 10

Jim has been painting for the last couple of weeks, and we are having issues with colors. We finally figured out that the paint samples that we got from the store are not the same colors as the actual paint. As a result, we have an aqua color that's brighter than I thought it would be, and a tan that's yellower than I thought it would be.

Jim and I made an appointment with the paint designer at Dunn-Edwards on Thursday. We decided to keep the aqua. I think it won't be so bad once we get some pics up on the walls. The tan has got to go. It is waaay off from the color we thought it should be. Dunn-Edwards gave us store credit for the tan, and we picked out a new color... but Jim is still going to have to repaint the living room.

On Friday, he repainted the window wall because the window treatments were being installed on Saturday. Here is the kitchen before and after:

BEFORE:


AFTER:


I've wanted grass shades in the kitchen since we had the kitchen redone almost 4 years ago. I think it's looks FABULOUS!

I'm going to wait until the curtains come before sharing pics of the living room. We actually thought that the shades and curtains were being installed, but alas it was only the shades. This is exciting though, because it's our first Ethan Allen purchase to arrive in our home!

After Jim finishes painting this week, he's going to arrange for the dining room table and chairs to be delivered! ... Maybe by this weekend!!!

Camping - Heart Bar, Barton Flats

We got a slow start Saturday to Barton Flats for an overnight campout. We got there at 9:30am... way too early, since we couldn't checkin until 2pm.

We drove around looking at the Yellow Posts in the area. Yellow Post is a FREE first-come-first-served campsite.



We pulled into Yellow Post #18 for lunch.



What's for lunch?



Cheeto sandwiches, lol (uh, oh... who forgot the ham?)



Here we are finally in our campsite:



Just relaxin'





Happy Campers :oD



A preview of the Super Moon:



Jena wants to play!





It was a fast weekend, but nice and relaxing:



I hope you all had a great weekend!

Adventures in Decorating - week 8

Jim and I went camping this weekend. The only decorating thing that went on is that Jim's mom's painting came back from framing...

Here is the before shot:



And here is the after:



The goal here was to make the painting larger by adding a wider frame and mat. Also, to update the frame to give it a more contemporary look. I think we accomplished both!

We also added UV glass to keep the painting from fading and to keep it clean from dust build up.
I think it looks GREAT!

Adventures in Decorating - week 7.5

There is paint going up on the walls this week. So far, Jim has the large accent wall painted. It's a whole lot BRIGHTER!

Here is our dusty blue from before:



And here is the color we have now (from a slightly different angle):



I'll post some more before and after photos when it's done. I like it so far :oD

Adventures in Decorating - week 7

Nothing went on during the week in the decorating department. Jim was gone camping, and it felt good to take a bit of a break. This past weekend Jim took the rail down. I've wanted this down for a long time!





I'm surprised how open the living room feels now! With the rail down, Jim is ready to paint!

Oh, and speaking of paint: My family thinks that I'm so crazy for find this interesting...



Can you see that the post has two colors of paint added to it? A darker one on the bottom called "Thatched Roof" and a lighter one on the top called "Antique Lace"? The "Antique Lace" is very hard to see on the wall because it's so close to the current wall color. Notice the hall wall that's about 4 feet back from the post... what color does that swatch of paint look like? If you said the darker "Thatched Roof," you would be wrong. The color on the hall wall is the lighter "Antique Lace"! The "Thatched Roof" color in the hall is way too dark. So our walls will be two colors of Beige.

That's all for now! I'll post pics when the walls are painted :oD

August 3rd, 2014

Happy Anniversary to the man I married 29 years ago!

O boy Dango!

It's ondo time!!! And with it comes dango!



YUM!



And a lot of other YUMMY goodness!



Chris's sushi is a work of art, haha!



The whole family is out for FUN!



There is HULA... You see the prettiest dancer up there? That's my mom :oD



TAIKO...



But BEST of all the ONDO... All ready to DANCE!





Gotch-yer bling on...





The girls are so pretty...


Ondo, ondo, ondo!!!





I'm ending this post with a few more fun pics:

Adventures in Decorating - week 6

The cleaning and organizing continues... The craft stuff that was in the dining room has been moved:



It looks so much bigger without the stuff in there (and neater too):



So where is all the crafty goodness? Hidden behind the love seat:



I got a sturdy little bookcase from Target. It's much stronger and better made than the Ikea cabinets that the TV is sitting one. That's a good thing because those steal dies, punches, paper and paint are not light.

It's still close to the dining room table where I work. This is what it looks like from the dining room:



And here it is all tucked in behind the love seat... no peeking, no mess ;oD



Other than that the only other house stuff that's gone on is to take Jim's mom's painting in for reframing. I hope it ends up looking good. I am truely clueless when it comes to frames.

That's it for now... I think there is going to be some paint going on next week, YAY!!!