She is my little mini me
The apple (or in this picture the peach- her snack) never falls far from the tree..... She loves to paint........anywhere. She gets out her own paper, her own paint and crawls onto the counter tops all by herself. She reminds me of this girl. With cuter shoes of course.
What swimsuit stores could learn from bridal salons
So my husband and I were recently planning to vacation in Cancun with friends. So.... I had to do "the dreaded swimsuit shopping". Why, oh why, does swimsuit shopping have to be so torturous????Anyway, I went looking in several stores like Macys and Dillards.....but no swimsuits were in stock yet.Went…
Contrary to what you have heard, I am NOT a stripper
I am not into stripping...........furniture. But, I have a few clients whom I appreciate so much that I will do pretty much anything they ask me to. One of those clients recently called to tell me that her leather day planner had made a black mark on the beautiful desk…
A late, but special tribute to my firstborn for his birthday
In December, my firstborn celebrated his 9th birthday. My Mom reminded me last week that I hadn't done a blog post for his birthday like I had my other 2 kiddos. I told her I had started the post and just need to finish it. And so here it is....in…
Target has mailboxes
So I was paroozing thru Target the other day and I saw these cute Valentine mailboxes in the $1 bins....... Which reminded me of this blogpost I did about painting my own mailboxes to leave little notes for my boys..... Which then made me think two things.... a) it's been…
Grandma’s rehabbed recipe box
I have this amazing "client-turned-friend" named Lynne. She is one of those super moms who color coordinates her outfits with her daughter and teaches people how to make teacher pails (a.k.a. "brown nosing buckets"). She is incredibly sentimental.....which I love and appreciate and relate to so much.Lynne recently asked me…
Life in Grace
My house is quiet this morning.My dear babies are still sleeping after our late night of ringing in the New Year.So I decide to catch up on the blog world since I have just a few minutes to myself.And I start seeing the blog posts from earlier this week about…
A very Kardashian stairway
(Kim Kardashian's home) I love it when a client gives me inspirational photos. It helps a faux finisher just to get an idea of where a client's vision is at. And a picture is worth a thousand words, right? (and in some of these photos, a thousand dollars....) (Tori Spelling's…
